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The original was posted on /r/scams by /u/Ariki2708 on 2024-09-24 15:11:19+00:00.

Hey There,

I am ashamed of myself but I learned something from it.

I got contacted by an Account over Instagram posing as a rela person. It was weird, at first I thought it’s a bot and I tried to lure the bot into stupid answers but it turned out to be a real human being. In the end not the person I thought it would be. I’m German but my English is pretty good, this Person posed to be from the US and we kinda got along. It turned out it was a she but she was not flirty or anything, just conversing, making small talk and telling me things about her life and stuff. And that’s probably when I got a bit attached to the chat and this person, and I guess that was my mistake there.

At one point she got a little worked up over a University project and needed a couple bucks to make some hard copies and she lacked the funds. So as kind and stupid as I was I did send her like 35$ over PayPal (ofc Friends and Family because I was not smart) to a account of one of her friends, because supposedly she doesn’t have a PayPal account. Yeah I know I’m stupid as hell.

She promised me to send it back a week later. A week Passed and she asks vor my Email. So I’ll give her my E-Mail, strangely I receive a text massage from a Company Account over What’s App, called: Quarter of Quantico. With the Bank of America Logo as PfP. At that moment I knew I will never see my Money again. In the Message they said I got a payment with a Transaction ID from PayPal in it over 200$ and I have to pay the fee of 58.4$ to receive it. That’s when I blocked the Number and Reported the Company Account and as well Blocking the Instagram Account.

I realize how silly it is that I fell for something like that but It was really clever. It took over 3 Weeks before she asked for the money for the Project so I was trusting her to be trustworthy but turns out she wasn’t.

I’ll just wanted to Post this Story of mine just to reassure me to never trust strangers on the Internet again and for everyone else to never trust strangers on the net again.

It wasn’t a lot of money but it happened.

Have a nice Day, whoever reads this. Please don’t insult me or anything I know it was stupid, I learned from it ;)