A woman who was scammed by a man on Snapchat has shared her wild experience of tracking the thief down to get her money back.

Chloe Kroll, 24, a realtor and property manager from Lincoln, Nebraska, US, was swindled back in 2020 but recently shared her story on TikTok, where it has since gone viral with over 278,000 views and almost 30,000 likes.

In the video, she explains how she had been speaking to a man she had known for a few weeks through Snapchat, when randomly one day in September that year, he asked her for money.

Unfortunately, Chloe was pulled into the scam but once finding out she wouldn't get her cash back, "began an FBI search" to find the thief.

"This guy had been friends with me on Snapchat for a few weeks and we had kind of chatted before, she told Jam Press.

"I want to say he was about 18 years old at the time, I was almost 23 years old – oops.

"It was about 10pm when he messaged me again. He said if I sent him $1,000, he could flip the money, he would make money and then I would double the money.

"I knew this kid lived in my city, Lincoln, but I didn't know him personally, only from Snapchat.

"It was sketchy to me, but part of me also thought how we were friends on Snapchat for a while and he never attempted to scam me before."

Feeling hesitant, Chloe sent the scammer $100 to start with, but made a point of telling him she'd find him if he did anything untoward with her cash.

Despite the warning, seconds after receiving her money, the thief blocked her on social media platforms.

She said: "By 10.30pm, my FBI search began.

"He blocked me on literally every social media website immediately so it was very hard to find him on socials.

"I was searching till midnight that I came across people that knew him and of course they backed him up and told me to f**k off."

After some further investigation the next morning, Chloe, who also works as a life coach, had a breakthrough, as she found the thief's surname.

She said: "I finally came across someone that knew his last name, and that was all I needed, thanks to Google.

"I found his entire family with addresses and a phone number."

Chloe then reached out to one of the thief's relatives on Facebook, who apologised to her and tried to help her find him.

She said: "I am not sure of this woman's relation to him but she apologised to me and said he has been stealing money from everyone, including family, and that she's had a lot of messages about him.

"I let her know my plan to show up where he was at to get my money back.

"Then she told me exactly where he would be and when."

On 2 September, around 7pm, Chloe confronted the thief.

The life coach said: "His mother answered the door, I explained the situation and I apologised for bringing her into this.

"She said 'Oh no no', then screamed her son's name and there he came running down the stairs.

"He had no clue who I was.

"The first thing I said to him was 'I warned you that I would show up to your house and get my money backed if you scammed me'.

"He was immediately angry and said 'Dude you can't just show up to my house like this'.

"His mother and grandmother were literally in total shock that I showed up, they were yelling at him in a different language at the same time I was yelling at him.

"He didn't have the money on him at the time, but I made it clear I wanted it back in the next three hours sent over cash-app and that is exactly what he did."

The scammer also sent Chloe an apology over Facebook the next day.

TikTok users have been left in stitches over the incident with many asking the life coach for help in tracking down their own scammers.

One person commented: "I mean you warned him"

While another shared her own experience: "A guy scammed me, I went to his parents house and they said it wasn't a surprise & gave me the church he was volunteering at so I could go collect."

Someone else said: "I wanna be you."

"That’s iconic", said another viewer.

Another user commented: "I'm sorry how did you get scammed in the first place? So we can look out for it," to which she replied: "Adding random people on snap, I posted a video about the story" [sic]

Someone looking for help put: "Can you help me? I got scammed of $3000 in a rental scam I want to find the guy."