u/Aggressive-Race-3139

I'm trying to understand what happened here, trying to understand wt... just happened here like seriously. I met a woman on bumble in florida couple months ago. It started normal enough then eventually she got into talking about crypto/investing stuff. I had never really used crypto before but she walked me through everything step by step and honestly it all seemed legit at the time

At first I made small profits which is probably why I trusted it more, eventually I moved a much bigger amount in and now suddenly withdrawals don't work anymore and communication got weird and vague.

I started checking the wallet activity myself and noticed the money didn't even stay in one place. Every time I sent funds, they started bouncing through multiple wallets almost immediately after

Looked super automated tbh like the money was being moved around on purpose within minutes and now I'm trying to figure out if this is normal scam behavior or if there's still a way to track where it went

So just trying to understand what my next step shall be at this point

I cannot believe I fell for this. Started chatting with a woman named Willow on telegram about three weeks ago in a crypto group. She posted screenshots of huge gains, her platform was making consistent 20 percent daily returns on some AI trading bot. She said she worked for a firm in Singapore, had real photos, and we did video calls as well where she showed me her office and dashboard live. We talked every day, built trust, shared personal stuff about work stress. She said she understood and wanted to help me build passive income.

Last week she sent me a link to sign up on their platform super professional site with charts and testimonials. she told me to start small, deposit 1,500 USDT on Crypto.com to test. I did, transferred it, watched it turn into gains quickly. Got excited, scaled up, sent more over two months for a total of around $400k. Gains showed up immediately. When I tried to withdraw $20k for proof, it said I needed to pay a 10 percent fee first ($40,000 USDT) to release funds. So I sent it thinking it was a verification step, no sooner as I sent the site went down, her telegram went silent, profile deleted, everything vanished.

Platform gone, just generic scam warnings now. Transferred from my main savings wiped out most of my retirement savings. Police said file a report but crypto transfers are near impossible to trace and the bank won’t help since it’s not a credit card. Feel so stupid. Thought I was smart finally beating the market.

I’m 55, and this was my very first experience with crypto. Looking back, I realize scammers use it precisely because people like me don’t know how it works behind the scenes.

I met someone on Bumble, invested in crypto… now funds are bouncing across wallets. Is this a scam pattern?