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In November of 2022, I became a victim of a romance scam after I finally realized that the 3 authorized wire transfers I made from 11/07/2022 to 11/10/2022 were under (seemingly) serious threats or by seemingly persuasive reasons by a potential scammer (or scammers) claiming to be from a shipping company, whose information on the Internet is extremely low, or little to none based on a simple Google search. I live alone and independently, and I usually never seek any online dating opportunities, until I had this one chance…. Or, so it seemed. So here’s the story, which is similar to the many stories I’ve seen and heard via https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2014/12/package-delivery-scam-delivered-your-inbox and the Social Catfish YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@CatfishedOnline): On 10/25/2022, I received a Facebook friend request from a young woman (or so claiming to be) who was vaguely familiar to me or who I may have seen or met at a party or event, as I frequent social gatherings where I meet people in-person. Her Facebook profile name is Marchand Christelle (also known as Ayaan Farida). Her Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/marchand.christelle.96 (which apparently may no longer exist). She called herself simply Farida. Out of the vague familiarity, I accepted her friend request, and that was when she was striking (apparently polite) conversations with me daily and around the clock by asking all kinds of questions (none of them explicit, but rather in a casual and friendly manner), as if she’s looking for a friend to contact or chat with. I don’t think I’ve ever met her in-person. When I viewed her Facebook profile, it seemed as if she works in healthcare, although her profile seemed disorganized or incomplete. Given the nature of the conversations during the first week, she seemed to be a decent person. First, she would talk normally, then those conversations turned into friendlier tones, followed by romantic tones, as if she was in-love with me. Initially I did not buy the latter tone or gesture, until shortly after, when I began to reciprocate those feelings for her. These are kinds of gestures I usually don’t get nor ever expect from others, especially from females I really do not know. To summarize, she appeared to be giving me the type of care and attention no one else has ever given me. A few days later after accepting her FB friend request and after several seemingly nonstop, daylong conversations, she asked me for my WhatsApp number, which I gave, and then she apparently requested (or demanded) to have our (amicable and romantic) conversations continued via WhatsApp. A few times, I requested her to schedule a video or audio call with me, but she would constantly decline those requests and make some excuses. Days later and after more of these conversations, she claimed that she was visiting Turkey for a business trip and was, at one point a day or two later, robbed, with her financial and other information and documents stolen (including her US Passport) and cell phone broken during the struggle. Interestingly, the robbers did not grab her phone, even if it was broken, or maybe they tried to. I found the cell phone portion of the robbery story to be kind of odd. Soon after that, she claimed that her employer is giving her some kind of valuable gift to parcel to me in the US as she could not handle it on her own while still in Turkey, given the alleged risks. She also said after I receive that package in my Irving, Texas home, she will come visit me to retrieve it. She also claimed that the package contains various materials as well as some money. Initially, I declined her request many times, but I was somehow pressured to give in after she made some seemingly persuasive demands, and because I was so smitten by her, unaware at that point that she was actually starting to scam me. I was forced to (naively) give her my full name, physical address, and phone number, which would turn out to be a big mistake! The name of the courier she used was Fast Cargo Hub (https://fastcargohub.org), which sounded like a very questionable or seemingly illegitimate shipping company, given the many sketchy information, non-working links, and other inconsistencies (e.g. address, contact info, etc.) on their website. In fact, their website does not show an email address that says info@fastcargohub.org, whose emails I’ve received last year, until they later stopped. When I recently visited this website, it apparently no longer exists, or it was taken down or removed. The first email the phony courier sent to me landed in my Junk folder, and they gave me a tracking number with a link to their alleged shipping company. The tracking details seemed genuine, and it included my name, address and phone number. When the company emailed me the second time, on 11/07/2022, they demanded me to pay $5,520.00 for some shipping or customs release fee so that the (supposed) package she sent from Turkey can be delivered to my place safely. This was the point where the scammer or scammers started asking me for money. She also told me if I pay this amount, she will pay me back, but she never did! I naively paid that amount using the wire transfer info (routing and account numbers) they provided, under the name and account numbers of Maira Bokosa (screenshot enclosed). This was a second attempt to pay them, as the first attempt to a different name and routing number failed. Hence, they gave me a different routing and account number with a different name of some beneficiary, which is Maira Bokosa. The displayed name of Maira Bokosa was allegedly one of the package agents (or maybe Ayaan Farida’s actual name or one of her accomplices, given that most romance scammers have been traced to West Africa and they operate as criminal syndicates). What happened next would leave me extremely disappointed, devastated, and almost bankrupt; and would be a major life lesson for me: The following morning, on 11/09/2022, they sent me an email demanding me to pay a clearance fee of $9,680.00, also under the same name and wire transfer info. That was also naively paid for by me, because they claimed that the (supposed) package or parcel contained a huge sum of money and they (falsely) accused me of some money laundering scheme (which I did not do because I only wire-transferred only my years of hard-earned money from my bank account to the scammer or scammers and never received anything from the scammer or scammers, electronically or otherwise as I never gave them any of my banking information). The transactions were only through wire transfers, and thankfully never through bitcoin, gift cards, cryptocurrency, etc. I know money laundering is a serious felony with serious legal consequences, though at that time of this incident I had no idea how exactly money laundering is conducted. Out of that fear and believing that I might have committed a crime (which I did not but is rather an orchestration by the scammers to force me into making these payments) or maybe this was used as any other threat by the scammers, I made that payment also via wire transfer. Even if more than 3.5 years have passed since this incident, no one has ever come to arrest me yet, even if they now have my full name and current address. Maybe this threat of arrest indicated a threat against my life. Who knows? To summarize, I am exclusively an unsuspecting and unwitting victim of this crime who was hypnotized, manipulated, lured and conned; nothing else. I never received any money from these fraudsters, digitally or otherwise. In fact, I never gave them any of my banking information, be it routing or account numbers. Only my own many-years-of-hard-earned-and-honest-money was extorted or taken away by them through their cleverness and manipulation. This pretty much includes my retirement and life savings. Then the next day, they demanded me to pay another $8,500.00 for another clearance fee, also under the name of Maira Bokosa and the same wire transfer info. That was when my bank, Wells Fargo, contacted me because they detected some unusual activity involving my account. Because I was still feeling threatened, confused and terrified, I was forced to authorize or authenticate these transactions with my bank, just to keep myself out of trouble and danger from the scammers’ seemingly serious threats (screenshots enclosed). Hence, because of their seemingly threatening messages and other pertinent factors, I lost (or was extorted out of) a total of $23,700, excluding the wire transfer service fees of $30 each. I don't believe any delivery service will just up and e-mail you for a package. I mostly think that there is a note on your front door or in your mailbox that you take to the post office, UPS, or FedEx for pickup if they could not leave the package at your home. All the email messages to me from this suspicious courier (Fast Cargo Hub) seemed unprofessional and orchestrated, with some spelling and several grammatical errors, as if they are written in broken English or in English as a second language. The agent names of this phony packaging company mentioned in those email messages are apparently similar to aliases or people who do not exist (e.g., John Lee). Moreover, the governmental documents they fabricated (likely via Photoshop) and sent to me are also fake (even if they initially seemed convincing to me), and you will also notice some inconsistencies therein. All these inconsistencies or discrepancies serve as red flags! Forging governmental documents is a crime, just like impersonating a law enforcement officer, and those scammers should be punished for those as well. A few times, the scammer changed her WhatsApp phone numbers, claiming that her WhatsApp was acting up repeatedly. On 11/12/2022, after having some doubts and finally learning that I was romance-scammed (and learning about these stories and trends for the very first time) based on some internet research I performed, I confronted her via Facebook messenger about her true intentions, how she betrayed me, how she lied to me, and what she has done to me, but she kept denying all these allegations and kept making these money requests (this is what these scammers typically do when you confront them with these allegations), yet my suspicions were now high at this point. I then blocked her last WhatsApp number and all her other channels, and whenever I blocked them, I also reported them to the respective social media admins (via the “report and block” option), although the reportings did not seem to make any difference. She then changed her WhatsApp number for the fourth time after she noticed that I blocked her. I soon blocked that new (seemingly foreign) number as well. This was when I experienced some sense of relief, but my financial difficulties were just beginning. I even immediately filed a claim with my bank (Wells Fargo), but they were unable to reverse all these transactions as the money was already gone (and the transactions had been authorized by me, only before I realized that I fell victim to this confidence trick)! I was now left with only around $2,000 to $2,500 in my overall budget or bank account. They could have rendered me bankrupt or homeless! It could have been worse! On the morning of July 1, 2024, a Facebook user by the name of Ayaan Farida, allegedly this same girl who scammed me with the same profile pic but with a new Facebook page she created (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559358850140&mibextid=LQQJ4d), responded to one of my recent posts, much to my surprise. That is when I had the opportunity to confront her for the third or fourth time by privately messaging her via Facebook Messenger. I asked her whether she was the same girl who scammed me, and I kept asking her questions on why she did this to me and all that, and she would keep responding to me and messaging me almost nonstop. This time, she claimed she was sorry for what she did, which I did not believe, and claimed that she will pay me back the money she defrauded me of, though she kept denying that she defrauded or scammed me and blamed it all on customs regarding the (fake) package she tried to send me. She also claimed that she was not after my money but was trying to form a love relationship with me, which I did not buy. So she kept asking me for my banking and credit card info, which I refused to give her, thinking that she will scam me again or even implicate me in something. At one point, while I was working, she tried to call me via Facebook, but I could not answer due to work. Instead, I also suggested to her to record her voice a few times using the enclosed voice recorder, which she agreed to, and, although it was a female voice, it was not consistent with the girl in the Facebook profile photos. Rather, she apparently had a West African accent. After listening to a few of her voice message samples, I also suggested a few times to do a video chat, which she again refused. I later blocked her completely. I also refused her offer to switch to another app, known as Signal Private Messenger (so that she could not be traced). More red flags here. After she saw that I blocked her Facebook profile, she tried to reach me again via Facebook Messenger using her other Facebook page of https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100085651383392&mibextid=LQQJ4d, which I also blocked and reported to Facebook admin, who again could not do anything. On February 27, 2025, feeling motivated further to report this crime to you, I visited Facebook and searched for the name “Ayaan Farida”, whose new or spare profile exists via URL https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565555002980. When I viewed each of the photos and performed a search with Google Lens, it led me to an Instagram page of https://www.instagram.com/yashika_diary/, and the photos the scammer or scammers used belong likely to Yashika Tripathi, who appears to be a physician residing in England (https://www.linkedin.com/in/yashika-tripathi-06658b1a5/?originalSubdomain=uk). Therefore, this development further convinced me that I have been targeted by an impostor or romance scammer and all these tactics were orchestrated, meaning they were all fear and other tactics they used to make me send them my years of precious, hard-earned money! With several of these red flags and inconsistencies considered, this is most likely the work of scammers or hackers. I need my $23,700 back!! And these scammers must be punished! I already reported and blocked all these scammer’s numbers and profiles. The 2 WhatsApp numbers she used were 1-804-563-1997 and 1-424-577-6455, which may be VOIP numbers. Out of extreme embarrassment, shock, confusion, and fear, I could not immediately report this to any law enforcement agencies (until I was finally able to report this to the FBI IC3 Unit on 3/8/2024 and now to you), so it’s now been more than 3.5 years since this scam occurred. Once I found out that I was romance-scammed and the threats were most likely fake, I immediately contacted my bank to file these claims in hopes of getting my money back, but they were not able to do anything, and all the money was gone. Then I tried to report this to the Federal Trade Commission, but they apparently were not able to take or approve my report. I also notified Social Catfish, still no luck. Although the threats the scammers fashioned were fake, the fear and apprehension were real! I have not yet notified any of my family members or friends about this, also out of extreme embarrassment and fear. In fact, I don’t want any of them to know about this; ever! I live only by myself. I don’t want my name or face to be revealed at all, which I hope you understand. There were no other witnesses. For now, please see whether you can track this person’s location and let me know what you are able to find and where my money went. This person may have an accomplice or two, or he or she may be victimizing other people in a similar way. So please do everything you can to track these scammers down. They are most likely residing in West Africa or Nigeria. Such incidents are trending or skyrocketing lately! I am not the only victim of this. There are many other such victims out there! If you genuinely or really love or admire someone, why would you want to treat that person like this, take advantage of that person, betray that person, or put that person in these complex situations?

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