So a week or so ago, I matched with this pretty girl on Tinder, and we started talking along and everything seemed fine, she didn't seem off at all and responded rather personally and interested. A Chinese girl, in her 20's.
We talked for quite a few days, and one day, after i asked what she was doing at the moment she told me she was into trading as a hobby, since we talked about her main occupation of jewellery designer, and made quite a bit of money recently, that she was investing.
Since I had a friend who knew a bit about it, and we talked lot about crypto and stuff, I thought I knew the basics or at least enough. She told me, after I asked, again, making no pressure, that she was investing in this new BLTO coin, in a market called Lenmo.com, again, all this in between good conversations and the typical stuff, in the spam of quite a few days
My stupid, greedy, high, horny and lonely ass totally fell for the compliments and offers to help getting started on that exchange place, since it was such a sure investment she had made, all while warning me of its dangers as if caring about me.
She said her aunt was a finance advisor in Singapore and she had told her that this coin was going to be listed in 2 months time, At which point its value would be a lot bigger and selling the coin would mean a great profit. She was just sharing her plan with me, nothing seemed forced or off.
She sent screenshots of her investments in the likes of 20k in this exchange market, along with guiding me through all the process, just because i asked and i never for a second doubted a thing. Cant even begin to describe the felling of loss of trust in myself i feel right now.
Everything was fine, no red flags, until just after I had made a conversion from bitcoin to BLTO's in Lenmo.com .
First i needed some kind of invitation code to buy the coins, that she gave me, explaining it was to "prevent malicious registration". Unquestioned, the code was inserted.
Just to see how i'd do it later, I tried changing back from BLTO to bitcoin again, and the same option to buy more BLTO's appeared. I asked her and she explained it was because the coin hadn't been listed yet, so we were in the internal subscription stage, so you couldn't yet retrieve anything you had deposited. Somehow, i didn't question that.
I say somehow sarcastically, I can see i'm just stupid and greedy and easily deceivable.
In any case, we just talked a bit more about mundane stuff and she said she went to bed. Of course i only searched Lenmo after making the transaction, and found only an entry about it online on a forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5284365.0 , in which someone asks if anyone has ever heard of this exchange, and the consensus is that it is not only unknown, but a fake, and untrustworthy.
So, basically, i got scammed for 200 of my hard earned moneys, can no longer afford to go home for the holidays and received a well deserved ego punch. I'm not sure if she is going to reply tomorrow, but i have no idea how or even if i can get the money back if she answers, so i don't see the point in letting her know i've realised my own stupidity.
I'm posting this here because i was honestly amazed at the complexity of the scam and hopefully my mistake can be someone's advantage.
P. S. Ive use the pronoum "she" just to make it easier, i am now aware that was probably not the person on the pics, on WhatsApp or tinder.
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