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The original was posted on /r/scams by /u/Ready_Tomato_4718 on 2024-09-23 01:38:17+00:00.

So here’s what’s happening. One of my good friends is a 66 y.o. Female, she has been single for several years, lives alone, and has (or had) been pretty wealthy. Last November, she fell for a celebrity scam. She believes she is dating Cillian Murphy. To my knowledge, she has “purchased bitcoin”, sent him thousands and thousands of dollars, bought him a brand new iPhone and iPad, several gift cards, and has never met him. He has asked her on multiple occasions to wire him money for “the house he is buying them”. I have talked to her on several occasions that I believe she is being scammed and she just got very defensive and says she knows what she is doing. Even Apple reached out to her and told her they believe she is being scammed. I’m sure the amount of her life’s savings that she has sent to him would make anyone else fall over, and I am so worried about her. I even went to the FBI’s website to see if there was something I could fill out to have him investigated but of course I have very limited information to give them. What do I do? I feel so lost because either I sit and watch her fall into a hole she can’t dig herself out of, or I potentially end our friendship just trying to protect her.