by OleDude » Thu Jan 20, 2022 2:19 pm
Hello gents.
I was scammed approximately 3 months ago. I'm for the most part passed all of this, but I've never told anyone and I feel as part of a full recovery process I'd like to just tell my story to get it out, so I can move on more than anything. If I've put anything in the wrong thread I apologize.
I found this site a month afterwards and reading the admins replies whenever I felt bad pushed me thru. In fact I screenshotted their replies on many posts so I could just pull them up. Yes, I read all the whatif thread, and this one among anything else.
Okay, so admittedly my case never seemed as serious. Like many I was on a site and saw a profile. It was almost like bait...it just had a kik username to contact. So I did. In the back of my mind I knew it was a scam, so I created the kik just for it with a fake name. They didn't respond for a week but then popped up asked me to get on Skype, I couldn't, then disappeared. Then they replied a week after that, we chatted more, they asked my name and I gave them a completely different fake name (lol) and for a picture (I was only shirtless). Anyway, they got me on skype filmed nude and even got me to turn around show all my backside too. Of course the playback popped up with the threat and I didn't engage at all, as soon as I saw myself I ended the chat, deleted the skype, deleted the kik.(Wish I would've seen this site before) I've never heard a word since. I'm not worried about them I know they're gone, there's no one to even contact they never had anyone to contact. I have one social media and deactivated it for a month, set the Google alerts, etc. Never anything.
The weird thing initially it didn't bother me, only like a month later I started with the whatif process and found myself doing what all do, googling everything, scowering porn sites, typing in infinite key words. You see I was never concerned about them sending anything to anyone in particular, I just got this idea in my head that when they finished they'd just upload it to some porn site just to do it before they deleted it. I know, I know, "the video" thought. I know they get rid of them, I've just created this idea that mine took so long in between the initial responses that they were just some solo part time guy or something and had time. I dunno. I know I know, what would be the point? Why would they create a porn account each time to upload a video or if they did this all the time they couldn't have a porn account full of blackmail videos.
But here are a couple questions I suppose.
Are They typically working in many "fishing holes" at once to why the initial responses were drawn out? Or since it was like a week between each one: from their first response, to the intial attempt to get me on skype, to getting me on; are they on like shifts in some of these circles or something?
Also- in my initial video there was like a logo in the top corner. That looked like words written in semen or something, lol. Are you familiar with this, I don't remember what it said but I figured it was some part of the scare tactic of the scam. It was never a concern I'm just curious.
Anyway, thank you all. It felt good to just type it out. You helped tremendously. Move thread if needed or whatever and if you have any response thanks. I'll look for that, but otherwise, if nothing I'm done. I knew the scammer was gone and couldn't find me, I just was nonsensically hanging myself up.