Dear Annie, please be kind to yourself and continue to see this experience, as you do, through the lens of humor. Scammers are getting evermore sophisticated. I think your best course of action is to block the scammer and report them, as you did on Medium. May this go viral on steroids, may your cold soon be a distant memory and may you laugh all the way to the bank making clever articles based on this experience. 💕🙏🏻💕