The worst scam you remember?

I got a call from FedEx stating have packed illigal stuff and sent to Mumbai. And FedEx will transfer my call to police :rotating_light:

I asked the person who called I will report myself to the police station please share the package tracking I’d and he disconnected the call.
And never sent.

After a month a person lost lacks of rupees to that scam because he felt police was on the call and shared details.

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Scammers called me about my social security account and tried to get my SSN. When they realized I wasn’t gonna give it to them they startes laughing and making jokes on the phone :sweat_smile::rage:

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Never entertain such calls.

Because they track and send your number to others too if you are willing to have a conversation with them.

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I didn’t know that bro… I will definitely keep that in mind if I get another one .

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me and my first wife didn’t know Nigeria was full of scammers and paid 700 dollars to rent a house in Tulsa that the owners said they were a clergy in Nigeria…duh…we were semi delusional…still…should have known.

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There was a scam going around here a couple of years ago of someone calling senior citizens and asking for money to bail their grandson out of jail.

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Just a couple months ago my printer wasn’t working so I called tech support. I thought I was talking to HP tech support but later found out it was an outside business who had hundreds of complaints on the BBB website. They said they could fix the printer but that I had a virus which they took over my computer and charged me $199 to get rid of. They fixed my printer but I doubt there was ever a virus. I read many reviews of the company and found out they did this to a lot of other people. Oh well, at least my printer was fixed and I was grateful they didn’t steal my information and drain my bank account.

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People who scam old people

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They said I won the publishers clearing house and won $9 million dollars and they wanted to bring me the check. I checked into things. They don’t do, what they were saying.

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Scams will say that something very good has happened to you, or something very bad has happened to you.

Good: inheritance, sweepstakes, survey, etc. You have to give them personal info to collect, and usually a fee for “processing.” And you don’t have much time to do it. One time I inherited a TRILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000,000,000) from a Nigerian prince, but I had to pay $29 dollars for it to clear customs (which you can’t deduct from the TRILLION DOLLARS).

Bad: (they’re going to try to scare you). Netflix and SiriusXM accounts suspended, IRS mistake (you pay them in gift cards or the police are coming to your house in 20 minutes to arrest you), Microsoft computer virus, etc.

No, you didn’t win anything and you’re not in trouble. Don’t get scared.

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Guy on the street saying he was 1 dollar short of taking the bus. Ofcourse in my mind this translates to 1 dollar short of the liqour store :scream:

The porn scam. If you don’t pay us this much money then we will send a video of ur face to ppl whilst watching porn. :banana:

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I once bought Sea Monkeys and thought they were real monkeys but they lived in the sea.

:roll_eyes:

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Only time ive ever been scammed were by tradesmen this summer. They ripped me off

Yeah, I wanted sea monkeys all through my childhood, I used to see the ads for them in the back of comic books. They made them sound like they were little smart creatures that you could train to do tricks. I finally got some in my twenties, lol. And found out they were the same brine shrimp my boss fed to his exotic tropical fish and they were just blobs of minuscule organisms that stunk like fish and they didn’t do tricks and they didn’t even swim and they didn’t have cute little faces like the comic books falsely portrayed them to have.

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In those same comics where they advertised sea monkeys I sent away for x-ray specs. My lusty teen mind thought I would be able to look through girls skirts. I was disappointed.

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Yeah, that’s why I wanted the x-ray specs too.

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There is nothing wrong with solid, scientific research.

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Sunrun solar power plan

This is a thread that can be updated forever because the scams keep changing.

A current scam is the “Microsoft Cashback” scam. Don’t click on the email.

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