[US] TikTok guy got my friend to transfer large sum of money to another account. What to expect?
Sorry for the title, I couldn’t decide how to describe it without breaking the 120 Character title rule.
My good friend got into a scam on TikTok and I’m trying to find out what you all might know about this.. She’s a very sweet and trusting person and I wish she would’ve told me what she was up to, but she didn’t and now I’m worried for her and she’s very concerned herself. She told me about all this two days after she did what he asked.
— So there’s a guy that was messaging her on TikTok and gained her trust. Told her he was an owner of a gym and needed to buy new gym equipment. I’m sure you already know where this is going… So he claims to be from Italy, living in the US and he traveled to Turkey to purchase cheap gym equipment. Of course the guy starts having problems connecting to his bank in the US from Turkey. He needs her to log into his bank and transfer 200K for him. So he gave his login details to her and she actually logged in to his bank and transferred the money from his bank account to the account in Turkey. The “Bank” was a scam site with a weird name that didn’t show up in Google results. I can’t remember the name of it. She screenshotted everything. He then claimed he was stuck at his hotel in Turkey and couldn’t access any of his money. I’m sure his next message would’ve been asking her for her to transfer some of her personal money to him. Luckily I intervened before it got to that.
I’ve already explained to her in great detail that it was some sort of scam and to not trust people so easily, especially on TikTok. I’m just trying to figure out what type of scam it is and what she might expect to happen to her if anything.
I feel so bad for her because she’s very kindhearted and tries to see the best in people. She’s older and not savvy to all the scammers on social media and the tactics they use to gain trust. I’ve explained everything and she says she won’t fall for anything again. I helped her to block him completely. He had her on WhatsApp, TikTok and got her phone number by viewing her WhatsApp profile.