Scammed
hey yall! i apologize for the long one
idk what tf do i do in this situation. i got scammed at work yesterday and i feel so stupid for falling for this scam when i’m already down when it comes to money. (i’ll make another post about this)
at the same time, i’m like lowkey not worried? like the feeling of have zero dollars in my bank isn’t stressing me out. the embarrassment feels bigger than the stress, like i feel like God / the Universe has my back, if that makes sense.
a customer came in telling me a sob story (this is gonna be a fake story for privacy reasons) about his house being broken into and all his cards and id were stolen. he tried going to the bank but since him and his wife (who has dementia and lives in malaysia) have a joint bank account, and she needs to be there in person to get a new one.
he proceeded to tell me that it was her 50th birthday and he needed someone to buy him a dress for her birthday and he would transfer to whoever did it with a little extra.
i did in fact pay for it (i can’t get a chargeback cos i was the one that paid 😃) he showed a picture of the transfer with my details in it. the number i sent my bank details to was fake. i know this because he spam called me from a different number (4 times in the span of two minutes) telling me that he “forgot to ask for a receipt and for me to send it to his email (idk why i did it)
it didn’t register to me because i have been saying money affirmations and i thought they were working in real time 😭😭😭😭 like God forbid i help someone out yk ? i’m like is this how trust issues start???
i found out that not even an hour after it passed, the guy went to another store and told another sob story to one of the girls 😭 because they canceled the transaction and gave him cash. the policy for refunds is that the money has to go to the card that was used for the original receipt (the usual policy everywhere)
i wanna blast his ass everywhere but i’m waiting from the all clear from the police lol
i’m trying to figure out what i’m supposed to learn in this situation. obviously i need to not be trusting of others but aside from that i’m confused??? cos i was trying to hear what my intuition was saying but i legit heard crickets 😭