Reader Submission》This is the scam I encountered, which cost me tens of thousands of USDT.

This article records the complete experience of an anonymous victim who encountered fraud on dating apps, from the first acquaintance, fake photos, suspicious behavior to the final awakening, detailing the common methods and traps of dating scams today, hoping that everyone can be vigilant when making friends online to avoid falling into the trap of fraud. (Synopsis: [Important Statement] Beware of fraud syndicates fraudulently using the name of "BlockTempo", don't be deceived! (Background supplement: PTT posted a post asking for help "family bought a virtual mining machine": Is it a fraud to invest 100,000 in mining and give back 500 a day? *The following is the full content of the reader's contribution, she shared her experience of being deceived, in the hope that everyone can be more vigilant. Please look at it with empathy and do not review the victims. In this article, I would like to share with you an experience that makes me super regret and pain. It's all real people, it's happening to me. I have also gone to the police (the triple report sheet is placed below), but the money cannot be recovered at all. I hope my story reminds everyone not to be deceived like me. In March of this year, I downloaded the dating app Coffee Meets Bagel (CMB), slid to a handsome looking boy, had a good chat, we later added Line, chatted and shared life every day, I really thought he was my destined person. But I had no idea that all this was actually the beginning of a scam. Scam me with fake photos and dummies The handsome photos he used were simply caught from the Internet, and I heard that fraud groups now don't use celebrity pictures, and pick the kind of little handsome guy you think is a real person, and you can't even find it with Google image search. So don't judge whether it's a real person based on your looks alone! Unless you have a video or a meeting, you can't believe it. These "strange places" are now very obvious in retrospect Although they are Taiwanese, they speak a lot of Chinese terms, such as "video" and "software." It is common to say "go deal with customers" and suddenly disappear for a few hours (it should be to lie to others). Refuse to pass on selfies and life photos, saying that "I don't like to take pictures". I said that I have been deceived before, it is to invest in virtual currency or something, to win your trust. To add IG, the result said that it was not used, or lost a super fake account over. Sweet words to you, saying that they will buy bags to send you in the future, and saying that they will go abroad together and buy a house... Talk as if you have a future. But these are actually words! is part of their scam, and may even be copied and pasted directly. Start using "e-commerce platform" to scam me After talking for about a month or two, he began to talk about his "side business", saying that he sold bags on an e-commerce platform, and explained to me how to make money: For example, a bag costs $3,000 and costs $2,500, which is equivalent to making $500 when you sell it. He said I could join and make money together. I really believed it at that time, according to his words, registered this platform account, and filled in the invitation code he gave. Here's the scam site! Induced me to buy USDT in Taiwan dollars As a result, a few days after registration, the platform suddenly ran out of an order, and then said that I had to deposit $4300 before I could ship. The money will not be returned to me until the buyer receives the goods. Now I think it's super ridiculous, I didn't find such an obvious virtual currency scam, but I really believed it at the time. Since I didn't have USD, he taught me to buy USDT in Taiwanese dollars from Binance and transfer it to their designated wallet. I wanted to ask my friend for advice, but he kept stopping me, saying it was a trade secret and not telling anyone else. Later, I suspected that it was troublesome to buy U in a physical store, so he asked me to register for the MAX exchange, and also asked me to go to the bank to make an agreed transfer and increase the transfer limit. It's all about making it easier and easier for me to transfer money to them. Use "big orders" to pressure you to pay more money After a while, they suddenly said that there was a big order coming, and a buyer placed an order to buy 24 bags at a time, and I had to store a total of $160,000 to ship. At that time, I was completely dumbfounded, because I had already invested more than 50,000 US dollars (about NT$1.7 million), and there was no money to continue smashing. I asked my husband if he could borrow me, and they would only be willing to help me advance $20,000, and the rest would require me to take out a loan or find a family. I finally realized that I had been scammed because he wouldn't video I told him I was willing to deposit another 10,000 USDT, but he had to video with me. He refused to do anything, and I started to feel that something was wrong. When I forced him to video, he got angry and started threatening me, saying that I owed him 80,000 USDT that he had helped me pad before, and that he wanted to search me and run to my daughter's kindergarten. I even took a picture of a gym in Singapore to prove where others were, and it turned out that there was no gym at all. It dawned on me that it was a virtual currency scam from beginning to end. Editor's note: This incident can be said to be a standard emotional fraud, the combination of luring investment (high-profit e-commerce platform) slowly sucks the victim's money away, and uses emotional trust to require the victim to use cryptocurrency to transmit "payment", and the amount requirements are getting higher and higher. This type of scam can be very difficult to get the amount you paid back, remember that online dating must be cautious, any mixture of friendship, love, ambiguous investment or business advice, can be very dangerous. If you have any doubts, please discuss them with trusted relatives or friends, or call the 165 anti-fraud hotline. I also hope that the victim who submitted the article can get back justice and defrauded money as soon as possible, and I am very grateful that you have the courage to tell your experience. Related reports Fraudsters target Mt. 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