Lads, the amount of hoops I've had to jump through just to get to post this is unreal.
I've had to sign up to coinbase.com, verify my identity then take a crash course in bitcoin investment just to be able to buy the bitcoin to then pay for membership to this site.
Anyway, I had an unfortunate experience with a scammer, however, my bank was able, through the wonders of finance and tech (and a very understanding help person), to retrieve the funds. So, I decided to take roughly 1/2 of the money retrieved to register here and write a negative review to warn others and hopefully put this scamming cretin out of business.
So, the following profile is that of a deposit scammer, I have reported the profile to AW who have taken no action.
External Link/Members OnlyI don't know if they are of the actual scammer or are a stolen identity as a Google search returns a twitter/x link from 2012 of a fat girl kissing a bloke with a daft haircut. So it might be that someone is using their name and picture to scam people on AW.
How the scam works is that she will move the conversation to WhatsApp, then ask you to send a deposit.
She will then ask you to confirm on your AW account, then throw some weirdly unenthusiastic tantrum (see screenshot) making some weird claim that sending her an email on AW was not what she meant and would result in her account being banned.
Her account was not banned the following day, so I followed up saying this, she then said she was feeling unwell and would refund the money.
But she never did. So I can only deduce the whole thing was a deposit scam and nothing more.
She does have two (fake) positive feedbacks and one which I believe to be genuine claiming that she sent someone to a fellow punter's address to rob them.
Do not send any money, these fucks rely on blokes being too embarrassed to call up their bank and explain the situation.
However, if you do, and you can face the embarrassment, there is a chance your bank can do a "charge back" and retrieve your money for you.
The different banks cooperate with one another and if someone is using an account for fraud, they are pretty hot on that and aim to stamp it out.
But it is much easier and less embarrassing to not send any money in the first place.
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