Title says it all. I’m extremely disappointed in myself. I feel like such a moron. I know I’m a very smart person, and it pains me to admit this, but I’m just baffled that I’ve fallen for the same thing so many times to lose this much money. I’m only 22, and have already lost over $3000 on internet scams. Early last year, I put up a toy wrestling ring on Facebook marketplace and some guy reached out wanting to buy it. They he sent me a fake screenshot of him sending me the money through Zelle, then when I didn’t receive anything, he said that was because “my Zelle wasn’t a business account and needs to be upgraded. He then said he was asked by Zelle to send an additional $300 and I would be credited $500. He then asked me to refund him the $300 )which I never received, can’t believe I was so stupid do actually do it.) This continued until I ended up sending him a total of $1100. I filed a police report the next day but they told me since I sent the money, there was pretty much nothing I could do. Sounds like I should’ve learned my lesson, right?

I’m a very lonely guy, never had a real gf, so I was looking at escorts to fill that void of affection and female touch that I’ve lacked for so long. Every time I contact one of them, they always ask for half of the payment in advance, then when I do that, request another payment for “safety concerns.” Then, when I do that (I know I’m stupid already for paying both of those), they need ANOTHER payment for “life insurance.” Then, they send me to email their “manager” who starts threatening me saying if I don’t send them more money, they won’t hesitate to have me arrested. This has happened to me at least 4 times, with me never getting to see these “girls” face to face ever, and just wasting money for no reason at all. I don’t really care too much about money, but it makes me so angry with myself that I’m blinded by my loneliness that I end up giving these scammers the benefit of the doubt that they might be real and sending these fake people so much money so many times only to be scammed every single time. A few weeks ago I got scammed by this camgirl I met on tinder. She kept pretending like she lived close to me, and wanted to go on a date, but only if I spent $60 to watch her cam show. I did this, and after that she never replied to me again. This last time it happened was on Saturday, with this “girl” even sending me her address on Snapchat and I was waiting outside “her house” for an hour and half while we were texting back and forth cause she wanted to see me ID.me account to make sure I wasn’t “a killer or rapist.” Then after I was dumb enough ti send her $750, she told me to email her manager who like I said earlier, threatened to have me arrested if I didn’t send more money. Went straight home after that. What’s even worse, is that almost every match I get on tinder or Plentyoffish is one of these escort scammers. It depresses me that this is all I’m getting is fake escorts trying to suck all of my money out of me, and I can’t find a real girlfriend to save my life.

Yeah, I didn’t know where I was going with this. I’m just extremely disappointed in myself for how many times I’ve fallen for this. I’ve learned my lesson now and I guess I’ll just have to deal with the fact that I’m single and am not going to get a girlfriend unless I go out and put myself out there in person. I guess this is part of being an adult, you live and you learn from your mistakes (even if you’ve made the same stupid expensive mistake multiple times.)