Is digi-asset.uk Legit?

I was recently scammed by Digi Asset UK and am sharing this to help others. I’m sharing this in the hope others won’t lose money as I have. There are lots of FAKE positive reviews on TrustPilot - I can only assume they are posted by the perpetrators of this cleverly executed confidence trick.

 This review may get LONG but if you VALUE YOUR MONEY do read on! ALSO please read the PS's as I have updated as the saga unfolded!!

Let me explain HOW they catch you ..

 I was introduced to DAF (Digital Asset Finance) by someone I’d been befriended by on Facebook. We chatted for some time and he wasn’t pushy to start with. Then he suggested I have a look at DAF.
I guess I should have been suspicious of the pictures of jet set lifestyle and claims he was so financially successful?!

I had a look at their site and it all seemed OK so I dipped my toe in with a minimum €1,000 investment. Thereafter my ‘introducer’ who answered lots of questions kept suggesting that I upgrade to a plan that paid about 4 x the return but needed €15,000
minimum investment. I kept pushing back saying “let’s see it prove itself first”.

The dashboard/back office you get looks professional and your returns start to show pretty
much straightaway on a daily basis. I let income accrue and then made some ‘test withdrawals’.
These worked fine (you put money in via Bitcoin and withdraw that way).

At first the online chat and email support worked fine. Later it went super quiet. 

About 2-3 weeks after I made my first withdrawal and after several small ones I suddenly found that my withdrawals were flagged as “pending”.

I queried and was eventually told that I need to do KYC (know your customer) and supply ID etc 
which is fairly normal - although they never flagged this at the start! 

Eventually they told me KYC was nearly sorted (they say 3 weeks is normal!) … and then I was hit with a request 
to validate my Bitcoin address “for security” and €500 (refundable) to COMPLETE this. I queried on 2 grounds: (a) the BTC wallet was evidentially working fine both ways! (b) why €500 why not test with a much smaller amount. YES I was suspicious but my referrer insisted it was OK so reluctantly I did this.

 Eventually I got a a FULL clearance on KYC … but now there was “just 1 more step” … pay €1350 as a one time fee for a “private key for my bitcoin” …. I looked this up and such things exist but are usually FREE or cost very little. PLUS my cryptocurrency exchange said “we don’t need this”.

By the way BOTH these steps were (a) not stated in their T & Cs (b) after the fact stated as being 
“MANDATORY” in other words … if I don’t do them I get no withdrawals.
 
I foolishly recommended to a friend and she is in for €3000. Imagine how I feel. She has done KYC and so far has been asked for a “MANDATORY” €800 to secure her BTC wallet!
She had also been able to withdraw for a few weeks and now all is “pending”. 

Needless to say whilst I was stupid to pay the €500 I’ve not paid the €1350 and my friend has paid nothing extra.

 All the while my referrer keeps saying it’s all OK you will get your money - just do as they ask!! But of
 course he would say that wouldn’t he?!

I have since checked the company out. They did NOT start trading as stated in 2016. In fact the UK company was started in June 2020 and dissolved in November 2021. The company was subject to a “compulsory strike off” by companies house which is typically for some non-compliance reason EG not filing accounts etc. 

I can find no trace of the positive ratings given by the FT and Bloomberg they claim on their site. In any event the FT (2018) one pre-dates the company!!!

I was told they are switching trading to the USA but there is no evidence of this.

 IN SHORT it’s a “STING” they promise you great returns - start to show you them and even let you take a little out …. BUT THEN they try and tap you for extra money HOPING you will think “well if I just pay this I can get my money out”.

 I hope you have made it this far and hope that in sharing my PAIN I have saved you from the same fate. 

Good Luck :-) 

PS My 'introducer' (who is still recommending I pay these crazy fees) recently suggested I pay "an agent" a further 800 euros to retrieve our outstanding monies. It's laughable the lengths they go to to put good money after bad .... I mean think about it HOW can an agent retrieve money you've invested when there's supposed to be client confidentiality!

 PPS I had a friend enquire as to whether there were any withdrawal fees ... she pressed the point in 2 emails and was assure NONE

PPPS Take a look - the company NEVER responds to bad reviews just uses the same standard text to support positive ones which I am sure are FAKE

PPPPS Our accounts have been closed IE when we try and login the site says "no account associated with these emails" ... still no reply from 'the company' OR the 'recommenders' ...