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

Had another shipping scam attempt today. Messed with him for a bit to make sure he wasn't just a customer with poor English. The scam is they make an order and request you pay for the shipping directly to their shipping company- which isn't a real company. The shipping company never shows up to pick up the order and they just keep the shipping money.

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Working in the banking industry, I see a lot of scams targeting lonely elderly people. Thankfully I live in a small town and can usually know some sort of kin that can help step in and prevent the fraud. I've stopped shoe boxes of cash going out, wires to boyfriends in africa, alleged celebrity girlfriends "needing money". We've seen them all!
 
Got hit with the publishers clearing house scam. Prefect American English. Forgot to get away from the barnyard. Could hear chickens constantly in the background while I wasted 10 minutes of his time. Was traveling and he called on my business phone. Then I lost cell service. Was an interesting way to kill some windshield time. Wanted me to send him vanilla credit cards. Live a sheltered life. Had never heard of them before.
 
a good one i got recently on ebay i purchased 3 knives benchmade meateater beautifully for a good price but not a real bargain to discover it was nicely copies made and shipped from china ... i informed benchmade about it and to that not even a reply so imagine they know about the copies ...

i got the money back but it was a good one ...
 
medvedyt said:
a good one i got recently on ebay i purchased 3 knives benchmade meateater beautifully for a good price but not a real bargain to discover it was nicely copies made and shipped from china ... i informed benchmade about it and to that not even a reply so imagine they know about the copies ...

i got the money back but it was a good one ...
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Yep, I got took on a fake ESEE off Ebay last week.
 
I haven't read thought all these

Few years back, some kid scammed a bunch of dudes here into buying him a new pair of NL Pure binos.

Coworker - his mom blew his dads retirement on some "Latin lover" she met on Facebook. Dude said they had to remove his mom from the house for her own safety. Dad divorced her in record time. She gave away few hundred thousand of that man's money
 
I almost go scammed this weekend selling a pack on facebook, I posted it, Got a quick reply from someone asking questions, they tried to venmo me but wouldn't work, They emailed my venmo email to call a number, I actually called but they didn't pick up. I called them out on it and they stopped messaging me.
 
Not really a true scam necessarily but I run my own business (Trucking). A year and a half ago when my DOT number first got approved, the minute I got the email my phone started ringing off the hook and did so for a couple hours. “Compliance agents”… Third party services who don’t actually claim to be the government, but won’t plainly tell you that they aren’t with the government, and offer their assistance with the numerous filings that come with a trucking business. Many of them are legitimate and will actually do what they say they’re doing, but do it at an exorbitant price compared to doing it yourself. For example, one that I can think of takes approximately 10 minutes to file online annually and costs maybe 200$(scaled based on number of trucks operated) and one of these agents might do it for 300-400.

I fell for one of those services but fortunately was able to realize and say “wait a minute” and cancelled their service before I had paid anything but 1,000$ as like a retainer fee. The willingly refunded it. These operations surely have a place for some people. The annual paperwork load for a trucking business is plenty long, and the government makes staying in compliance difficult and complicated, but if a guy is a little bit Internet savvy most of it isn’t too terrible.
 
Q_Sertorius said:
The slight errors are there on purpose. If the scam looks too legitimate, then the scammer might waste time on someone who ultimately doesn’t pay. The scammer wants exactly the right kind of idiot who ignores the slight grammar errors and still responds.
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I mean Dog got you to respond to his post with obvious gramatical errors........
 
LongWayAround said:
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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I work with a guy who would PAY MONEY to look that good. He drives a forklift. Always has some picture of a 20 year old female from california or new york who he sends money too. The money is always for them to fly here so he can leave his wife for them. Ive heard about a new one atleast every 3 months for the last 5 years. A couple guys at work swear this guys wife looks like she could pass for his brother.
 
I wrecked My DJI drone not long ago and damaged the gimbal cable and some blades. I found a website that looked 100% legit, with logged reviews that dated many years, etc. I purchased my parts and when I recieved the confirmation email, several words were spelled incorrectly. I went back to the site to contact them, and the contact info was a dud. Thankfully, I immediately called the bank and reported it as fraud and canceled my card. Payment never went through, but it was close. After doing more research I found it to be a complete scam site!
 
They got into a cousin of Mine’s instagram account and closed access to it. They posted on his story where he was counting bunches of hundreds, the next story was check out my new pickup truck, and the next post was man “i really got lucky and found this company that hit these crypto calls on the dot and made me serious money. Shoot me a message and I’ll put you in contact”.

He’s a farmer so let’s just say those scammers hit some serious cash in just a couple of hours and my cousin dealt with threats from multiple people demanding their money back from “him”.

Saw the same scam get into another buddy’s account.


I got scammed out of a iPhone few years back. Made the “deal”. Money was sent and I shipped the phone. A week later I noticed PayPal never deposited the money and when I digged into it, on the .com they had put .c0m with a zero instead of of an o.
 
I pay $627 every two weeks (that's after my employer kicks in) for my young, healthy wife and I to have health insurance. An ER visit that consisted of not much more than a urine test, blood work, an ultrasound, and several hours of waiting still cost us almost $4500 out of pocket. When I tried to negotiate with the hospital for paying in full they told me it was already "discounted" from over $12,000 because of my insurance.

Hospitals and health insurance are the best real life scams I've ever seen.
 
intunegp said:
I pay $627 every two weeks (that's after my employer kicks in) for my young, healthy wife and I to have health insurance. An ER visit that consisted of not much more than a urine test, blood work, an ultrasound, and several hours of waiting still cost us almost $4500 out of pocket. When I tried to negotiate with the hospital for paying in full they told me it was already "discounted" from over $12,000 because of my insurance.

Hospitals and health insurance are the best real life scams I've ever seen.
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I bet if you told them your name was Manuel Jimanez Gonzales and you had no ID, no job and no insurance you would have gotten it for free.
 
Dual Threat Fishing tournament was a good one. Just happened in the past few weeks. Guy set up a tournament trail that’s was too good to be true, turns out it really was.
 
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