TIFU by trusting a scammer
This is equal parts a vent post and a warning. I used to have the username ReputationLow5190. I’d been on Reddit for a couple years at the time and was enjoying it. Until I got a DM from another user (who I won’t name, I don’t hold them accountable) saying I tried to scam them and I needed to contact Reddit mod Brian Lee on Discord to sort things out. So I did.
What followed was a series of stupidly trusting decisions involving changing the email of my account so he could access it, and an exhausting and frankly red-flag-laden process of trying multiple banking apps just to wire this guy $20,000 through a fake account in the Philippines. All because this guy claimed to be a Reddit mod and that someone was using a copy of my account to scam other people. Only today did I finally listen to my gut and back out, but now I’m short $20,000 and I have no idea how to get my old account back. If I even can.
TL;DR, I let my social media addiction guide me into getting scammed for $20,000 by a fake Reddit mod. So if you hear the name Brian Lee in future, run.