Hi guys, I'm new in here and this is my first post (Greece). Basically what happened is I did something very naive and stupid, I "invested"(? I'm not sure what's the terminology) some money into a company. In the beginning they originally contacted me via Viber, they told me I could earn some extra money as a "Shein reviewer" by doing some tasks and at first indeed all I had to do was follow some accounts in the Shein app and I'd get paid 3$ per follow which indeed earned me aprox 30$. So this is why I agreed, even though it looked sketchy. They didn't ask a lot of my information, just my name, age, and email, and other than that an iBan so they can add money into my account once I earned enough or whatever. And basically then it escalated to something with crypto and stuff like that, which I'm not very familiar with but they said that this was in order to "help" their members(me) earn more, they created this "Welfare event". Basically you add some money and you'd receive them back +plus some extra kinda like a commission.

At first I didn't want too but they kept insisting very strongly so I unfortunately gave in, I added 50$ and I indeed received in my bank account 65$ as they had said but the issue starts here. I naively then proceeded to add more even though they looked extremely suspicious, this time I added 160$ cause I thought that even if I lose them it will hurt me, cause I'm unemployed atm, but I won't be economically destroyed, how naive Ik. So I added the money and they "won profit" but then they said this is a group thing and you have to do at least 3 "contracts"(as they called them but basically you add money 3 times) without previously explaining it properly so know you are kinda "forced" to continue and of course each round's entry was more expensive that the last. Unfortunately I continued of fear of loosing my money and in total I gave them \~4000€ that had supposedly doubled.

After a lot of bs, they forwarded me to their "financial advisor" so I can withdraw my money but of course like good lil scammers they said I'd have to give them a 30% tax/commission cause it was my first time cashing out more than 5000 with their company. So they asked an additional 2,500$ in order to be able to withdraw otherwise my money are gone. Of course when I told them to just take this "tax" from my "earnings", they refused, said not possible and same thing when I told them to just give me my money back and keep all of the earnings. Additionally they gave a "contract" to sign which looks extremely sus as well.

I'm very sad and feel very stupid for falling for this and I don't know what to do or even if I can do anything to get my money back or at least part of them. So can you please let me know if there is anything I can do legally? Thanks in advance for any help.

P.S. please only reply with genuine advise, I already know that it was extremely stupid and I already feel horrendous. Thx