Berniston aka Berniston Investments is recorded on the SARFund database as a reported liquidity-mining ponzi. The case is currently in multi-victim pooled review and has been assigned for coordination with the recovery counsel handling this matter.

Common across the case file: operators demanded “tax” or “verification” fees before withdrawal and blocked withdrawal requests. These behaviours, combined with required upfront deposits routed through obscure custodial wallets, are the basis on which SARFund classified the platform as a verified scam broker.

Public chatter on Google Search complaints, Reddit victim threads and Quora question threads shows the same recurring complaint structure: deposits go in, dashboard “earnings” appear, withdrawal requests trigger fee demands, and contact eventually goes silent.

What evidence helps most

Transaction hashes (the on-chain proof of your deposit), screenshots of the broker dashboard, KYC documents you submitted, and full conversation history with any account manager. These four pieces let the partner build a defensible chain of custody.

Redaction policy

SARFund publishes the existence and status of each case but withholds operationally sensitive details. The recovery partner identity, exact victim count, recovered amount, and tagged wallet addresses are released only to verified claimants once the claim form is submitted and matched.

Have transactions linked to Berniston aka Berniston Investments? File a claim with the evidence checklist and SARFund will verify within 48 hours. We never charge to file and we never custody recovered funds.

SARFund does not guarantee recovery. All recovery actions are conducted by independent partners. Submission is free. SARFund is an intermediary case registry, not a recovery firm.