Was It All For Love Or Greed? Woman Loses $60K Investment
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Not sure why you're linking the scam site.
@@JustMe99999 The comment box did it automatically, I took out the .com part. Thanks
11pm in the UK - I just asked Alexa.
@@thisperson5294Thank you !
Thanks Good to know
Dear humans...if making money was easy, we'd all be rich.
True 👍😂
👌Spot on!
That part…
@@esstong8064There's option 4: chooses partners badly
Politicians make it easy for themselves lol. But we aren't in the big club.. 🤨😄
The nerve to ask her elderly mother for $20k to send to a perfect stranger. These people lack common sense.
and decency
Probably told a lie to get it : (
And morals
Scammers don't care about people they scam, they only care about getting money. They are in Ghana and India. They work in chat rooms and are trained to do this.
They change phone numbers, can disguise their voices, different accents.
I am more pissed at these women who allow themselves to get scammed.
She had the nerve to ask her mother for money.
I don't blame the scammers as much as these women who should know better. There are warnings!
'He has light brown hair"? Shopping for a house with someone you've never met, or even on a video chat? I was a professional trader for many years. 17K to 150K overnight? Sure. VAT(?) - 32K. "I was, like, okay." Don't any of these people even try to educate themselves? Other people are preventing "Erik" from accessing his multi-zillions and he needs this little mope to fund him. Wow. Ripping off her own mother is beyond despicable.
My boyfriend, Johnny Depp, thinks Bitcoin is dead. Steam cards all the way!
😂😂😂😂
Hold on Emily. Johnny Depp is my boyfriend. Bet I’ve spent more on steam cards for him than you have. I’m very proud of that. Back off. 🙄
@@user-wj9wz3ng2c 🤣🤣🤣
@@user-wj9wz3ng2c Brilliant!!!!! 😂😂😂
😂😂
“Why not just take it out of your retirement? “ “Why not ask your mom?” This guy is a DREAMBOAT
Everyone should have one 😂😂😂😂
I would be so turned off, the f*@k?
I get Russian scammers all the time, telling me that if I don't have the money to send them I should ask my family and friends and tell them she'll pay it all back!:😄
He's a definite catch, huh? A man that has to have old ladies pay his way! Heck, she isn't even getting good sex out of the deal!
I have been a trader for 40 years. Nothing goes from $17,000 to $150,000 in a day. Just hilarious.
That is so true, I wish everyone knew that.
I am no expert but if it sounds to good to be true. That old saying holds weight.
If money could accumulate in an account or an investment that fast it wouldn't take long before a the money on earth was in this investment. I'm being funny but I'm being kind of serious. I would have known better than that when I was 12 or 13. These people have so much greed and lust it consumes them and they mess all the red flags.
Unless you can predict the future. lol
17k to 150k in a day is gambling, not investing.
Even if a stock derivative or whatever. Gambling doesn’t have to be at a casino.
Edit: gambling was the best case scenario here. She was being scammed, showing money on paper that never existed.
Anytime you meet your boyfriend or girlfriend online and they bring up bitcoin, vague investments, gift cards, or they need to "borrow" money because they can't access theirs... RUUUUUUUUUUN!!! You're getting scammed
This is so true. Bitcoin and Crypto-coin are trigger words for me. I met up with an associate for the first time at her cute little tea house. For the first time, her husband was around and wanted to join. Over tea dude asked me if I had heard of Bit/Crypto coin and how he was making a killing. My response was " Good for him. Cause "granny" (me) is not in the least bit interested in something I don't understand." Naw, you can't teach me, Naw, you can't invest for me. Just pass me the crumpets and top up my tea. Thank you very much. lol.
@@guinealove3744Yep, the words “crypto” & “bitcoin” send me to sleep.
ABSOLUTELY 💯 💯
@@guinealove3744first letters bit or cryp it's block 🚫 💯🚫🤬🤬🤬🤬
Even before the money requests start...if a guy looks like a dad jeans model, lives in The Netherlands, or is "chief surgeon at the UN"...block the lying two bit scammer immediately.
We've finally moved from "have you eaten, my queen?" to "have you slept, my queen?"
Awww.... No, bring the "eaten" thing back!!! 😂😂
❤❤ they do really target people who feel lonely
gotta mix it up, keep people on their toes
Maybe they’re watching and read our comments, lol. 😆
I'm sure scammers never miss an episode and use it to hone their skills.
Looking for houses for someone you have never met isn’t normal
One of my friends was doing just that … and selecting her engagement ring!
I think one of the reasons they send them looking for houses is not just because it shows that they're planning a future it keeps them occupied.. it keeps them thinking about something else so they don't think about "is this gyu scamming me?"
For six weeks no less!
@@susanlett9632 very true, it’s so mental How they control someone into not questioning things
@@leecotton3242 wild, did they snap out of it?
Imagine being in your 80s or something, and your 59 year old daughter asks you for 20 000.... and then she sends all that money to some guy she met online. She wasn't just scammed, she also kinda scammed her mom.
Truly sad. 😓
Yes she scammed her mom in a way
Id invade Nigeria m8 for that amount
@@user-wj9wz3ng2cso shameful to get her mum involved.
Dear Claire. I wrote a novel and was published by a major NYC publisher. I wrote my novel while raising a toddler and working part time. I wrote it in every single minute I could steal. You need $0. If you want to “be a writer”, just write. Most people who say they “want to be a writer” don’t actually want to write a novel. They want to “have written” a novel.
You are absolutely correct! I was thinking the same thing. Many successful, and I assume, less successful writers write and publish their first book while working and raising a family
What's the title of your book?
Can you write a novel for me too 😂
So true
Nevermind that the 60k she threw away could have absolutely funded both a self-published book AND the marketing campaign to make it a bigger success to offset the costs. 🤡
Well, she has something to write about now....
It's Not Even Funny .. 😭🤣 But Then Again it Is Kinda Funny Like Exactly 💯 Smh She Definitely Does Has Something To Write ✍🏾 About Now A Whole Experience Based On A True Story. She Should Name It How Not To Get SCAMMED!
It's hilarious @@meesheemulan
Underrated Comment!
🎵always look on the briiiight side of life! 🎵
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. 😆
The photos of 'Erik' in the blue checked jacket have him looking like a 90s game show host. "Come on down Clare, the price is right!!!!"
hahahaha, YES!!!!!!!
The price is wrooong biiiitch 🤣🤣😉
I was thinking discount bin Hunger Games Capitalesque characters. Like people from the Capital, but you ordered them through Wish 😂.
LMAOOOOO
Borrowed 20k from her elderly mama to give to a stranger.
I dont know how to feel sorry for these people
@pinky
Exactly my thoughts.
Her poor mom. 😢
Well...this scammed woman is after looks and money and she got none here. Unbelievable!. Sending thousands of dollars to a total stranger!.
We collectively should not feel sorry for such individuals
this level of stupidity makes me angry
My neighbor was just scammed out of 10,000 in a pig butchering scam. He would not listen to me.
One almost got to me in 2017. Something didn't feel right, so I blocked the person. Sorry about your neighbor!
Oh well! 😂
It really kills me when a family member or friend tries to intervene for these people and tell them that they’re being scammed and they absolutely refuse to believe it. So they’ll believe a complete stranger with fake pics and their bullcrap story but they won’t believe the people closest to them who are only trying to help them. It’s infuriating. Your family, friends, and community are telling you something to help you. Please listen.
My brother in law got romanced scam but is still on the internet looking for a young woman. He’s 70. 🙄
I believe they have a list of 70 and 80-year-olds they got my neighbor Charlie. The scammer sent him pics from the hub. We told him it was a scam, but he wouldn't listen.
Ladies if a guy asks you if u have slept enough, give all your savings to him... Because he is THE ONE
Have you slept enough my queen?
😂😂😂
heart to heart deep conversations, between the lovers, why so mean?
😂
😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂😁😁😁😅🤣😁
Right??!!!!!
The question I have that never gets addressed is, if you're on a dating site looking to physically date someone in the hopes of finding your "person" why begin chatting with someone who lives nowhere near you? It makes no sense!
True! But long distance do work hence 90 Day Fiance.
Your right, long distance relationships are total stupidity. I guess these people think their fake partner is so rich he can afford to jet around the planet.
Ikr, I wouldn't date anyone I couldn't meet in person, within a week or two at the most.
Also they would have to live in either:
1. Same area as I live in, or
2. One of the other two places where I would be willing to live
Shopping for an expensive house with her fake boyfriend. 👀
This is so ridiculous I cant even feel sorry for her.
@whiskers
... so his mistress could benefit.
@@taliabraver
Me neither ..
It's so cringeworthy .. how embarrassing 🙈
For 6 weeks!!!!
my moms a realtor you run into this a lot
If a man was interested, he would never ask for money. Ever
... or a woman. I've had lots of friends of both sexes for over 50 years and NOT ONE has ever asked to borrow money!
The fact that she said “ he hasn’t asked me if I ate anything today”
He must be real! 😂
They might have directly asked her that but cut the question
@@hannahbaxter8825 true
So she really thought her $6500 in a month made $400,000!
Yep same way she visualized she was in a relationship with someone who is going to give her lots of money and a big house, and she never even met him in person
Lol. When you mix greed with stupidity, you lose all your money!.
Stupid is as stupid does - Forrest Gump
She's good with number! Do not question her😅
Not only that, but thought it was going to happen again and again until she got $1million. Really ?! But she wasn't greedy?!
“ widowed engineer working on a bridge in Perth”
Girl…….that was your first clue.
My fiance and I about cried we were laughing so hard. (He's a pediatric oncologist doing research for the World Health Organization and currently stationed in Prague. I'm so lucky!)
Exactly a Dutch widow travelling to Australia. Did she even ask what kind of work he was doing there??
We have our own construction workers and engineers here. No need to bring people from the Netherlands 🇳🇱🙈.
That was the first clue 🫣.
@@brookiegremlin6660 Girl, don't send him money until he shows you a picture of his passport!
She is NOT a girl. She is an old woman!. She should have known better BUT she was blinded by the fake looks and the fake money!.
😂the first clue is thinking that such a big infrastructure project is being done in Perth 😂😂
How can you trust anyone you haven't met after 2 weeks of texting?! That's ridiculous.
Can't even imagine talking sexually with some man I've been talking to for 2 weeks online and had never met! If I'm in a relationship I'm pretty fun. But some stranger? No thx
Because your thick
And I was a tad confused, were they house shopping after just 2 weeks???
Ikr, it's so inconceivable! 🤯
It'll be a cold day in hell before I argue with a stranger about what I do with my money! Unbelievable
Exactly
Same here remember what we were taught when we were younger. Avoid strangers. Remember kids & Adults too a Stranger can mean danger. I am 45 & people tried to scam me. I am like "Hell no" its My money" Also its true it is my money why do I have to give it to someone. I don't even give to family .I also Have no need to get rich quick. I know that never happens. When I go to vegas. I have a limit of $30 for gambling. I stop after that I know the Odds,
but baby it's me, George Clooney....
He's a Nigerian hiding behind a stolen photograph. Please, don't drink alcohol and text strangers.
Lots of Americans and other nationalities are SCAMMERS too. Scamming is not reserved for Nigerians!.
Boxed wine 😂
It's called a pig butchering scam.
No, if it is crypto connected, it is pig butchering and the scammer is a slave for a Chinese owned company in a compound in south east Asia. There are a thousand videos about this.
😂😂😂😂😂
Most people have zero financial literacy. They don't know how interest works, how taxes work, how investing works, how VAT works, ... nothing.
I'll admit I'm not very savvy when it comes to financial investments but that's what financial planners are for
Some people have no sense, full stop.
I don’t know any of that either and would never fork a cent for an “investment” suggested by an online rando!
To be fair taxes are designed to be hard to understand at least in the usa
Fun fact - many of these “victims “ watch these videos 🤯🤯..
I feel bad for this woman but how on God’s green earth did you think investing 6K would yield 400K?!?! Everyone would be a billionaire if this was legitimate🤦♀️🤷♀️
She deserves no sympathy. She’s greedy and stupid
My God the guy is wearing a wedding ring in the pic and it’s so obvious he’s in the entertainment industry! That’s a professional pic.
That’s what I was thinking. So obvious he’s in the entertainment business. There’s a lot of delusional behavior going on.
She should write a book about her getting scammed
Could even do it in a fictional context.
She can self publish it using the money she made from her investments. Oh, wait...
Lol x x
I’m sure she will 😅
She can title her book “how to loose money by being naïve”!
Sometimes I think greed is the impetous for these so called relationships rather than love. Never take money out of your retirement!!
She'd already spent the million dollars.
She saw that fast car Maserati or Ferrari and was hooked. Thought she was going to have that fancy lifestyle 🫣…
@@tmcurly IT was a 5.0 L Ford Mustang Convertible... The 5.0 on the front fender IS damning evidence... Then there is the little mustang running... On the center cap of the wheel 🛞...
Greedy for love and money
She was driven by greed as so many on here are.
She didn’t smell a rat when an investment of 6,000 led to an account value of 400,000 inside 2 weeks 😂
That’s the part I don’t get did she think it was interest? I don’t know if I missed anything.
Plain stupidity
She also didnt smell a rat when she spoke to him on the phone . She cant tell a German accent from an African accent .
@@catherineritch6241They say they are investing the money in the stock market
I also never get how it makes sense to them that there’s an account with tons of money in it but you can’t use it until you pay them some fee. Newsflash: if it was a real account they would take the fee from your account.
If he is in Perth, and he sent a pic of him in a car. We drive on the left which means our cars are right hand drive. And no one pays cash for a $700,000 house.
In Sydney, $700K is just the down payment!😂😂😂
Some people do pay cash for 700k plus houses.
It’s not Sydney he was in Perth .
The car thing was a red flag I don’t think people like her have enough sense to even look it up or recognise it 🤯...
They could if they had saved it up into a retirement fundand it was over and above what they needed for living expenses.
Or if they had sold a property or some other investment.
Or inherited.
Or had a profitable business or well paid job.
(Or did something illegal).
Plenty of people pay cash for a house. I did. But you’re right about the car. Not sure if there are any bridges being built by Nigerians in Perth though. I’m in Melbourne so maybe I just don’t know? 🤷🏼♀️😂
Sending $60,000 online to a stranger is not financial hardship. She should not qualify.
Why is it that people nowadays still fall for these scams? Is humanity moving intellectually backwards?
She's my age and it blows my mind that she fell for it. I don't get it.
@@PamMinnick
She looks educated too, how dumb 🤬
Yes
I’m so glad Stephen King didn’t wait until he was rich to become a writer. 😅 That’s not how that works. You write because you love writing, not because you want to be rich.
You are so right ! I've been published in France in quite small companies but I never ever paid one cent for publishing. One writes because it's marvelous to do, not because for money only. If the big money comes with the writing, it's fine. If the money is not so great, it's still a good experience. This woman isn't very smart (to stay polite).
Well, she certainly has a story to write about now 😂
Definitely 💯😭😂 She Should Name It How Not To Get SCAMMED!
Actually that's not a bad idea. It is shocking how people in 2024 still believe in this nonsense. Maybe we need more awareness circulating out there...😮
@@Parrotgirl-tattoo she may make some decent money. Never know in this day and age.
😂😂😂
@@Parrotgirl-tattooEvidently we do.
If it was that easy to make a million bucks we would all be doing it 🤦🏻♀️
There was something fishy going on 🎣 😂
You are pretty. I would fall for your catfish.
Tell that to the pyramid scheme girlies
How do these 'smart' people even have all this money to throw away?
Right?! I saw a comedy bit where the joke was something about being broke. It went, I had my identity stolen, but then they gave it right back lol.😅
She’s divorced, probably got something from that. Some of the money might be inherited, and some of it is just through having assets and mortgaging those assets. Sadly, sometimes friends or family lend the money under false pretenses, and then this happens.
I know, I wish I had that kind of money. I’m disabled and unless I someone become famous for something which I highly doubt it. I will never see anything close to that much money.
There's a saying that's been true since 1587, "a fool and his money are easily parted"
It’s easier to fool somebody than convince them that they have been fooled
Why would you be shopping for a house and investing with a man you've never met? That doesn't make scene at all🤔
cause she wants to be in love deloris!
It's pretty crazy, but these scammers just lead them step by step into a fake future
It does: greed plus stupidity plus grandiose dreams.
she wants to move into a house a random man has bought for her
The only person making money is a scammer in Nigeria most likely
Definitely Or In Africa!
@@meesheemulanor in the Milky Way galaxy
and money there goes a long way, she should feel good that its probably feeding hungry kids.
Probably more than one as they work in teams.
@@Nocturnaluxyes
Investing with a stranger online is crazy as hell😅
Yep! She thought he was putting money in in the beginning. Then when she seen the profit going up she was in!
I had a guy try the…”can you give me some gift cards scam”. In the beginning, I warned him that if he asked for money in any form I would block him. Well, he tried it. I told him off! He argued with me for a bit. Finally, in frustration, he said, “Why don’t you just answer the questions right?!” I started laughing! He was mad because I wasn’t following his script and he didn’t know what to do.🤦🏽♀️🤣
Imagine being rude to a person you're asking for money and still expecting them to give anything to you? The narcissism. Ewww
It's funny but sad too! It's just a job to them.
@@TheFakeyCakeMaker
“But my Queen, I asked you if you ate today. That’s proof I am real and guy should send me gift cards”
@@tims4502 🤣😭
@@TheFakeyCakeMaker Exactly!
So she spoke to him on the phone, and didn’t notice the Nigerian accent
They only hear what they want to hear
They never do, it’s clear as day but they just don’t hear it 🤯
I've noticed people on this show are terrible at accents.
They never do....
I wish we could have heard her say which accent she thought he was speaking and then hear a recording of his voice. Then we’d be laughing when he tells her that’s a Nigerian accent.
'I really trusted him' ..... ok after 2 weeks..... oh dear you can see where this is going.... she couldn't though.
It pisses me off people can be so stupid....
There seems to be a huge number. 😂
me too I'm raging right now, insane
This not a an excuse but I hadn't heard of scamming til 5 years ago not on social media or anywhere else.
That's sad because Nigerian prince scams have been around for at least 20+ years. @@EuleneWages4644
@@EuleneWages4644 good for you. its with us since prehistoric times.
50+ yo people asking money from MOM... woow. Last time I asked my mother for anything I was like 24.
My parents are deceased. But after I got married when I was 20 years old and my husband was in the military not once did I ever asked my parents for money in fact I bought them a TV in a washing machine because they didn't have the money to afford it. A good person doesn't beg their elderly parents for a thousands of dollars to invest with a stranger. A good person helps their elderly parents.
@@susanlett9632 this.
I've never asked my Mom for anything, and sure wouldn't have asked her for monies like this!!😮
My mother would have me committed if I asked her for money to invest with a stranger. I just don’t get how people don’t see the multiple red flags.
Anyone else have parents that would just laugh if you asked them for money?
Her greed overrode her common sense
Has zero to do with greed. It was the fantasy that she could have a much better life very soon.
@@minoozolala You have your opinion I have mine. Greed was even mentioned in the video.
For a writer, she sure doesn’t recognize incorrect grammar/punctuation……ever hers!
Even hers? 😉 just teasing.
Not all the writers do! A writer doesn't have to be grammatically perfect - there are editors for that.
I don't think those are the real text messages.
Someone on the Catfish team seems to write them, based on what the person is saying.
@@Asa...Syeah catfished often makes grammatical errors
Most writers have editors. And she "wants" to be a writer.
There is NO SUCH THING AS GET RICH QUICK. Not unless you ligit win a lottery. Greed is a sin
The reason these people miss the red flags that we see clearly in my opinion is because they're greed and their lust clouds their judgment. If they weren't so greedy this would never happen
Not unless you legit win the Lottery--or come into a large inheritance...
I mean, there is…look at the amount of money the scammer made in two weeks!
@@Nocturnaluxhey respect his hustle, he probably had to fleece dozens of victims before he struck it rich. You don’t earn $60K on your first score!
She's is told the picture is not the person she is talking too, and her next question is 'so, all the history about his life he told me is all made up?'. wow. I don't understand how people can be so unaware; lack so much insight and not be labeled SMI.
I agree, what was she hoping they would say..'His picture is fake but the history is true'?
@@alanbooker1955 True. It could be she thought they found out who the real scammer was. She was just 100% clueless on what an internet scammer is.
@@alanbooker1955 Like she would still love him if the only fake part was his picture. At least 50% of what she is "in love" with is his image.
The clod in the picture is a second rate entertainer from Myrtle Beach, SC whose ego has so bloated his head, he has trouble getting through doorways. I would not be surprised if he actually perpetrated this fraud.
😂
Clare, I feel really sorry for you. There were so many red flags. I hope you will recover. Please, don't fall for this again. There is no such thing as fast money. If you want to trade, ask your bank for a verified and credible trader. These scammers are heartless and brutal.
😂
Oh God. Don't ask your bank. They'll just point you to their overpriced services and their "wealth management" division. Seriously, if you don't know anything about investing, go buy "Investing for Dummies". And there's tons of free stuff online. Don't ask the bank. Don't buy a course. Don't do what the bro at the gym said made him a ton of money. Read. And then use a discount brokerage, like Vanguard, Fidelity, Schwab, etc, with low fees. And pick a solid, broad-based ETF. Not stupid crypto or highly risky stuff like that. Invest regularly and over time and with low fees and watch it grow.
And if your work has a retirement plan and matching, take advantage of it!!! It's free money, but not if you don't save for retirement.
Thank you! I found you all on Friday and I cut off ties with a scammer which I knew and I was playing with the scammer and after finding you and Triglogy Media I deleted it for good. Thanks for all that you are doing to help especially the elderly and everyone. It is a scary world now. ❤❤
Lol, still playing with mine. Be a cold day in hell if I send him any money.
Well done, you've done the right thing 🎉❤
@@nanabella276 I caught on way before I sent a lot money and when he asked for iTunes card to pay for his phone I knew iTunes cards you cannot do. I told him you cannot and he was trying to tell me you can. He wanted me to sign a paper with blood I did not like that and I said no. I found RUclips channels and I now know what he wanted me to do. it was to sign to be with satan.
I’m so glad you’re getting away from that mess
@@jaylaw5969*Thing
We had some “friends” who wanted us to invest in some property. It was complicated and they told us we could do it by taking out a loan for 100k and they could steer us to a lender. Supposedly they were also putting money into the property. We sat down and talked about the kind of investment this would be for us and decided that if we lost the investment we did not have enough working life left to recoup it. We turned them down.
We found out later that they were totally scamming us and that our investment alone would be giving them a half share in the property without them putting out one penny.
Wow! Curious how you found out - did they do it to others too?
@@elipotter369 Since we dropped out they weren’t able to buy the property but we became friendly with the person who did. She bought it for $90k. So the scammer tried to horn in on her too, but the new owner was fiercely independent and didn’t fall for any of it.
WHY, in the h*ll don't these
"victims" have these people investigated BEFORE losing their money ??!! Unbelievable!
Exactly
Really! I just consulted with my son b4 going to Home Depot to buy a package of wall anchors.
I thought the same. It's so easily to check their company with the SEC.
Exactly right. Many of the victims watch these videos..
No need to write victims in inverted commas. They ARE victims.
God, the commenters on this channel are the worst: no empathy, thinking themselves above everybody else. Gross.
So she tells a total stranger how much money she has in her retirement. My own daughter doesn’t know how much money i have in my retirement account. I certainly would not be telling a stranger that I met over the Internet the amount of money I have.
💯
Hi Joan Crawford, love your movies, but you need to hash things out with Bettie Davis.
"He never asked me if I've eaten" I almost spat out my drink. That was too funny.
Online or in person a 2 week rush to commitment and trust is a huge red flag. That isn't normal.
I just cannot feel sorry for people old enough to know better.
My take too. She sent him money for the fake looks and the fake money he promised her.
ah ease up on her. she is 60yo one on one cat lady tutor. but she is make believe rich, that's kinda cool!!!
You're so right 😂
You don’t “want” to be a writer. You write. After work, on weekends, in the morning. You just do it. Being a writer isn’t like a 9-5 job you need time for. It’s a creative outlet. If she wanted to paint she wouldn’t need 40k, she’d buy some paints and take up the hobby. Maybe she’d get lucky, sell a book, have it become a bestseller, and then get to write full time. But everybody who has made money on books has written in their free time, until they got established. She’s comes across as very naive, not only about money and scammers, but how things like writing work too.
Find a writing group, look into the November “no mi wri mo” challenge, and just do it. Life is passing you by, don’t wait.
She wants to "self-publish" on Amazon I assume, where I have seen some shockingly illiterate works. The "writers" get their family and friends to post rave reviews.
People like this usually don't want to do the hard work she thought money would make her an instant success
🤔 Suspicion isn’t a thing anymore these days? Someone sends you to an investment site and you just put money in immediately? No questions asked? That’s amazing.
Money and lust.
The ultimate addictions.
I used to see this content as exposing scammers but nowadays I just see it as how dumb people are
People are out here catfishing themselves.
@Sports
... and GREEDY.
@@ivannovotny4552 She already had those million dollars spent.
The scams don’t even be smart the victim is just stupid
Believe it or not I hadn't saw anything on social media about scamming until 5 yrs ago.
Who seriously believes that you can invest $1700 and the next day it will grow to $150,000?? Shocking how little people know about investing and finances in general.
You caught the part about she's 59 and only had $40K in her retirement account, right?
@@dennisd9554 yeah and she said that she could’ve lived off it for 3 years… 😳
If you genuinely know what you’re doing and can handle the financial risk, you can sometimes see very high returns when investing in cattle or crop speculation. For example, certain meat stock can bring in $10,000-20,000 profit per animal, but you have to know your market and be able to withstand equally high losses. It’s basically gambling with animal husbandry. I would never do it, you can easily lose a quarter million in a bad year. The high profile are rare, not the norm, and are predicated on every star aligning, you buying the cattle at the right time, and selling it at the right time. Basically, short term high returns are always offset by extreme risk and not a sustainable business plan over the long term.
It's sad people think relationships are supposed to be like this. "Send me all your money and then I'll love you" These people need to go to therapy and stay off social media.
“I wanna be a writer. I want to write myself, if we had that much money, I could fund my writing career and maybe self-publish and stuff” said no Pulitzer Prize winner, ever.
i personally think that she can just start writing anyway, send her stories out... but IDK what's her damage is, because I'm not dishing out money for someone I haven't met.
Being a writer is not a path to financial success, especially at her stage in life. Is she so delusional to think that crowds of people will be seeking out a complete unknown? The profits for know writers that actually sell are (according to the Authors Guild's 2023 survey):
Mystery, thriller, and suspense: $10,000
Literary fiction: $5,000
Biography: $3,500
Literary works: $2,800
So even if she sells, she won't be able to live on it.
" typical german look". Lol
Yeah wtf is a “typical german look”? A generic looking white guy 😂
The appeal of the perfect Aryan male…
When she said that I was thinking she is ceazy
@@veronicababy7959with a Nigerian accent
And he said he was Dutch. Not German.
These scammers are just evil. Asking her to take out retirement,begging money from family, sell things etc. This is horrible. That said why would people be gullible enough to believe these ridiculous excuses.
You got that correct they are evil, soulless people.believe it or not, I hadn't heard or saw anything about scamming til 5 yrs ago.I feel for a person that feels that's the only love they can find.
Scammers do not care about anyone so people should learn how to notice red flags and stop their nonsense of sending their money to total strangers. Scammers are vile hyenas looking for preys.
Is it really evil when someone from a very poor country is able to so easily make 60,000? If people weren't so gullible there wouldn't be a market for these scammers. She gave away her life savings in less than a month for a person that she could have done a reverse image search on Google in less than 2 seconds! She could have looked up the super fake website as well, and within less than 5 minutes she would have known it was all a scam. When stupid people stop giving away their money than the scammers will move on.
Yes, the scammers are evil. And they are excellent at manipulation and lies. There are many of us gullible people out here falling for it.
Never invest more than you can afford to lose.
Never invest in anything you dont understand. If you dont even know what a crypto wallet is, you shouldn't be investing.
My dad was used to say what Drew said, “if it’s too good to be true, then that’s probably the truth.”
Married for 14 years and no connection is insane work
Yet she gives away money to a stranger and wants a house with him 🙄🙄
Another highly intelligent person that was easily fooled😂😂😂😂
I'm happy I'm dumb.😊
@@Julie-me8hk
Same 🤣
Dumazz here & happy!! Poor but happy. !
It's all in the trickery of using human psychology against the individual- all the parts of us that overrides intelligence/rational thinking
I don't want any man that badly that I will give up my life savings, nobody is that golden!
She seems like a nice lady buts it's a shame she ignored every neon red sign. It makes me wonder how she got the 500k in the first place.
She never had $500k. She put in $60k (including the $20k from her mom!) Everything else was an illusion.
It's $400k in monopoly money. That money doesn't even exist
When do these people wake up ,when an online romance involves money,run like hell and block the person .
Research is a wonderful thing especially when it comes to money. Laziness and wishful thinking can lead to disasters.
When he wanted to cyber, it was “coming on too strong”. But when he wanted tens of thousands of dollars that seemed perfectly fine. Oookay.
"i lost myself in my marriage" ..now you loss your money alone.
Good one!
😂😂😂😂😂
New way to scam: " have you slept well?"😂
Why invest in something you know nothing about.
Dont invest with a Stanger
I don't know any investment that gains that much in a few days or has such crazy fees.
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People are so gullible I just can't believe it!!! 😮
@Parrotgirl-Tattoo
Common sense took vacation.
He looks like an evangelical preacher.
He is a big performer at Myrtle Beach, SC. He live there. Alabama theater he works at. His picture are all over Myrtle Beach on billboards 😂😂
This made me laugh out loud 😂
They only problem for these types of shows is that people only come forward after they have been victimised and scammers are done with them financially.
Yet most of them say they've watched this show... and still they believe their relationship is real. Either really delusional or its fake 🤔
@@slyestfox935 It seems people are most gullible when they are lying to themselves in order to validate the fantasy of justifying a false reality. 😟.
It's hard to believe how many people are willing to suspend common sense in order to keep the illusion going that surprises me.
I guess PT Barnum was a visionary when he said, "A sucker is born every minute!" 🤔? ?
I think they only come when they are out of money. I think most of these people would go on for years and years sending money to a phantom if they had it to give! Jodi was giving MONEY to a scammer for over 8 years! I know people who have met, gotten married, had a baby bought a house and got divorced in that amount of time!
@@slyestfox935In psychology this condition is called cost sunk fallacy.
Sad!
Babygirl, that money gone 😢
I love when you call me babygirl
Didn’t ask her if she’d eaten???
Ruuuuude!
In the guitar-playing photos, the guy is wearing a wedding ring! She didn’t notice that?
His initials are literally on the guitar😂
People! Don’t send money to people that you don’t know please 😢
Don't send money PERIOD! there is no reason why you are dating someone and they asking you fir money. Even if you've met them. No way
The codependent personality type has this need to trust and go along with even unknown people in order to end internal feelings of insecurity.
Agreed 💯
It's bizarre
@krisamagus1 it's called psychology. You can look it up pretty easily
Thank you. I wondered about that.
Dang feeling personally attacked
How you’re planning your future with someone that you haven’t met ? I just don’t get it .
They're counting on the final meeting in person, and living 'happily ever after'--we know the in person meeting never happens.
I am an Aussie, first inkling that this guy is full of crap is the photo of Erik in his car 🙄 supposedly in Perth. We are right-hand drive here, and he is driving on the wrong side of the road.
Well Americans don't have a clue of how things are working outside America, weren't you aware? This is why it's so easy to scam them...
I’m sorry but how the hell do you start looking for a house to live with someone that you’ve never met in person?
So, he says he's Dutch but keeps saying he looks "germanic" lol You do realize that the Netherlands and Germany are 2 different countries, don't you? I'm Dutch and the Dutch have much finer features.
As an American, she just means he’s blonde haired, tall, and has white skin. All those types of people are grouped together in our American heads. 😆
Right?! As a fellow Dutch person that annoyed me to no end 😂. We're not interchangeable!
@@graciek4700 Yep! My ex-mother-in-law kept introducing me as Danish, because Dutch and Danish are interchangeable. Or Dutch and Deutsch are the same. I had arguments with people about this. I no longer even try to correct them anymore LOL
The replies explain, but I’ll also add that the USA has the Pennsylvania Dutch, who are basically Germans who emigrated a long time ago, so it’s common to use the term “Dutch” to describe German people here
You look similar.
One thing I notice about older Americans, especially when I worked as a seller, if your pitch is simple or straightforward they won't believe you or buy, but if it's complicated, nonsensical, and exaggerated then clearly, somehow and somewhere, it must be real if it doesn't make sense. What! This drug can makes pig fly to the moon? HELL Yeah I want to invest, HERE TAKE MY MONEY!
Don't get me wrong, with younger Americans, it's even stupider with its Girl Math and "Hey Bro u wanna b like Jake Paul or Andrew Tate" that got them throwing money out of the window.
Because people do not want to admit that they are actually ignorant or do not understand what is being told to them, so they pretend to understand it. They are not also listening to ALL of what is being said but they take the few things they think they understand and scramble it around to make some kind of sense in their mind. Of course the truth gets garbled in there somewhere.
For many younger Americans, they just zone out because they don't have the attention span to grasp it all. It is also not ALL ABOUT THEM.
You're right. It's the same when people ask you how you lost weight; if you tell them it was calorie counting and exercise they look at you with a blank stare and just say okay, but if you tell them you eat only bananas while standing on one foot on Wednesdays when there is a full moon they will want to try it, lol.
Poor Clare. She apparently never heard of the pig butchering scam.
she never heard of anything, really.
I still do not know how people fall for this in this day and age.
It's called being stupid.
That is Greg, he is a local celebrity in Myrtle Beach, SC. He is Married with kids I believe. I know he didn't have anything to do with this scam.
Serious question: Has there ever been one single episode of Catfished where the relationship turned out to be genuine? I think not
"we had an intellectual connection and we had fun...for over a decade...but we dint have a connection" bizarre.
How in the world are these scammers able to find people that they haven’t even met that are willing to blindly send them money?!
Easy: mass messaging.
Most people they contact will not give them one cent. But that does not matter because for the scammer, it is a very low effort possible exceptional high return kind of thing.
The scammer only needs one mark. Just one.
This means mass messaging thousands of people, daily, to get one mark who will fork over thousands. Once the mark is established as such, the scammer sucks them dry for all they’re worth.
Once you are confirmed as a mark, you got into a list that is passed around to other scammers. So virtually everyone who interact with online, from that point on, is part of a network of scammers.
Greed
Again it’s the same story! They never meet and they for some reason believe everything they hear from the scammer and then drain their bank accounts and retirement accounts in believing they are going to live in riches with the person of their dreams! I can’t even imagine going and looking houses to live with someone I’ve never even touched or saw in person! I just don’t understand the mentality of it!!!
I don't understand why anyone would consider buying a house with someone they have never met. Even if you have met, you live together first for at least a year before you consider something as long-term as buying a place together. You have no idea what a person is really like until you see them when they are in a bad mood, or sick, or cranky. You don't know their hygiene habits, how neat they are, etc. Not to mention why would you get involved with anyone before you've even kissed. Being good looking doesn't mean there will be chemistry in person. Ask anyone on dating apps who actually meets people for real dates. They wouldn't even set up a first date unless there was some sort of physical attraction, but we all know that most first dates don't turn into second dates because there is often no chemistry in person.
You're absolutely right after my divorce 8 years ago I used online dating sites to meet men. I would say 9 out of 10 of the men that I thought were attractive in their profile pictures online once I met them there wasn't any chemistry. That's why I think a first date should be ice cream or a picnic or a cup of coffee. No use spending a bunch of money on someone that you might not even like. As a matter of fact I would say that the more attractive men in their pictures once I met them I didn't Have much chemistry with them I have more chemistry with average looking guys.
No, not everyone co-habits
The VAT is just a sales tax, isn't it!?! It has nothing to do with investments.
That is my impression as well. VAT is applied to purchases.
I order books and merch from Japan and VAT is part of the total amount that is needed to disclose when paying customs.
By that time they already knew she was financially illiterate, so why not?
It's not a tax in every country either.