A few months ago, my husband of 16 years revealed to me that he’s been having affairs with other women throughout our entire marriage. I do not judge him for this. Monogamy is not for everyone, but I do wish he would have expressed his desires before we committed to one another. However, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t heart broken. I have birthed and raised his 5 children, devoted my heart and soul to him and the kids, and lost my self-worth and identity in the process.

One vulnerable day I received a text offering me a position as a data optimizer for Yelp. I could work on my own schedule and make a decent cash flow. This felt like perfect timing because I wanted to make my own money so I could get my own place and establish some autonomy.

The position used Crypto to complete data optimization tasks and I was intrigued to learn more.

Two weeks in, I had been gradually manipulated to invest a total of $48000 of borrowed money into the yelp platform with the leading that I’d be able to withdraw all my funds plus generous commissions, once I completed all of my tasks. The day of task completion and the much anticipated withdrawal, the merchant says I did not complete the tasks on time therefore I could not withdraw unless I invest an additional $30k. Another heart breaking moment.

In hindsight, there were several red flags along the way, yet my desperation for freedom clouded my judgement. I realize now my vulnerable heart was not in a healthy space to make a proper assessment.

I am full aware there are greater needs in this world, way more tragic heart breaks than infidelity and way more devastating situations than my scammed heart. However, I’d appreciate the opportunity to pay off my debt of $48000, and continue to move forward with my vision to create a healing center for wives and mothers that have lost their sense of self. A safe haven for ladies to restore their confidence & creativity as well as embrace the skill of radical self-love.  

Thank you for reading and for your consideration.

My PayPal: PayPal.me/jessicafletcher1

Venmo: @Jessica-Fletcher-29

Hi!  Thank you for reading my request.  I am a social worker in California and I am requesting some money to pay off my credit cards, pay a tax bill, and pay off some other miscellaneous secured debt.  Life is very expensive in California, which is why I am looking to pay off some debt and be able to move to a more affordable location.  I curently take care of my elderly mother, who lives with me and my husband who has Autism Spectrum Disorder.

In 2022, I left a job that I loved, but had a very toxic work environment.  I went to work for another (similar) company working with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.  My new company turned out to be very shady.  Caregivers weren’t background checked properly, patients were mistreated and put in harms way.  Management refused to do anything, so I ended up leaving that job and reported them to adult protective services.  Because I left the company, they did not pay me my final wages as retaliation.  I filed a labor dispute the same month, but it’s a very long process.  It is now 2024; the labor commissioner finally found that the company owes me wages due and penalties.  Now the company is refusing to pay.  I now have to go to court case to get the money owed to me.

I had planned to pay off my debt so I could move out of state, but this has really thrown a wrench in my plan.  I had to deplete my savings and use credit cards during the months I was out of work; and the money I was awarded was to pay off the debt and pay for a deposit and moving expenses.  My sister just got out of a horribly abusive relationship and needs help with her 5 year old.  I have a job and work from home, but live paycheck to paycheck as well as take care of my mom.  Because of all of this, we decided to move out of state to help my sister.  I don’t know when or if I’ll ever see that money from my previous employer.

So here I am, humbly before you; looking for a little breathing room.  I am requesting $10,000 USD, but honestly anything helps.  Thank you so much for taking the time to read my request and I hope to hear from someone soon.  Have a wonderful day.

Paypal: PayPal.me/vikiecole

I am a 63 year old male disabled and had my life savings stolen from me by a fake investment company. I was invested in the stock market with what money I had from an accident that has injured my back and I have had 3 surgeries and I am still in pain 24/7. I was trying to invest in the market on my own and I was not making any money and I could not work because of my injury but I needed more money to live. So I looked into having someone invest for me and I did my due diligence and the company came up with everything looking good. There were people recommending this company and I figured I would invest a little of my money and see how they did. I was Leary at first but the returns on my money were good. So to make sure everything was real and this was truly a good company I withdrew my money and I got back what was requested. So I’m thinking this company is legit and made some nice returns so I invested back in with my whole account because they were doing much better than I was and the account was growing nicely and as time went by it was getting pretty substantial and I wanted to take out my original investment and put some aside for each of my daughters and feel that they would have some money in case my account took a turn everyone would have a nest egg. I requested money and they said since it was over $500,000 I had to pay $100,000 insurance to get my money. I was telling them that’s ridiculous and they said that’s the policy. I said there was nothing about insurance once I got over any amount of money about this or I would have withdrawn before it reached that level. They said I had to pay or I would get locked out of my account and I would not be able to access my money. I said that’s BS just take it from my funds and they said it had to come from me. I was in shock and told them I did not have that kind of money and why would I have to give you more of my money to get my money. I knew I had been scammed and I cried like a baby. How could this happen to me. My life was looking very dark and I was so mad at myself for letting this happen. I called the police and the y said come in and fill out a report. I said what happens then? They said SLED would take it from there. I called SLED and they were not very interested and said that I should fill out a form that goes to the FBI and I did that. Did not get any response from FBI and went into debt to hire a firm that specialized in recovering stolen investment money. They located the company but it was not where it was supposed to be. Had a lawyer contact them and they were not even in California they were out of the country. It’s been 3 years and I am never going to see my money from that company. They have changed the name and disappeared. I had many sleepless nights and thoughts about being so stupid and ending it all but my daughters would have been devastated and I am going to my daughters wedding the end of this month. I sold my truck so I could help with the wedding costs and if anyone could find something in there heart to help me it would be very much appreciated. Thank you for reading this and God bless everyone.

Hi,

I am a server in a restaurant and during corona shutdown and right after it nobody was really using cash and navie me, I thought that cryptocurrency will be a next thing people will use for payment because nobody has to count it like cash or touch it like a credit card. In 2020 nobody wanted to touch anything other people handled. This gave me the idea to start buying Bitcoin. And so I did. But since the restaurant industry was very unpredictable and shaky, I also decided to learn how to trade it. So someone reached out to on Facebook and basically promised that she will teach me how to do just that. I did have to create an account on a trading site and I started sending money. The problem was is that when I was promised to take out my profits I was asked to sing up for another site. A different one. Apparently I had more than $27,000.00 in profile and I was asked to give them my bank account number which was the second red flag. And I didn’t give that up. However I m sitting here writing this after me sending them more than $5,000.00 because I am afraid to mention this to any of my friends who started buying crypto when I did. I now wish to have that money and just kept it to myself. I just really need the $5,000.00 back. I worked so hard for it. And I let myself scammed by someone in Japan (at least that was what the person from Facebook said she was).

Thank you so much for listening to my story and for your accomodations in advance.

https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/summary

Hi, I am a single 48 yr. old grandmother that cares for my grandbaby alone. I recently got scammed for over 3500 dollars, which was my rent and bill money. Which is a 1.5 months worth of paychecks that I work an average 60 to 70 hrs. a week to make. I applied online to a job offer to work from home for extra money! I fell fast into this scam as at first it was actually paying me decently at around 100 to 200 a day boosting ratings for online merchandise. Basically submitting 5 star ratings. Well the catch is they get you going earning small commissions and then they hit you with these orders that are higher then the amount of money you have in your account making you pay in order to receive higher commission, the higher the amount of the order you are rating the higher the commission so you get these orders that then make your account negative starting at 100 then you will build a bit more money after you transfer Bitcoin to the account then they hit you with another order and all of a sudden that’s 2500 to deposit and so on and so on and you have to submit 38 consecutive orders before you can withdraw your money… well the next thing you know in order to get back your money or in my case the last 2 deposits were 1000 then 2500 and then they thru a 9000 order at me and in order to get my 3500 back I had to deposit yet another 4600 so needless to say I couldn’t afford to deposit that to get my 3500 back out and because I didn’t submit 38 orders they say I didn’t fulfill my orders and now I cant get my money back. That’s how they get people they run the orders up so high to the point you are broke and they get your money now. I was told my money was safe the whole time that the money I deposited would always be mine and even I asked them to keep the commission I already made whatever, or why they couldn’t just tell the system I didn’t want the order anyway. I never confirmed the order ever the site is THEREVURY.NET affiliated with ZALANDOD.NET they pretend to be affiliated with THEREVURY.COM and even using they logo to look legit… I did contact the real site and they told me they had already reported them to the cybercrime, etc. and are trying to take them down but the scam is so horrible they literally have you depositing every dime you have until your broke trying to just not lose the money you already put in!! Even worse they have you transfer money via crypto thru money apps so you’re basically screwed on calling the banks about it. I have all the proof I was literally begging these people I’m going to be homeless with a baby they didn’t care 1 bit!! They told me to find the money or OH WELL! Acted like I was a quitter and scolding me for not finishing my work! I can’t believe this happened to me! I do have all the messages and all the transaction everything still in my phone proving what happened!! https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/my/profile

Hello  I need $7,000 . It is for 2 reasons . It is to help save my marriage. I sold my car to start an on line business, but what I didn’t realize is when you see these adds for AI business push button start up runs while you sleep just pay one time fee. Well I believed it was true. So I payed one time fee and when you get past that page they ask for another one time set up fee get past that page they ask for another security fee to keep hackers away and they keep going with more and more and before I  knew it  every Penny I got for my car was gone , and I was no closer to getting my business going because I still needed funnels to my web page and other things I knew nothing about. So when I realized what had happened. I had paid all this money and still had no business and no car I knew a little to late that I had ben scammed and I wasn’t getting a business. I haven’t been able to tell my wife that I Lost all the money I got for selling my car to someone on line by trying to start my own business. So I’m hoping and praying that I can get some help to come up with the money to just get another car because it has put a lot of stress on our marriage using one car for 2 people different jobs opposite sides of town. Please please this help would literally save my marriage of 20 years. I can’t lose her for something stupid I did please help.

Sincerely hopeful

https://www.paypal.me/pleasehelprobert

As an educator dreaming of financial freedom and a retirement trip to Italy, I ventured into Bitcoin trading, drawn by promises of lucrative returns and debt clearance. I chose a seemingly credible platform and began optimistically with a “broker” who was going to guide me through the entire experience.

Initially, my investments flourished, fostering hopes of debt-free retirement. However, I was then faced with unexpected hurdles. To progress, I paid substantial “requirement fees,” unwittingly losing $17,000 crucial for my financial stability and monthly bills..

Deceived, my dreams were shattered.  My primary goal was to carve out a better future, free from debt and financial worries for myself and my loved ones. However, I now confront the aftermath of a costly deception, striving to reconstruct what was lost.

Betrayed and desperate, I want to rebuild what took years to save!  Despite adversity, I remain determined to reclaim control and pursue financial independence with the help of any donation amount and what little I have left living paycheck to paycheck now.

Paypal.me link:  breardsherri3@gmail.com

Thank you for coming to my post. It is a long and complex story, but I’ll summarize to the best of my ability as to why I am here writing this. And I wasn’t sure if I should put this in the Rent category or the Scam category but I flipped a coin and so here we are.

There is a much longer back story but essentially to keep it short and concise I am a 32 year old male. I was born and raised in Virginia, but tragedy struck at 19 and I lost a best friend in a motorcycle accident. At 20 years old I left everything I knew behind to come live with a buddy on the west coast in San Diego to start a new life, starting out with basically nothing, except a dream to build a life on my own terms, a strong work ethic, and a desire to never go back to my small home town where there is no opportunity.

From 2011 to 2019 I built my way up earning a living working 2 jobs: retail at minimum wage, and working in restaurants which yielded tips leading up to Covid, but I’ve not had much of a life because working all the time to keep rent paid in an expensive city leaves little time to actually go back to building a career. To keep it short, because this could get lengthy, during that time period I survived breaking my femur snowboarding, a car wreck where someone hydroplaned into me on my way back from the mountains ( on a different trip), a serious heartbreak of a toxic relationship, and an outright full blown alcoholic roommate.

In 2018-2019 I began really learning about investing via audiobooks and podcasts and YouTube before it is as mainstream as it is now. At that time I was somewhat of a “normie”. I was working in a bar as a bar back and had been for 4 or so years, and I realized that I was not going to be given the opportunity to become a bartender because honestly I didn’t know how to play the social game within the workplace. I didn’t know how to befriend the management in order to get moved up. Others were getting moved up that had way less seniority than me. I was just there to work and to work hard and so I became a great bar-back that was hard to replace. This capped my earning potential. I had been saving my tips for years and I around that time in 2019 I had quit drinking and found myself wondering why I was still working around alcohol. Then Covid happened.

I took my tips that I had been saving for years and did as Warren Buffet’s famous quote said “be greedy when others are fearful…..” and I went and bought Bitcoin literally at the bottom of the Covid crash. I figured there was no bigger fearful time in my lifetime than this and I was already used to living a frugal life that shutdowns didnt scare me so I had the greenlight to invest. I got into learning about trading and I also started a podcast (Main Reason Im Here Today) called Surfs Up Podcast (its on YouTube) where I interviewed other entrepreneur types and just cool people I found interesting around my community that were inspiring. Surfs Up motto is “To Inspire the Everyday Man With the Everyday Man”

~~~Fast Forward~~~

I made money in crypto and lost money in crypto but in the end I came out net positive. I decided trading wasn’t really for me or my calling and started to look for another venture. The podcast was my calling and I wanted to continue it but doing it all on my own with the prep time to learn about the guest, the production with all the gear, the editing, and the distribution and social media aspect all on me took up a ton of my time. It was a lot more than I realized and honestly I loved doing it, but facts are I wouldn’t be seeing any kind of income from the effort till many episodes down the road. Also, I did not want the money factor to pollute the passion I had for the project so I decided I needed to compartmentalize the two and I did not want to trade anymore (bear market was in and I realized I’m more of an investor type not a trader type).

I took what I had made in the crypto 2021 bull run and decided on an amazon automation service to build a cashflow source so I could have the time to give the podcast all of my time and attention so I could bring the most value to viewers. I wanted to give back because in the last 6 years of my life the bedrock of my personal development was podcasts, audiobooks, and YouTube. I wanted to build a platform to share with others in my own community and on the internet what I had learned and also to hear perspectives from guests I had on the show about their journey through entrepreneurship.

My plan as of June 2022 was to drive Uber for 6-12 months while the amazon automation team scaled the business and then I could really dig in on the podcast and drive Uber less. This plan did not come to fruition because either the amazon automation people were a complex long term scam or they are just very bad at what they said they were going to do and super underdelivered. I have tried for 19+ months now to work with them and they have neglected communications a ton during that time span. They have gotten my amazon account suspended 3 times even though they had claimed upon signing the agreement they were the “expert” and knew what they were doing. I have tried getting the CEO on the phone multiple times but he proxy’s himself from me with “account managers.” The account managers agree with me that he should give me a refund because they did not fulfill the contract but the CEO just throws the contract in my face (via email, still cannot get him on the phone) saying they don’t do refunds even though they never delivered on the other half of the contract where they were supposed to set up a Walmart store as well. Prior to signing I was told they used US based wholesale suppliers, but after they had my money when they actually “got to work” they just tried drop shipping in a manner that directly violated amazons terms of service. I feel like they pull investors in then they break policies on the clients stores so the client gets suspended and they get to keep the initial service fee with a bogus contract.

I cannot disclose the name of the amazon automation service because the contract says stuff about defamation. This brings us to the meat of the situation. I took everything I made in crypto and put it into this drop shipping model and now have nothing. I actually have less than nothing because I took out a business Credit card under the amazon automation teams directive for purchasing inventory where they went and broke their sales pitch and sourced from China resulting in a possible counterfeit product that resulted in the most recent suspension (where they are holding 7k of my money and I don’t think I’m getting it back because of the counterfeit goods policy). According to the contract I have no say as to what is listed and the team has autonomy of the listings and I am just to manage the capital. So, they are at fault for losing my money but will not admit fault. Well the account manager, as stated above,  does agree it is their fault but his boss the CEO will not sign off on a refund and is the real problem.

All this time I also drive Uber 40+ hours a week and Uber has slashed earnings in 2023. I’m barely making rent and I haven’t released a podcast in over 2 years now. Venturing out on my entrepreneurial path has left me with 3 years of no recent work history so getting a job in the restaurant industry is hard to break back in to (or really anywhere). I have been applying for 6 months but I do understand it is the offseason here and no one is hiring till spring/summer.

Now a few years into this rollercoaster ride and disaster situation I’m in has left me working all the time for very little pay (thanks Uber for screwing over drivers to keep shareholders happy). My health has taken a hit from all the stress and after 2 years of no nicotine I picked up nicotine again and I’m not proud of it. No alcohol though and I am super proud of that (I pretty much despise alcohol).

HERE is WHERE YOU the READER comes in.

I cannot afford a proper lawyer and I’ve researched and not found any lawyer that will take the case pro-bono as complex as it is and because it is a business dispute (even though its really just me vs a big private scam company that probably has a team of lawyers). over the course of the 19 months of this business venture I have tracked and recorded many of the wrong doings this scammy amazon automation company has done to me. I have spoken to a friend that is a law school graduate that says I have a strong case but he isn’t practicing and couldn’t take it on because he is in the depths of his own entrepreneurial career. I’ve also had the top of class Law student at a nearby university say the same thing but he is not barred yet and doesn’t have the experience.

What I’m asking for is 10k-30k+ to do these things:

1. Keep roof over my head, pay off debt, and buy time to execute number 2 below
2. Get a paid lawyer to take these guys down. They are bullying their clients with predatory contracts and shady business practices. Again I cannot disclose the name but if you were to pull up their name on the Better Business Bureau there are others that they are also doing this to. I have more than enough proof to take them down I just need the time and safe roof over my head in order to focus and do it. If I take them down then you aren’t just helping me but you are also helping other people not get screwed so your dollar goes way further than just helping me.
3. Get back to having some semblance of a life.
4. Get back to the podcast and actually injecting value into the world!

Thanks for reading and Blessings upon you!

Kindest Regards,

~C

Donate at any of the below:

paypal.me/surfsuppodcast

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On November 19, 2023, hi, began an online conversation with a girl who called herself Anna

@dream.of.flying4 on TicToc.

She asked me if I had a WhatsApp account and wanted to converse there. I told her that I did, I gave her my number, and we began to converse on WhatsApp, after a couple days of conversation back-and-forth. She spoke of cryptocurrency and told me how she could help me make profit in that market. At first I told her I was not interested, and she said she understood, and we begin to converse about the daily life, in a day or two she brought up the cryptocurrency trading again, she told me that I would be in control of my deposits, that I would be the one doing the trading with her guidance. I agreed and opened a Crypto.com app account and made my first deposit of $100.00. I also opened a Coinbase wallet app account, where she said, we would be making our trades.

Using screenshots, she showed me how to deposit Crypto into my trading account.

With that $100 deposit our first trade made me a profit $300.00.

Then she showed me how to make a withdrawal which total $291.00, and I did receive it in my bank account.

Then I deposit $975.00 to my Coinbase app from PayPal.

When we make our next trade, my profit is close to $700.00. I did not withdraw this because I wanted to use it as capital for our next trade.

Then she tells me: I have made an investment program for you, this program will help you to get your trading capital faster, I have just called my friend and told her about your personal financial situation, she works for sofi loan company, I always look for its help when I am short of my investment capital, I borrow a high amount of money from it and trade with it when I make a good profit. After I will repay the principal to it in a week’s time, the profit stays in the account to continue trading, I told your situation to my friend, she is very happy to help you through the loan, so I trade you can apply for a loan of 30,000 U.S. dollars for a week of trading time, when you get a loan of funds you only need to trade with me for a week you can earn about 10,000 U.S. dollars per transaction Profit, after a week you can earn about $60,000 in profit, and then you can loan $30k to repay the profit to stay in the account to continue to trade with me, so you can earn a good profit in a period of time and pay off your debt, this is called borrowing the chicken and laying an egg. I hope you can understand this! And then she tells me: Dear, I think this program is very suitable for you, it ensures you to earn a good profit also you can get a high amount of principal in a period of time, so I think you can do this. I asked her if she really thought we could do this, and she replied: Yes, if the personal financial information you tell me is true, my friend can be pretty sure it can help, and I can help you make a great profit 100% of the time! Dear, if I may, I am sending you the link to my friend’s company’s, online application for a loan, and you will need to follow my instructions to fill out a personal financial information application to see if you can get $30k in funding

On 11/23/2023 I received a loan for $30000.00 at SoFi.com with her guidance using screenshots.

The loan comes with high interest so I ask her about that and she said that I have nothing to worry about that with $30,000 each transaction would make $10,000 profit and that within a week I could pay back the $30,000 .

She said if I follow her plan, she could assure me that I would make 100% profit. [Read more…]

Hello my name is Ethan Keys, At the core of my request it might be a bit selfish, but after being wronged and feeling betrayed of trust I can’t help but want to ask out for help to fix my grievance, basically I had purchased more bulk but good foods online from a provider that is not known at all by others yet for some reason I felt okay in trusting just to believe in goodness, dumb as it is I really just wanted to believe.

Now to be honest I am not in any deep financial need but, It’s not just about the money (although that doesn’t hurt, let’s be honest). It’s the feeling of being violated, of my trust being betrayed. And because of such, this has caused me to go into a bit on a depressive episode, all that I wish is that some kind people might be able to help me out a bit, kindly covering up my mistake so I can feel better and never buy from an untrusted source again even though it’s totally true that normal people wouldn’t fall for this, I hope someone can see where I’m coming from so that I may continue my life as it was.

https://paypal.me/3thanK3ys
or
cashapp:3thwn3

Thank you.

I am in my 60’s and have worked for my entire adult life.  Over the years I managed to put some money into savings for a rainy day.  I have always been independent and capable person.  I have a good work ethic and have never had to rely on anyone other than myself.  I don’t work a regular 9 to 5 job anymore because I am now on a fixed monthly income of $640.  To add to my monthly income, I rent a booth at an indoor market in my town.  I sell craft items which I make myself, and I buy other items from a vendor in another state.  This has been enjoyable for me, and it makes a little extra money each month to help with my bills.  Once a year I withdraw money from my saving account and travel out of state to purchase the items I need for my inventory.  During the year I sell that inventory and replenish my savings account as I go.  This has worked out wonderfully for me in years past.

Recently something happened that turned my world upside down.  This put me into a situation that I have never had to deal with before.  I have always been very careful with my personal information, as well as my money.  I am still trying to understand how this happened to me.  I am absolutely heart sick and to be honest I am terrified.  Someone was able to hack into my bank accounts and they cleaned me out.  They took everything I had! I reported it and they are investigating the theft, but they cannot guarantee I will get any of it back.  They stole $56,418.43 from my saving account.  It took me a lifetime to save that money.  I don’t have family to help me, I am alone.  If I cannot buy the merchandise, I need for this coming year I am going to be sunk.  This plea is truly my last hope as I have no other options.

As I explained before I have always done for myself, so this is uncharted territory for me.  I am asking for $50,000.00 to buy my inventory and help me with my monthly bills which have been piling up for the past couple of months.  This would be a godsend to me.  It would be the difference between sinking or swimming.  Thank you for taking the time to read this, I appreciate it more than you could know.  I would appreciate anything sent my way.  Sometimes bad things happen to good people, I know this well because it happened to me.

paypal.me/JoanieStickler