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The original was posted on /r/scams by /u/Dazzling-Papaya1142 on 2024-09-22 22:34:54+00:00.

Hello everyone. This is an update I’m making on the post I made here a couple of days ago: Thank you so much to everyone who gave me input. It’s helped a lot during these hard times. So basically, I’ve learned a lot more information and my dad DID get scammed out of his $100k. I don’t just believe, I 100% know. We all know now.

My dad finally admitted that it was a “woman” (I’m putting this in quotation marks because who knows who is actually behind this scheme) who was messaging him. And his friend didn’t introduce him to this woman or Coinbase, this “woman” had messaged my dad through Facebook and that’s where everything started.

So now, my dad went to see my cousin who is this tech expert. My dad has photos of the woman and my cousin used them to find information on her. He found out that she is an Indian model based in Delhi in her late 30s-early 40s. He also found out her name but I’m not going to include that because the scammer could’ve just been using her photos.

It also turns out that the wallet was fake, as many of you guys had explained, and there wasn’t any actual money in it. I had explained this to my dad around a week ago and that he wasn’t actually in DefiWallet but in some other tab in the app (I don’t know why the app has this feature, I think it makes it easy for someone to get exploited). I had to push my dad for answers. I kept asking him to show me the actual wallet but he got mad and said there was nothing in there and that the money could only be seen through the tab. This literally proved that he was getting scammed and my cousin also explained the same thing to him. My cousin asked why my dad didn’t believe me.

We’re going to the authorities. We’ve been scared for so long that they might hurt us if we reported them but they have to be reported. We have footage of the 3 people who came and took the money in-person, plus one of the scammers left a bill behind with the same identification number as the other ones. I hope somehow we can get our money back although, I think there’s a very, very slim chance of that happening.

If you know anyone who is older, please make sure that this doesn’t happen to them. Even if you believe it won’t happen, it might and it’s always better to be on the safer side. This happened to us and I wouldn’t want anyone else having to experience this. Please don’t get involved in things you don’t know anything about; cryptocurrency isn’t a game. I will update you guys again in the future. That’s all I have to say for now…