It feels so good to be back here again after taking some break from participating in the initiative for some while and today seeing the topic which is to be talked about I feel needed to share my experience and how it all happen encountering a scammer, it was a bad occurrence which affected me in a big way and I can't ever forget the encounter as anything that happen is either one learn from it not to make the same mistake again or be hurt and never recover from the loss.
Two years back during the time of pandemic, I mean the Corona period, no one was able to go out to work normally as it is meant to be so people who engage in different things online and during this period, We have many online platform coming out to help people who can't go to their various work so eventually I was able to venture into different type of investment during this time, one of the businesses I started doing during that pandemic, I was able to see some profit from it so seeing those profit I decided to go into various type of things that I know it will bring more earnings.
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And during this. Also was when scammers became more rampand and people were falling for various times in different ways and for me I was making jest of most of them how they were able to fall for their trick not knowing mine is going to come sooner or later, if you know about telegram this social app where people can chat and stuff like that the way people's come there was top notch but that day I don't know what came in to me I saw this group which someone added me without my consent, so this platform is about milking in your money and gaining more profits from your money like investing some amount of money and getting multiple of the amount you deposited in it.
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So the list there was 25,000 and it is called the student package so I saw I went through the group and I saw people giving testimonies of them getting their money so for me to be convinced that is not a scam I message up to five people in that group who were sharing testimonies and they told me it was a good platform that I can also join and put my money since they also put their money and they made their profit and for me I didn't know all of them in that group were working together looking for those scam.
Without coming down I quickly sent the sum of 25000 to the account number dropped in the group and and after making the payment I received a message from the admin telling me the package was not available again that I will need to make payment of another 20K to going to the next package because there are different packages which one can do with different amount of money, so with this I sent another 20,000 making it 45000 to that same account number and after sometimes I was waiting to get my profits from what I've deposited and I receive the call that the money didn't reflect in the account and I was surprised because after that I sent a money from my bank to another person and the money reflected immediately, so I was told to make a sum of 10,000 so I will be able to collect everything with my profits at once so and that time I don't have money in my account again so I have to borrow money from my friend and send it to that account so I promised my friend I will send the money back to him that very day.
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it was after I send this money they made the same complain that they didn't see the money in their account that was when I was back to my senses that I have been scammed, so they told me to wait for some hours I waited after the hours I called the number and they told me my money will reflect very soon and account because I'm the number one on their list for them to pay so I waited and they told me in the next 5 minutes to make the payment after the five minutes I didn't see any alert I had to call you told me I will wait till the next morning, it was the next morning they told me the money has reflected but I need to pay a clearance fee of another 10,000 for me to be able to collect my money.
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I had to borrow another 10,000 from another friend of mine and I sent it to the account making total of 65000 and to my surprise I didn't see any money or alert, I tried calling the number since then when they knew that I already came back to my senses they didn't pick the call and my friend I borrowed money from has been disturbing me to pay the money back so I lose the sum of 65000 and also those of my friends I have to pay them back and during this, I have a small token which is Ethereum, that time the coin was low in price, I had 0.5Eth so to be able to refund my friend I had to sell off the coin but I was Pained, now the price of that coin is high, the amount I sold off now what over millions which i sold at a lesser price then because of my encounter with a scammer.
I can't ever forget because it always come to my brain anytime I see the coin going so high I will feel I also should have owned this coin now which is worth over a million