If this is true, then it doesn't hurt to give yourself a tiny hope through it. I am just curious, on what platform did you contact this person, reddit? And how was he able to provide proof that his money was returned to him by this selective scammers.

That said, how is it possible that Freewallet still survives up until today, TBH, i expected the platform to be dead by now, because everyone should already know that they are scammers, and thus the platform would just die a natural death.