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I was involved in a romance scam probably about four or five months ago and it ended up getting me into like $45,000 worth of debt.

Oh no.

Sky, what happens? What do you mean? Was the person fake? Like it was like an internet thing?

Yeah. Yeah, it was an internet thing. So, I don't know, it was like over a course of several months, like nearly a year that I was catfish into believing this person was real.

And it was weird because like he would do face times me, and it seemed like the same person every time.

And it was like, it didn't seem fake to me, you know.

And to me, it was like we were setting up a life together and so I ended up spending most of my money to this guy.

And it's weird how it can happen to, like because I'm pretty I'm pretty young and I didn't

recognize this as being a normal scam so scat I don't want to yeah I don't want to bring up all this

pain but I do think you just said something that I agree with that this can happen to a lot of people

and without going into the entire detail of it,

what were you being asked to send money to him for? I'm just curious that people can hear this.

Like, what was he asking money for? Yeah. So it was more so like just to set up a life together. It wasn't really anything particularly,

like it didn't seem like anything crazy. It was like, oh, well, we should get a house

and we should get like things going. So you sent him money for a down payment on a home?

It wasn't necessarily that, but it was just like a collection of like things it wasn't just one specific i can i don't want to say like one specific thing

it was like a whole bunch of like little things that combined to be a lot of money you know

okay all right man i'm so sorry so sorry that happened to be a lot of money, you know.

Okay.

All right.

Man, I'm so sorry. So sorry that happened to you.

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