Edit: Back in Feb 2020, I gave my seed phrase to someone on twitter. The convinced me the seed phrase was equal to my address and that they needed it to send me bitcoin. Don't ask me why I was so stupid... I lost approx. 1M sats and I had to start accumulating again. I bought a Trezor and I started reading...
There will always be these stories but the good part for you @OP in this was, you learned from it. You know now the importance of a seed phrase or private key and you sure know it’s not equal to a bitcoin address but the opposite.
Private key and public address. The name tags tells the difference.
It was a your mistake and you’ve learned.
It’s a good thing having to relate this tale and even with that, there isn’t any guarantee that there wouldn’t be any further victims. Of course there would always be other victims but, the take does it but to reduce the numbers of victims. In a space guided by trust, you’ve got to have a third eye open