Hey HN I want to expose what is happening with Stripe specialist team scam and I am telling it as someone who had $800k+ held and got offered 72% deal to get it released from someone inside the Stripe and actually has seen them to release my friend's account with my own eyes after 2 days of accepting the deal

In short, they make you beg for your own money and never release it and then in groups in telegram and other places offer 50%+ deals (my own deal was 72% for $800k held) where they take huge cut from released funds.

Proof: I have my friend who was desperately trying to recover his funds while having absolutely no dispute and 2 days after taking the deal, his funds automatically get released

So what is happening is SOMEONE or SOME GROUP in specialist team running a SCAM where they are holding someone's funds forever and basically create enough chaos where people are desperate.

Then they have a group advertising a way to release funds for 50%+ deals, if you do not take it funds never get released basically 2-3 days after you accept the deal, you give them your account ownership, they send funds to their own bank and pay you your share (exactly what happened with my friend)

How exactly do they make you desperate: 1) You contact chat 2) They tell you bear with me while I am looking into your account 3) They explicitly make you wait around 40-50 mins so you don't try again 4) They say they will need to convert this chat to email because only specialist team can handle these cases 5) Once chat converted into email, they completely ignore you 6) In the dashboard, it is shown TICKET IS CLOSED few mins after getting opening

I have done this for last 9 months as I REFUSE to give up 72% of my funds for criminal scams. I have 0 disputes. We were using Stripe Standard Connect to help companies to get customers through email marketing, and ads and charge % of sales and we were specifically using direct charges which means we are not liable for disputes of connected accounts either

--- When you report this to the chat saying do not convert it to email, they assure you this time they will send it to CORRECT team or this team they will send it to compliance team, or higher ups but next business min after you create the ticket it will get closed

Oh also, we sent legal letters and they are still ignoring it. I am now trying to find lawyers to help me to sue Stripe and release funds for the % of my funds (probably a lot lower than what Stripe Specialist Scam team offered us)

I am trying to expose this scam because MAYBE for the sake of their reputation they will do something and I would be happy to be quite because I only care about my funds being released. My entire business got shut down after closing my account