I removed $22,000 from a Bitget-connected DApp before its contract could take it

A woman I met through a social app directed me to a liquidity-mining DApp through her referral link. I connected it to Bitget Wallet and paid a small amount of ETH as gas.

I held 20,000 USDT in the wallet. The DApp showed rewards of approximately 1.9% per day, or around 380 USDT in ETH. With her step-by-step screenshot instructions, I converted more than 2,000 USDT in displayed rewards and transferred them into the wallet.

When I tried the process without telling her, the next reward remained pending. Research led me to inspect the smart contract, which had unlimited authority over my USDT. I immediately transferred the original 20,000 USDT and the 2,000 USDT reward to a new wallet.

She responded with repeated WhatsApp and Telegram calls, claiming that moving my money had trapped an $8,000 reward belonging to her. She wanted the full 20,000 USDT returned to the compromised wallet. I kept it out instead; the result was a near-miss rather than a $20,000 loss.