How I Lost My Mum's Savings To A Scam

Last year, MMM came up in Nigeria and so many people ran to it, but, we know how it turned out.

Black November!!!

It was supposed to give people 30% income every month but at some point like other ponzi schemes, it crashed.
Well, around November, I tried to look for different means of online investments, it all seemed promising. Whenever I saw any new site, I would verify by starting with little amounts of bitcoin ($1, $3).
It was during this online-ponzi-related time that I found out about chinacorp-bank.com

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Like every other ponzi, they offered higher percentages with higher investments.
This should have meant 'higher risks' to me but I felt that after successful payouts with small amounts the big one would pay too.

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When I think about this, I feel so terrible and naive.
My Mum usually kept yearly savings, this time, she was saving to buy a car, her car of over 6years was crying and coughing everyday for a retirement. Since the money she has wasn't complete yet, we decided to put in over 500,000 Naira in MMM and although we didn't lose everything, we lost some and I had been trying everything to make it back for her.

Because, it was all her money!!! 😔

I opted in for the Plan 3, where I was supposed to make 950% profit after a day with $400. $400 was worth 200,000 Naira and I was supposed to make $3,800, that would have been a whopping 1.9 million Naira!!!

It would have gotten my Mum a beautiful car 😢

The emails below shows how it all went through. I was supposed to withdraw by 7pm, 1st November, 2016 but that withdrawal never happened.
I almost had a heart attack that night.

I went to church that evening, so my withdrawal attempt was just after the service, on my way home.

The scammers even lied that they had sent it to a bitcoin address. They sent me a fake transaction ID which showed a different amount (Of course). They even claimed that I was hacked
With each email, I knew that it was all a fluke.
And it broke me

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At a point, I felt that a threat on online-shaming would get them to budge but they also tried to form legit and they claimed that they would involve the FBI but it was all fluke.

At the end of it all, I never got my money. I didn't even do the online-bashing/the media-shaming, I knew it wasn't worth it.
It took me time to finally accept it and it took more time to tell my Mum but, that was the last of our get-quick-rich schemes.

My Mum still hasn't changed her car.
The car still gives her so many problems and each time she told me about it during our regular calls while I was in school it hurt like hell me.
Now, I'm home and I see the troubles, I even drove it on an errand and it's all written all over it.
One of my short-term dreams is to get her a car ASAP, even if it's a $6,000 car, I'll get it.

I feel kinda mushy now, 😢 so I'll end with this picture of me and my Momma.

I love you Mum

So, that's my high-return scam story, as initiated by @swissclive and I hope I win.