<prompt> Human: Just made a account to write this, i havent been feeling well these past few days, im trying to be a bit vague about what happened because i havent told anyone else yet aside from the cops. Im usually doing all my online payments throw Paypal, i dont know what the fuck was wrong with me this time and pushed me to do it through banking transfer at my bank . How it happened : a few weeks ago i make a online post on a website about looking for a place to rent , a few days after i get a phone message from a person saying that he has a place for a xxx price the price was kinda low and was the first signal that i ignored, though ive seen similar priced apartments online but very few and gives me a mail address for more info about the apartment . I mail him that and by the evening he sends me the info and a few photos, all looks great and im excited, he also says that he only rents through AirBnB, and im like sure ive never used it before , so i go and make a account. Then he sends me the airbnb link using bitly , ive seen people using it online to shorten links before and dont think much about it, i see airbnb in the link the page looks legit, especially since ive never used airbnb before. I go to the payment options and since i didnt have enough on my credit card i use the banking transfer option it was to a different country: Ireland , get 4 pages everything looks alright have to stress again that i never used airbnb before , didnt even notice that it was ARNB ATS instead of AIR BNB above Iban, and next day i make the payment, the i send a scanned copy of the payment to the fake airbnb mail address, after getting the confirmation the owner of the place says that he will come friday with the keys.Thursday i get a mail with the time when we should meet, then friday comes and i get a mail that he cant come and if i can wait until monday if not i can ask for my money back his excuse was another Red flag that i ignored and chose to believe. I reply that i can wait until monday, monday comes and he tells me that he cant come and i should ask for a refund. I mail again to the fake air bnb support account and they say ill get my money back in 24-48 h, as the days pass and im not seeing my money back im starting to do research in to scams regarding airbnb, then i go to my bank and they tell me they cant do anything and if the money are not back soon after the 48h i should go to the police. By this point i should be drowning in red flags, i downloaded the airbnb app and there were no payments, i logged in the account and there were no payments made, but i still chose to believe that everything will be fine. Even after going to the police and being told that i got fucked, i still believed until today when i saw the fake airbnb page disappeared. The police told me that they are gonna try, but since the payment was done to a bank in another country , their hands are tied and wont be able to do much, im 99.9 sure that i wont get my money back. The past few days have been really awful : couldnt sleep properly , couldnt eat ... i just dont know how to deal with this anymore, i havent told anyone yet and im to afraid to do so, i just feel everything is gonna break in to pieces when it gets out... tl;dr: got scammed with a fake airbnb page, made a banking transfer to another country, went to the police and they told me im fucked. Edit 1003 : thanks for support, you dont know how much this means to me , i dont have many friends, so i dont really have anyone to talk with . I saw many suggestions and will try to do everything possible to help me get my money back im just trying to not raise my hopes up , when i said i spoke with police i meant with the unit specialized in fraud cases, i will go again monday to them and to the bank, i will also try to contact the bank in ireland and the anti fraud unit there. On the anxietystress part, after getting some sleep it got better, sleep is really the best medicine in cases like this.  <response>: If you made an account on the fake site make sure that password isnt the same as any of your other passwords. If it is change them 