“The next day, I woke up to a text saying that if I didn’t give him £1000, he’d put the video on the internet.”

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"Long story short, the scammers made off with about $1000 from both the other teacher and us. The story does have a happy ending, though, because we ended up being roommates with the other victim of the scam, and are still close friends, 6 years later!" 

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