We have already handled a tkbiy.top scam case: nine thousand euros paid in cryptocurrency after months of contact with someone met online, thirty-three receipts and no successful withdrawal. If you were caught by the same scam we can help you: use the form at the bottom of this page.
Note: we are a law firm dealing exclusively with online fraud. If you were caught in the same trap and want help, you can write to us using the form at the bottom of this article.
Why we say tkbiy.top is a scam
We have already handled the case of a client who paid around nine thousand euros through tkbiy.top, with payments made by buying cryptocurrency on a regulated exchange and transferring it to addresses supplied by his contact. No withdrawal ever succeeded: in seven months, thirty-three payment receipts and not one euro back.
That, however, is not the most important fact in this case. The most important fact is that on tkbiy.top the money arrived later — much later. First came a person.
First the person, then the platform
The pattern is the one Anglo-Saxon investigators describe with a brutal name, and which we prefer to call what it is: a relationship built on purpose.
The contact that leads to tkbiy.top begins in an entirely innocuous way. A message sent "by mistake", a friend request, the profile of a young, friendly woman or man with credible photographs. For weeks, sometimes months, money is never mentioned. You talk about your day, your work, your family. You write to each other morning and evening. What gets built is exactly what the victim lacks: daily, reliable attention.
Only once that bond is solid does the investment appear, and not as a commercial proposal: as a confidence. "Let me show you how I invest." At that point the platform — here tkbiy.top — is not assessed the way you would assess a website found online. It is accepted because it is suggested by someone you trust.
That is why this scheme strikes people who in any other circumstance would never have paid a euro to a stranger. It is not a failure of intelligence. Critical thinking is never applied to the platform: it is applied, and overcome, on the person.
The names and numbers are stage props
In the tkbiy.top case the contact introduced herself as "Lily" and wrote from a British mobile number beginning +44 7462 161 *. We report these details because they get reused on several victims and recognising them is often the first warning sign.
They should be read for what they are, though: stage props. The name is almost certainly not real, the photographs are almost always taken from elsewhere, and a British number does not mean the writer is in the United Kingdom: such numbers are activated remotely and used from anywhere in the world. In criminal law this has a precise consequence, which we come to below: using a false identity is not a side detail of the fraud, it is a separate offence.
Stopping answering is the hardest part
Here is the reason we wrote this article.
When someone realises they have been defrauded on tkbiy.top or on a similar platform, they almost never break off the relationship. They keep writing. Sometimes in the hope of recovering something. More often because the relationship, however manufactured, was real in their daily experience, and ending it means admitting two losses at once: the money and the person.
Anyone who does this is not naive. It is a human reaction, and those who build these frauds know it perfectly well: it is precisely this hesitation they count on to obtain the final payment.
We want to say it plainly, because we say it often in our practice and saying it harshly helps no one: there is nothing to be ashamed of, and shame is the only thing that works in favour of whoever took the money. The people we assist are professionals, entrepreneurs, teachers, pensioners. The script is written and tested on thousands of people.
One practical piece of advice, worth more than any moral exhortation: before breaking off contact, save everything. Complete conversations, not scattered screenshots; telephone numbers; profiles; photographs; wallet addresses; every receipt. If you announce to your contact that you have gone to a lawyer, in the vast majority of cases the account disappears within hours, and the evidence with it. Collect first, close afterwards.
The second fraud comes from the same person
There is a variant we meet often and which occurred here: after the first loss on tkbiy.top, the same contact came back with a new proposal, for several thousand euros.
It is important to distinguish it from the fake recovery. In a fake recovery a third group comes forward, posing as a specialist company or even as a law firm. Here instead it is the same person who already defrauded the victim coming back, strengthened by the fact that the bond was never broken. In criminal law the two episodes are not separate matters: they are a single criminal design, to be charged as a continuing offence under article 81, second paragraph, of the Italian Criminal Code.
Who paid and who was deceived
In the tkbiy.top case part of the money left the account of someone close to our client.
This is a frequent situation and needs careful handling, because the person deceived by the artifices and the person who actually suffered the loss of assets may not be the same. The practical answer is for both to file a criminal complaint, setting out clearly the role of each. We wrote about this in detail in the article on nftcapitals.com.
A regulated exchange is an advantage, not a problem
Many victims give up all hope when they discover they paid in cryptocurrency. In the tkbiy.top case the opposite is true, and it is worth knowing.
The purchases were made on a regulated exchange, subject to the customer due diligence and record-keeping duties of legislative decree 231/2007. That means complete documentation exists: the client's identity, the date and amount of every purchase, the destination address of every transfer. Thirty-three receipts in our case, plus the bank statement for the months concerned.
That is the starting point. The blockchain is a public and permanent ledger: transactions are not deleted. You follow the route of the funds and, at the point where they reach an operator subject to identification duties, you ask the judicial authority to obtain the account holder's details. It is not a guarantee of recovery — none exists — but it is a concrete route, and it requires the receipts to be complete and in order.
What we checked on tkbiy.top
We found no company name, no VAT number, no registered office and no reference to any authorisation or supervisory body connected to tkbiy.top, and no entry in the registers kept by CONSOB, the Italian market authority, or among the EU intermediaries entitled to operate in Italy.
The public registers show that tkbiy.top was registered on 26 June 2026 with a registrar based in Hong Kong, for the minimum term of one year, with its configuration completed sixteen minutes after purchase. The .top extension is among the cheapest in circulation and is the one we most often meet in disposable domains.
Finally, a detail always worth checking: tkbiy.top has no mail server configured. No email can be received at that address. An entity claiming to manage other people's money that cannot even be written to is not an operator: it is a temporary shop window.
The criminal framework
The conduct of whoever ran tkbiy.top amounts to fraud under article 640 of the Italian Criminal Code, aggravated under the second paragraph no. 2-bis for exploiting the circumstance of distance referred to in article 61 no. 5, and by the aggravating circumstance introduced in paragraph 2-ter by law 90/2024, applicable because the facts date from 2026.
Alongside it, and the point is anything but secondary, stands impersonation under article 494: anyone who assumes a name, an image and a personal history that are not their own in order to mislead others commits a separate offence, which runs together with fraud. The complaint should therefore set out in full the name used, the phone numbers, the profiles and the photographs received.
Also to be assessed are the aggravating circumstance of particularly serious financial harm under article 61 no. 7, the unlawful provision of investment services under article 166 of the Consolidated Law on Finance — punished by one to eight years' imprisonment — and, as regards whoever received and moved the cryptocurrency, money laundering under article 648-bis or self-laundering under article 648-ter.1.
As to timing: aggravated fraud becomes time-barred after six years, up to seven years and six months with interrupting acts; the civil claim for damages follows the longer term under article 2947, third paragraph, of the Civil Code. Banking records can be obtained for ten years under article 119, fourth paragraph, of the Consolidated Banking Law; for transfers abroad the tools are the European Investigation Order under legislative decree 108/2017 and preventive seizure under article 321 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
What to do now
Do not pay any more money to tkbiy.top, under any heading and for no emotional reason. Save the conversations in full before breaking off contact. Ask the exchange for a complete statement of operations and your bank for the payment records with the beneficiaries' IBANs. File a criminal complaint, including the false identity used. And do not turn to anyone who contacts you promising immediate recovery in exchange for an advance payment: that is the second scam.
We can help you
Our firm deals exclusively with online fraud and has already handled cases entirely comparable to tkbiy.top: relationships built at a distance, platforms suggested by a trusted contact, cryptocurrency payments and demands that come back a second time.
If you have paid money to tkbiy.top or to a platform working the same way, contact us using the form at the bottom of this page: we will review the documents and tell you honestly what concrete prospects exist in your case.
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