I got ripped off for $100. I was on Haight street in San Francisco and a guy offered me acid. I said no thanks, but I am looking for some hash. He said no problem, led me around the block and then said he needed the money first and he'd be right back with the hash. He pressed a baggie full of "acid" into my hand as collateral. Twenty minutes later, he hadn't returned and I inspected the baggie and it was full of little pieces of (not blotter) paper.
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I mean, did you try them? It probably was a scam, but acid doesn't HAVE to be on blotter paper.
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When i was a kid i've fallen into thoses fakes instagram accounts of celebrities asking you to call a number to get an iphone
World Games Inc. (A pyramid scheme originating in Australia, billed as selling stock in an online gambling site)
A few friends recommended that I joined. I probably would have if I wasn't already broke.
Didn't fall for it but one time I was recruited to be a secret shopper. They mailed me a cheque for 6,000 dollars with instructions to deposit the money into my chequing account and use it to make a money transfer with Western Union.
Once I got over the initial shock of the money I did some googling and found out how the scam worked. The troubling thing is that I was communicating with my parents the whole time and they never once clued in that what was happening was suspicious.
How does the scam work?
so the check is bad, but it takes several days for the bank to notice apparently. and for some reason, when they do finally notice, it's your problem not theirs?
there are several ways this one could have worked, depending on the next step.
the typical scam is: the scammer sends a check for way more than they're supposed to, then they ask the victim to refund the difference, but the check was bad. by the time the victim figures out the check has bounced, the scammer's got the money that the victim "refunded".
in this case, likely the potential victim would either have been directed to a storefront that's affiliated with the scammer, where they can sell you $6,000 worth of junk. then the check bounces, and they have all the money you just spent.
or, they send you to real jewelry stores to buy real gold and diamonds, and you don't notice the check has bounced until after you've mailed them away.
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Wanted to sell my ps4 cause I wanted something else, nearly fell for a scam on offerup.
I don't care what anyone says, the first time they encountered "You're the 1 millionth visitor" they clicked on it unless they'd heard about it before.
For most of us netizens though, it's so long ago that we consider everyone gullible who clicks on it while denying to ourselves that our first time is just further back than it is for most.
But those ads did not really do much besides being annoying. I've never heard of anyone who went through those ads and continued - because, 99% of the time, it redirected to some shady site that absolutely didn't play into the millionth customer shebang.
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A bank tried to sell me a pension fund contract. Luckily, I know my math and found out that it was so bad that I'd call it a scam.
Almost gave my credit card to a "verification service" on grinder for "safety" on it.
Didn't fall for it, but I got hit with an attempt at a pig butchering scam a week or so ago.
It was fun. They texted, I acted like I knew them, and I think that they eventually got frustrated because I kept agreeing that I remembered them very well, and that it wasn't a 'wrong number', oopsie I sent a photo to the wrong person tee-hee.