I Fell For An Investment Scam: Here’s How They Got Me

‘Nana’ lost more than S$64,000 to a pig-butchering scam - a mash-up of romance and investment schemes run by Asia-based online scam syndicates. Their victims include a significant number of Mandarin speakers. (Are you the victim of a scam? Email us with your story: cnainsider@mediacorp.com.sg)

It started when she posted a TikTok video of her dog. A man who claimed to be a widower and business owner from China left a comment, and they started to converse over WhatsApp, He’d send her photos of his investments, and claimed he got insider information from his uncle who worked at a cryptocurrency exchange. She asked him how she could learn to invest.

In retrospect, Nana said she trusted him because he seemed well-off and ran his own company. She refused to believe it was a scam even when her husband tried to convince her otherwise. The impact on her family was devastating.

Here’s what she wants you to know.

00:00 诈骗份子如何赢得我的信任 How he gained my trust
02:43 他如何让我开始投资 How he got me to invest
06:29 这起诈骗如何撕裂我的家庭 How this tore my family apart
08:28 为何当时的我执迷不悟 Why did I not realise it’s a scam?
10:32 我从这次诈骗学到的教训 What I’ve learnt

娜娜是一名「杀猪盘」的受害者——一桩由亚洲诈骗集团发展出的线上诈骗案，结合了爱情与投资话术，向其受害者诈取金钱的手法之一。

整起诈骗案从娜娜的一则Tiktok影音贴文开始，一名自称是鳏夫、育有一子的诈骗份子，在娜娜的影片留言。两人交谈一周后，便交换WhatsApp号码开始聊天。

诈骗份子总在言谈间，假装不经意地分享他”正在研读美国经济走势”及“金融投资“相关等照片，并声称自己有一位在虚拟货币交易所工作多年的叔叔，会定期泄漏交易的内线消息给他。不久后，对投资非常感兴趣的娜娜，开始向他请教投资的秘诀。

娜娜相信，他贵为陶瓷公司的总裁，应该不至于会骗她这么一点小钱吧?

自始至终，娜娜深陷其中，即使她的老公和家人再三劝说，她也不愿意相信，自己高额投资的虚拟货币项目，竟然沦为一起诈骗案。

今天，娜娜希望透过分享自己的故事，帮助提高社会大众对诈骗手法的警觉性。

For help wherever you are, contact:
Global Anti-Scam Organization https://www.globalantiscam.org/contact
Global Anti-Scam Alliance https://www.gasa.org/contact-4

If you're in Singapore:
For scam-related advice, call the anti-scam hotline 1800 722 6688 or go to www.scamalert.sg.
To provide information on scams, call the police hotline 1800 255 0000, or submit online at www.police.gov.sg/iwitness.

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