Abstract
Perth Family's $245,000 AUD Savings Drained by Fake "CoinSpot Arbitrage" My husband and I live in Perth, and we had saved for years to invest. In January 2025, we saw ads for a CoinSpot arbitrage bot, claiming profits from price gaps between exchanges. We transferred $245,000 AUD from CoinSpot into what we thought was a legitimate smart contract. Within days, our dashboard showed profits — 10%, 15%, even 20% returns. We thought we had struck gold. Then the platform demanded a "maintenance fee" of $40,000 AUD before we could withdraw. That's when the panic set in. We were scammed. Desperate, we contacted BitReclaim.com. Their blockchain forensic audit revealed the smart contract wasn't an arbitrage pool at all. It was a fraud cluster tied to scam networks in Southeast Asia.