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have you ever got scammed what happened I bought $300 tickets to see Knicks at MSG from Craigslist dumb I know that turned out to be fake I got so pissed I walked into an NYC precinct and told them I want to file a complaint the detective at the time said they're busting a lot of people in these fake ticket rings and we could bust him if we set up another sale the next day I contacted the same guy from another number and we set up to meet him the detective was dressed casually and I pretended to be his GF he gave us the tickets by Dylan's Candy Bar and was busted right there it was fun short story from my childhood someone tried to steal my working nests late eighties I was about nine or something had a friend call me up invited me to his house so he could clean my nests thought it was strange but he was very insistent that I didn't want to argue brought it over he started cleaning the nests asked me to get something from the kitchen a butter knife I think I went found it after a few seconds of searching brought it back he said he was finished left the nests on top of his TV and left the room to get something my nest looked very different stared it in a bit it was missing a crack that had always been there looked on the floor words Ness was it had the crack Ducker tried the old switcheroo I tensed up didn't want to argue with the kid confrontation wasn't my strong point I just switched them back as quickly as I could he was gone for a while actually had a lot of time after he came back told him I had to go thank him for the cleaning went home after about 30 minutes he called my house again he asked me which nest did I take home told him I took mine he asked again yeah but did you take the one on the TV or the one on the floor just told him again I took mine he sounded defeated as he said all right bye almost scammed a friend of mine from college emailed me like he usually does asking how I am mentions offhand that his firm is handling an angel investor round for a certain technology startup I had invested through his employer before with no issue so I asked him to send me information for me to research he sends it it all looks legit I think it's worth a shot I asked how much he sends me the payment information and it looks fishy like he sends me a physical address for an office tower in Atlanta that I know his firm is not located in and he also cites a p.o box address in that building I call the building and they say no name of his firm is registered to that building I pick up the phone and call his cell phone he doesn't call back I swing by his house the next day and he has no idea what I am talking about he says his laptop phone and wallet were stolen and that he's been frantically closing accounts and getting replacements apparently the scammer went through his contacts figured out what he did for a living and was trying to bilk all his professional contacts all of the information he sent me was copied and pasted or straight-up forged based on template documents already on the computer I turned everything I had over to the FBI and my friends attorneys everyone one of the guy's contacts were solicited in a handful actually wired cash to the guy who was eventually caught and convicted of wire fraud I had to testify during his trial he's still in prison ATM wild edit this all went down ten years ago the scam that almost got me is actually brilliant I was selling a car on Craigslist and got a call from this guy who seemed super interested he followed up by text asking if it had a clean history next text he sends me a link to what appeared to be an alternative to Carfax asking me to get a history report for $30 before he drives out I was literally putting in my credit card info before I paused to think the website might be fake turns out it was only registered with ICANN that day totally fake someone tried to scam me by creating a Craigslist ad giving away things that I left outside my business he even got some of my staff to help him load it onto a trailer by showing them the ad so they saw your stuff took a photo and posted it on Craigslist then took it away that's actually kind of genius in the 90s my friend got all of these letters saying he was a part of a contest and he just had to keep mailing letters in to enter the drawing the wording they put in the later letters was something like you've made it to the final round and congratulations we are now prepared to write you a check for $10,000 all he had to do was call a 1 to 900 number that charge two dollars a minute it took him about 10 minutes to navigate the automated menus once they told him he was a winner and it ended with an you have won drumroll one dollar the worst one is probably when I was desperately applying for jobs after graduating hadn't found a job for months in the finance sector and just applied to be an admin assistant at a small local exchange looked up their website and everything looked legit the hiring manager spoke fairly flew in English they said they were interested in hiring me for a position that leveraged more of my education I was stoked almost 1.5 X the pay and the workload was much more my style they wanted some identifying information like my driver's license and passport didn't think too much about it scanned it off and sent it to them they told me everything looked good and they wanted to do a phone interview I asked them why not in person and they told me I wasn't at that stage yet for some reason I felt a bit suspicious so I looked like the address on their letterhead which was a legit business park in my area called them in the phone lines were dead called the building owner and they told me that the property was vacant and had been for almost a year now at this point I knew identity theft would be possible so I just went into a full-blown panic getting everything exchanged learned a valuable lesson that day didn't lose anything but duck if my personal information is floating around somewhere was looking for a job and got a call for an interview and went in and it was some NLM for like vitamin juice or something I was sitting in the front and was polite so I sat through the the video and then started to walk out and that's when they started being super pissy I said I don't spend a lot of money without talking it over with my wife and the lady said well I guess we can't do anything if you're not the man of the house and your wife wears the pants not me but a customer at Best Buy a customer came in demanding to speak with a manager regarding a TV he had ordered the manager he asked for was Tammy and we had no managers by that name nor pickup orders for this customer in our system I asked for more details the customer had responded to a Craigslist ad for an unbelievable price on a TV the seller claimed to be a manager at our store and instructed him to make payment by purchasing gift cards for the asking price then sent pics of the back of the gift cards to the seller the customer did all this then was advised the TV would be ready for pickup at our store needless to say there was no TV for him he demanded to speak to an actual manager who kindly informed him that he was out of luck one time I woke up to ten $100 charges and microtransactions for a mobile based building game never owned or played the game and was over drafted $600 while the bank tried getting the money back does any real person actually buy the $100 bundles I always thought they were just there to make the less expensive ones look more reasonable I know that most games with microtransactions thrive on a relatively small number of whales but still $100 at once on virtual currency for a mobile game younger guy in a shirt and tie next to me at the gas station he asked me for a few bucks for gas as he was on his way to a job interview said he'd been unemployed for a few months and this was sort of a dream job opportunity I ended up filling up his entire tank and wished him luck on the interview I saw him there twice a week for the next three months always an assured and ty know is talking to other patrons he eventually tried to scam me again a few months later and I reminded him that he had already got me on that line and asked I if he had any more he said he could tell me about his dying grandmother he was trying to go see on the other side of town or about how he left his wallet at his office because he rushed out when his daughter's school called and told him he needs to pick her up because she was sick and throwing up everywhere then he paused and said sorry man had got in his car and drove away never saw him again but I assume he just moved to the next gas station down the street Best Buy employee convinced me I needed one of their $60 HDMI cables if I wanted Xbox games and action movies to look good on my TV this was probably ten years ago and I didn't know much about the electronics back then I'm still pretty salty about it me too I waited in line to buy a Wii in 2006 and I came home with some $60 gold-plated cables not HDMI this stupid component / composite that has five plugs and died a swift death pretty sure someone's trying to scam me on eBay right now were the knight am i purchased edit - aunt situation there being crafty about it but I got a little suspicious and found out their game after a little research the scam they're trying to pull is that they sent me a small gift in appreciation of my purchase which in this case was a bag of candy this gift was not mentioned in the listing but in a message sent after I bought the item if I go to ebay Resolution Center and say I didn't receive the item they all put the tracking number in for the candy and eBay will take their side since it will be marked as delivered I now know that when I file my complaint I've got to put it as item not as described I'll give it until Wednesday before I file a complaint though when I was 11 my favorite Disney Channel star tweeted a link to take an IQ test and see how your score compared to hers a credit card number was needed to see the results so I put in my parents of course she had been hacked and it was a scam so I had to go sheepishly tell my parents I accidentally charged their credit card they were not happy yeah I remember seeing ads online for free IQ tests when I was younger they're never free and when they are just give some BS range like 115 to 145 they were definitely a form of an IQ test last time I saw an iteration of this thread the top comment was guy who hired a moving company and they straight up stole all of his [ __ ] was there any follow-up nah they just did a good job of making sure he couldn't reach them I was 15 minutes ahead of an ex gf getting to the bank to lock up my accounts she came in and tried to clean them out the bank stopped her and called the police she talked her way out of it so how exactly can a GF do that unless you authorized her I would assume hell my dad had to authorize my mom despite being married got white van scammed when I was 18 out front of Best Buy a guy or two show up out front of a store like Best Buy with stereo equipment TV speakers projectors etc that in reality aren't worth more than the packaging they proceed to tell you they already delivered everything to hit their quota and they are X amount left over and if they bring them back to the warehouse they will lose out on just selling them because someone else will they follow this up with stock sheets and magazine showing retail price of said projector slash speakers at some outrageous price like $2,000 and say you can take them for anywhere between dollar $1000 200 depends on how far you get them down then you get them home and figure out they either don't work or are the worst quality products ever made stupid me lost $350 this was back in 2008 this scam still happens today so beware not that much of a scam but still when I was an 18 yellow college student about to hop on the train home after classes I was approached by a nice woman with her kid in a stroller she told me her wallet had been stolen and she needed to buy a ticket home for her and her kid so she was trying to gather enough money typical excuse but I totally bonded at the time and gave her money for one of the tickets I wasn't able to give more at the time because I had no more money on me so I even felt a little bad until I saw her at the same spot the next day feeding other travelers the same ducking story someone once tried to use my credit card to book an online trip my credit card company called me and we have this conversation CC company hello mister my last name we've noticed that the trip to Cancun you just purchased online was slightly over your limit we've gone ahead and bumped up your limit so you wouldn't have any issues me uh I didn't book a trip online could I get more information note I had purposefully kept a low limit because I know if I had it at my disposal I would abuse it they had called about five to ten times asking me to raise my limit CC company there must be some mistake are you sure you didn't book this trip me yes I'm sure CC company in that case would you like to open a fraud investigation into the purchase me yes please CC company parts of the conversation I forget well okay we apologize is there anything else we can do for you today me yes I would like to cancel my credit card instead of raising a red flag out of purchase over my limit and calling me to inquire about it my credit card company automatically bumped up my limit without my consent and called me to tell me the good news and it changed phrasing I was 19 and looking for jobs on Craigslist came across an ad for air traffic controller training take an aptitude test and if you pass you'll be eligible for government paid job training the scam was actually brilliant the test was in a hotel banquet room and cost $200 to take you pay at the door and are directed to wait in the room and not talk to anyone they pass out an actual test tell you to finish in as fast a time as you can then leave before it starts they tell you that only the top 10% will be contacted for follow-up there were about 100 of us taking the test easy $20,000 for the scammers not me but my grandma she got a phone call from a male who simply said grandma after she answered she assumed it was my cousin Taylor and said Taylor Taylor told her he was in Mexico and in trouble and needed $10,000 right away or someone was going to hurt him he told her if she got the cash someone would be by that afternoon to pick it up luckily the bank teller asked her why she was pulling out so much money and suggested she call one of her kids the police were called and they waited at her home for the money collector if they ever came by they didn't make themselves known most likely because of the police car on the street just trying to get trimmed armored in runescape I still haven't got the GFI broad like a decade ago never been scammed myself but my mum almost got scammed by one of those fake Norton support numbers luckily I found out before she paid anything as for me the closest thing I've had to being scammed was being catfished man that was rough we want to hear the catfish story the old shoe-shiner scam in istanbul you've been told to avoid them and you do but then they accidentally dropped something as they walked past you you're a nice guy so you point this out to them they are super happy and before you know it they're shining your shoes as what they would have you believe is a favor then they demand to be paid for their service and suddenly they're not so friendly anymore can't believe I fell for it but it happened yes so I work in a daycare over the summer and I ordered this hair wax online that changed the color of your hair for the day as I use hair wax every day I was like this would be so cool for color we can pay dollar 53 : 92 for all five colors they offered the next morning I woke up to my whole bank account being drained luckily I call my bank and they were able to fix it and send me a new card but that is not where the story ends because I actually got the product and after using it once my hair started to fall out so yeah I just shaved my head that summer Jesus this sounds like an episode of something Seinfeld scammed on eBay by a 99% rated seller I bought a $550 ps4 from him back in 2014 or 2013 when it was first out delivery date was passed and nothing received dug deeper into his profile found out that he sold a bunch of $1.00 wires and built his rating that way before going for the scam I got my money back thanks to ebay buyer protection it was my last eBay transaction - thanks for listening to another episode of Rhett attacks subscribe and activate the notification bell so you won't miss any stories feel free to share your own stories below in the comments have a good day

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Published: Wed Dec 04 2019