Cryptoguru Review

This review of Cryptoguru explains why the site—also branded as Crypto Guru Global—appears to be a sham crypto operation paired with a bogus trading service that lures people to deposit large amounts and then blocks access to their accounts.

At first glance the pages look polished enough to fool a casual visitor to a crypto site, but a closer look exposes hollow pages with little real substance.

Cryptoguru also presents itself like a trading simulator by showing an account area with balances and apparent performance. However, there is no clear, verifiable demo account mode or transparent simulated-trading environment; instead, the “trading” experience looks like on-screen numbers that the operator can control, rather than a trustworthy simulator tied to real market data.

A reader who contacted The Crypto Adviser about the company wrote:

I sent Cryptoguru £7,500 to buy Bitcoin. After Bitcoin rose, they demanded another £2,500 for supposed tax, warning they would keep the funds taken from my bank if I refused. They message me on WhatsApp and this has dragged on for some time. I am reluctant to pay anything else because nothing has ever been returned.

Requests for extra payments to unlock funds are a classic scam move, commonly seen in pig butchering crypto schemes. These “fees” are often dressed up as taxes, verification charges, or release costs, and they can be paired with misleading marketing that promises easy profits while hiding the real intention: to keep extracting deposits.

A legitimate platform can explain who runs it and how withdrawals work before you deposit; if basic ownership and policies are vague or evasive, assume you are being set up.

After a victim is drawn in and sometimes shown fabricated profits, the fraudsters insist that charges such as taxes or commissions must be settled before any withdrawal.

In reality, these demands are just another extraction; no payout will arrive no matter how many times the victim pays. In practical terms, withdrawals—whether in crypto or fiat—are effectively not possible, because the site uses delays, new conditions, or fresh payment demands instead of processing a transfer.

Beyond the case above, reports from users who believe they were scammed commonly describe a similar pattern: a convincing front-end, pressure to deposit quickly, and escalating “requirements” that appear only when the person tries to withdraw.

Compared with some shady cryptocurrency sites, the layout seems passable, but the problems reveal themselves in the details and the way the service behaves once money is involved.

A few other red flags include:

• Dead navigation links.
• Thin, generic blurbs likely copied from elsewhere.
• Nonsensical pages not typical of legitimate businesses.

This operation is unmistakably a scam, not a legitimate trading platform, and any money you deposit is at serious risk of being taken.

As for “pros and cons,” the only potential upside is superficial: the site can look convincing to a first-time visitor and may appear simple to use. The disadvantages are far more serious: unclear ownership, pressure tactics, shifting fee demands, and an overall lack of credible signs that any trading (real or simulated) is being handled in a fair, auditable way.