I have no experience with crypto. My ex owes me a large sum of money, and he’s based in a country outside the U.S., so says he can’t just do a wire transfer or anything. He says he wants to pay me back with bitcoin through his company on a “mainnet wallet”. His supposed accountant said that I must deposit $5,000 total into it to have a “sufficient balance” for him to send me what my ex owes me. I have already sent $2k to this “shared wallet” I’m embarrassed to say. When he tried to send it then, the transfer didn’t go through, and he sent me a screenshot of the supposed transaction. It said “insufficient balance from receiver.” The screenshot of the transaction looked very legit, and I would post it here but it has my full name on it. Anyway, now the accountant is saying $3k more is needed. He claims the $2k is not actually gone from me, it’s still “on trade”, and I still have it.

Experienced crypto folks of Reddit, can you please explain what is going on? I’m skeptical of being told I have to send bitcoin in order to receive bitcoin….

Edit to add: Please don’t heap judgment on me….I am confused because I’m still good friends with my ex and it’s hard to believe he would hurt me.

Second edit: One thing I noticed on their screenshot is that the fee they had to pay for the transfer to me was an exact, round number….Wouldn’t it be some random number with change?

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