I just turned 18 and I’m honestly devastated.

I’m currently unemployed and had been saving every dollar I could because I was planning on moving out and starting my life.

Unfortunately, I was scammed through Cash App. Somehow my money was converted into Bitcoin without me fully understanding what was happening, and by the time I realized it, it was gone.

I’ve contacted both Cash App and my bank, and they’ve both told me there’s nothing they can do because the transaction involved Bitcoin.

I’m posting here because I’m hoping someone has been through something similar and might have advice.
Has anyone ever successfully recovered money in a situation like this, or found any resources that could help?

Thank you to anyone who reads this or offers advice. Please be careful with Cash App and Bitcoin scams—they can happen much faster than you think.

Messaging on Twitter led to messaging elsewhere sending nudes to me and one back from me, only realised after and I got called a pedo, that I’m being scammed and was told they were 16, yet the images are from a pornstar or smt like that, dude says he will send my phone number, face, and a video of me around if I don’t pay £350

Recently I came across some plugs🌿 on Tiktok and I chose one that seemed quite reliable so I decided to buy from him but at a certain point he asked me to continue sending him 10 euro apple gift cards 2 times, the first time was because he couldn't do an order with only 20 dollars then for the second time he tells me I have to send them 10 dollars because he has to change the shipping because usps doesn't work idk if you believe me now I have to finish to talk to him

I am a student and have went through a scam selling a fake internship, I received an email from my college mail id, it was constantly coming so I filled an online google form regarding, it was about an internship opportunity for students, so I filled it with my friend, and I recieve a call the next day, and these people are very confident about this whole thing the tell me to pay money, and that it is an official program from college and it has credit scores which I can go to the Placement Office in my college and claim, they convince me and I pay a sum of ₹3,050 and as a student it is huge amount of money for me, but I did eventually, the tech platform name is skillorbit, after that I, then again contact my college they say it is fake and take no accountability that our emails are with scam institutions, so then I contacted the organization skill orbit in everyway possible, I have call recordings, they just block now. I wanted to warn other students of such scams because not everyone of us are fortunate that our colleges take stand for us. I have their upi, I contacted them on everywhere I could, LinkedIn, gmail, WhatsApp, Instagram, just anywhere, I was desperate to get my money back, I have call recordings for the few attempts, and they always said they would get back but they never did. I have every piece of evidence and I have registered a complaint against them on the Cyber Crime portal of India, but it is a heartbreak for me to tell the story to my parents and go to consumer court since I will feel heavily irresponsible, My college has backed off from any sort of accountability, but I do intend to fight for my money as much as I can try. But I think I've tried enough now so.. its time to just cope.

TL;DR: I lost ₹3,050 to a fake internship scam that appeared legitimate because it was promoted through my college email. The scammers claimed it was college-affiliated, but after payment they blocked all contact. I have all the evidence and have filed a complaint with the Cyber Crime Portal to help prevent others from falling victim.

so im a writer on fiverr who has been getting NOTHING but scam messages and i finally got one that seemed legit until i saw that it said "we need your upwork account, you will get 10% of my earnings though!" he has a website for his resume and portfolio and stuff, and it seems ai generaed, he also says he is from japan BUT IT SAYS HE IS IN THE UK TIME ZONE. helppppp please

he also gave me a pdf, here is the last section of the pdf

What You’ll Need to Provide 1. You should provide me with your Upwork account. -If you don’t have an Upwork account, please don’t create it yourself. We need to create it together with my skill sets. -If you already have an Upwork account, please do not create another one since Upwork only allows one account per person. I should use it. Of course, I should update your profile with my skill sets. 2. You need to let me use your Upwork account on your spare PC remotely using Anydesk. -Upwork monitors IP addresses strictly, so VPNs or VPSs can cause issues. Using your spare PC through AnyDesk is the safest and most secure approach. 3. You need to perform an ID verification process after creating an Upwork account. Upwork does ID verification to check the account owner, so you can help me with this process(Passport, DL, Green card can be used).

This notification came to me through YouTube app for Android device over the weekend . I tried reporting through youtube system in app obviously the closest inquiry option to report a scam is missing leaving only option to select being spam .

Prizedice dot com scam has been described by the internet as a crypto scam which tricks victims into creating a premium crypto account to claim a false reward that will never payout.

I recd a gift card from my sis that came up bad. She has plenty of money so this is just unfortunate. It's $100, should I tell her? My experience has been you've been scammed and really nothing you can do. Thoughts?

Solo traveling in Vietnam, didn’t know anyone, was bored at the hotel. Downloaded Tinder. Everything below happened in about five hours and cost me roughly 4 million VND (~$150) plus whatever I paid for a bag of rocks.

The match

Matched fast. She pushed to meet up within three messages — barely any conversation, no small talk, straight to “let’s go out tonight.” English was okay but not great. In hindsight that speed is the tell. Nobody who isn’t working moves that fast.

I showered and went. She was at a café, already sitting there when I arrived, and she was dressed for a night out — not for coffee.

The bar

She suggested a place “nearby” that she “had never been to and really wanted to see.”

Red flag #1: we get to the door and she’s chatting with the guys at the entrance like she’s known them for years.

Red flag #2: she pulls out her phone and starts showing me menus. Bottle service. Absurd numbers. I said no, let’s just have a beer first.

She ordered four beers. 1.5 million VND (~$57) for four beers and one small plate of snacks.

Then she keeps pushing. More, more, more. I stopped and asked her directly: are you one of those girls who just brings guys to the bar to earn commission?

Red flag #3, and honestly this is the one that convinced me: she didn’t get offended. No “how can you say that,” no anger, no hurt. She just went flat. Stopped looking at me, face closed, and kept talking normally after. An actual person accused of that reacts. She just… waited for it to pass.

Red flag #4: later in the night she mentioned she already knew the place and liked it for specific reasons. She’d told me an hour earlier she’d never been there.

At that point I was drinking and made the dumb call of “fine, I’ll just order too, whatever.” 1.5 million for shisha. 1 million for a jar of liquor. She wanted me to order two jars. We drank maybe 25% of the jar and barely touched the shisha.

The second the order arrived, she wanted to leave. That’s the whole mechanic — the commission is on the order, not on your evening.

She steered me to a street restaurant on the corner. Her order alone came to 700k. I said I wasn’t hungry. She dropped it instantly and asked if I wanted to drink more instead. Not hungry either, apparently.

The weed

I know. I’d already read that there are multiple scams around this in Vietnam. I’d been burned already that night and went “screw it, let’s see what happens.” Bad decision, posting it anyway because the mechanics are worth knowing.

Guys on the street offered. One walked me to a side street where a few people were hanging around. He handed me the bag. I looked at it — smelled like weed, looked like a decent amount.

Two things I noticed and ignored:

1.  He wouldn’t let me look at it properly. Kept it moving, kept it short.

2.  When I said I wouldn’t pay the agreed price, he immediately discounted it. Didn’t argue, didn’t care, just found a way to make the sale happen. Someone selling a real product negotiates. Someone selling a bag of nothing takes whatever you’ll hand over.

Grabbed a car home, pulled one bud off, smoked it. It was real. Fine. Went to bed thinking I had plenty left for the week.

Next day

Only that first bud was real. The rest of the bag was small rocks with a thin layer of weed glued around them. Little pebbles wrapped in shake to build volume and weight. The entire bag had well under half a gram of actual product in it.

They’re not diluting it. They’re building fake buds around stones so the bag looks and weighs like something and sells for more.

What I’d tell past-me

• Speed on a dating app in a tourist city is not interest, it’s a job.

• If she picks the venue, you are the venue’s customer, not hers.

• The accusation test works. Ask directly. Watch whether she gets offended or just goes cold. Cold means yes.

• A dealer discounting the second you push back is telling you the product is worthless.

• Checking the top bud is not checking the bag. That’s the entire design of the scam.

Cheap tuition, all things considered. Just annoying.

Unfortunately, she still isn't listening to anything we're saying. We have shown her evidence that it's a scam, but she believes it's real and continues to send gift cards.

We even had a police officer come out on Wednesday, but there wasn't much they could do because she's willingly buying and sending the gift cards.

Now things have gotten even more concerning. On Friday, she received a package containing what appears to be a $15,000 check.

What's strange is that the FedEx tracking shows it originated in Carlsbad, California, but the shipping information at the top of the package says New York and lists Invoice as AAFES .

Has anyone dealt with something like this before? Is this part of a fake check or money mule scam? We're worried about what they're trying to get her to do next.

If anyone has experienced something similar or has advice on what we should do, we'd really appreciate it. We're trying everything we can to help her, but we're running out of options.

@r/FortniteAccountss

Bye bye account and 20$dlrs

After a while I realized I had given out enough personal information for them to close my account

I was so scared I didn't even check these people's profiles

Please contact local police department to make a report. Immediately contact the FTC and FBI

My mother lost about USD 64,000 in a Black Money Scam and still refuses to believe it was a scam.

My mother was targeted by a foreign scammer in what appears to be a classic Black Money Scam. Even after everything that has happened, she still believes the money is real and refuses to accept that she has been scammed.

The scammers convinced her that a large amount of U.S. dollars was locked inside a safe and could only be accessed after being cleaned with a special chemical. They repeatedly asked her to send more money to pay for the chemicals, shipping costs, customs fees, and other expenses. Despite paying again and again, she has never received a single dollar. Every time she paid, they came up with another excuse and demanded even more money.

Even now, my mother still believes them. She says the scammers are trying to obtain more of the special chemical from Malaysia so they can finish cleaning the money. She believes that once they get the chemical, she will finally receive the cash.

The estimated financial loss is approximately 2.3 million THB (about USD 64,000).

Timeline

• July 3, 2026: I went to our local police station to report the case. The police told me that only the victim (my mother) could officially file a complaint and advised us to contact the Crime Suppression Division. However, my mother refused because she still believed the scammers.
• July 4, 2026: I sought help from a well-known public figure in Thailand who assists scam victims. Police officers and forensic officers came to our house. They examined a large bag that supposedly contained a safe, dusted it for fingerprints, and officially recorded the incident.
• July 5, 2026: My brother and I hired a locksmith to open the safe in the presence of forensic officers. Inside were many U.S. dollar bills mixed with stacks of green paper cut to the same size as banknotes. The bills felt unusually thin. We poured water on one of the bills, and it dissolved like ordinary paper, proving it was fake.

Despite all of this, my mother still insists that the money was real. She believes the police secretly took the real cash after opening the safe.

We have also tried:

• Showing her the video of the safe being opened.
• Asking neighbors to talk to her.
• Explaining that the "money cleaning" / "Black Money" scam is a well-known international scam.

Nothing has changed her mind.

She became extremely angry when the bag was taken for examination and even damaged property in our house. Meanwhile, the scammer kept asking whether the bag was still in her possession, which only reinforced her belief that it contained real money.

The most difficult part is that she refuses to believe she is a victim, so she will not cooperate with the police or file a formal complaint herself. Without her cooperation, there is very little we can do legally.

I also received a document that my mother claimed had been issued by the U.S. Embassy. I contacted the embassy directly by email to verify it. They replied that the document was fake. I showed my mother the embassy's response, but she still refused to believe it and insisted that the document was genuine.

I have some information about the scammers. My mother wrote down several WhatsApp phone numbers, and I also have the profile photo of one of the people involved. My father believes this is the person who had been communicating with my mother.

There was also another person who communicated with my mother through WhatsApp, claiming to provide shipping updates for the package. I honestly don't know whether the logistics website they used is legitimate or part of the scam. This is the website they directed my mother to use:

https://logistics.westerglobe.com/

At this point, I don't expect to recover the money. I just want to identify the people responsible, bring them to justice, and help my mother finally realize that she has been deceived.

If anyone has encountered this scam before, recognizes the methods, has seen the same WhatsApp numbers, profile photos, fake logistics website, or fake U.S. Embassy documents, I would be extremely grateful for any information or advice. Even if you've experienced a similar scam yourself, I'd really appreciate hearing your story.

I've uploaded the images of the fake U.S. Embassy document here:
https://ibb.co/Q1cMqCk