contacted through a whatsapp chat group that provides you with detailed market analysis of stock market and forex. You are then requested to join and fund an account with a specific website (www.stellar-finance.com) and you are able to log in and see your funded account grow through signals provided by a lead person and an administrator role who is responsible of guiding you through the process, Initially you are able to withdraw some money however once you try to withdraw a larger amount, you are not able to and you are told you not able to until an investment cycle is over, then you are requested to pay taxes and finally you are told that due to the large amounts of people withdrawing you wait patiently or pay an amount to help expedite the process and bump your withdrawal from the queue.
(Note that websites will change with these scammers other known websites operated by same scammers are Amberlight Finance, and PNX. Also to note that names of lead and administrator will constantly change however in my case it was Alice Cooper and Warren Miller.

Pig Butchering Scam. Stellar Finance, PNX, and Amberlight- Finance are all scams by the same delinquents. I was invited via a whatsapp chat group. Initially the chat provides you with an overview of investing 101 and are provided detailed analysis of the stock market and forex. You are then guided to open and fund an account with Stellar Finance ( Amberlight and PNX for other victims). You are encouraged to invest large sums of money for up to 300% profit once you join an exclusive or platinum investment plan. IF you don’t have the funds you are encouraged to get funds from your retirement, insurance life policy, loans, borrow from friends or family and ultimately a HELOC loan. Through this process you have been guided by the scammers to download MT5 with Poinkcr as the server and have begun trades. Trading signals are given by Alice whom guides and provides instruction on when to open and close a trade. Signals are given only after an in depth fundamental and technical analysis by Warren Miller. Each trade was a success and the chat was flooded with images of profits after each successful trade. Members of the chat provided images of luxury travel, purchases, and yachts. Each trade generated more earnings. To continue funding your account you are encouraged to make wire transfers with bank information only good for 1 day. You are told to avoid wire loss you are told to leave wire memo blank and if asked by your bank use "for goods and items" If you are unable to wire due to wire being less than 5k, you are encouraged to use crypto, cashapp or coinbase. In my case I used cashapp for most money (BTC) sent to the same digital wallet (3QdtfWqh5fq93K7s9TXUjsbfrR86WH99F4). Supposedly this address was for the Stellar Finance platform which was linked to the MT5 account. Once my funds were sent to this digital wallet, the funds would be reflected on my Stellar account. At Stellar, I was able to log into my account and see the transactions including profits made, history, and withdrawals. There is no live representative nor someone you can talk to. It is only via chat and most of the responses are scripted. Initially I was able to withdraw some money. But because of the earnings I didn't want to take out much. If you are not part of the exclusive or platinum investment plan you are told that your funds are too small and for your protection (avoid losses) you are not able to participate in every trade. Hence you are not provided trading signals to specific commodities as often as those members who are. When you attempt to withdraw a larger amount, you're not allowed to due to timing, or being in an 30-60 day investment cycle and are provided a future date to withdraw. Once the 30-60 day cycle has ended the excuses continue such as having to pay taxes. Once taxes are paid you are told by stellar that you will get your funds in the next 2 hours. Paying taxes from your earnings will not be allowed as "per platform policy" and regulated forex policies. Upon paying taxes you are told that its no longer 2 hrs but 3-5 business days to receive money. After the 5th day you are told that there is a high volume of requests to be patient and that your turn will come, however if you want to expedite the process you are able to pay an additional fee for bumping up your number to withdraw from the queue. You are tricked into paying more money with the sole outcome of enriching these scammers and draining every cent of your hard-earned money.