Collected Item: “Getting scammed over $5000 overseas.”
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Getting scammed over $5000 overseas.
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It was late at night, around 2-3 AM. I was staying up because I didn’t have school due to the pandemic. I was browsing on a trading website called Alibaba. It is where manufactures around the world sell their products to other traders to resell. I was just browsing anything that came to my mind and i thought of searching a car i have wanted for a long time. I searched up a Mercedes G63. Apparently these people had their car inventory in Greece but they first ship the vehicle to somewhere else before shipping it to me. I was so manipulated to think I was getting something too good to be true. I bank transferred $2000 then $3000 overseas. This was the biggest mistake of my life but one to learn from.
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California High School, American Studies, San Francisco Bay Area, sensory history, San Ramon Valley Unified School District
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William Chen
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2020-11-09