Nick, let’s face reality. Scammers are not lazy stupid people sitting on a floor someplace, they are multi-billion dollar criminal cartels operating around the world. Romance scams earn more than the GDP of most countries, and you think they can’t fake a video? Even simple techniques can fake videos enough to convince MOST male victims – you are no exception. Your problem is your hostility towards people that are trying to help you overcome mistaken beliefs in this. Typically, in most video chats – they use adult video stars because they can steal abundant videos- and there is almost always some audio problems with these so-called live videos, so they have to type or chat while you see the video or the voice is out of sync, but newer tech makes it possible to adjust the face to match the words spoken – even TikTok can do that. However, they also have ample stolen credit cards and could very well have done webcam sessions with some of these women when they were working to make it easy to use. It is not our job to convince you that you are mistaken, just to present the facts. It is up to you to accept OUR 30 years’ experience in the subject matter. The problem, more than anything is that you cannot accept what is real here, you need them to be the scammers, when in fact you were scammed by teams of scammers each time, that took over at different stages – mostly men but sometimes possibly women behind the screen. If you cannot accept this, it will only increase the trauma you experienced. We strongly recommend that you contact a local trauma counselor to help you through your beliefs. Here is a link to a directory for trauma counselors and therapists. You appear to be in denial and trapped in your anger. We are a formal nonprofit and a partner to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for online crime victims’ assistance. We can tell you for a FACT that there are no investigations nor criminal charges for these women, who have never been involved in scamming. All you are doing is defaming other victims. If you can finally accept this, then you may be able to recover from this, if not then we cannot help you, and we do not tolerate the abuse of other victims. Relationship scams are terrible on their victims, they induce serious trauma and break people, especially men. Focus on your own mental health and stop trying to prove you are right, you are not. You are the victim of expert manipulation. Accept that. Contact a counselor. The only shame in asking for help is not asking for it.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/trauma-and-ptsd