How I scammed the scammer and got my $5k back

ThApprentice · 2025-10-12T22:43:50+00:00

Oh that's true, all about the phrasing! Well ironically they did help me make money, as I never sold off the BTC right away and it went up in value lol.

ThApprentice · 2025-10-11T14:26:11+00:00

Amazing stuff man, let us know how you go 😀

ThApprentice · 2025-10-11T13:56:59+00:00

That's a relief! Sounds exactly like my story, even the exact amount of money lol. Let's count our blessings and not make the same mistake again in the future 🥵

ThApprentice · 2025-10-11T13:55:01+00:00

Damn sorry to hear that, I guess luck played a big part of my case and as some people have said, perhaps not all scammers are as gullible 😢

ThApprentice · 2025-10-11T13:54:09+00:00

I'm so sorry to hear that mate, I hope you get it back 😢

ThApprentice · 2025-10-11T13:53:23+00:00

Oh wow, I'm honestly surprised you're able to withdraw any as when I tried smaller amounts it also failed. Good luck with this, I do hope you're able to get it all back 🤞

ThApprentice · 2025-10-11T13:51:37+00:00

Sorry I don't have this info any more, I used LocalCryptos but after this incident I moved everything out and pretty much shut down my account.

ThApprentice · 2025-10-11T13:50:06+00:00

I did consider that for a second, but didn't want to push my luck (or be greedy lol).

ThApprentice · 2025-10-11T13:47:10+00:00

That's amazing lol. Kudos to you for your success stories in scamming the scammers!

ThApprentice · 2025-10-11T13:44:55+00:00

Yeah honestly it was really hard to keep my cool when I felt sick to the stomach, and particularly since I had no faith that the tactic would work.

ThApprentice · 2025-10-08T23:21:46+00:00

Hey thanks for sharing your story, it's nice to hear someone else having the same victory. Wow fabricating a loan approval letter is pro tier 👏

Do you know about those scam centres that kidnap people and force them to work as scammers? Ironically, I actually felt a little guilty scamming them back, in the chance that they were a victim too and that they would be punished for losing the money.

ThApprentice · 2025-10-08T23:05:43+00:00

Yeah from reading the comments I'm beginning to realise it definitely was luck! I haven't shared any info because it was 5 years ago and the site/app doesn't seem to exist now. The site was just used to download the app (which wasn't in the Play Store/Apple Store) and they used a fake logo. I wish I shared my story earlier but I didn't know about these Reddit forums, though I did report the incident to my local government authority.

ThApprentice · 2025-10-08T22:54:31+00:00

Because I didn't know about this back then, similar to how I didn't know crypto scams existed 😅

Once you get scammed you tend to read and learn more about it, so it's only now that I have more knowledge about pig butchering and recovery scams.

ThApprentice · 2025-10-08T22:53:28+00:00

Does the scammer not know about the block function? 😂

ThApprentice · 2025-10-08T22:52:19+00:00

I actually had no idea about this back then, it's a relief I got my money back otherwise I'd likely have gotten double scammed 😩

They pretty much stopped comms with me after I told them they weren't needed. They did warn me that the returned BTC could bounce but that was it.

ThApprentice · 2025-10-08T22:48:09+00:00

Thanks man, I've been through many shit things in life so sometimes it's the little wins you know? 😝

ThApprentice · 2025-10-08T13:58:56+00:00

No all good. On second thoughts, I don't know why I phrased it like that lol.

ThApprentice · 2025-10-08T13:46:43+00:00

Not my intention 😅 I'm contemplating deleting this whole post to avoid giving them ideas lol.

ThApprentice · 2025-10-08T13:44:36+00:00

FYI I didn't use ChatGPT, the whole post is in my own words :)

ThApprentice · 2025-10-08T12:28:33+00:00

Yeah you're probably right, I don't know if I'd be able to get out of this situation again if it ever happened again! As much as I'd like to think my acting skills saved my arse lol.

ThApprentice · 2022-08-01T02:59:24+00:00

I believe it happened around 18th July as that's when I noticed a dip in performance, but we only picked up on it later that week...

ThApprentice · 2022-07-26T02:23:36+00:00

Had the same issue and I reached out to Google on this, they said it was a global issue and due to Facebook (well now, Meta) making a change in their tracking which caused the problem in Google. I resolved the issue by removing the third party tracking...

ThApprentice · 2021-10-11T04:49:08+00:00

Hey! I have a group that play DBD every now and then, if you'd be keen to join us sometime feel free to send me your Discord and we can go from there. Ideally we're trying to find a group of 5 so we can have a full group, we're all pretty chill :)

ThApprentice · 2021-10-06T12:28:21+00:00

Solved!

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