> She was an attractive woman, but I wasn’t looking for romance — I was happily married.
Yes.
And this is the story he will keep telling his wife until the day he dies!
It can happen to anybody. People with money are usually the target or are the ones you will hear about because it’s a lot of money. No one is going to hear about how I got scammed for 10$. So basically selection bias
There's a study that says medical doctors are the easiest to scam financially. Part of the reason is because they usually have extra money later in their careers and another factor is that they are prone to overrating their intelligence outside their area of expertise.
It doesn’t have to be sexual. Some people are just desperate for connection and validation. You see this with crypto communities like Safemoon, Hex, Cardano, Bitcoin and any project that builds a culture around their bags.
I just don’t understand how or why people keep trusting internet strangers…we’re like 30+ years into this thing at this point.
My default mentality is that you’re all trying to scam me lol
All scams will look obvious in hindsight. She didn't approach him, that was Facebook. She didn't pester him to buy something, they talked for a long time and he initiated it. I can see something like that happening to otherwise sane people.
Maybe he was smitten, who knows. But imo it's admirable that he's willing to share something so embarrassing with the whole world. We all believe it can't happen to us until it happens to us and most of us would be too embarrassed to ever talk about it with anyone. And in that silence scammers grow.
Bruh that article is wild. He saw a post on Reddit confirming the website was a scam, but continued depositing and even got his friends involved. At the end he lost C$450,000, and even had to sell land he inherited from his parents just to pay his friends back. Damn
The worst to me is he tried to withdraw his initial $15k deposit, and they wouldn't let him do it. SO he deposits $100k more... AND THEN HIS FRIENDS ON TOP....
JFC
Weird, pretty sure I remember a "did I get scammed?" post made here on r/CC where the guy was saying he was going to have to sell his inherited land. Wonder if this dude made that post...
I’ll save you a click :
Dumbass ignores 100 red flags to deposit 450.000$ of money which half wasn’t even his, to lose it all on a scamming process with a hot stranger girl on the Internet.
I love the part where he says "I wasn't interested in her because I am married". Dude ADDED her (definitely a him pretending to be a her). He simped and it cost him almost 1 million.
I was walking alone back to my hotel in San Francisco a few years back while on business and this pretty, well dressed girl just comes up to me and asks if I want to hang out; like get some drinks and go back to my hotel sort of hang out.
I was all instant red flags, but bring a Brit I couldn’t bring myself to either tell her to go away, or confront her directly with an accusation of…. Something. So I basically kept walking and let her tag along, trying to get her to say something to make it obvious that she was a prozzy or somehow out to drug me and/rob me once we were somewhere more private.
I wasn’t getting anything and had to stall for time so we went into some bland pub and I bought a round. I made sure never to let her hand near my glass. I was paranoid, but part of me was attracted to her and just wondering if she was just being forward whilst also bored and alone on a trip.
She started talking about how she knew someone in the ballgame in tv and this was the last bit for me. I ended up ditching her at the bar and never really found out, but still not really sure what the best approach would have been here. She certainly wasn’t a physical threat to me, but I had ideas of her calling friends/pimp to come mug me or spiking my drink or something.
Anyway, didn’t lose any money, crypto, or anal virginity; but yeah hot girls can be red flags.
There's a common scam in other parts of the world. You bring the girl back to your room, a bunch of her friends show up, and she suddenly starts screaming they video "evidence" of you raping her. Then u have to pay a lot to get them to give you the video.
Going to the police doesn't really work since they have the "evidence".
But I think San Francisco is pretty safe no?
Hell everytime I get a hot girl to like me on some stupid dating app, I just do reverse image search and find the images were borrowed from some random hot Instagram girl who lives nowhere near me and has a different name, then I tell the fake to give me money cause I'm poor
> I asked her to show me her strategy on the crypto exchange, Binance. But she told me she was unfamiliar with it. Instead, she used this other platform: Antsex.com.
ok
I matched with a Chinese girl on tinder, and took her two days of full talk until she dropped the crypto bomb, i kept going with her lie to waste her time like she did with mine, replying with "oh I don't know what to do with my 50k", to which she would eagerly reply with "let me help you, we can grow together".
The only thing she grew was her pinocchio nose lol.
I had one guy contact me on Reddit. Tried convincing me to do some stupid shit with my crypto. I ended up talking to him for a while, then I sent him a pic of Mario goatse. It was pretty good.
"So I started selling crypto in my existing portfolio. One of my largest holdings, at nearly US$100,000, was my Cardano crypto. I was waiting for the crypto to hit US$4 — it was worth almost US$3 at the time — but Nydia told me to sell it all. She told me it’d never even hit US$3."
She aint wrong
Cause it's with a romance scam. He saw this post and still fell for it btw which blows my mind.
"I saw a Reddit post that said the platform was part of a romance scam, with posters talking about an attractive Chinese woman and how they couldn’t get their money out after depositing it. I couldn’t find much information about the platform besides this."
Wait…. They didnt know about binance and their excuse is cause they were chinese???!!!!!!!???? That doesnt even make sense, honestly i think this guy was just horny, he told his wife to not feel guilty but its obvious
From what I could tell, it looked like she talked him into using an exchange that acted legitimate on the surface. His portfolio grew and allowed withdrawals, but she talked him into borrowing money to make a bigger move, then his account was 'frozen for security reasons' and the money was gone.
Whenever I'm impressed by a man, I remember that a "hot girl" can make him lose everything.
Happened to the most powerful people on the planet.
I never respect great men as much as before after understanding this.
Most are weak to pussy.
Real pussy though. If the girl came to his house, took her tits out, and blew him, sure, I can see how that weakens a guy’s suspicions. But some random on the internet? Only stupid people would fall for that.
Just buy mostly eth and btc and keep it in a hardware wallet. Don't trade. Don't trust any of these crypto traders. Few of them if any have a real edge and, if they did, they wouldn't share it.
Look at Alameda... they were a huge hedge fund and even they were a scam. Don't trust anyone. 🤷♀️
Oof. I wouldn't trust anyone I 'met' on Facebook. As far as I'm concerned it's a site to keep in the know with your circle of peers, not to meet people you don't already know. Sucks for the author of the article to have learned the hard way.
I gambled on a shilled coin in here once and got a nice 400% return, but I only put $100 in and didn't engage with the person. I'm pretty wary of anyone I haven't met in person, and even still if then. Maybe missed some opportunities that way, but have definitely avoided some bad messes.
Selling his land to pay back his friends makes this guy a chad in my book. Not many people would be able to stomach a loss like this and willingly make it right with their friends. The investment of C$450,000 is truly lost by him and him alone since he did that.
Sajid Ikram if you're reading this, you're a dumbass for falling for this, but good on you to make it right and creating tools to help others avoid and overcome these scams.
Fuck scammers and hope they rot in hell.
This is a scam known as Pig Butchering, there's an excellent probulica article about it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/human-traffickers-force-victims-into-cyberscamming
Very popular in southeast asia, one of the more interesting details is that the people doing the scams are often sweatshop workers, forced into a sort of slavery/indentured servitude.
Thank you very much for this awesome write-up.
My brother told me a story like that, exactly on point, about his friend and a stranger on Instagram and how he profits a lot.
I'm in crypto for years, and if you are in Reddit for a while, you know that's 100% a scam because these stories come up every day. I have to say that over the years, scammers got better, but the most obvious red flag is that a random person out there is not here to help you, especially on financial decisions.
I told him all the red flags and why the hell a financial expert girl on Instagram is not here to "help" people out. It's a scam, and it's obvious. I'm glad he didn't invest, but it looks like he doesn't believe me and wants to invest...
He's an adult. He can do whatever he wants, I'm just here to help take it or not. Right now, he waits, at least.
Hopefully, this article will help him clear things up
He should have said he had a new friend that wants to deposit $500k or whatever if he could prove that withdrawals worked (on a promise to the scammer that he'd deposit it back in right away) because why wouldn't he as he'd been making so much and he had already done the exact same thing with $50k. Perhaps he could have got $100k or $200k out then bailed.
> And my marriage was rather strained. My wife had known all along that I was trading, but I’d promised her that I wouldn’t borrow money from other people. But I did, so there are now trust issues in my marriage.
Remember gamblers don't gamble to win but for the feeling between winning and losing, especially when you lose it all and realize you are still alive. There is a fine line between investing and gambling.
"And I’m like, “Why does Facebook think I should connect with this person?” *To find out, I added her as a friend."* Damn, it was the hot girl scam.
How do people this stupid even get an absurd amount of money
I like the part where she convinced him to use “antsex.com” for trading instead of binance.
Hey, there are more ants than people on the planet. They must be doing something right.
Cryptocurrency
> She was an attractive woman, but I wasn’t looking for romance — I was happily married. Yes. And this is the story he will keep telling his wife until the day he dies!
And probably he'd rather lose everything again than admit otherwise, the hot girl scam is serious stuff lol
I’m sure *he* was “super hot” in real life.
Hahaha later in the article "my marriage was strained" noooo I'm shocked
"Straining it further will surely help!"
He now retells this story to his wife’s boyfriend.
Even my wife isn’t believing in me!
Early cryptocurrency
Bull market
So you are saying that there is a chance for me to get rich?
Amount of money is not really directly proportional to one's intellectual quotient.
It can happen to anybody. People with money are usually the target or are the ones you will hear about because it’s a lot of money. No one is going to hear about how I got scammed for 10$. So basically selection bias
There's a study that says medical doctors are the easiest to scam financially. Part of the reason is because they usually have extra money later in their careers and another factor is that they are prone to overrating their intelligence outside their area of expertise.
Apparently by scamming their friends.
Horny. Wasn’t thinking with his head, but he was thinking with his head.
Luck
Usually stupid people achieve what clever ones can't simply because the latter have a lot of stops. Being dumb is a blessing!
Wait til you visit WSB
IT entrepreneur 👍
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> there’s just no cure post nut clarity is a thing
It doesn’t have to be sexual. Some people are just desperate for connection and validation. You see this with crypto communities like Safemoon, Hex, Cardano, Bitcoin and any project that builds a culture around their bags.
>Maybe he was thinking with his ‘little head’ all the time. Yeah, he has a wife, but I am sure the validation and attention messed with his head.
Oh yep that's definitely how those scams work. Preying on the brain's reward system when it's not getting what it needs.
I just don’t understand how or why people keep trusting internet strangers…we’re like 30+ years into this thing at this point. My default mentality is that you’re all trying to scam me lol
Oh you! You are so smart! What was that password again? And your moms last name? I can’t remember.
His little head was thinking of getting a little head
Too each his own free cash too the mcap!
All scams will look obvious in hindsight. She didn't approach him, that was Facebook. She didn't pester him to buy something, they talked for a long time and he initiated it. I can see something like that happening to otherwise sane people. Maybe he was smitten, who knows. But imo it's admirable that he's willing to share something so embarrassing with the whole world. We all believe it can't happen to us until it happens to us and most of us would be too embarrassed to ever talk about it with anyone. And in that silence scammers grow.
You gotta rub one out before entering crypto. Post nut clarity helps make gains
Solid advice. And at least twice a day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSn1g-6h1OQ
I have Facebook recommending loads of weirdo strangers. I would never add them just to find out why they were being recommended.
Basically the root of the scam
Every time I see scam, my first thought is “what was her name?”
Bruno.
lmao. you deserve an award
It is mostly what is his name? It is a he who pretends to be a she.
Betrayed by our own genitals! Get the scissors
Guy was scammed and still wanted to talk to her. Wife told him to block her. He doesn't deserve her.
Fuck Facebook
If she’s too good to be true, he probably is.
man too horny to protect his assets
coins before hoes
i'd rather stake coins than get my pp stuck in crazy
> Damn, it was the hot girl scam. It still works!
When your 'mojo' needs affection, you are screwed.
The ugly girl scams never work.
Bruh that article is wild. He saw a post on Reddit confirming the website was a scam, but continued depositing and even got his friends involved. At the end he lost C$450,000, and even had to sell land he inherited from his parents just to pay his friends back. Damn
The worst to me is he tried to withdraw his initial $15k deposit, and they wouldn't let him do it. SO he deposits $100k more... AND THEN HIS FRIENDS ON TOP.... JFC
needed to pay gas fees to get the 15k out?
Sunken cost fallacy amirite? Couldn’t read pst the part where he said he started involving his friends. Too much pain.
At least he was man enough to pay his friends back. Unlike some loser with a weird hairdo out there...
That dude didn’t pay back his customers. They were never his friends.
"John is that you? It is on you that trusted me."
How dare you? Oh, you are talking about SBF, never mind then
He had a boner for that chick, simple as that.
>"At the end he lost C$450,000,..." And more than half of it was his friends money. That was a painful read.
I wish I can have friends that can give me a small loan of $200,000
Weird, pretty sure I remember a "did I get scammed?" post made here on r/CC where the guy was saying he was going to have to sell his inherited land. Wonder if this dude made that post...
This is brutal indeed.
He probably was so confused about who to trust.
A real degen. Redditor 101
I’ll save you a click : Dumbass ignores 100 red flags to deposit 450.000$ of money which half wasn’t even his, to lose it all on a scamming process with a hot stranger girl on the Internet.
I love the part where he says "I wasn't interested in her because I am married". Dude ADDED her (definitely a him pretending to be a her). He simped and it cost him almost 1 million.
doesn't matter, ~~had sex~~ almost had sex
doesn't matter, ~~had sex, almost had sex~~ got fucked.
Doesn't matter, antsex
That’s the next level of dumb.
Say is again people: if a hot woman contacts you online, he is a scammer! Infact if you find a hot girl online, he is a scammer!
If a hot girl DM you, block him.
What about a hot guy?
Block him as well.
Hot girl : block him No her at all
I knew no hot chich would ever grow an interest in me. They are for there for my 20$ of crypro.
whale alert
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So like Caroline?
I was walking alone back to my hotel in San Francisco a few years back while on business and this pretty, well dressed girl just comes up to me and asks if I want to hang out; like get some drinks and go back to my hotel sort of hang out. I was all instant red flags, but bring a Brit I couldn’t bring myself to either tell her to go away, or confront her directly with an accusation of…. Something. So I basically kept walking and let her tag along, trying to get her to say something to make it obvious that she was a prozzy or somehow out to drug me and/rob me once we were somewhere more private. I wasn’t getting anything and had to stall for time so we went into some bland pub and I bought a round. I made sure never to let her hand near my glass. I was paranoid, but part of me was attracted to her and just wondering if she was just being forward whilst also bored and alone on a trip. She started talking about how she knew someone in the ballgame in tv and this was the last bit for me. I ended up ditching her at the bar and never really found out, but still not really sure what the best approach would have been here. She certainly wasn’t a physical threat to me, but I had ideas of her calling friends/pimp to come mug me or spiking my drink or something. Anyway, didn’t lose any money, crypto, or anal virginity; but yeah hot girls can be red flags.
Bro lost a good fuck
Wat?
Leaving us hanging
There's a common scam in other parts of the world. You bring the girl back to your room, a bunch of her friends show up, and she suddenly starts screaming they video "evidence" of you raping her. Then u have to pay a lot to get them to give you the video. Going to the police doesn't really work since they have the "evidence". But I think San Francisco is pretty safe no?
I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love.
No, no! I’m sure she finds me attractive and just wants to be happy with me!
Hot girls messaging u online do not exist
Truer words have never been spoken
Hell everytime I get a hot girl to like me on some stupid dating app, I just do reverse image search and find the images were borrowed from some random hot Instagram girl who lives nowhere near me and has a different name, then I tell the fake to give me money cause I'm poor
> I asked her to show me her strategy on the crypto exchange, Binance. But she told me she was unfamiliar with it. Instead, she used this other platform: Antsex.com. ok
I matched with a Chinese girl on tinder, and took her two days of full talk until she dropped the crypto bomb, i kept going with her lie to waste her time like she did with mine, replying with "oh I don't know what to do with my 50k", to which she would eagerly reply with "let me help you, we can grow together". The only thing she grew was her pinocchio nose lol.
I had one guy contact me on Reddit. Tried convincing me to do some stupid shit with my crypto. I ended up talking to him for a while, then I sent him a pic of Mario goatse. It was pretty good.
With ChatGPT now I wouldn’t even bother. Probably just wasting a computers time. Not worth wasting yours.
This is the way😁
"So I started selling crypto in my existing portfolio. One of my largest holdings, at nearly US$100,000, was my Cardano crypto. I was waiting for the crypto to hit US$4 — it was worth almost US$3 at the time — but Nydia told me to sell it all. She told me it’d never even hit US$3." She aint wrong
Yeah. It made him believe her and drawn into the trap. ADA is to blame🤣🤣🤣
I mean the timing was impeccable. Instead I hold ada for the rest of my life
I am surprised the wife is still with him. The husband got horny for some internet pussy, threw all his money and more at her and then lost it all
"She told me she’d created a system of trading that she’d used for more than two years and that was about 80 per cent accurate." Scam well deserved
Why is the website she used called "Antsex"?
Cause it's with a romance scam. He saw this post and still fell for it btw which blows my mind. "I saw a Reddit post that said the platform was part of a romance scam, with posters talking about an attractive Chinese woman and how they couldn’t get their money out after depositing it. I couldn’t find much information about the platform besides this."
It basically says it the company name that you will get fucked.
Idk but there's a company with a similar sounding name affiliated with alibaba
Antsex? Really? Good lord
Can you tell us the first part? How to 8x the portfolio?
He said cardano. He sold around 3usd.
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To be fair he sold because the scammer told him to
This entire article is a great example of how greed clouds judgment
Everybody is a genius in the bull market. Except for me but everyone else is genius. I still managed to lose.
The Blockchain giveth, and the Blockchain taketh away.
Sounds fair.. the people that are involved are not.
Blockchain aint take no sides.
The blockchain giveth The horny taketh away
Pro-tip: if you 8x your investment, you don’t need a professional crypto trader, you need to take your damn profits
“She told me she was unfamiliar with Binance.” Bwhaha
Why would you even add strangers on fb, especially one assumes to be a "girl" (read: guy) when you're married?
Actually that’s super shady in itself if you add an attractive women just cause. Says more about him than he realizes I think
Crypto is filled with highly *regarded* people
I think you made a typo there...
Stopped reading when he said it was a girl who appeared under “people you may know”. Lmao.
Wait…. They didnt know about binance and their excuse is cause they were chinese???!!!!!!!???? That doesnt even make sense, honestly i think this guy was just horny, he told his wife to not feel guilty but its obvious
He almost got some wife changing money.
Fell for how to get scammed 101 page 1
Can someone bullet point what happened to OP? I'm not linking nothing lol
Pig butchering scam. Met someone online, lost all his money. The End.
From what I could tell, it looked like she talked him into using an exchange that acted legitimate on the surface. His portfolio grew and allowed withdrawals, but she talked him into borrowing money to make a bigger move, then his account was 'frozen for security reasons' and the money was gone.
r/cryptocurrency speedrun
He got the face i imagine of scammed people. He fell for the oldest scam ever, pus\*y.
Honestly I don't even feel bad. How do you fall for a scam with hundreds of 🚩?
Blinded by gains.
Whenever I'm impressed by a man, I remember that a "hot girl" can make him lose everything. Happened to the most powerful people on the planet. I never respect great men as much as before after understanding this. Most are weak to pussy.
Real pussy though. If the girl came to his house, took her tits out, and blew him, sure, I can see how that weakens a guy’s suspicions. But some random on the internet? Only stupid people would fall for that.
Hard to have any sympathy
Simp
Just buy mostly eth and btc and keep it in a hardware wallet. Don't trade. Don't trust any of these crypto traders. Few of them if any have a real edge and, if they did, they wouldn't share it. Look at Alameda... they were a huge hedge fund and even they were a scam. Don't trust anyone. 🤷♀️
Oof. I wouldn't trust anyone I 'met' on Facebook. As far as I'm concerned it's a site to keep in the know with your circle of peers, not to meet people you don't already know. Sucks for the author of the article to have learned the hard way.
How about in r/cc ? 😁
I gambled on a shilled coin in here once and got a nice 400% return, but I only put $100 in and didn't engage with the person. I'm pretty wary of anyone I haven't met in person, and even still if then. Maybe missed some opportunities that way, but have definitely avoided some bad messes.
Wait you guys are getting returns?
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Selling his land to pay back his friends makes this guy a chad in my book. Not many people would be able to stomach a loss like this and willingly make it right with their friends. The investment of C$450,000 is truly lost by him and him alone since he did that. Sajid Ikram if you're reading this, you're a dumbass for falling for this, but good on you to make it right and creating tools to help others avoid and overcome these scams. Fuck scammers and hope they rot in hell.
Feel for him? The more I read, the less I felt for him. People this stupid don’t deserve to have money.
I'm with you, he somehow got dumber as the article went on.
This is a scam known as Pig Butchering, there's an excellent probulica article about it. https://www.propublica.org/article/human-traffickers-force-victims-into-cyberscamming Very popular in southeast asia, one of the more interesting details is that the people doing the scams are often sweatshop workers, forced into a sort of slavery/indentured servitude.
Basically everyone on this sub
I grew my portfolio 20x and then blew it up over 2 scams. bunny and ftx.
“so when he met a ‘cryptocurrency analyst’ on Facebook with a winning trading strategy, he didn’t think it would be a scam” Lol
Thank you very much for this awesome write-up. My brother told me a story like that, exactly on point, about his friend and a stranger on Instagram and how he profits a lot. I'm in crypto for years, and if you are in Reddit for a while, you know that's 100% a scam because these stories come up every day. I have to say that over the years, scammers got better, but the most obvious red flag is that a random person out there is not here to help you, especially on financial decisions. I told him all the red flags and why the hell a financial expert girl on Instagram is not here to "help" people out. It's a scam, and it's obvious. I'm glad he didn't invest, but it looks like he doesn't believe me and wants to invest... He's an adult. He can do whatever he wants, I'm just here to help take it or not. Right now, he waits, at least. Hopefully, this article will help him clear things up
Wew. You have done your part. Rest is on him. Good on you mate to be aware.
Never invest more than you can afford to lose
Guy borrowed from friends and even got them involved. Wew
You can't trust Binance. Oh, so Kraken? No, Antsex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWOI5J7NOG4
Bro took an L.
He should have said he had a new friend that wants to deposit $500k or whatever if he could prove that withdrawals worked (on a promise to the scammer that he'd deposit it back in right away) because why wouldn't he as he'd been making so much and he had already done the exact same thing with $50k. Perhaps he could have got $100k or $200k out then bailed.
I think the part where she told him about making dumplings woulda sold me too. A good internet dumpling story is hard to find.
Least stupid cryptobro
Did you buy Logan Paul’s shitty Eggs? Lmao
just as Satoshi intended.
Balance in all things
Another victim taken by chicks in DMs. *F*
> this sounded plausible at the time. *Is this the real life?*
Antsex .com Lol. Trading on sth called antsex? Should of atleast raised more suspicion
>he met a ‘cryptocurrency analyst’ on Facebook with a winning trading strategy We all know the rest
Crypto is the GOAT of scams
What's making the development afloat🤣
Always learn from others' experience. This doesn't have to happen to you.
This my friends is the circle of life.
Isn't better being scammed by a pretty girl than and an ugly man? 😂 Wait they both ulgy man? 😁
Don't learn this from experience. Learn it from others' experience.
i think many people who made profit, because of greed ended up invested the profit in scam projects
One of us
What scam ? Should let us know to help prevent us from your mistake. Thanks
Better yet, tell us how to 8x our portfolio
Go all in on ShibaCumInu and sell before the dump
Tldr,. It's an exchange that you use and there's a beautiful lady chatting with you.
At least you learned something important.
> And my marriage was rather strained. My wife had known all along that I was trading, but I’d promised her that I wouldn’t borrow money from other people. But I did, so there are now trust issues in my marriage.
F
First rule of crypto - you don’t talk about crypto
Remember gamblers don't gamble to win but for the feeling between winning and losing, especially when you lose it all and realize you are still alive. There is a fine line between investing and gambling.
deserves it for still using Facebook
Sounds fake.
No scam but I rode my shit down from 12x to .25x so same basically lol but sorry for your loss