Suddenly, my wife has stopped responding to scams. This happened just as suddenly as it started. Unfortunately, during the time she was responding to the scams and sending money we lost about $120,000. (This amount is my estimate: to this day she refuses to tell me the actual amount.) But now, I am facing a psychological problem that I never anticipated. Earlier, my goal was to get her to stop responding to the scams and sending money; I thought that if I could just get her to stop doing that, I'd feel a lot better; all my energies were directed toward that. Well, she stopped, and I feel better to some extent, but now we owe lots and lots of money to pay back the loans, cash advances, etc., that she took in order to send the scammers money. Everyday we get phone calls from banks and financial institutuions, asking to talk to either me or my wife. I thought we were done with the scams, but now we have to pay back all the money that she borrowed in order to send it to them. I feel really stupid supplying all this money. Like I'm a scam victim too -- although I was the one who was against it all from the very first scam email! :(
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