How I got scammed in a Ponzi scheme

Being scammed is one of the most common orders of the day in this generation. You can hardly go a week without hearing one scenario of someone getting scammed. I've been mostly conscious of my activities, but then I got scammed last year. Although personally, I didn't feel much pain because I knew what I was walking into, I guess the motive of joining is what I needed to correct.

It all began in January 2022, when I met an old friend of mine. We spoke at length, and then we asked each other about the various opportunities we knew that could aid extra income. I told him about hive and all that it entailed, but he didn't seem impressed given the fact that I told him hive wasn't a get-rich-quick scheme, and the reason for his unimpressed reaction can't be far-fetched.

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As of then, he was in a Ponzi scheme that goes by the name 86FB or 86W; it's more like a website that you invest into, and in return, they give you sure-fixed football matches that you can bet on and earn from on their website. Given the fact that he joined, invested, and even referred people to the scheme, his earnings were enormous, and he sees no reason why he'll write content and hope to get votes on it when he can easily click a few buttons and money will flood in.

After he told me about it, I vetted it and told him it was just a Ponzi scheme that would soon crash, but he waved it off. The only mistake I made after he kept peddling me to join was that I gave in because I told him if I join, he'll also join hive, but in the long run I was the only one who joined and invested ₦3500, while he couldn't join hive due to a bad network, such as IP address is low shown on ecency interface, and other means weren't working either.

It was roughly three weeks after I joined that the website started acting weird, many couldn't withdraw any longer, the developer told everyone to calm down or simply invest more into the scheme so they can easily withdraw their funds, and they claimed the reason why people are unable to withdraw is because there are too many withdrawal orders being filled and that's why the system couldn't load.

There were many who still fell for that and invested more, but by the end of that week, the website had folded off and no one could access their funds again. Many people lost money—millions, thousands, and much more—and it led to a situation where almost everyone was attacking the person who referred them, claiming they both conspired to steal their investment. The guy who invited me there wanted to beg me about my loss, but I told him not to worry because I knew it was a lost cause from the beginning.

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I'll also like to add this experience I had with a scammer just last month on Binance. I wanted to withdraw some cash from Binance, and the features we can use as Nigerians are in the P2P section, so after doing everything and selecting the trader who ought to send me the fund, instead of sending me a sum of ₦23,551, he sent me ₦235.51. Had I not taken a thorough look at the amount received, I would have received my crypto from him without knowing the actual amount.

Immediately I let him know how unpleased I was by his act, and rather than apologies, he was abusing me. That drags on until he later sends the actual amount. I believe lots of people can learn from this and make sure to check for every single comma and full stop in the amount of funds sent to them before releasing their crypto assets, because once you do, it can't be recovered again.

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That was about all on my experience with a scammer; I hope you had a good read and learned something that would help you not become a victim of scammers via my experience. The article was inspired by  Inuke writing prompt in the IndiaUnited Community, and you can check out his post to get more information.

NB: I make use of Quillbot grammar checker features to help correct some of my grammatical and punctuation errors after writing my content by myself.

Thanks for your time, have a blessed day ahead.