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I met someone that “Raymond” contacted through Tinder. He encouraged them to move the conversation over to WhatsApp, and they developed a relationship. At some point, he began talking about their future together. He can help me to invest in forex trading. He convinced me to send $1,000 to the site, and then create an account on a forex trading site at www.wuic0.com. At first, I sent $100 and another $100. After a few trades, he instructed me to invest $1,000 on June 25 from the Cash app on June 25 and to withdraw $1,100 on July 8, which I successfully withdrew. He then suggested I deposit more money to earn greater profit, so I sent $9,384(JPY1,500,000) on July 8, $20,000(JPY3,000,000) on August 1 and $6,500(JPY1,000,000) on August 13 and $48,275(JPY7,000,000) on August 21 to the site from my Japanese bank account. After a few more weeks of trading, I made profits following him. Because there were some profit and loss when we were trading. But someday, he said we made our goals, so we can withdraw our funds. So he instructed me to contact its customer service about how much the tax is. I complained to him that I'd never heard about it. I asked the customer service and the customer service demanded that they pay $60213.25 for “taxes” before the funds would be released, which is that you need to pay 25% of your actual income as personal income tax to the government of the exchange's registered place. So I asked if I wanted to withdraw my principal. But they said you need to pay taxes before withdrawing all funds from your account. So I could not afford to tax, they said you need to pay at least $30K in taxes before we can help you apply for partial profit withdrawal. So to pay 30K, I sent another $10,000(JPY1,300,000) and Raymond sent $20,000 by BTC to help me. When I paid $30K, they said your total tax amount is $60,213, the tax you paid is $30,014, and your remaining tax is $30,199. Your tax payment is less than half, and the supervisor rejected your application to withdraw funds. So I needed to pay the rest of them. I sent $4,000 from the Cash app and $6,000 from Robinhood app. Raymond sent $3,300 by BTC to help me again. For now the rest of the tax is around $6,700 and I am stuck. When I access the site on September 26, the site is no longer operational. But Raymond said it works. And I think the customer service still works in WhatsApp, which registered number is +1-650-666-2001. And I still contact Raymond because I am a bit scared. I am confused and I don’t know how to handle this. And Raymond also has to pay his tax and ask me to deal with this to pay back to him.