Quote from: Lida93 on Today at 11:00:25 PM

Quote from: Dillonhebist on March 06, 2022, 12:06:33 AM

During the covid crisis, I met a man on Facebook, who was friendly and chatty our conversation was normal,so we exchanged numbers and move to Whatsapp and share massages, After some weeks he started introducing me to crypto currency, how it works, how it been used to earn,he ask me to open a binance account, showed me on how to fund my account he also introduced me to his platform and persuaded me to sign up then he showed me how to move the money to a trading platform where it will be invested. I made my first payment which I was seeing on my dashboard clearly and also how I can freely withdraw it back to my binance account.

On the third that he persuaded me to invest more money so that I will earn bigger but I instead to see and withdraw the first investment before making or investing more but he keep on persuading me so i starting have doubts and bad feelings about it , I decided to open the investment site to see if my money is safe and can be withdraw but when I open the investment site I found out that my trading site stopped working then I reached out to him, he asked me to contact customer service which I did and they told me that my account was blocked and I need to pay certain amount of money to unlock my funds, which I did then I try again to withdraw my funds but i couldn't, i contacted the customer service again they also demanded for more money, At this moment i absolutely knew that I have been scammed.

How susceptible you were to this social media level of scam. Ignorance is a price in itself that some of us must pay, and you just paid yours. Sorry about that.
People shouldn't be in a hurry to accept investment plans shared to is by strangers we meet online not even our relatives and friends. Taking time to research about any investment before jumping knowing how legit it is would have saved OP so much buy his greed to earn fast made him loss more.
Always give time for research its important.

ignorance is the problem. how can someone who doesn't know much about investing be confident in the advice and direction of someone he just met on social media? even if he knows and has been in contact directly or only through social media, it is not feasible for us to trust them.
Social media can be very dangerous for those who are completely innocent. and social media can be a fun place for scammers to make money. we can only limit ourselves not to get trapped.