Help! I’ve fallen for a scammer

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I contacted a large company on social media about a complaint and an account which looked identical to the company contacted me to DM them. I stupidly did - they called me and I gave them my name, email and phone number. They directed me to download an app, lemfi which i did (he said i was getting compensation through it) I went to create an account and verified my phone number then it clicked. I hung up, deleted the app and blocked the number. How much trouble am I in???

didn’t give any bank details….

It looks like LemFi is an app for transferring money, which is legitimate in itself, but who knows what tale they would have spun you, so well done for recognising it was a scam in time. The only other thing I would do is make sure that you are using two/multi factor authentication on your email account, because that's a good idea anyway. It is unlikely that they would use your email address and phone number to try and do anything more, but better safe than sorry.

Thank you. I feel like such an idiot falling for it.!!

I thought you had fallen for a love cheat abroad

Having rejoiced in being scam resistant (a bad thing to presume!) I almost fell for one - received email from a dear elderly friend saying he was trying to send a gift that very day via Amazon to a dear friend of a daughter recovering from cancer. The phrasing was right, he does have a daughter, he is highly generous but not au fait with computers. I'd loaded the order for £300 of gift vouchers and was about to press send when thank God something stopped me. Called him and poor man was being inundated with similar calls - his email and address list had been hacked. I have now made a rule not to respond to any requests that aren't made by phone voice. Interestingly I had a second email attempt for the same sort of thing from another friend's email saying "I would phone but have appalling sore throat".

Be wary of the phone voice too. I did an ai course recently and the instructor got ai to copy his voice. It was really convincing.

I nearly fell for a Revolut scam recently but thankfully hung up in time!

When you said ‘I fell for a scammer’ I thought you meant you had fallen in love with someone who scams people. So at least it’s not that!