Today I got scammed for a lot of money. It's like two average salaries combined, the amount is significant in my country and it was half of all my savings. The scam itself was very primitive and I can't stop blaming myself for being so stupid for falling for it. I can briefly describe this story, omitting many details, because otherwise it would be a huge post.
A man called and told me that he was a policeman, that somebody took out a loan in my name, that there is a police investigation going on. He asked a lot of questions to get info from me and to pretend that he was a real police. He said that soon I would need to come to police station, but in the meantime he would put me in touch with a bank representative. And after that he transferred the call, and some woman started to speak with me. She asked me a lot of questions as well, and told me that I have to repay a loan that another person took on me. And she said that the bank would compensate my expenses. They told me that I can't trust any other bank stuff because they might be the ones who gave my data to scammers.
Long story short, I fell for it and paid the money. After that they wanted to scam me for some more money, but I realized that something strange is going on and stopped talking to them. Went to police, told everything to a detective, she will try to investigate (but I'm sure that it's unsolvable). After that went to my bank and learned that they can't return the money because I haven't paid some anti-scam insurance.
And not I can't stop thinking about this situation, about how unbelievably foolish I was. It was so obvious all along, but I continued to believe them and transferred money to suspicious accounts. I've lost all self-esteem and I don’t know how I can do serious work in the future if I can be fooled like a child. And am ashamed to tell this story to my acquaintances, because they will see what an idiot I am. Not to mention how many things have become too expensive for me now due to the fact that I have lost half of all my savings.
Has anyone here faced a similar situation? If so, how did you get through it?
Submitted March 31, 2021 at 05:34PM by DagonHord https://ift.tt/3uckHvi
