{"id":20763,"date":"2022-10-04T16:51:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T23:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialcatfish.com\/scamfish\/?p=20763"},"modified":"2022-10-05T06:38:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T13:38:00","slug":"romance-scammed-from-a-secret-base-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialcatfish.com\/scamfish\/romance-scammed-from-a-secret-base-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Romance Scammed From a Secret Base in Mexico?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michelle was scammed out of thousands of dollars over the course of a couple of years. Her life seemed to be spiraling. Her mother died, and soon after, her daughter died too. This left her in a vulnerable state. Then one day, she was contacted by a man on Facebook who said that he was looking for friends, and he thought Michelle was beautiful. This is when all of the problems started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tristan told her that he needed money, and all of his family died, and she was the only one who can help her. so every week, she would send him money, and when that wasn&#8217;t enough, he asked for outrageous favors like her social security number and more. Michelle has health problems, one of the major problems is she lives with HIV. Tristan still accepted her for it, and so she felt she couldn&#8217;t abandon him in his time of need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tristan started asking for even more favors. He claimed that his friends were sending him money, but he couldn&#8217;t receive it, so he asked if he could send her the money instead, and have her wire it for her. He asked her to open up bank accounts for him in her name. She soon had her Cashapp account shut down,  along with her bank accounts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michelle&#8217;s landlord began to get suspicious about the person Michelle was spending so much time talking to, and when she started asking her friends to go to bitcoin ATMs for her, she knew something wasn&#8217;t right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She reached out to <a href=\"http:\/\/socialcatfish.com\">socialcatfish.com<\/a> to get answers. She was afraid that the information that Michelle was giving out to scammers online could put her and the rest of the people in her household in danger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the Social Catfish team looked into the case, we found numerous pieces of information that didn&#8217;t add up. When we talked to Michelle, it became clear that the person who she was talking to was <em>not<\/em> the person in the photos. We traced the location of the scammer, and it came back to Nigeria. We were even able to give Michelle closure by allowing her to meet the man in the photos. <\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-to-avoid-being-romance-scammed\">How to Avoid Being Romance Scammed<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Romance scams are rising at an alarming rate. Because the truth is, telling whether or not someone is a romance scammer can be difficult. There are so many ways for internet scammers to disguise and deceive, but, socialcatfish.com gives to the tools to take control of your situation. 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