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?
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...