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I lost 50K to a romance scammer
Published 2 years, 11 months ago
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A note for before reading. My son came home from college so I've moved all of my stuff out of my office and back into my closet. LOL It might have been a good thing. I think the sound is much better.
Music:Untold Secrets by MYUU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulA_OS6NgSgDark web romance scammerI can’t believe that I fell for it. I was so gullible! I went to a friend’s house one night and she was bragging about how her online boyfriend and her were getting along so great. I was so jealous. I mean, I was happy for her but I was so lonely. My ex and I divorced years ago and I had major trust issues. I didn’t want to meet anyone especially in person. I figured an online fling might be something that was easier. We’d both be anonymous.One day on Facebook this really good looking guy hit me up. I usually just friend anyone and he was someone that had friended me. We started talking in messenger a lot, like every night. It was like we had time for no one else. He told me how he was going to take me to France and England. One thing led to another and we were showing each other pictures of things no one should ever see. You know, dirty pictures. He had one of the nicest physiques I had ever seen and he was good looking and my age. Plus, he was rich. He had pictures in his Maserati and his big house and all that.I think it was about three months in when he said that his country was having problems on the internet and that I should download this app called TOR. I didn’t know what that was but I knew it was available for my computer so I did. He said the message he was sending was the last one he could ever send me through a normal browser so I should use the link he sent me. I wish I could remember what the link was. It wasn’t a normal link, it had a ton of characters and numbers and I couldn’t get to it through Chrome, I had to use this other browser he was talking about. So I did.Everything started normal. We were chatting and sending pictures to each other from this new website that looked like a social media website but it was on this weird link he sent to me. We still sent pictures back and forth and then he started telling me that he had been found out that he was using the other internet when he wasn’t supposed to and told me that he had to pay them money and that his government had locked all of his banking accounts.I really wanted to believe him. He showed me a link of how to send him some crypto. The crypto app was able to convert my us dollars to the crypto in the amount of $500 USD. We chatted for a few more days and then he said he needed $5000 more because he had to get out of his country and come to the USA. I asked how he was going to get a passport and he sent me a picture of one with his face and info so I believed him. I sent the 5K in crypto. It was about a week before I heard from him again. I was so scared for him. I waited night after night for him to call from the airport. Then I got a call from him supposedly from France. He said he had been in an accident and he was stuck in France. They wouldn’t let him leave unless he paid his hospital bill. He sent a picture of him in the hospital and he was all bandaged up. I was crying, I was so scared for him. So I sent what he requested. I cleared out my savings and sent about $25,000. I know, I was crazy. I didn’t have anything left. I didn’t hear from him for about 3 weeks and I figured I probably got scammed but then, from that site I got another message from his account in all caps:
YOUR BOYFRIEND IS BEING HELD HOSTAGE. WE WILL KILL HIM IF YOU DO NOT SEND $50,000 USD. They sent a picture of him beaten up and tied up in a chair. I didn’t have that much money. I was so scared. I begged and cried, pleading with them not to do this because I didn’t know what to. They said I should take a loan out against my home. So I did. I took out a mortgage of $25
Music:Untold Secrets by MYUU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulA_OS6NgSgDark web romance scammerI can’t believe that I fell for it. I was so gullible! I went to a friend’s house one night and she was bragging about how her online boyfriend and her were getting along so great. I was so jealous. I mean, I was happy for her but I was so lonely. My ex and I divorced years ago and I had major trust issues. I didn’t want to meet anyone especially in person. I figured an online fling might be something that was easier. We’d both be anonymous.One day on Facebook this really good looking guy hit me up. I usually just friend anyone and he was someone that had friended me. We started talking in messenger a lot, like every night. It was like we had time for no one else. He told me how he was going to take me to France and England. One thing led to another and we were showing each other pictures of things no one should ever see. You know, dirty pictures. He had one of the nicest physiques I had ever seen and he was good looking and my age. Plus, he was rich. He had pictures in his Maserati and his big house and all that.I think it was about three months in when he said that his country was having problems on the internet and that I should download this app called TOR. I didn’t know what that was but I knew it was available for my computer so I did. He said the message he was sending was the last one he could ever send me through a normal browser so I should use the link he sent me. I wish I could remember what the link was. It wasn’t a normal link, it had a ton of characters and numbers and I couldn’t get to it through Chrome, I had to use this other browser he was talking about. So I did.Everything started normal. We were chatting and sending pictures to each other from this new website that looked like a social media website but it was on this weird link he sent to me. We still sent pictures back and forth and then he started telling me that he had been found out that he was using the other internet when he wasn’t supposed to and told me that he had to pay them money and that his government had locked all of his banking accounts.I really wanted to believe him. He showed me a link of how to send him some crypto. The crypto app was able to convert my us dollars to the crypto in the amount of $500 USD. We chatted for a few more days and then he said he needed $5000 more because he had to get out of his country and come to the USA. I asked how he was going to get a passport and he sent me a picture of one with his face and info so I believed him. I sent the 5K in crypto. It was about a week before I heard from him again. I was so scared for him. I waited night after night for him to call from the airport. Then I got a call from him supposedly from France. He said he had been in an accident and he was stuck in France. They wouldn’t let him leave unless he paid his hospital bill. He sent a picture of him in the hospital and he was all bandaged up. I was crying, I was so scared for him. So I sent what he requested. I cleared out my savings and sent about $25,000. I know, I was crazy. I didn’t have anything left. I didn’t hear from him for about 3 weeks and I figured I probably got scammed but then, from that site I got another message from his account in all caps:
YOUR BOYFRIEND IS BEING HELD HOSTAGE. WE WILL KILL HIM IF YOU DO NOT SEND $50,000 USD. They sent a picture of him beaten up and tied up in a chair. I didn’t have that much money. I was so scared. I begged and cried, pleading with them not to do this because I didn’t know what to. They said I should take a loan out against my home. So I did. I took out a mortgage of $25