I Wasn’t Deceived by Greed — I Was Deceived by Believing in “Trust.”
Looking back at the entire pig-butchering scam, I finally understood this:
This was not an investment scam.
It was a meticulously engineered psychological war.
He didn’t appear as a sudden stranger.
He was carefully positioned, step by step, to become
“someone who just happened to enter my life.”
At first, there was only a reasonable excuse to add my contact.
Then he subtly misled me into believing we were in the same field,
from the same world.
Language, culture, background — all deliberately calibrated to feel
familiar,
so I lowered my guard without realizing it.
He didn’t rush to talk about money.
Instead, he talked about understanding, empathy, companionship.
He made me feel:
“This person isn’t here to take anything from me.
He’s on my side.”
He presented himself as a multimillionaire —
financially independent, asking for nothing,
“just wanting to help.”
And precisely because he appeared not to need my money,
I believed his advice was sincere.
When I suggested meeting in person,
there was always a reasonable reason it couldn’t happen — yet.
Not rejection, just postponement.
Hope was kept alive.
Doubt was quietly suppressed.
The real control began at the technical level.
He framed “step-by-step screenshot tutorials” as kindness,
but in reality, they stripped away my ability to think independently.
When I couldn’t complete the 2FA verification,
he naturally “helped” —
taking my email and passcode in the process.
In that moment,
I didn’t just hand over an account.
I handed over sovereignty.
He told me to download wallets, platforms, and apps.
The logos looked familiar,
but the differences were hidden in the details:
letter casing, subtle inconsistencies,
interfaces that looked perfect — but weren’t real.
Fake Kikitrade Logo Real Kikitrade Site
(With SUNGLASS) (NO SUNGLASS)
(SPELLING-WITH 2 CAPITAL LETTER-K&T) (SPELLING- ONLY ONE CAPITAL LETTER-K)
Notes:
The scammer helped me download Kiki trade by telling me to use the https://keyburst.com link.
He created a logo that resembled Kiki trade, which was close enough to fool me at a glance. He only added yellow sunglasses to the logo.
I thought I was trading.
In reality, I was being guided —
moving money from wire → Coinbase → crypto → wallet →
straight into the scammer’s wallet.
The profits displayed on the platform were all fake.
They existed only to let me see hope,
so I would stay.
I wasn’t scammed because I was stupid.
I was scammed because I believed
“someone was standing on my side.”
And that
is the cruelest part of pig-butchering scams.
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