A random girl added me on insta recently & started sliding into my DMs.
I chatted with her & she asked for my number to move the convo to WA. On WA, we chatted for a few day. She was quite flirtatious & always initiated the convo. So I thought she was interested in me.
But one day, she asked me to help her with her part-time lobang which is basically an e-commerce scam which I was familiar with (as I fell for this exact scam b4 by a different person). So I said no, then she became verbally abusive, forceful & demanding, trying to pressure me to do this so called lobang. For days I held my ground & said no, but continued to casually talk to her as I was bored anyways & needed something entertaining to see me through my busy work week (my job is pretty stressful IDK why).
From this moment on, I mostly initiated the convo for fun. For days she also tried to convince me to do this “lobang” but to no avail. Eventually, she got very tired & did not want to talk to me anymore. So before I ended the comms, I asked her why she was doing this scam & she told me something that got me pondering.
She said she wanted a better life. Then I tried to be more sympathetic & said that Singapore is a hard place to live because it is very expensive. She kind of agreed by saying that she does this because she needed to survive & cope with life’s pressure. Since I remember that the year end festive season is coming, so I offered to give her an Ang Bao as an early present. But she refused & wanted me to do the scam instead bcos she preferred “career progression”. I was shocked bcos this so called career of hers is illegal to begin with. So I tried to probe further but to no avail. Perhaps she realised that it was a waste of time talking to me, so we agreed to eventually stopped the convo.
So my question is this, what should I do?Should I have reported her or helped her? And if I were to help her, how should I do it ? Also, are there online scammers out there facing the same struggles as her? Given that the economy is gloomy & uncertain & inflation is a huge burden for many …