I was scammed on Friday, March 13th.
I was scammed on Friday, March 13th. Where I live in Brazil has area code 16, and my lawyer in a civil case has area code 62, meaning she's from the state of Goiás, possibly the capital Goiânia. I found a WhatsApp profile with the same logo "photo" as the lawyer and the same area code. They contacted me saying I had won the case, but they said the judge wanted to confirm some information about me and that I should follow his instructions... When the supposed judge contacted me, after I had to wait about 30 minutes to speak with him, he asked me to check if the money had already been deposited into my Banco do Brasil account. It was an old account and I didn't remember the password. So we went to Itaú, where there was a balance. Then he sent me a link and asked me to copy and paste it into PIX (Brazilian instant payment system), which I did. Then it went to Nubank, where I only had 40 reais. He didn't touch it. When he asked me to check my mother's account, I said, "Not my mother's accounts, this is my case, what does she have to do with this?" Then they hung up and blocked me. And at Itaú, the link was a PIX key with an embedded value of 2097.01. I only had 340 reais left, but I have 5,000 in Selic and 8,000 in IPCA in the Tesouro Direto (Brazilian Treasury Direct). I felt bad that day, and a little better the next, but psychologically I'm dealing well with the situation; I prefer to leave it behind and let it serve as a learning experience.