Yep, this scam is pretty great. They play the reeeaallly long game, pretending to be a real person for weeks sometimes before mentioning they make 200k a day or whatever trading either bitcoin or usd. The first time I encountered it I was actually surprised because they spend so much time being normal first. I’m a trader already so I wasn’t even close to falling for it, but someone with less experience could very easily be sucked in I reckon.
I know it’s sad, but it’s become a bit of a hobby to start talking to multiples of these scammers now and wait for them to reveal their hand and then string them along for a while and see what they do. You can always pick them on dating profiles: Hong Kong, pictures will always be professional shots, or selfies in the front seat of a car for some reason.
Please don’t fall for it, but please do waste their time (and occasionally infuriate them) by asking dumb questions etc. The more they talk to you, the less they are feeding little Johnny out of his life savings.