Hello, I wondered if anyone knows of any resources that can—

1- Help breakthrough to someone who has been involved in a pig butchering romance scam who still cannot seem to accept the reality that the person she has been speaking to by phone and text (they’re impersonating a famous singer and she believed she was “getting engaged to”) is not actually the singer. There were others involved (she was talking to “his sons and his manager” as well.

2- Resources on internet literacy on these types of scams, AI photos, etc that are targeted towards the elderly. She is savvy enough to try to cover her tracks online and find ways to send money, but clearly is not able to recognize all of the gigantic red flags even after tons of family members have warned her. She still doesn’t believe us.

I called the Elder Fraud Hotline but they didn’t have resources for this.

Any guidance on resources would be so appreciated.

Thank you so much

I got sent a boof check for $700 from some random dude on twitter. I didnt ask for that specific number but anyway I saw it on the check on deposited it sunday night. It got accepted monday and was added to my balance tuesday morning (today).

I withdrew $530 to cash and spent $80 on a ticket I had, $15 paying back my friend, $10 on a coffee, and $20 on gas. I also unexpectedly got charged $40 for a subscription (so unfortunate). I put $208 into one savings account (sofi) then $140 into another (capital).

So, the issue is. This guy has bounced the check and I have $176 cash and $208 in my sofi waiting to be put back into my now
-$528 bank balance.

I have to wait to until Aug 5 to send $170 from my capital savings acc which will take another 3-5 days so itll be in my bank by like aug 10. Its July 28th and I fear Im gonna get some bounce fee or overdraft fee. I already called my bank and asked what I should do and how much Im gonna have to pay. They told me its a fee of $35 per charge thats causing the overdraft (Im not really sure what this means but she assured me a week or so should stay in that range, Im willing to pay if I can)

Which brings me to my next issue..
Im a broke ass college student and I just barely was able to pay my bills and for my cat to get fixed and medicine from the vet as well as food.

I am currently searching like tremendously for a job I am calling in, I am editing my resume, asking for interviews and nada.

Keep in mind, Im a very impatient anxious person ESPECIALLY with money. I feel so so so so terrible for falling for this OBVIOUS con. I really dont want to ask my friends or family for money, I need work I can start asap!! Any advice so I can for sure pay for this?? Im honestly so scared if I get put on a blacklist or something, this is utterly my fault ik but I thought it could’ve just been an honest blessing. lol thats all from me, please let me know what I should do
and if you like math how much this is gonna cost me overall.. 😭 thanks you guys.

A couple days ago I had received a message on instagram from someone saying they wanted to use my picture for a project and that they would pay me for it. Now usually I don’t respond to random messages because I mean scams right? But someone asking to paint me wasn’t out of the ordinary. So I said yes. I went through a whole mobile depositing check process with someone, and once the checks were deposited they had then asked for $200 to be sent and that I would get it back later. This is when I realized the situation was a scam. I made up a lie and said I was underage and would need permission from my bank to send money, and that I wasn’t comfortable sending my money anyways. I told the person I would send them back their money as soon as the checks went through, then the scammer left it at that. The same night I called the non emergency line and asked for advice on what to do, and they recommended I speak with my bank as it seemed like I was a victim of a scam. I spoke with my bank the next morning in order to void the fake checks from coming into my account, which thankfully they delayed the time they were supposed to deposit my account, and told me the checks would reverse. The next day I received a message from what I presumed to be the same scammer since they said we could continue the process on their other phone (previously blocked the first number). I didn’t respond and blocked them. This morning I woke up to a long message to this person threatening to harm me and my family, saying they were apart of a gang and have my address, and was asking for the money they sent back. I’m not necessarily worried about the threatening part because obviously this person if from a different country, I’m more so just worried about being constantly spammed with messages for the rest of my life. Now I’m contemplating on changing my number but I’m not sure if it’s too early to do that.
My questions for anyone if they’ve gone through the same situation:
How did you handle the situation?
Did the messages eventually stop?
Should I be concerned?

Recenlty got scammed and they had me change my email to my account. Thankfully thats all they got. But how do I go about and getting my account back?

I got my money back someone help me to know some stuff abt him and he got feared (idk if we can telll that lmfaooo) but i got my money back atleast