A woman is being dragged online for attacking her cousin for being the victim of an Instagram scam—and then playing the victim when her cousin shared proof with her that her husband had been harassing her.
The scam victim, u/kdott918, shared her story to the popular Reddit forum r/AmITheA**hole. She earned over 8,800 upvotes and 500 comments for her post, “[Am I the A**hole] for exposing my cousin’s creepy husband to my entire family?”
The original poster (OP) says that she met her cousin’s husband for the first time a year ago at their wedding. From the jump, her cousin’s husband made a number of inappropriate comments to her, calling her a “wild child” who was probably a “bad girl” at her college.
He also follows her on Instagram, and sends her Instagram reels, inappropriate comments and DMs—none of which she responds to or even opens. OP never brought it up to her “devout Christian” cousin because they’re not close, and OP feels her cousin looks down on her for not sharing her faith.
Things came to a head this week, however, when OP was the victim of a scam. She says the scammer used her photos to set up a fake account, sending messages to her followers to ask for money in exchange for explicit pictures. She says it should have been obvious it was a scam—she says the bio was in “broken English,” the included pictures were “poorly cropped screenshots of my two most recent posts” and that the linked Cash App account was just a “random string of numbers and…
