12 hours ago, a story popped up on the r/CryptoScams subreddit from user Quiet_celine04 — a big sister trying to deal with the fallout of a kid being a little too trusting. Her little sister (a teen born in 2010, according to the post) got a message from a friend she hadn't talked to in ages: a screenshot from MR BEAST's X (formerly Twitter) account supposedly showing him playing at a crypto casino, plus a promo code for a bonus of around $2,500. Out of curiosity, the girl went to verypex.com and signed up — but not with her own email. She used her big sister's "burner" email, the one the sister had set up for privacy. The promo code worked, and boom — $2,530 showed up on the balance.

Now, some important details here. The girl is underage, and when signing up she accidentally put 2007 as her birth year instead of 2010. She never went through KYC and never uploaded any documents. She didn't hand over her Google password either — she made up a separate one, so the email itself is safe. She didn't deposit any money and didn't win any — it's purely a "promo balance" the family has zero intention of using.

The sister reached out to Verypex support, explained that she's underage and that the birth year was wrong, and asked them to close or restrict the account. The reply was telling: apparently you can't delete an account because the platform is "decentralized", and the only way to "wipe your personal data" is to withdraw your funds first and then get back in touch. On her big sister's advice, the girl kept screenshots of the whole conversation and isn't sending any documents.

The commenters instantly set the record straight. User AngelOfLight explained: support couldn't care less about your age or your data — what they really want is for you to try to withdraw the money. The moment you file a withdrawal request, "fees and taxes" magically appear that you have to pay upfront. And no matter how much you pay, you'll never see that money — that's the whole scam in a nutshell. User webbinatorr put it even more cynically: "You get greedy over $2,500, try to cash out — and now you owe $250. You pay it, and another fee pops up. The cycle goes on until logic finally beats greed".

The most informative reply came from user Applauce: this is an "extremely common scam". Just Google "Mr. Beast casino scam" and you'll find hundreds of examples — a whole family of fake casinos multiplying daily under different names and domains. The specific verypex.com clone was only 4 days old at the time of posting, and there are literally thousands of these clones out there — no exaggeration. The games on the site are rigged to make it look like you're winning fake money, and the "bonus" $2,530 is fake too.

Deleting an account on a site like this is impossible, according to Applauce — it's just a scam project. The most you should do: if the sister reused that password anywhere else, change it everywhere (they got lucky here — the password was made up), and brace yourself for a wave of spam in the inbox. As for the site itself, it should be blocked and reported via the report links from the mods' auto-reply.

Quiet_celine04 tried contacting Verypex support herself, then started mulling over a drastic move — nuking the entire email account, since it was just a burner with nothing important on it. The community's reaction: overkill. In Applauce's view, emailing them is a waste of time: either they won't reply, or they'll send some AI-generated response offering to let you "pay for verification" to delete the account. The site will die on its own, just like the thousands of clones before it. User zamula agreed: there's no reason to delete the whole email — nothing bad will come from having signed up on a fake casino.

There was also a whole emotional side to the discussion. The OP admitted she scolded her sister, who "cried a lot", and she feels partly to blame — she never warned her about sites like this, because online she mostly watched anime and pirated movies instead of learning about scams. She explained the context: in their neighborhood, Mr. Beast-style challenges are huge among teens — someone wins a chocolate bar, and at that age you start wanting to "earn your own money". To which roninconn gave a philosophical reply: it's a rough lesson, but hopefully a memorable one.

DaddyDogmeat wrapped it up: don't engage with these people at all. Even if the underage sister had 50 accounts on that platform — it wouldn't matter one bit, nobody's reporting anything to anyone, and the whole "KYC" thing was complete nonsense: nobody in crypto uses their real birth data except when signing up on major exchanges with a linked card. The only real consequence is extra scam spam in the inbox. UpbeatFix7299 put it even more simply: "They're criminals. They're not going to delete the account on their fake site. As long as the password wasn't reused, there's nothing to worry about".

The overall takeaway from the thread is simple: it's a classic trap built on naivety and greed, where the fake bonus is the bait, "decentralized" is the excuse, and "withdraw the money first" IS the scam. The site will die on its own in a few months, taking all the data with it. And the best defense, as the commenters pointed out, is still basic digital hygiene: unique passwords, zero documents for "verification", and healthy skepticism toward promo codes from celebrities.