Lauryn (@opallauryn on TikTok) was engaged, but she recently found out that her fiancé cheated on her, and then lost all of their money in the process of trying to cover up what he had done.
Lauryn packed up her belongings as she said this all started on a Wednesday night, and her fiancé had just come home from a work trip, so they had a date together at a market down the street from their house.
Lauryn admits they had been experiencing a rough patch in their relationship since buying their house last year, so it was pretty wonderful to have one normal day together. But little did she know that the normalcy would not last long at all.
After arriving back home, Lauryn went to bed at 9 or 10 since she had to get up early for work the next morning. At approximately 1 a.m., Lauryn’s fiancé shook her awake to let her know he was packing her things in a bag and booking her a flight to get out of Chicago.
Lauryn was completely confused, and her fiancé threw his phone in her face and showed her photos of men with bodies who were threatening to come get them.
Lauryn knew this was some kind of strange extortion scam, but what she didn’t know at the time was that her fiancé had spent the last hour giving these people all of their money since he was positive this was a credible threat.
“Why? Because he actually had been doing things behind my back that he wanted to hide,” Lauryn explained in her video.
“So, I wake up, and I’m getting all of this information in real time, right, I’m getting the information that not only is our savings and all our wedding money gone, but that [he] has been talking to other women online behind my back, and that he was thoughtless enough and careless enough that he put his information online in a way where a scammer could get it.”
Lauryn spent the whole next day going to the FBI and the police, along with her fiancé. She was eerily calm, as she was in crisis mode, while her fiancé was panicking hard.
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She wishes there had been more room for her to lose it on her fiancé. Anyway, Lauryn and her fiancé were supposed to have been giving their wedding vendors deposits, as their wedding was set to happen in October.
Since her fiancé had sent all of their money to the scammers, she realized the wedding was going to come to a screeching halt, as they had nothing left to pay their vendors.
Later in the day, Lauryn did some investigating of her own and learned that that particular scam had hit a whole town of people living in Texas, who responded by sending photos of their own firearms to the scammers.
So, that did make her laugh, briefly, and now she’s in the middle of putting all of her stuff in boxes so she can move back to Texas, which is where she’s from. She is no longer engaged, and the anger is starting to set in.
“I am still protecting his reputation even though he didn’t care to protect mine. And at the end of the day, I lost a lot more than he did,” Lauryn continued.
“So, I don’t feel bad for sharing what I went through, because that is one of the most traumatic days of my life, and that is saying a lot ’cause I’ve been through a lot of really traumatic days.”
By Bre Avery Zacharski
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