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Scammed out of my college tuition

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My name is Alonso Medina. I am 18 years old and a full time student at Centennial College. On October 15th, I got a call from someone who said they were from the Canadian Revenue Agency. The person told me someone had stolen my SIN card and opened 15 credit card accounts under my name. At this point I suspected this was a scam but he asked me to give him the phone number of the nearest police department, so I did. He put me on hold and supposedly talked to them. After a bit, he took me off hold and told me the police department would be contacting me. I waited a few minutes, then I received a call from the exact same number of the police department that I had given him, so I started to believe this was real. I talked to the “police officer” and he confirmed that 15 credit card accounts had been opened under my name and told me to tell the other guy who first called me to open a Bitcoin account because my bank account would close and all my money would be lost. After the officer hung up, I got back on the call with the scammer and I told him what the police officer told me. He said “OK, first thing you gotta do is go to your nearest bank to withdraw your money”. He also told me to not hang up and to not tell anyone about this ongoing “investigation”. So I stayed on the line with him and called an Uber to the nearest bank. After I withdrew my money, he told me to go to the nearest Bitcoin ATM and sent me a QR code to scan for the deposit. I called another Uber and went to the gas station he suggested. I walked into the gas station, and on the ATM machine there was a sign warning that if someone had sent me on the phone to this machine, it was a scammer. I started doubting myself again whether or not to insert the money. Then I remembered that a police officer from my nearest police station had called me about this, so I ended up inserting all my money into the ATM. Once that was done, he told me to insert another $11,000 as a security deposit and that’s the moment I realized I had been scammed and that all my money was gone. I hung up and called my parents, gave them no explanation [he was freaking out] and asked them to pick me up from my residence. I called an Uber to take me to my residence and while I was in the Uber I kept on getting called by the same scammer guy. I tried to block the number but it kept going through. Once I got back, I called the police about this and they told me an officer would call me back to file a report on the same day or the day after. 

It's been 3 days and no one has called me yet. This money ($6000) was supposed to pay for my college tuition for next semester and for rent.

Thank you in advance for any help you can give.

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Alonso Medina
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Milton, ON

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