May you elaborate a abit more on how this happened?
1... father knows about crypto way less than I do (and I knew almost nothing about crypto up until 3 weeks ago when I went through his scam). Father is also naive, weak and extremely sociable, and he makes friends with everyone, so he made friends with a random stranger that lured him into a crypto scam
2... scammer milked father of 10s of 1000s of Euros (the actual amount I do not know, all I know is that it's been a lot of money that father poured into this scammer's bank account)
3.... father was then granted access to the backend of a scammy site (stratosinvest.site) where he could see some funds. The 1st time father showed me his member's area of this scammy site there was like $1.3 million in there that was supposedly real money that we can withdraw whenever we wanted, but which the scammer advised father to never try to cashout but instead to keep depositing because the more he deposited the higher this amount increased (I don't know the details and how this process worked, but that's what I understood from what father explained to me).
Father didn't show me this money / account until when the scammer stopped answering the phone and father became suspicious. At that point he came to me and showed me everything (including the $33k - supposedly - USDT that he had in his Coinbase wallet on his phone) and the moment I saw the $1.3 million in his scam account I got instantly suspicious (not even excited because our entire genealogy line had not seen such obscene amounts of money combined through 1000s of years, so naturally, I smelled rotten eggs from a mile away when I saw that amount of money that father supposedly owned)...
So anyway, I got suspicious as soon as I saw that money and I instantly went ahead and withdrew 1000 Euro (just as a test, if this will have proven to be real money I would have withdrawn it all without hesitation, of course, but I started with 1000 Euro to see how real this money was). This had been on a Saturday I believe, so - if this transaction went through - I still wouldn't have seen this money until Monday morning at the earliest, but most likely (knowing how my bank works) until Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning.
So, I made the withdrawal and told father "now we wait! If this money gets into my bank account by Wednesday night I recommend you withdraw half of it ASAP so at least you can have some cash in hand, and if it's not real money... well... I guess your suspicions that you got scammed are correct". I told him these exact words and he looked at me with a questioning face, like he didn't know whether to ask me to confirm what I have just said or maybe he kind of expected to hear this answer (based on his growing feelings of suspicion) but he might have wanted me to tell him that I'm wrong and that this is actually real money.... I can't say exactly what his face looked like (I can't find my words in English), but I know that after I have told him those words he looked inquiry and saddened a bit....
Anyway, moving on.... as soon as Monday came I started checking the bank account 3-4 times a day, hoping to see that money (which never came, obviously), but - since at that time I was only able to access father's (scammy) investment funds account only through his phone and he periodically comes and goes out of town 1-2 times a week, I didn't get the chance to access his phone again until he had returned in the weekend again (Saturday afternoon more specifically).
So, exactly 1 week after I had made the withdrawal (and by this time I knew that the money had not come in, so I was 99.9% sure it was scam.... at least the $1.3 million part of it, the $33k USDT that father had in his Coinbase wallet - even though it's been withdrawn from this $1.3 million - was a different issue to me, one that I was helped to solve by one kind soul from this forum over the course of 10 hours of PM-ing back and forth over the next weekend)....
So anyway, as I was saying.... I checked the bank account throughout the entire week and saw no money in there and I knew it was scam. And when father returned home in the next weekend, on Saturday, I grabbed his phone and logged into his scammy investment funds account because I wanted to check the status of that withdrawal since - at the time of the withdrawal - the status was "withdraw successful".. But I wanted to check again that it was indeed successful and what its status is now (and truth being told, the inner hope that every human has still made me believe that this is real money, so this was another reason for which I was eager to log in and check).
Well, to my (not really big) surprise, instead of the nice $1.3 million that I saw the previous weekend, this time the balance read $0.94 LOL. The entire money (if that even was real money) got cashed out by whoever owned this scam site, somewhere in the middle of the week if I remember correctly.
Now that I think better of it (and when I corroborate this entire affair with the info I gathered by trying to solve the 2nd part of the scam, the one involving the $33k fake USDT that father had in his Coinbase wallet) it's actually possible that the $1.3 million was actually real money, but which members like my father (because I suspect there were more victims like him that have been targeted by this scammer) would have never been able to withdraw... at least not in real money like I tried to do, in crypto things might have been different (although for me they proved to be the same: SCAM).... so yeah, that $1.3 million could have actually been real money, probably accrued from other victims of this scam, but which the victims could have never withdrew because we didn't have any control over it. As you can see, the moment I tried cashing out 1000 Euros the scammers knew that we started smelling rotten eggs and that's why probably they withdrew all of the $1.3 million. So yeah, this makes me think that THAT was real money actually, otherwise I don't think the withdrawal would have showed up in father's account, it would have been much simpler to just take the site down and run away.... But I don't know, I'm just giving my thoughts as they are now when my head is clear and I'm able to put the pieces together. But the fact that it's been a scam remains....
4. So anyway, after all of these, I immediately turned my attention to father's Coinbase wallet that supposedly held $33k USDT, and that is a long story too, one which I've gone though via PM with one of the forum's members like I said (and which I shan't name for privacy reasons, so please don't ask who he/she is cause I won't say)....
But when you mentioned $39k and the Exodus wallet I immediately thought of my father's scam who also had an Exodus wallet on his phone, even though - like I said - father has no clue about Crypto, so probably the Exodus wallet app was installed by this scammer on father's phone. And the amounts of $ between you and father's wallets look similar too, which is why I thought you fell for the same scam...
But now I realize that what I had just described above doesn't apply to you. That was a different scam
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However, try to cash this money out (or a portion of it, try with small amounts at first) to your Metamask wallet like I did. If you don't have a MM wallet yet create one, it's a very good wallet (and this is weird coming from someone - me - that considers the entire crypto industry scam because it's already fully in the hands of mafia), but it's true: the MM wallet is a good way of telling if you're going through the same scam like I did. And even if it's not the same scam, the MM support agent was really helpful and helped me solved the problem, so it really pays off dealing with MM...
So, create a MM wallet and send some of that fake money to your MM wallet (just make sure you have the coin you're going to send to your MM wallet inside of it already enabled - as token most likely), otherwise you might not see it in there, even if it's a fraudulent coin like mine was (in this screenshot you can see 3 coins: BNB, USDT, and USDt. The first 2 coins are real, the 3rd one - USDt - is the fake money that father had in his Coinbase wallet).... If you send money to your MM wallet but it doesn't show up you probably have not added this scam's token as a custom token yet, so you need to take the contract of the fake money and add it as custom token and then the money will show up...
And if it's real money... well... in that case you're luckier than I was
