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hey yall so im just going to start off by saying i am not cryptocurrency savvy nor do i generally deal in bitcoin, i was hoping to get some insight from folks who do. essentially, someone contacted me through a dating app telling me that they would e transfer me 1300 dollars and then i need to withdraw the money as cash, i can keep 100 dollars and the rest of the money must be deposited  as cash at a bitcoin atm and sent to a QR code they supplied, it has the shape of a scam, but i cant for the life of me think of how they would rob me, since they are literally supplying me with the cash to be deposited. can someone enlighten me as to if im getting hustled or of this is an easy hundred bones?

It's a scam. One thing they might do is "accidentally" send you a much higher amount of money they they originally mentioned. You would see the pending transaction in your account and assume that what they are saying is true. They'd ask you to send it back, and seeing that the transaction is in progress they're hoping you do, but in reality it was a bad transaction. They've tricked you into giving money to them, and their faulty transaction never goes through, leaving you out however much money you sent, and scammed.

Something defenately sounds fishy...
There are 2 things i can imagine: They're either giving you fake money, and hope the ATM will accept it and have your face on their CCTV footage, or they're using you to "clean" dirty money... If they got the money from a scam, drugsdealing, weapons trafficing, and a governement agency gets their hands on this money when the ATM owner brings it to the bank, they'll track the money back to your face on the ATM's CCTV video and they'll be banging down your door.

EDIT: nkampala's theory is more likely than mine :)

But anyway, the person that contacted you on that dating app already has the money in his/her account. If there was nothing fishy about the setup, and it was 100% clean money, they'd be much better off depositing it to an exchange right away, and exchange it from FIAT to BTC directly... Much cheaper, easyer, faster, less risk,... So the fact they're trying to setup something like this is either because they want to scam you, or because the money can be linked to illegal actions. Stay away...

From what I know, bank transfers are reversible (under certain conditions).
So the sender can claim he has made a mistake and ask for the money back.
In this case OP may lose the whole 1300$.

Or the sender has found somebody else's banking details (phishing?) and wants to get that money.
When the real owner of the bank account finds that out, OP may lose 1300$ and may spend some jail time.

Just two scenarios that came into my mind.


@Mocacino: I don't know if the exchanges are happy to get money deposits from account that is not no the same name as the user's. Also, in case of my second scenario, since the exchanges use KYC can redirect the police to the thief.

You just met someone on an online dating app and told you that he/she'll send you money for you to withdraw as cash.

From the time that he said that thing, be doubtful. I've heard of the same scheme before and on your part, trust no one that you met for the first time through online. The modus was explained clearly by nkampala.

it seems like you've already gotten many plausible replies and well in general don't trust strangers when it comes to money!
but, I'm curious to hear how you were approached in this 'dating app'?  ::) are you talking about crypto on your profile or are they just going around saying the same thing to as many people as possible(probably?)