Online friend turned out to be a scammer

Anonymous | 26 Jan 2023

Internet Love Scam

I received a friend request on Instagram from username jeffrey_1991830, and accepted out of curiosity. This guy introduced himself as Lin Yu, who came from China few months ago and claimed to own a company here, have a person assistant, 2 cars in sg and resides in south beach tower. He was a smooth talker, tried to constantly initiate small chats and profess his interest in me right on the first day we met online. Eventually, we continued our conversation on WhatsApp and he led me into downloading this cryptocurrency app called mew wallet and instructed me to invest $500 for the beginning but i refused. To gain my trust, he went ahead and transferred the $500 credit from his account to mine, asking me to contact the platform cs to withdraw new user bonus rewards, which i was then being led to chat with cs on Telegram. I was told to fill in some bank account details to receive the money but i refused to do so. Somehow, i managed to get him to fill his bank details and the details was for byron ng ee xuan, which totally doesn't match the name that he has told me. He gave excuses that it was his new identity in SG, hence was different from his Chinese birth name. I was constantly being pressured to get involve in the crypto wallet, whenever i refuse he would turn outrage and kept saying that he's hurt as i don't trust him.
I requested to meet up but he will give excuses that he's busy with work. In the end, i put it straight that i do not want to be involved in the crypto investment, he flared and stopped messaging me.

No money loss, ladies pls be vigilant and don't fall into such scam.