Here’s my entry into @inuke’s Blog Writing Contest #2: Beware of Scammers
I’m embarrassed as heck to tell this story. Please don’t read. 🙈😢
I know my people over here have already figured it out just from the title and now just reading on to get the gist.
How could I have fallen for this?!
I mean it’s only embarrassing looking back on it from today. This happened years ago when this scam first came. I believe I was one of the first victims. That’s why I get so mad when I see anything about it and even worse when I see someone even trying to entertain it in their mind to give it any sort of benefit of doubt.
Just thinking about it for the purpose of this post I’m starting to get furious. Like how could I ?
Without beating about much about the bush let’s get into it.
I fell for this scam back in 2018, when I was just starting to trust the internet. When I had just started to believe that I could make money out of the internet.
Making money on the internet was already perceived as a shortcut. So this is what the scammers leverage on to dupe inexperience users.
World Remit
As everyone knows this, world remit is a payment gateway for cross border payments. People who are abroad use World Remit to send money down here.
I don’t know how these scammers managed to get us to believe that there is way World Remit can multiply your money for you.
For example, they would tell you to bring 100 bucks and they would put it through “investment”, and then mention World Remit, capitalizing on World Remit’s reputation, that the investment would return 1000 bucks in 30minutes.
When the 30minutes time period is up they would ask you to pay a certain amount to enable them withdraw your money for you.
After you have paid this second amount to them and waited for a while they again would come up with another story and tell you this is the amount that will get you your returns.
After this payment there would be another payment. You get the idea now. 😅
In my case, I didn’t fall too deep. I snapped back to my senses immediately they ask me to make another payment to enable me withdraw my returns after I had already sent them my “investment” amount.
At that point I knew I was scammed and there was nothing I could do about it. It was so painful. 🥲😂
The most painful part of it all was that I had borrowed the money to do the investment. Hoping to return the investment amount and take my profit. 🤣
Vulnerability
What made me not think well about it being a potential scam is that it was during the time of Eid and I was so eager to make money to celebrate the Eid properly.
I’m sharing my embarrassment here with the whole world so that you will not fall prey to what I felt for. Use me as a scapegoat and not repeat what I did.
THINK REALISTICALLY WHEN PRESENTED WITH AN INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY
Even though there are genuine investments you will still find difficult to understand. Example is the reward system of hive. It is hard getting investors to understand and trust the system with their money.
With this, when presented with an investment opportunity, do your own research(DYOR), and invest only what you can afford to lose.
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