I Lost the Majority of my Life Savings in an Online Dating Scam
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Publicado 2023-05-11
Resources to Report if this has happened to you:
FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center: www.ic3.gov/
The Global Anti-Scam Org: www.globalantiscam.org/contact
A story about the pig-butchering scam: www.cnbc.com/2022/08/25/pig-butchering-crypto-scam…
Thank you for watching and I hope this helps get the word out and prevents it from happening to you or people you care about. In case this has happened to you or someone you know, I hope sharing my story can provide some support.
Todos los comentarios (21)
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So grateful for the kind words and support I am receiving!
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If someone you have “met” online and never met in person, EVER asks to borrow or help with money. That’s an online “dating”scam.
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Same thing happened to me and my initial $100 turned into $230. She told me to try withdrawing it and it worked and i transferred $230 to my bank! She said "I told you so" and told me to now put $20,000 in to make easy bigger money. I said nah, I'm happy with my $230 and cut her off my contact ever since
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I'm 99% sure he was talking to a man.
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I was contacted by a man who looked 30 and GQ model. He said I was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. 🙄I told him we could meet but not at my house because I live in my son’s basement since I have no money, lol. That was the end of that 😂.
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Anytime a woman refuses to talk to you on the phone and insists only on text messages, run away immediately! Run away immediately!
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Something like this happened to a friend of mine, he. He felt so ashamed he told friends each a little part and no one the whole. It is upset him so much he committed suicide and has been devastating for all of us that he felt unable to talk to us about it. Therefore, the fact you’re talking about it and warning people makes such an important contribution. Thank you for that and stay well.
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Why do you call it “dating” if you never met the person? That’s not dating. It’s just a delusion.
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This guy is as witty as his scammers with this grafting video. “Oh look at me, I got scammed! Buy my course!”
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This is why I always pretend I'm poor & broke keeps the Nigerian scammers away
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Some Chinese "woman" tried to pig butcher me, too. But once I told her I worked at McDonald's, it was an immediate "bye." I don't work at McDonald's, but I could easily tell where it was going and just wanted to play along.
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You didn’t “lose” your life savings. You gave it away.
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Retrievetron I love this and, you are a freaking LEGEND my dude! I love the recovery's videos and the angry scammers and the hacking of their wallet but I absolutely love these videos where you help the victims in real time. I don't have much confidence in this scammer "coming to the good side" so to speak but I hope you come out with more ideas like this, stopping the scams with the victims…
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If everyone had the courage to share their scam stories the scammers would go out of business.
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This is an established scam. I'm always shocked when someone falls for this.
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RetrieveTron Thank you for doing this! Please DON'T STOP what you do! It's sad that we need your help...but we do!The monster's that take older people's money should somehow get jail time in return, and we are talking a level 5 prison in with the worst of the worst so they can be well y'all know…
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Impressively awesome this man Retrievetron really hit the ground running and hasn't stopped yet. He gives us more understanding of him without interviews and negative antics he just shows us who he is through the Recovery. True living legend. We salute you. Incredible recovery. The execution, creativity, and goodness that came from it were inspiring on a number of levels. Cheers and looking forward to seeing what you do next!!!
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It probably wasn’t even a woman you were talking to.
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Ten years ago I lost all the money my mother left me to a heartless fraudster. I was devastated and plaintively asked my sister whether I would ever get over it. She said, OF COURSE YOU WILL! And she was right.
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This isn't a dating scam. It's a greed/investment scam
