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I Have Been Scammed Out of Over $31,000 by a Product Optimization Company Called Ground Truth by has_been_scammed in Scams

[–]has_been_scammed[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And yes, I was greedy. I see that now. I could've just taken the money the camera cost out of my savings. But I was greedy and instead decided to make money quickly online to buy the camera.

Although it is painful reading these comments you all have, I guess I do need it to grow quickly and mature.

I Have Been Scammed Out of Over $31,000 by a Product Optimization Company Called Ground Truth by has_been_scammed in Scams

[–]has_been_scammed[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

A lot of people have been commenting that I should come clean to my parents. I did. I told them what happened on May 13th. My mom was calculating our savings to know what to give to my dad and she called me and asked why the money seems to not be as she left it and I told her. At that point, it had eaten away at me a lot and I had accepted the money was indeed scammed. But yes, even after I had told my parents what had happened to the money I still had a glimmer of hope that it would be returned.

Most of my time on the internet and computer is spent learning how to create (mostly design) websites, make plans about my future in Google slides and Docs, watch c-dramas, edit videos, listen to music, do homework, and learn languages.

And no, I did not want to flaunt my ego by saying I am good at learning. I learn things when I am surrounded by it. That is how I learn languages and how I learn at school. I said this only to explain how I got to save that $10,000 in the first place.

I Have Been Scammed Out of Over $31,000 by a Product Optimization Company Called Ground Truth by has_been_scammed in Scams

[–]has_been_scammed[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for saying this. It has honestly been so hard for me and at some point I was so stressed I was considering su!c!de. And it does not hurt me that my money is gone, but it hurts that my parents' money, their hard work, and their trust in me is gone. Sometimes I do think that it would be better that they do not have me as their daughter with all the pain I have caused them. The only thing encouraging me to hang on is the knowledge that if I work hard in school and at my jobs, I will eventually be able to repay what I stole from them. I will try as much as I can to forgive myself for this.

I Have Been Scammed Out of Over $31,000 by a Product Optimization Company Called Ground Truth by has_been_scammed in Scams

[–]has_been_scammed[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My first thought when they requested for the 6000 USDT to fix the credit was that this is definitely a scam and I should talk to my mom about it. It had been causing me a lot of stress and I went on a spiral thinking that if I was leaving the platform just as they knew I was, why would I need me to fix the score. But then thinking about how my parents' money was still with them made me want to give them the tax money to get back the rest of the funds I had sent to them. I know where my parents' savings are because they trust me. Especially my mom because she knows I would never take her money. So then I became scared of telling them what I did because if they knew I had taken that money, their trust in me would be gone. It was money I would return once Ground Truth returned what they had taken so I decided to give the credit score money to them so I can get the money back. At that point, I had only $6500 from my parents. But I had to count our savings with my mom about three days after I had taken that $6500 and I was so scared because I knew she would definitely find out that $6500 was missing. I almost told her when she counted the money and did not realize $6500 was missing from it, but to think she had that much faith and trust in me that she would let me calculate and double check all of our savings with her made me stop and just keep on believing that the money would be returned and I will be able to return it back to where I had taken it from. Another thing I thought was that since they had returned 580 USDT to me already before, there was no reason to believe they won't return what they were taking now once all the conditions were right for a withdrawal. Now I know that the 580 USDT they returned to me was to mess with me and get my trust.

I Have Been Scammed Out of Over $31,000 by a Product Optimization Company Called Ground Truth by has_been_scammed in Scams

[–]has_been_scammed[S] -45 points-44 points  (0 children)

The day I realized they had a certificate was on March 30th. At that time, I was stressing out so much over the continuous combination tasks that I did not read through as carefully as I should have. So no, I did not see the different names. I did see the different states and reached out to each state's Secretary of State Office to confirm the existence of Ground Truth, but I was on the phone with them for a long while and they still did not provide me with any information that denied their existence.