Hi everyone.
I wanted to share my story. Never in a million years could I have imagined getting into this situation but here I am.
I want to start with having gone through a difficult period in my life where my fiancee left me and the country entirely. Clearly I was not in the right mindset and was not ready to test that market again.
I connected with a woman on a dating app. She was not entirely fake because we did many video calls and had prepared some plans to meet this month. I know of these scams, and it's usually a dude but this woman is a real woman.
Anyways, I take an interest in crypto mining and investing so we got into talking. She explained she makes good money off NFT collections from this website called www. flymeta .pro
I was skeptical but I thought why not. Let's put a little money in and see what happens.
It started out great!
The way it works is you connect your trustwallet with the flymeta system and you can 'collect' NFTs of your choice for 12 hour periods. So long as you have the amount of USDTthat the NFT is apparently worth.
The artists give interest - apparently this makes their work more visible before being released on OpenSea.
Everything was well. I was collecting small profits even doing a small deposit in my bank.
Then this woman suggested I can get a loan interest free from flymeta. 10k USDT.
I wasn't really comfortable but the amount I could earn on interest I will make it back quickly. I already had enough of a taste that my greed kicked in and my rationality was gone.
Enter the worst decision I ever made in my life.
I was deceived about how this loan works but I paid it off about 1 quarter at a time over a 2-3 week period.
Great. Now I want to take my money out.
When you are doing the loan, all of your funds go from trust wallet into the 'flymeta system balance'. You cannot withdraw until the loan is complete. My request was declined because I discovered I now must pay tax on the amount.
This wasn't huge, but an annoyance.
I paid off the tax and support advised that I can withdraw at will. The company claims to be in NY and they abide by NY state tax laws. (BS)
Fantastic! I see my withdrawal was approved. Keep in mind, this is now a very large sum of USDT.
withdrawals typically take 24 hours - even though mine was approved nothing was happening.
Support now advised that my withdrawal is currently held in the blockchain 'risk control'. I have to prepare a 'verification fee' of 20 per cent.
At this point. I was in full panic but still in denial of what is happening.
I prepared about half the amount and asked, could they give an exception for what I have? Nothing happened but they came back and advised it failed.
The next day I prepared more USDT, as much as I could in 1 day and I was still about 16 USDT short for this 'fee'.
I asked again, will this be OK. I said in advance I am short about 16 USDT. They said they will check for me.
To my shock. This time, the USDT moved from my wallet to the 'system balance' and then they told me that verification failed.
At this point I am in full panic. Cannot sleep, zero appetite.
The woman I talked with said she would loan me out about half the amount.
I moved all my remaining crypto assets into USDT to cover the rest.
This woman suddenly disappeared while I was waiting for her to send the remainder. I did not hear from her until the next day. Sadly, within a few hours my TrustWallet was EMPTY.
the scammers withdrew from my wallet and claimed that I requested the verification process when I did not.
Any time I try to contact support all they really say is this:
Hello! Dear user, we are doing this based on the requirements of our blockchain system. If you cannot complete the verification, your funds will always be in the blockchain. For the safety of your funds, please complete the verification in your wallet as soon as possible. Prepare the corresponding amount of USDT and contact us again for processing
At this point I have lost over 20k CAD.
almost half of the amount lost was my desperate attempt to follow their Ransom requests.
Please have some empathy - I know I'm an absolute moron.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I've almost come to terms with the fact this money will never be returned to me.
Please everyone. If it sounds too good to be true, it's too good to be true.
I wanted to share my story. Never in a million years could I have imagined getting into this situation but here I am.
I want to start with having gone through a difficult period in my life where my fiancee left me and the country entirely. Clearly I was not in the right mindset and was not ready to test that market again.
I connected with a woman on a dating app. She was not entirely fake because we did many video calls and had prepared some plans to meet this month. I know of these scams, and it's usually a dude but this woman is a real woman.
Anyways, I take an interest in crypto mining and investing so we got into talking. She explained she makes good money off NFT collections from this website called www. flymeta .pro
I was skeptical but I thought why not. Let's put a little money in and see what happens.
It started out great!
The way it works is you connect your trustwallet with the flymeta system and you can 'collect' NFTs of your choice for 12 hour periods. So long as you have the amount of USDTthat the NFT is apparently worth.
The artists give interest - apparently this makes their work more visible before being released on OpenSea.
Everything was well. I was collecting small profits even doing a small deposit in my bank.
Then this woman suggested I can get a loan interest free from flymeta. 10k USDT.
I wasn't really comfortable but the amount I could earn on interest I will make it back quickly. I already had enough of a taste that my greed kicked in and my rationality was gone.
Enter the worst decision I ever made in my life.
I was deceived about how this loan works but I paid it off about 1 quarter at a time over a 2-3 week period.
Great. Now I want to take my money out.
When you are doing the loan, all of your funds go from trust wallet into the 'flymeta system balance'. You cannot withdraw until the loan is complete. My request was declined because I discovered I now must pay tax on the amount.
This wasn't huge, but an annoyance.
I paid off the tax and support advised that I can withdraw at will. The company claims to be in NY and they abide by NY state tax laws. (BS)
Fantastic! I see my withdrawal was approved. Keep in mind, this is now a very large sum of USDT.
withdrawals typically take 24 hours - even though mine was approved nothing was happening.
Support now advised that my withdrawal is currently held in the blockchain 'risk control'. I have to prepare a 'verification fee' of 20 per cent.
At this point. I was in full panic but still in denial of what is happening.
I prepared about half the amount and asked, could they give an exception for what I have? Nothing happened but they came back and advised it failed.
The next day I prepared more USDT, as much as I could in 1 day and I was still about 16 USDT short for this 'fee'.
I asked again, will this be OK. I said in advance I am short about 16 USDT. They said they will check for me.
To my shock. This time, the USDT moved from my wallet to the 'system balance' and then they told me that verification failed.
At this point I am in full panic. Cannot sleep, zero appetite.
The woman I talked with said she would loan me out about half the amount.
I moved all my remaining crypto assets into USDT to cover the rest.
This woman suddenly disappeared while I was waiting for her to send the remainder. I did not hear from her until the next day. Sadly, within a few hours my TrustWallet was EMPTY.
the scammers withdrew from my wallet and claimed that I requested the verification process when I did not.
Any time I try to contact support all they really say is this:
Hello! Dear user, we are doing this based on the requirements of our blockchain system. If you cannot complete the verification, your funds will always be in the blockchain. For the safety of your funds, please complete the verification in your wallet as soon as possible. Prepare the corresponding amount of USDT and contact us again for processing
At this point I have lost over 20k CAD.
almost half of the amount lost was my desperate attempt to follow their Ransom requests.
Please have some empathy - I know I'm an absolute moron.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I've almost come to terms with the fact this money will never be returned to me.
Please everyone. If it sounds too good to be true, it's too good to be true.
