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The original was posted on /r/scams by /u/Sikkamicaniko on 2024-09-28 13:39:42+00:00.

Hi All.

My girlfriend has I’m fairly sure, been scammed for her life savings of 10k plus 1k of my money.

She messages me yesterday morning asking to borrow 3.5k for a couple of hours. Wouldn’t give details as she was rushing and would explain later. I said I couldn’t but I can give her 1k and if she can tell me whats up I can give her more. This is very unlike her and I guess I thought she could be in trouble or maybe has not been paid on time and needed to pay a bill.

Anyway, I then message a few hours later asking for her to catch me up what she needed it for. Said she would tell me later blah blah (this is very out of character for her, I even called to check it was her).

Anyways, I push al day and then she asks for more money. So I called her and she says ‘I’ve been trading stocks, I’ve made a mistake and I need to recover the mistake’ straight away I assume she is being scammed. Tell her to stop right away. She tells me I’m not helping, she needs to put more money in as she had made loads of money blah blah.

I left work and drove straight to her. I check the app (WT.Terminal) which seems sketchy. I ask what’s been happening and she shows me communications via WhatsApp with an alleged broker. Red flag for WhatsApp and the stock are a screenshot from his notes. I was confused at one point as she told me she clicked the wrong stock which caused her profits to crash horribly. But then I noticed the one they told her to pick, was not actually an option. So she clicked one that looked like it and I feel this is part of the scam.

Anyways, She had started off with 1.8k. Was shown a 10k profit and convinced the put more it. Has put 10k in total and was trying to get another 5k to ‘save the trade’ when I got there. WhatsApp guys telling her she would owe 30k because of the mistake if she don’t deposit more.

I’m ware this can happen in a margins broker deal but I assume this is not that.

WhatsApp guys call themselves certain people from certain business and she did look them up on companies house. But I assume they are pretending to be the company, and the people.

So, I assume this is a scam. But just wanted quick opinions. She is devastated. Lost everything she had chasing the dream of a better life for us. Will try to chase it through the bank and hopefully can be resolved. Bad lesson for her to learn, can’t even pay the bills this month and she obviously lied to me and should have told me she was about to risk my money but that’s a convo for another day. I think she has enough to contemplate without me coming down on her.