Hello everyone,
is a hive friend. He did this contest on a scam story. I was touched. How could this world so cold, that your own friends could come with all sort of stories just to scam you. It’s very ridiculous, but yet the truth. These things happens always. I have been a victim of scam in several ways. From unknown dudes to good old days friends, and even some current friends. They are able to come with all sort of stories. I remember an old friend from the SHS who even told me a story of how he got attacked by some gang members at Ashaiman. That they took all his money and phone. He said they were holding knives and that he was helpless at that point. That was just one of the stories. They are very touches when heard and sometimes we feel pity for them and extend a helping hand.
I knew he was lying because of what he said the next day. It was contrary to what he said the previous day. You won’t believe what he wanted me to do, that I should take a loan on his behave for him. That he was going to pay later. I managed to escape that temptation though. I was lucky that application is not supported on a apple phone if not I would have been the bad guy there.
I have been through several scam issues similar to what
Sometimes I feel like they truly need help but just come up with very touching stories so we will be moved to extend a helping hand at all cost. I overlook this and help anyway if its within my strength. I help expecting blessings from above.
Going through this contest, I was touched with the numerous story and will be very happy to add mine.
The most painful one is the one that has to do with ignorance. When someone takes advantage of your ignorance, it is very painful. At a point, you feel like the biggest idiot in this world. I have fallen a victim to this type of scam and it hurts to the inner most part of your heart.
How it all started; I was lucky to be selected among 3000 luckily winners to receive an airdrop from squid game. Yes, the popular squid game token that was all over the world.
Everyone thought it was a token developed by the popular tv series creators of squid game. We were all anticipating something huge then. So, when I received the free token, I bought some in a deferent wallet. But the airdrop was worth 49$ plus as at the time of distributions. I was so happy. This token airdrop was worth more than $100,000.00. Yes, you heard me right. That was some huge sums of money that could have transformed my life for good. Then the coin was listed on coinmarketcap within some few days later. You can just imagine how huge this project had turned out to be.
Then all of a sudden, the creators of the squid game series game out to clear the air. What they were saying was that they had no hands in the trending crypto coin callled squid game token. This news got everyone stunt. This made the coinmarketcap tag this shocking news on the listed squid game token.
I woke up one morning just to found out that the developers had rug pulled the project. They had made away with over $1,000,000.00 from the project. A coin that used to be worth $64.00 per coin is now worth $0.38942. Most investors where really affected. I was affected too even though I had not invested much. I thought that was my time to make it in life but unfortunately, a misfortune happened.
Then I just left the token in my wallet. Do you know the shocking part of all of this? My airdrop was still worth $1300.00 after the rug pull. Amazing right? But I was ignorant then. I wasn’t that expect in crypto as compared to today. So, I just forgot about it.
I was online, when I saw a notification from one of the telegram groups saying "I buy squid game token". I then traced it and chatted the guy. He said the squid game tokens were rugg pulled hence worthless. Nobody will buy and I can’t sell because the owners had abounded the project. So, I asked him why he needed it then. Then he said he buys at a discount and sells to Chinese. He further explained that, Chinese buys all sort of useless stuffs just because they are fucken rich. That made some sense though. I was convinced but I was scared so we decided to do transactions in batches.
Which I sent first sent 200 tokens, then later sent in smaller quantity when he sends Bsc. I sent until the final batch was over then I realized he had blocked me. I was so shocked that I had sent all these tokens to him without any consultations. So, I went to one group and made a comment on the squid game token. To surprise, the token could be sold on Poochart or uniswap. Then I broke down at once, I had lost more than $600.00. It was very painful. This means he was not selling to any Chinese but rather sells on pancake swap and sends me some peanuts.
I regretted up till date. I felt my ignorance had just made me an idiot. I had lost so much because he was buying on a ridiculous discount amount. And the painful part is that, he didn’t send the bnb for the last one I sent.
Here is a screenshot of the conversation that transpired between this scammer and I below.
So you can see how your ignorance can be a disease that takes away all your worth in a twinkle of an eye? Since then I learnt my lesson. But the funny thing is they always find a different strategy to scam people. The shocking one that happened to me last year was the one I encounter on a decentralized blockchain wallet. How scammers are able to transfer funds from your wallet if you should connect just a link to it. That was such an incredible thing I never suspected was possible on a decentralized platform but it was an eye opener for me.
When I want to talk about how many times I got scammed, I wont finish, trust me, but this one really got me because I was ignorant. I had gold in hand and someone told me it is glass and I believed him and gave it to him on a silver platter.
This is the story on how my ignorance got me scammed.
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