Hello!
I am begging you to help me stand back on my feet.
I am a single woman who got scammed by a man I met on Tinder. We talked for 2 weeks and he was very charming and attentive, always thinking about my wellbeing and acting like he cares about my safety.
He talked a lot about having a good, stable job and being ready for marriage. He also mentioned that his previous girlfriend cheated on him and left him for his best friend, stealing all his money at the same time. He presented himself as a victim, who got later on helped by some people who were teaching him how to make money on cryptocurrencies.
He said he can also teach me. We told me how to set up an account with my own ID and use it for some transactions. I made a little profit. But his behavior started being aggressive and I wanted to withdraw the money from the platform he told me to use.
Then he pulled the big move and, , acted like he borrowed my 20000 on the platform and then multiplied it many times but to withdraw it, I had to pay “tax” to the US government. Long story short, if you don’t know how these platforms work, it’s very scary. People don’t have the knowledge and get scammed. I didn’t pay the tax, I asked around and learnt there is no such thing. That cryptocurrency website was a well organized scam and this man was working with them. A man I met on Tinder. I escaped him thinking that I only lost 900 dollars.
But that’s when the real nightmare starts. I wanted to learn how the real cryptocurrencies work and make my money back. I wanted not to be just a woman, a victim, who allowed such humiliating treatment and abuse.
I have already been unemployed for 2 years previously, single, broke and now also angry and humiliated. All my guilt and shame I experience during my entire life just exploded in me.
I took an online loan for 1500 dollars and found another website for cryptocurrency trading, this time a legit one, to start making trading. I have also found a teacher, a real finance man who was gonna tell me how to do it. He also borrowed me 3500 dollars to make up for I lost to the scammers.
We made the transaction successfully and after I tried to withdraw the money, I got a message from the website that my account is being frozen on the suspicion of being involved in the money laundering.
The people who I though were just normal thieves and scammers, the guy from Tinder, was way worse. He was a money launder who used my account. Now a legal financial website for cryptocurrency trading thought I was one of them. Somehow they can see that my account was involved with that fraudulent website. In the cryptocurrency the only law is money. They asked me to participate in an investigation. They asked me to fulfill multiple steps. It already consumed thousands of money that my loved ones have borrowed me. They dropped the money laundering accusations a pretty quickly but since I was a new user and my credit score was low, I couldn’t withdraw the money. And they website owners kept saying my account is suspicious behavior and now they want me to go back to proving that my account is not at risk of being stolen and the only way to prove my identity is with money. I am already having a nervous breakdown and I think I am going crazy. Now they are asking 6628 dollars. No bank will borrow me money, as I have been unemployed for 2 years. I can’t ask family or friends anymore because they worry about me, they knew I lost the ground under my feet long time ago. Nobody really understands what it all means.
I am begging you for any contribution and when I collect this money to pay the fee to the crypto trading platform, I still have a shot of getting my money back. Otherwise I am completely bankrupt and humiliated. For being a woman, for trusting men, then for trying to prove my identity, for clearing myself from the accusation of a money laundering. For being naive and having dreams like anyone else. Especially for having a dream of a partner who will support you.
Please help, maybe together we can collect that money and I can get my sanity back.
I have anxiety so strong that I can’t function anymore.