If it already happened

Act quickly and calmly. The first hour matters more than the next month, and shame is the reason most cases are never reported.

Stop sending immediately. No release fee, no tax, no final payment recovers anything.

Screenshot everything: profiles, chats, addresses, transaction hashes, receipts.

Report it to the Namibian Police and to your bank if local money moved through it.

Tell the exchange you used, with the transaction hash. Occasionally funds are still frozen in time.

Beware recovery scams. Anyone promising to retrieve your stolen crypto for a fee is the second scam, often run by the first team.

Talk about it. Every person who says out loud what happened to them makes the next attempt on somebody else fail.