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RE: Do we have a scammer on Hive?

in GEMS29 days ago

Ok, it looks like we didn't understand each other. If you felt I put words in your mouth, that was definitely not my intention. But why did I react that way? You wrote Here are a few videos why you don't do anything with Nigerians, especially online, and I took it to mean all of them. My fault for misunderstanding. Yes, I always said I wouldn't fall for Nigerian scammers with their shity 'Hello my queen' messages, but I fell for health scams, and I took it personally because I'm not healthy, and it hurts when someone scams people with health issues. But there are people out there in Africa I don't know personally, and I send them money because they needed help with healthcare, and they weren't scammers. It hurt me so much that someone plays on this vulnerability, especially with me. She read my articles, knew I was sick, and still did that. But there are Nigerian people who are genuinely sick. I don't know if you understand what I mean 🤔. And second, in Europe, we are not so easily scammed. I haven't experienced it myself, but if you watch YouTube, there's a German man who investigates European scams. Mostly, those scams happen in person, not online. You know, like ordering a beer that costs 2€, but when you pay, it's 10€—and they didn't even give you a menu, so it's your fault for not asking 😂. I must also mention something I just remembered…a few months ago, some hacker groups compromised our payment system and took all our data. Our company didn't want to pay the hackers to avoid releasing our data on the dark web, so they went ahead anyway. Someone has all my data, but luckily not my bank details. A few days later, fake numbers from different countries started calling me, sending messages with links claiming someone was using my Binance account, and so on. Then someone started calling me, and after five calls, I thought, 'I'm bored, let's play.' I could tell he was from India because of his accent. He told me someone ordered from my Amazon account for around 500€, and if it wasn't me, they would help me cancel it. I just needed to give them my account info 😂. I started laughing because I used to work for Amazon, and nobody will call you like that. Why would they? They don’t care who’s ordering from your account 😂. So I said no one would scam me because I watch too many videos and know how people get scammed. Boy, was I wrong. Unfortunately, she played me well, but it's my fault for trusting her without doing research beforehand. So, I’m sorry… it came out wrong. And no, I don’t have the courage to go to Nigeria. They'd probably take all my medication and arrest me 😂. They’re expensive, so maybe it’s worth stealing 😂. One more time, I’m sorry. Can I ask where you're from?