A woman shared her experience being scammed of close to $49k, as she warns others not to fall victim to the scams like her.
Here is the story:
“Hi all,
This is my personal experience with this scam and I hope to warn more people not to fall prey to this
I believe most people have heard of scammer praying on people who wants to make more money for their family. Yes I myself fell prey to one scam.
I am a single mother. Being a PR here is not easy as we do not enjoy as much subsidy as a citizen. My son is a citizen and hence I am stuck here.
The living standard in Singapore is very high, I myself alone sometimes do have trouble keeping both of us alive. That’s why when there is a chance to earn more money, I would do it for the better future of my son. Anyways, I’m going to cut short my introduction.
What happened was, I got to know this “GUCCI Mission” through a telegram chat group.
So what this scammer does is, they will give you a mission to verify a GUCCI product.
Thereafter, you will have to make a transfer of the amount for that product to a PayNow account allocated by the “merchant”
After a while, you will get back the money you put in, plus a small commission.
Things went on smoothly and after a few transactions, I made a mistake for not reading PROPERLY.
So I was given a task, in fact, 2 tasks to buy 1 product valued at $6,110 for 3 pieces, meaning in total I have to fork out $36,6600.
So as I did not read properly, I only paid for 1. So this is a mistake I made. The merchant then told me to make payment for another 2 more pieces, which I did. Thereafter, they told me that I did not notify them before I make a transfer, that’s my mistake number 2.
so in order to release the entire amount which I have put in, I have to complete another mission which is in total to fork out another $36,660 to fulfill the mission in order to release all my funds back.
Stupidly, I went around borrowing the sum to make payment. I was not in the correct state of mind at this point in time. And finally, I manage to beg n borrow the final $36,660 and transferred them.
Lo and behold, they said that because of the mistakes, the entire transaction was frozen !!!! Can you imagine what is going through my mind?
So then comes the thaw mission which I have to fork out another $30k to do another mission. I was shocked and my mind went blank.
After calming myself down, I feel that I might be a victim of a scam.
there is no use talking to them, I called the bank to report this issue.
The banks said that recovering the money is very slim. my heart really sank.
What started out as a mother trying to give my son a better life now landed me in a pool of debt. I am at a loss.
My income is merely only $1900 a month, how am I going to repay the loan!
I am blaming myself, for being foolish and stupid that I had just lost $48,880.00
A police report had been made, but I doubt it will be useful in recovering the funds. now my only worry is survival.”