eth-seal.vip removed about 30,000 USDT after paying early rewards

A woman contacted me on Instagram and, after several days of conversation, said she was earning one ETH per day with a DeFi mining tool. She guided me to eth-seal.vip through Coinbase Wallet and even sent 0.01 ETH so I could begin.

I started with only a few hundred USDT and received about $15 per day directly into my wallet. Because those early payments worked, I gradually increased the wallet balance to around 30,000 USDT. Over three or four weeks, I saw roughly 8,000 USDT in rewards reach the wallet, which made the arrangement look genuine.

Then I opened the site and found that all of my USDT was gone from the wallet. The pool page said it had been pledged. When I asked to withdraw, customer service said I first had to bring the total to 100,000 USDT. I had not knowingly authorized that sudden removal or agreed to that threshold.

The early rewards were what lowered my guard. My warning is that a DApp can pay small returns while retaining an approval capable of moving the larger balance later. Do not add funds to meet a post-removal pledge requirement.