Real life scams , whats the best you've seen ?

about 1980 a restaurant owner i knew got into one of the Arab prince deals and was waiting for the ship to come in so he could get the cash he had fronted for them to get the cash into the country.

every day it was ' "the ship will be here tomorrow"

he fell for more than one. one time this guy was giving him a sales pitch of how many millions he could make in a year and the sales man had a rusty ol jalopy that barley ran.
 
CRJR45 said:
Same with my mom , a kid said Granny I’m in trouble, she was off to the bank . My niece caught it before she could get to the bank.
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Last year my elderly neighbor got fooled so bad by a phone call scammer, she left $20,000 in cash in a paper bag on her front porch "for the FBI". By the time we found out they were long gone. It was all she had left in savings.
 
When I was in college, I once listened to a girl give all of her information, credit card, etcetera to someone over the phone because she had "won a cruise." She had to be on the phone for at least an hour. I was sure it was a scam but never heard anything of it afterwards.
 
I also once knew an aging degenerate who was certain his girlfriend in Ghana was the daughter of a wealthy gold magnate.

This gold magnate somehow couldn't figure out how to get his money to America. It fell to my acquaintance to open a Canadian bank account and get a debit card so he could import the gold (or something).

Nevermind that the "girlfriend" was unable to Facetime or similar because "the internet is really bad in Ghana." He also had to send "her" money routinely.

The same dude would show you pictures of young, hot, blonde chicks that he found on dating apps. Also convinced that they were into him and just needed some cash... Meanwhile his profile pic looked like Nick Nolte's mugshot.

Anyone who tried to tell him it was fake was just jealous...

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eamyrick said:
Mother in laws bf. 2.4 mil crypto IPO scam. Sold his house in Aspen and dumped all his money after doing his “research.” Dude is an accountant who taught at two different well known colleges.

Wife has two friends (who both have Masters degrees) who have both lost over 10k with cop warrant scams.
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Proof that Charlie was right… and college is a scam.
 
There are these scammers who send out legit looking invoices to thousands of businesses, usually for inconsequential amounts, say an annual domain hosting bill for $58. A small portion pay the invoices generating millions in scam revenue.
 
Poser said:
There are these scammers who send out legit looking invoices to thousands of businesses, usually for inconsequential amounts, say an annual domain hosting bill for $58. A small portion pay the invoices generating millions in scam revenue.
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Slot machines became legal in western Canada about 20 years ago. Within the first several years many people spent their life savings, borrowed against homes and cashed in retirement plans. All for one more chance to get their money back. It never happened and several got divorced or destroyed their life. Every type of scam needs a sucker. Note: they even sucked in people who had never even gambled on a friendly game of poker.
 
During the recession back in 2012, my wife decided she wanted to move into another house. We put our house up for sale with a realtor friend. Soon after, I saw a strange person drive up and was looking in the windows. I went to the door and asked what in the hell he was doing. Said he was there to look at the house for rent. I told him it wasn’t for rent but he showed me an ad on Craigslist that showed my address, with a deposit amount and a monthly rental that was well below market rate. Obviously a scam. I broke the news to him but wasn’t really sure what to do with the info he gave me. The next day several more families showed up to look at the house and send the guy a deposit. One of them gave me the scammers info and phone number, which I turned the info over to the FBI. Nobody else came around and I don’t know if they caught him.
 
SCHUNTER73 said:
During the recession back in 2012, my wife decided she wanted to move into another house. We put our house up for sale with a realtor friend. Soon after, I saw a strange person drive up and was looking in the windows. I went to the door and asked what in the hell he was doing. Said he was there to look at the house for rent. I told him it wasn’t for rent but he showed me an ad on Craigslist that showed my address, with a deposit amount and a monthly rental that was well below market rate. Obviously a scam. I broke the news to him but wasn’t really sure what to do with the info he gave me. The next day several more families showed up to look at the house and send the guy a deposit. One of them gave me the scammers info and phone number, which I turned the info over to the FBI. Nobody else came around and I don’t know if they caught him.
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I once went and looked at a house that was being used for the same scam. Picked up on it almost immediately once i got there and the house was for sale (sign in the yard) I immediately contacted the realtor and she informed me she was just contacted by someone else for the same reason.

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My brother's company had their accounting dept hacked and the scammers sent out actual invoices but changed the banking information. A good customer sent a $35,000 payment and now says they paid the invoice and my brother's company will have to eat it. Apparently this is becoming fairly common. They changed the accounts receivable process.
 
Someone kept stealing our Home Depot account information. (Construction company)
Finally had to close our account. It was incredibly frustrating the lack of protection by Home Depot. Apparently it was cheaper for them to eat the loss than secure their accounts.
 
I received a call, from my bank's actual phone number and the caller ID was my bank's name, requesting my account information because fraud had been detected.

I did not give the woman on the other end any information, but being able to use those two pieces of information for the call would fool a lot of people.
 
88-89 timeframe in Daytona Beach, a couple guys were selling raffle tickets for a black Lambo Countach for $10. Heard a while later that they got caught. They'd been going city to city selling a couple thousand tickets and moving on.
 
About 2 years ago, my wife got a call and the caller ID said *our county* Sheriff's Department. She answered and there was a guy on the phone claiming to be a sergant with the Sheriffs office. He told her she had missed a court date, had a warrant for her arrest that could be resolved by paying a fine with a surcharge.

She immediately thought it was a scam, but put the phone on speaker and searched the Sheriffs departments number and it MATCHED THE NUMBER SHE WAS TALKING TO. So she was totally freaked out and text me what was going on all while dragging the guy on the phone along while I played detective myself.

I called the Sheriffs office and before I could get one sentence into what was going on they immediately told me it was a scam, and they somehow were hi jacking the actual sheriff's department phone number to appear on the caller ID. They said they have gotten 10 calls already that day, and that tomorrow that scammer would move on to somewhere else in the counrty and do the same thing.

Pretty wild.
 
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