I was sitting in a telegram group for this ICO called FLiK, I really liked the channel, everyone in it was pretty active and had high hopes for the coin. I kind of invested in it blindly, to be honest with you, I didn’t even read the whitepaper.
But I saw posts and people talking about T.I being behind the project or something. So, I thought to myself, that’s pretty cool. If he makes some posts online this token will probably moon hard. He never did, but that’s not the point here.
In the telegram chat, there was a guy talking about some kind of pay-to-see group that supposedly had access to crypto industry news before anyone else. I thought it was kind of stupid, but apparently groups like that do exist. Additionally, people have made money with them. So, I decided to join it. The fee was 1 Litecoin, and the guy showed me some screenshots that made it believable.
I said okay, and he added me into a chat with another person and said that he was an admin of that group and whatnot. Okay, I sent them the Litecoin and they told me to wait for a few minutes. The guy who pulled me into this scam actually called me right after I sent him the Litecoin and told me that I was gonna get an email soon with some additional information.
Alright, I got up off my computer to go make a sandwich.
Come back to my laptop later to see that the chat with those two guys is gone, they blocked me. I started going nuts in the other group chat where I first met the scammer. He already got banned at that point.
I think I lost like $50, not so much, but still annoying.