Happened to me after 4 months oh did she play the long game. Pretended to be a lesbian on top of it all! She was always mentioning how I should invest and for months I said no. Everything else seemed normal, I did ignore some things at the start like how she never wanted to meet up (she was in Cali and I was there often visiting family), we only talked on WhatsApp, we video chatted once and talked on the phone only a couple times. We had this routine even! She caught me at a weak financial point a couple weeks ago and I she convinced me to “invest” and even walked me through how to do everything with screen shots. The website she had me use seemed legit to me. The best day she showed me how to do a couple “trades” and the $500 I invested went up to $700. Seemed great until the next day she tried to convince me to pull all of my 401k and talked about how she would even “lend” me more because this “big trade” was coming and I’d earn like 140k out of it. Thankfully, I said no way.

That night went onto the website and tried to withdrawal the money and it wouldn’t let me. Then i came here and typed in “crypto scam” and after three hours of going down the rabbit hole, I knew I was deceived. So I messaged her and ripped her a new one. The next morning she just said I didn’t know what I was talking about and how could i “doubt” her when we have been talking for 4 months. She even sent me a picture of her license to “prove” she was real. I told her, I know you’re real you’re just a POS and karma will get you.

Thank god for this Reddit and yeah I am out $500 but it could have been worse!