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But no seriously I feel like I’m in literal hell right now. F u Shopify for terminating all vape stores. How tf is anyone supposed to use this shit. Took me 1 day to set up my Shopify store. 6 years, NO Changes to the site and 100k+ orders. Migrated to because I had no choice and everyone recommended WooCommerce. Paying a Dev to migrate the site. log in, Jesus Christ I must be in hell right now.

I promise this crash out is justified with everything I’ve gone through this week.

F U Shopify! Bastards

I’m looking to hire an experienced Woocommerce developer to migrate my Shopify E-commerce store to Wordpress/WooCommerce.

-The Shopify store has around 20 products

-I need the new to store to look very close to the old store.

-migrate products, categories, customers, and order history.

-Preserve SEO as much as possible (URL/301 redirects)

- We have a payment processor with Authorize.net and will need help setting up on new site.

-Set up shipping/ taxes

-Make sure the site is mobile friendly and easy to manage.

-MUST have experience with E-commerce stores not just Wordpress site design.

-Our website is a vape business, so knowledge with this is a plus but not required.

If you are interested in this job, The website must be ready for customers within a week. Communication is very important. Please be fluent in English.

Please do not message me if you have never migrated a e-commerce store or are new at this. I need someone with knowledge on how to do this. Please no messages with unrelated issues. Send a portfolio of your work if you have one, please.

We can discuss the price of the project in DM’s. Ive been quoted all kinds of prices and we can determine what a fair price is hourly or for the whole project. It will depend on experience. If you have a portfolio please send it.

$35/hr

I matched with a Russian-speaking woman on Tinder. She claimed she lived in Miami, worked in marketing for a company, and had been in the U.S. for about three years. She’s 28 years old. Her location on Tinder said she was near me. She told me that she was in my city because her work sent her here and that she would be returning in about a month to finish.

She spoke only Russian, no English, which I thought was strange, but I speak Russian, so it wasn’t an issue. I’ve been looking for a Russian-speaking friend because there’s only Americans where I live, so I got excited about it. I also own a business. I get a lot of matches on dating apps and have no issues getting dates with good-looking women. However, she was not unrealistic. She was not a supermodel, and I would put her as an average girl with a corporate job living in a big city.

We started talking, and she asked to move to WhatsApp. (For Russians, it’s not a red flag because I talk to my family on WhatsApp, and even my mom sometimes.) She told me how she has a sister and family in Russia and that she used to live in Paris, France. She sent me voice messages.

I got busy and ghosted her for 2 days because I wasn’t really into her, and she started calling me 3 times a day and got really pushy. She said, “If you don’t want to talk, just say so. Stop wasting my time.” I said, “We just started talking. People have busy lives.”

After this, it got more serious. Good morning/goodnight texts. She would send me photos of her going out, food, outfits. However, the texts became surface level, and she seemed like she was always busy at work. She would disappear for 4 hours before the goodnight text.

The whole time, I did feel something was off about her, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. I thought that dating culture between Russians and Americans is different, and that would explain it.

I reverse searched all her pictures, even the ones from the restaurant (no hits), searched her company profiles, socials, and phone number, and dissected her whole story. I asked her what date she was coming to my city, and she didn’t give me a date. She said she would ask her “boss,” though she never answered the question.

We texted for a week and did a couple quick phone calls. She then video-called me out of the blue. It’s HER, and she’s a real person. She’s wearing a businesswoman suit, same voice, it’s not a deepfake or AI. Though her background didn’t look like Miami. It was a wooden panel that reminded me of Europe or post-Soviet Russia.

I started talking about Miami because I’ve been there many times, and my mom goes there a lot. We talked about real estate and buying a house. She talked about how she doesn’t want to be tied down to one place at the moment.

She then asks me if I invest. I say I watch and read about investing a lot. She then starts talking about stock investing and how her sister’s husband has been trading stocks for 10 years and gives her signals and tells her how to invest.

I said, “Good for you.” I told her I don’t invest in individual stocks anymore, and she asks me why. She seemed to try and convince me why it’s a good idea. We talked for 30 minutes, and for 20 minutes it was about stocks.

I asked her, “Are you trying to get me to buy stocks or something?” And she seemed thrown off by the comment and said, “No.”

After the call, I was so shaded out by the conversation. I knew I had seen this online somewhere. I watch scam bait videos on YouTube. I googled “Russian girl Tinder stock scam,” and the script is almost the same in every single one of these.

It’s a pig-butchering scam, and the whole time I felt something was off. I deep-dived into her story and realized some of it doesn’t really hold up, like her company having zero footprint in my city and even in Miami. I asked her about it, and she responded in the most vague way possible. She changed parts of her story. She works in marketing, but now she does logistics? And when I told her I was skeptical, she pulled back and doesn’t message me nearly as much anymore.

Part of me honestly wants her to admit she’s a scammer, but I’ve been ignoring her for 3 days now.

I have never in my life seen a scam this intricate. People have tried to scam me for years, and I usually spot it immediately. The obvious Tinder bots and fake dating app profiles are easy to recognize. But THIS felt real. She had me genuinely questioning myself for an entire week. I always thought pig-butchering scams were mostly fake luxury profiles run by random guys pretending to be attractive women online. This was completely different.

I’m pretty sure this Russian-girl pig-butchering operation is being run either out of Miami or somewhere in Europe using real women, real profiles, and treating it like a full-time job. It’s possible they get commissions for every person they pull in. The way she talked to me almost felt like I was a “client” instead of someone she was romantically interested in. Most of our conversations happened during working hours, too. She didn’t come across like some terrified trafficked victim reading from a script. She honestly came across more like a salesperson slowly trying to guide me into investing, even though we never got that far.

These scams are getting better by the day. Even though I never actually sent money or fell for the investment side of it, she definitely had me emotionally hooked for a few days, which honestly surprised me. That’s the part that stuck with me the most.

I’m posting this because I want people to understand that modern scams are not always obvious anymore. Sometimes it’s a real person, real voice, real video calls, real conversations, and still a fake situation underneath it all. If even one person reads this and avoids getting manipulated into sending money, then it was worth posting.

I matched with a Russian-speaking woman on Tinder. She claimed she lived in Miami, worked in marketing for a company, and had been in the U.S. for about three years. She’s 28 years old. Her location on Tinder said she was near me. She told me that she was in my city because her work sent her here and that she would be returning in about a month to finish.

She spoke only Russian, no English, which I thought was strange, but I speak Russian, so it wasn’t an issue. I’ve been looking for a Russian-speaking friend because there’s only Americans where I live, so I got excited about it. I also own a business. I get a lot of matches on dating apps and have no issues getting dates with good-looking women. However, she was not unrealistic. She was not a supermodel, and I would put her as an average girl with a corporate job living in a big city.

We started talking, and she asked to move to WhatsApp. (For Russians, it’s not a red flag because I talk to my family on WhatsApp, and even my mom sometimes.) She told me how she has a sister and family in Russia and that she used to live in Paris, France. She sent me voice messages.

I got busy and ghosted her for 2 days because I wasn’t really into her, and she started calling me 3 times a day and got really pushy. She said, “If you don’t want to talk, just say so. Stop wasting my time.” I said, “We just started talking. People have busy lives.”

After this, it got more serious. Good morning/goodnight texts. She would send me photos of her going out, food, outfits. However, the texts became surface level, and she seemed like she was always busy at work. She would disappear for 4 hours before the goodnight text.

The whole time, I did feel something was off about her, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. I thought that dating culture between Russians and Americans is different, and that would explain it.

I reverse searched all her pictures, even the ones from the restaurant (no hits), searched her company profiles, socials, and phone number, and dissected her whole story. I asked her what date she was coming to my city, and she didn’t give me a date. She said she would ask her “boss,” though she never answered the question.

We texted for a week and did a couple quick phone calls. She then video-called me out of the blue. It’s HER, and she’s a real person. She’s wearing a businesswoman suit, same voice, it’s not a deepfake or AI. Though her background didn’t look like Miami. It was a wooden panel that reminded me of Europe or post-Soviet Russia.

I started talking about Miami because I’ve been there many times, and my mom goes there a lot. We talked about real estate and buying a house. She talked about how she doesn’t want to be tied down to one place at the moment.

She then asks me if I invest. I say I watch and read about investing a lot. She then starts talking about stock investing and how her sister’s husband has been trading stocks for 10 years and gives her signals and tells her how to invest.

I said, “Good for you.” I told her I don’t invest in individual stocks anymore, and she asks me why. She seemed to try and convince me why it’s a good idea. We talked for 30 minutes, and for 20 minutes it was about stocks.

I asked her, “Are you trying to get me to buy stocks or something?” And she seemed thrown off by the comment and said, “No.”

After the call, I was so shaded out by the conversation. I knew I had seen this online somewhere. I watch scam bait videos on YouTube. I googled “Russian girl Tinder stock scam,” and the script is almost the same in every single one of these.

It’s a pig-butchering scam, and the whole time I felt something was off. I deep-dived into her story and realized some of it doesn’t really hold up, like her company having zero footprint in my city and even in Miami. I asked her about it, and she responded in the most vague way possible. She changed parts of her story. She works in marketing, but now she does logistics? And when I told her I was skeptical, she pulled back and doesn’t message me nearly as much anymore.

Part of me honestly wants her to admit she’s a scammer, but I’ve been ignoring her for 3 days now.

I have never in my life seen a scam this intricate. People have tried to scam me for years, and I usually spot it immediately. The obvious Tinder bots and fake dating app profiles are easy to recognize. But THIS felt real. She had me genuinely questioning myself for an entire week. I always thought pig-butchering scams were mostly fake luxury profiles run by random guys pretending to be attractive women online. This was completely different.

I’m pretty sure this Russian-girl pig-butchering operation is being run either out of Miami or somewhere in Europe using real women, real profiles, and treating it like a full-time job. It’s possible they get commissions for every person they pull in. The way she talked to me almost felt like I was a “client” instead of someone she was romantically interested in. Most of our conversations happened during working hours, too. She didn’t come across like some terrified trafficked victim reading from a script. She honestly came across more like a salesperson slowly trying to guide me into investing, even though we never got that far.

These scams are getting better by the day. Even though I never actually sent money or fell for the investment side of it, she definitely had me emotionally hooked for a few days, which honestly surprised me. That’s the part that stuck with me the most.

I’m posting this because I want people to understand that modern scams are not always obvious anymore. Sometimes it’s a real person, real voice, real video calls, real conversations, and still a fake situation underneath it all. If even one person reads this and avoids getting manipulated into sending money, then it was worth posting.

And if any scam-bait YouTuber or channel is interested in digging into this further or trying to expose the operation, I’d honestly be willing to help.

How many more times are they going to raise them? Absolutely ridiculous