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- Stop sending money immediately, including any “release fee” needed to recover what you already paid.
- Contact your bank or payment provider and ask about reversing the transaction. Speed matters.
- Keep every message, receipt, username and screenshot.
- Report it to your country’s cybercrime or consumer-protection authority. → What to do in the first 24 hours lists the channels.
Do not send passwords, full card numbers, or images of identity documents. We never publish your name, email or personal details, and we never contact a company on your behalf or attempt recovery — no legitimate organisation charges a fee to recover scammed money, and anyone offering to is running a second scam.