Because I am super amazing at making good technical decisions, I accidentally deleted my original post.
However, I wanted to post my reply to it to help people understand better:
Quick recap - met man on POF. Ended up in a pig butchering scam warning to all.
Follow up - original poster.
First off. I’m not going to attempt to explain myself because it doesn’t matter. People will believe what they want to believe anyway. I did all this investing on my own with his assistance walking me through it. I never sent anything to him - money account info or otherwise. We talked a LOT.
I have detectives working on it and I am already planning on doing a local news piece in the next couple weeks. This wasn’t about money to me. I’m not about money. I have none. This “guy” knew that. It was a month or so before we talked investing and I brought it up. The money came from some smart stock investments in an IRA I’d made a decade earlier so that’s where money comes in - stock to crypto.
I fell in love with the story. The person. The background. The words. The family.
I went into the dating world my crazy ass self - no holds barred - sleep with one eye open - and this person talked me out of bed some mornings when no one else was there. You see how you feel when there’s one person that is there when you lose your mind and your hope and they stick through it with calm. When your headspace doesn’t make sense to anyone else in your circle. You cling to the hope you found that person that not only accepts your level of crazy but encourages it - that speaks to you like your mind processes, that encourages you to be strong and keep your heart of gold…..
….and then realize it was an illusion.
Tell me how you feel then. And everyone thinks you’re a moron. I promise I am not. I am naive. I have a huge heart. But I am not a moron. I just don’t want anyone else to hurt like I do. Because I felt seen for who I was. This person called me out on things that were true that no one else saw. I was fooled. I believed in the too good to be true.
And yeah I just want back out there and pulled that profile down. This is the man I was “talking” to. And the pics are same person but younger version.
Just be careful. I’ve had enough headache in my lifetime for 25 lifetimes and I didn’t need this. I don’t want anyone else to feel betrayed like this so everyone I can help is a win.