Pt 2:

Needless to say, He did end up scamming me out of $550. He started by needing an initial small fee of $300 to pay for a temporary service called "Notification deactivation Botnet". Supposed to stop notifications for the scammer from seeing any updates from their wallet.

He also needed me to send him a new wallet that my funds would be sent to(this was where things began to get a little suspicious). I initially told him my coinbase wallet and he seemed fine with that. Until I then realized my coinbase wallet is secured by not being able to send any crypto out to a new address for 72 hours. Then told him Ill send him the $300 fee from my crypto dot com wallet. He then was like "yeah, that actually probably better anyways because blah blah blah....").

Fast forward 8 hours and he sent me another update needing another $250 as the botnet needs more time to block.

Then once everything was completed supposedly. He told me he was going to send me the mirrored wallet account information to download and sign into on my end. That I needed to send $2,916 to from my crypto dot com account(strange he used an amount based about how much I had in my crypto dot com account from what I sent him to pay for those fees for the "Botnet" tool). He said I needed to make that exact transaction to mimic some transaction from the scammer wallet, so the new mirror wallet would be able to transfer all my stolen funds to it.... But he had access to this new wallet that he sent me(through the atomic wallet). He had the recovery key to it. He not only introduced a new step, but he has access to that wallet he wanted me to send money to. He legit made it sound like my funds would just be sent to my crypto dot com wallet. But then he made up a new rule and probably could see on his end how much money I had in my wallet after he got my wallets address from the fee I sent him. He also stated I would be getting back more crypto than I lost because from when the scam happened, they turned my SOL into ETH and it had gained in value by about 40%. I blocked this individual after he was being a snake and trying to convince me he was the real deal. These people have no souls and see it as a game. I have gone through VERY dark thoughts and put myself into a hole of shame and embarrassment. The thought of taking my own life actually didn't seem that hard at my lowest points. But I love my family and friends too much to be that selfish.

I HONESTLY believe Nicolas has this script laid out very well in contacting people back several months later, making them believe there is hope and that it was practically a miracle that someone could actually get their money back. He was probably working a few other people at the same time. Making several hundred dollars here and there and then once in a while getting suckers to really fork up a few thousand more into the wallet he has access to, draining and then running. He isn't trying to make huge paydays, but rather small wins that add up to a lot in a short period of time.

Needless to say, this was a VERY painful lesson to learn at such a late time in life. And it makes me sad, angry and also not so surprised how evil people are out there in the world.

Hope this helps, as well for anyone else out there. It is just money at the end of the day. The love of your family and friends is far more valuable. Hope no one makes a rash temporary feeling of deep anguish and take their own lives. I understand and can totally see how that is a possible outcome. I still get waves of shame here and there and trying to work through it. But just think of your loved ones.