Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. I have been a part of this community for a while now, although on the discord page, this happens to be my first posting on this page. It's no new thing that we've all encounter fraudsters on a daily basis in the real world as well as on the internet and social media etc. Most of the time, I have fallen prey to their mischief, maybe as a result of my ignorance or perhaps because I wasn't sensitive enough.
Obviously, everybody wants to be wealthy and so therefore they strive to get earns means so they can be able to meet their demands and live comfortably. Sadly, the lazy ones who doesn’t want to work for it end up trying to dupe other persons off their wealth. Ill take hive as an example, currently I have seen complains about people posting or claiming ownership of AI generated content and then receiving unworthy upvotes and curations. Well on the other hand, most of us use some kind of tools to help us arrange our words properly and spell check and it has made some of us look bad in front of everyone thinking its an AI generated content. Yea I was a victim to this. Well let me not digress further. Like I said earlier, I have been scammed so many times.
I remembered this one from two years ago, around the Christmas season, when I was looking for additional legal means to make extra income on the online space. This buddy of mine then requested me to join his WhatsApp group after he stated he had an update for us. He introduced us to a platform that functions like an online shopping mall where you can reply to online orders from customers, purchase the products they need, and then resell it to them while earning commission on each transaction.
I didn't worry that the commission was coming in at a very low rate since I didn't invest that much . When my account finally reached about $50, I decided to request for a withdrawal to be sure that it would pay and it did pay. The guy who introduced me to the business then suggested that I increase my reinvestment so that I could earn more money. I bought the idea
This time, I had to work with a friend to raise the sum to at least $200 so that we could reinvest. We finally did, and when it was time for withdrawal, the website started having problems. Initially, they said that withdrawal was not possible since they were doing some kind of maintenance. Later on, we were instructed to contact the admin and customer support to identify the causes of the issue, but it yielded no results. The next excuse was that they were updating the website since it was new year already and they didn't inform us, the users, in any way. That's where the suspicion started. Before we could all realize that it was a scam site and that we had all been taken advantage of, the site stopped functioning altogether, and the administrator stopped texting us.
I was very upset, discouraged, and guilty since I didn't do a proper survey on the site before investing. I lost roughly a 100k plus if converted to that year's rate of naira to a dollar on Binance. Actually, I didn't worry too much about it since the money was already gone and it couldn't be retrieved. I just needed to find another way to make up for the loss.
Well, until next time,
Have a nice day.
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Return from Scamming and Cybercrime; How I Fell Prey To The Hand Of Fraudsters. to VEE's Web3 Blog
