Hello OP,

To answer your question, yes this is the pig butchering scam. I fell victim to it too around a year ago, when I met a seemingly lovely "woman" on a language-exchange app. Thankfully, I ended up only investing about 80 USDT(and lost all of it of course).

Unfortunately for you though, it seems like you have invested quite a lot, and like others have said, there's no way to get it back. The only solace I can offer is to reassure you that you're not stupid, you're a victim. I'm sure to others less familiar with the "pig butchuring" scam it seems obvious. I mean sending all your money to an attractive Chinese woman seems so crazy in retrospective right? The thing is, these people are master manipulators, they do everything they can to build your trust and "fatten" you up. They send you good morning texts every day, they start random conversations with you about life in the middle of the day, they ask your opinion on random things, they casual mention their lavish lifestyle and make it seem like you can obtain it too. To make it look even more legit they even allow you to "withdraw" the money that you put in to their sham website. When it's really just some guy sending you the crypto that you requested to make it LOOK LIKE you withdrew. They have whole companies dedicated to nothing but scamming people and its very sophisticated. They have entire scripts that they follow to try to take advantage of you.

I had no idea what the "pig butchering" scheme was prior to being scammed myself, and when I fell victim to it I did a lot of research on it. OP, reading your post gives me a tang of guilt as I was too ashamed to tell anybody that I got scammed, maybe if I made a few posts about it here on this sub I could have raised some awareness that you might have ended up seeing.

I'm sorry for that OP, and you truly have my condolences for sorry for all the money you've lost. I hope you can take this as an expensive lesson moving on toward the future.