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What's the worst scam you've fallen for (or gotten close to falling for)? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by Snapz@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Consider that at the time you were helping a stranger with the relatively trivial cost of a train ticket.

Now you know you "helped" a likely homeless dude.

Technically a scam but a pretty minor one.

[–] RovingFox@infosec.pub 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Probably not homeless, pretty well dressed, that was probably his day job.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 9 months ago

An assumption on my part.

I'll argue that not everyone begging for coins is scamming though some probably are. Trying to figure out which is just a recipie for misery.

[–] WeeSheep@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Train tickets by me cost 4x an hour of minimum wage work. Even if a single person helped per hour, that's more than enough to make it worthwhile compared to a paying job. That's a scam, taking advantage of people's help as a regular living rather than making an honest living.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

Train tickets near me have a variable cost depending on how far you're going, but the bus costs about 1/4 or 1/5 of minimum wage per hour...lol

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's a much more costly train ticket than I was imagining.

I was assuming something like the inverse of that: a quarter of an hour of minimum wage.

That does tip the scale back to scammy.

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Person you responded to was not the original poster. Not sure why they've felt the need to inject extra information that is entirely unrelated to the comment you replied to. Seems pretty scammy to me

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 9 months ago

I guess I just got scammed.