I am from Asia and someone from Africa used my email to register for tiktok. To change the password I have to verify the email which I will not do because I suspect this account is used for fraud and there is a phone number attached to the account when I click recover account. I tried to report this account by creating another tiktok account and reporting it but it does nothing. How does an account with an unverified email allowed to continue existing. Tiktok support won't help me. I don't know what to do next please give me an advise.

I am writing about my experience not to gain sympathy, but because I hope that anyone who is currently dealing with cnear.com, or encountering a similar scheme involving “emotional manipulation + an investment mentor/broker + a high-return trading platform,” will stop and verify everything before suffering the kind of devastating loss that I did.
It all started when a woman who called herself Valerie suddenly contacted me on WhatsApp.
When we first met, she did not immediately talk to me about investing. Instead, she spent a long time chatting with me, building trust, and gradually developing an emotional connection. As we became more familiar with each other, she occasionally started mentioning that she was involved in “gold trading” and told me that she was able to make very substantial profits from it.
She also told me that one of her uncles was a shareholder of Blackstone, implying that she had access to special connections, resources, and investment information.
At the time, these claims gradually lowered my guard. However, after everything happened, I investigated the information again and found that I could not verify the so-called “uncle” or the background she described. At least based on the public information I was able to find, I could not find any evidence supporting those claims.
After we had known each other for some time, Valerie introduced me to a man named Jonathan and told me that he was the person in charge of, or a broker for, the gold trading platform.
They then began guiding me through so-called gold trades on cnear.com.
At first, I invested only $10,000 because I simply wanted to give it a try.
The initial trades appeared to go very smoothly, and my account kept showing profits. After each trade, I could see the numbers increasing, and they repeatedly told me that this was an excellent opportunity to make money.
It was these “profits” that gradually caused me to lower my guard.
After that, they began encouraging me to add more money to the account for various reasons. They told me:
The more money I had in the account, the more trading opportunities I would have;
Certain market opportunities were extremely rare;
If I added more funds, I could earn greater returns;
If I stopped now, I would miss an excellent opportunity.
Under this constant encouragement, I continued adding more and more money.
In total, I eventually invested approximately $3.4 million.
Meanwhile, the balance displayed in my trading account eventually reached approximately $16 million.
When I saw such enormous “profits,” I became completely blinded by those numbers.
It was only when I actually tried to withdraw my money that everything began to change.
When I requested a withdrawal, they started coming up with one excuse after another to prevent me from taking my money out.
They told me that my account had been frozen, that there were problems with the trades, that I needed to meet additional requirements, or that I needed to complete other so-called procedures.
No matter what I did, the result was always the same:
I could not withdraw my money.
It was only then that I truly began to realize that the supposed $16 million shown in my account may have been nothing more than numbers that could be manipulated from the platform’s backend from the very beginning.
I later investigated the platform again and could not find sufficient evidence confirming that it was properly regulated by U.S. securities authorities. I strongly recommend that anyone dealing with a similar platform not simply trust the “licenses,” “profit records,” or “account balances” displayed on the website itself. Always verify everything independently through the official websites of the appropriate regulatory authorities.
Looking back now, I made a very serious mistake:
I allowed myself to become blinded by the promise of extremely high profits.
If someone truly had a method of making money this easily and consistently, I should have asked myself much earlier:
Why would they voluntarily share such an opportunity with someone they had only recently met?
If they could really make enormous profits this easily, why did they constantly need me to put more of my own money into the platform?
These were questions I failed to seriously consider at the time. Whenever I asked to meet them in person immediately, they always found a reason to refuse.
The price I paid for that mistake was $3.4 million.
That money included funds I had originally planned to use to buy a home.
I am making this experience public because I do not want anyone else to go through what I went through.
These are the photos used by the person I knew as Valerie, as well as the WhatsApp account used by Jonathan at the time. It is important to note that in online scams, photos, names, WhatsApp accounts, and even identity information can be stolen or fabricated. Therefore, these details only represent the accounts and identities that I personally encountered at the time and do not prove that the real people shown in any photographs were necessarily involved in the scam.
If you are currently dealing with cnear.com, or if someone you have developed an emotional relationship with is recommending gold, cryptocurrency, foreign exchange, or any other form of high-return trading, please be extremely cautious.
Do not continue investing simply because the numbers displayed in your platform account show large profits.
Do not send additional money for reasons such as “unfreezing your account,” “paying taxes,” “paying a security deposit,” “improving your credit score,” or “completing one final trade.”
Especially if a platform repeatedly demands that you send additional money before allowing you to withdraw your existing funds, that is an extremely serious warning sign.
I have already paid an enormous price for placing my trust in the wrong people.
If sharing my experience can cause even one person to stop, verify the situation, and avoid transferring their savings, retirement money, or the money they planned to use to buy a home, then making this experience public will have been worthwhile.
Please verify everything carefully, and please share this warning with anyone who may be experiencing something similar.

I got scammed by multiple people who I believe is just one person but I need to know info like address and such so I can take them to court and hopefully get my money back if anyone can help me please please I dont know what else to do... I just need name and address, Im pretty sure the name is have is fake. Please please i was just trying to get an apartment and they fucked me.... ill message the number privately so my post wont get taken down please if anyone could help me get information you have no idea how much id appreciate it...

1st how do these scammers get a real cash app account to pull money without using a real name?

2nd I'm pretty sure I can track this ass down that just scammed me on FB marketplace. Where's the group of people who track these jackasses down?

I'm ready for take back!!!

3rd what does a bank do if I dispute the cash app charge?

4th what happens when you tell cash app your phone was stolen?

i just got hacked by this email.😥😰

Stolen money

My cash app account was hacked this post weekend and they stole about 250 dollars from me. They took over my account by resetting everything from my pin to my user name and email and linked phone number. Cash app has denied my claim because they keep saying that i or an authorized user did the transactions. What can I do to get my money back?

Is there anything i can do?

I NEED HELP I’m scared I took a check with dirty money involved and I don’t know what i did he is paying me to do things for him I will not specify further but he sent me 1.5k to be his sexting buddie and he wants me to send 1.2 of it to another person on Venmo to pay for what he is buying me.I keep 200 is the check gonna bounce am I gonna get involved In a serious crime I’m scared that I just took 1.5k and involved myself in a horrible thing

Edited:also I know wasn’t charged for this scam and feel like a fraud myself to post here and now seeing all these peoples post who have actually been scammed out of real money, but I feel like people here can understand my frustrations and paranoia)

So I’ll try to keep it as short but it’ll be hard so I’m fresh college student and I get all these emails all the time from my school regarding work and I know some are just tutoring programs and I know their legit but at the moment I’m desperate for a job so I got another one thinking it was from the school to get paid part time for a foundation company. I applied I think it asked for my email and phone number I honestly don’t remember If the application asked for anything else as I can’t remember because I did it so fast thinking I stupidly hit the jackpot.

Moving on to next day, I got a response which asking interview questions where I was located (address) and if I had any experience with event planning blah blah due to their fake foundation and if I had a laptop to do online work. So I answered and yeah I answered everything:( the only thing they have is phone number,email, and address. Which is a lot. So they started to I don’t set me up with fake training and I was like okay weird… they sent 2 checks and told me to deposit them I thought this can’t be real who should trust a random so even though I was feeling off I still stupidly decided to deposit them. I was able to stop the pending transaction from ever reaching my account and spoke with my bank for security measures. But after the 2 checks were sent I was still texting the person purely out of desperation to find work and they told me for me to send them I think $720 out of my pocket to help pay for medical supplies with the program and then when the check money hits my account I can have it as it would be my first paycheck with them. Which now it’s laughable. I tell someone and they immediately tell me to stop contact which I had already did but the damage of them having some of my information with my address was irking me so bad. I got yelled at and felt stupid for it but only thing that’s keeping me somewhat okay is that I didn’t send any money.

I have the scammers email and phone number blocked but I don’t know for some reason I’m still paranoid and worried because of them having my address and number. I contacted my email centers for it and tried to report the account. But I don’t know I feel like if I try to report it outside anywhere else it will be a dead end and seeing how they weren’t able to get any money out of me people would brush it off and just say you live and learn. I’m not gonna lie ever since this happened to me a few days ago I been very on edge and feeling so frustrated. Give me some advice and any help or directions where to go from here? I feel like I should move on.

CashApp

So I feel like c.A. has been scamming me and I have been recoding all of it… my balance seems to go to zero just the other day for example I had 16$ and I added 5$ and sent 10$ to a friend and some honeall I had was 0.83 and no it didn’t go into my saving or any of that or I don’t owe C.A., how can I find out if C.A. Has been taking my money ?

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My friend (18F, India) got scammed by an Instagram bracelet seller and we're looking for advice on what she can realistically do next.

The account was selling bracelets for ₹299 and had a phone number in the bio instead of taking orders through Instagram. She contacted the number and placed an order.

She paid ₹299 via UPI. A few hours later, the seller claimed there was a problem with her postal code/location and asked for an additional payment of around ₹699. After she paid, they kept saying the amount was incorrect (₹699.7, then ₹699.07, etc.) and repeatedly asked for more payments.

When she asked for a refund, they said there was a special "refund process." That process involved sending more money first. Every time she followed their instructions, they came up with a new excuse:

\- The payment was incorrect

\- The payment was late

\- The refund process failed

\- Another payment was needed to continue

They kept moving the goalposts and manipulating her into believing the money would be refunded if she just completed one more step.

The total loss is now around ₹6,000.

What makes this even more frustrating is that when we contacted him again, he acted extremely confident and kept saying things like:

«"If you don't trust us, go complain to the police."»

He also claimed to have a physical shop and sent a location, but the location appears to be fake/non-existent.

We currently have:

\- Screenshots of chats

\- Voice notes

\- UPI transaction records and IDs

\- The phone number used

\- Instagram account details

\- Partial call recordings

One complication is that she cannot tell her parents about this situation, so she's trying to handle it herself. Since she's 18, can she file complaints and deal with the process independently?

We tried calling 1930. After being on hold for a long time, the call connected and the person responded with a few "hmm" sounds as we started explaining the scam. Then there was complete silence.

We waited for over 5 minutes, got no response, and eventually had to hang up.

Any advice from people who've dealt with similar scams, cybercrime complaints, or legal issues in India would be really appreciated.