Hendre, 40

I met him on JSwipe mid December, and quickly moved onto WhatsApp where he had an out-of-service- phone number. We had plans to meet after he was finished a ‘project’ at work in Montreal (moved for the work project from Georgia), he worked in cybersecurity… He has no social media and cannot be found online. He may not be a real person but I want his pictures on the internet.

He convinced me to learn to trade cryptocurrency online and helped me trade online and successfully obtain almost 40k CAD, currently locked in assets on an online trading website, now unsure if it’s legit or not…

He then got into a ‘car accident’ and ended up in the hospital… for every red flag he presented and I questioned him about, he was able to manipulate the response to make me feel heard and validated… It was expert manipulation.

After getting released from the hospital, he had a trip to the USA to visit family already planned… It would be another week until we meet. In the US, his uncle he went to visit got sick and passed away about a week later, so he was stuck in the US another week to close up some business before coming back to Canada. He asked me for 1k to close the rest of his business and come back, after almost a week of him love bombing me I caved in return for him to finally be home.

A month of an intense emotional relationship online with someone, full days of time spent getting to know me and vice versa. I gave him that final dollar amount as an educated risk and haven’t heard from him since…