Rocky B.

Yobit blocks withdrawals if you don't pay them your taxes Read email:

The total amount of your account on this exchange is: 158,620.4948 USDT and the actual total earnings are: 139,286.******* USDT. According to the cryptocurrency tax law of the place where the exchange is registered, if your personal earnings are more than 10,000 USDT and less than 200,000 USDT, you need to pay 20% of your actual earnings to the government of the place where the exchange is registered as personal income tax.
If your personal gains are above 200,000 USDT and below 1,000,000 USDT, you will be required to pay 25% of your actual gains as personal income tax to the government where the exchange is registered.If your personal earnings are above 1,000,000 USDT, you will be required to pay 30% of the actual earnings to the government of the place of registration of the exchange as personal income tax. Collected by the exchange on your behalf, the total amount of tax you should pay is: 27,857.******* USDT, the tax payment address is: 0xa57B09ab48eF0f80FA4FC**************(ERC20)
Please complete the tax payment within 5 days after receiving the email notification, late payment will be subject to a penalty of 5% of the total tax amount per day, please check if the tax payment channel is selected correctly, the tax payment amount is correct, and the tax payment address is correct, please contact yobit customer service for verification after completing the tax payment. If you have any questions, please contact our online customer service.
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Note that they are requesting 28K to be deposited into one of their accounts.

They didn't respond to my next question:

How does the country's tax entity receive the taxes paid?

REDD FLAG - They can block your withdrawals at any point and there's no guarantee the IRS actually receives the "tax" payment