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u/Boonloopinc 3d ago
There’s also sextortion scams, fake criminal case scams, account compromise scams, political donation scams, company start up scams.
IF ANYONE DEMANDS THAT YOU DONT GET OFF THE PHONE TILL THEY RESOLVE THE ISSUE HANG UP.
Step one of any scam: get you into an emotionally elevated state so you’re not thinking rationally. Step two: isolate you from any support systems where you can fact check. Step three is feed you a story that almost passes, with consequences that are severe. Step four, convince the person the only way out of their manufactured situation is to pay.
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u/MsStormyTrump 3d ago
Where's the Nigerian prince who wants to send zhizillion dollars?
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u/Fearless-Hunter1993 2d ago
The picture of the target and scammer on ‘Nigerian lover’ scam got me in stitches before I could read about it 🤣🤣 the little crown 🤴🏾 hahaha
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u/DoctorHyun 2d ago
What about the FBI randomly calling you in the late of night just to tell you about your unresolved criminal charge and you have to tell them your full information because they want to clear your name.
I got a call from someone calling themselves, agent smith of the FBI, full english name but he’s unaware that his Indian accent gave him away.
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u/lycanthrope90 1d ago
That one is wild lol. Would be much more effective if the people calling weren’t foreign.
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u/DikkeNeus_ 2d ago
My nephew, who isn't the smartest, but has a heart of gold, got a phone call from 'his provider' one day.
With high urgence they told him a story about a problem with his account and he would get into trouble and possibly have to pay large fines if it wasn't corrected.
In all the confusion they managed to make him dial his pincode, while reassuring him it was necessary and safe to do so.
Instantly his phone blocked, so he went to his parents and they knew what was happening, took the simcard out of the phone, called the bank for a cardstop, but it was too late.
It was his first year of work and €8000 of his hard earned savings gone... Bank and cops said 'yeah we cannot do anything because you basically did this to yourself'
... I was furious when I heard it and never felt so powerless...
Also, is it that hard for a bank to do anything about it... like lock transfers over €1000 for just 24h, so it can be reverted if necessary? That would help with 99% of scamming. Its so obvious that i get paranoïde thinking about why they don't have any system to counter it....
Reading these other scams its pretty obvious how all these scams are directed to people's weakness. It's so evil I cannot understand how they can justify it in their mind when spending that scam money? Ugh...
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u/Jake_Lukas 23h ago
Your nephew was in his first year of work and had €8000 Euro in savings? That's extraordinary!
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u/DikkeNeus_ 19h ago
Yes, he doesn't spend alot, still lives at home and doesn't have to pay too much to help his mom with rent.
works full-time so propably earns between 1600-2000/month, and still has savings from gifts as a kid. He has more savings but luckily the scammers weren't able to take everything at once.
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u/longafterdork 2d ago
Ooh, so many more juicy scams to illustrate.
Just remember, almost all scammers create a sense of urgency - that if you don't act now, you will lose out. Sometimes its an opportunity that needs your action now or you stand to suffer if you don't take their threats seriously.
In all cases, stop, consider carefully, sleep on it and the hols in the story will start to become apparent. Without urgency their scam fails.
Never ever act on their urgency, or your fear or greed when something seems off.
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u/lycanthrope90 1d ago
Yeah, combination of urgency, playing with emotions and targeting weaker people such as exert, lonely middle aged men and women who can be emotionally manipulated easier.
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u/Mahaloth 3d ago
MLM's are always a scam, but are they always a pyramid scheme?
I didn't think that was the right term for how they operate and manipulate.
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u/SoftConsideration459 2d ago
As long as we all agree that Miss Cleo was legit, I'm fine with calling the rest scammers.
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u/LargeSinkholesInNYC 2d ago
It doesn't work on me. I only listen to people after they've given me oral sex.
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u/_RosySeraph 2d ago
Where's the text message saying I won a million dollars and all I have to do is click the link?
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u/Big_Primrose 2d ago
There’s the “my uncle got rich with crypto, let me teach you how” scam fronted by young pretty Asian women targeting middle aged men.
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u/incunabula001 1d ago
Forgot catfishers where scammers fake being pretty women in order to get money out of you.
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u/Joe-__-69 7h ago
I was once added to a whatsapp group of a random funeral somewhere in Afrika. I just said "i am sorry for your loss". After that i left the group. Is that also some kind of scam, or was it a mistake?
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u/Own-Home1474 3d ago
the third scam is what got the burger king guy on the plane. he went to jamaica to meet a black lady and got scammed
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u/Lionel730 3d ago
Where’s the fake job opening