Have you ever been the victim of a scam?

[artradley]

My mom (about 90 years old at the time) got scammed with the cliché telephone call from a grandson in distress. Took her for about $7k. I was pissed at the bank in her tiny Iowa town, because my name is on the checking account so they should have contacted me when she asked them to wire that much money. Maybe not in a large town, but everyone at the bank knows her, knows she was recently widowed, and knows she is gullible. They know my name is on the account specifically to keep an eye on her finances.

 

[thewop]

I had the same with Mcafee computer security. The top website when I googled it ended up being fake. I gave them access to my computer to help set it up. Ended up being Ransom type deal right before Christmas. It was cheaper for me to destroy my computer.

That sucks, sorry that happened. They're pretty good at making themselves look legit.

 

[artradley]

Personally, my credit card gets breached once every year or two. Cancelling the card and getting a new one are just part of life now.

Mrs. Radley did get a bogus "work from home" job offer that was quite elaborate. But before it went too far I looked at the paperwork and pointed out the email address's domain did not match any known company. After seeing some other red flags she asked some pointed questions via email and they never replied.

 

[hawkeyetraveler]

After my experience I went down a YouTube rabbit hole on this topic once and came across this guy. He is awesome. Basically scares the scammers and has gotten scammers and thieves arrested.

 

[Dr. Phil Seuss]

I once had a sexy blonde woman trick me into signing a contract that gave her half of everything I own in exchange for less sex.

 

[jasonrann]

I once had a sexy blonde woman trick me into signing a contract that gave her half of everything I own in exchange for NO sex and Blowies.

FIFY

 

[hawkeyetraveler]

I once had a sexy blonde woman trick me into signing a contract that gave her half of everything I own in exchange for less sex.

 

[mnole03]

I supported Mike’s new deal.

 

[cjnoles9399]

My mom (about 90 years old at the time) got scammed with the cliché telephone call from a grandson in distress. Took her for about $7k. I was pissed at the bank in her tiny Iowa town, because my name is on the checking account so they should have contacted me when she asked them to wire that much money. Maybe not in a large town, but everyone at the bank knows her, knows she was recently widowed, and knows she is gullible. They know my name is on the account specifically to keep an eye on her finances.

My grandmother got hit with this one but the wal mart western union or whatever. Luckily she came to her senses in the parking lot and turned around and went home.

 

[Finance85]

About 25 years ago, my AMEX was skimmed at a PF Chang's in the Hollywood, FL area. I got a call from AMEX fraud department that someone tried to use the fraudulent card at a Publix in Ft. Lauderdale to buy about $1000 of groceries.

 

[JustSayOV]

Not the victim, but one time I inadvertently (at first anyways) scammed Scheels.....

Was getting a bunch of spinner baits and they sold individually at maybe $6 each at the time, but I was also getting a little plastic spinner bait storage box, which was like $10 and while shopping I put like 12 spinners in that box as that just made sense...

...fast forward to check out and I put the storage box up there (along with some other stuff) and the gal just scanned the box only and I was about to say something when I realized what happened, but then I thought "no.....I have paid you guys enough of the years and you are still getting yours" so I remained quiet. So basically stole $60 worth of spinner baits.

1) Yes, I am a badass

2) Yes, cool story bro.

 

[SF HAWKEYE]

In 2001 I got scammed on EBay for $490 for a box of like 100 DVD's. Guy never sent them and his address and everything was fake. Cops said they couldn't do anything since it was under $500.

Got scammed for some Hawkeye Tickets on Craigslist 10 years ago. People never sent the tickets and kept saying they would send them out. Credit card reversed the charges for me.

This summer one of my friends moms posted a car on Facebook for her nephew. I liked it for my son so I messaged the nephew and he said since I lived two hours away I would need to put down a $400 deposit for him to hold it for me. I called my friends mom and asked about the nephew and she said it was all legit and she was helping him sell it. So I sent the $400 and about 10 minutes later he sent me another message saying he would need another $400. So I called my friends mom back again and asked her to call her sister about this. Turns out the nephew had been hacked and they were scamming people left and right. So I lost $400 there.

 

[FranklinHawk]

My mom (about 90 years old at the time) got scammed with the cliché telephone call from a grandson in distress. Took her for about $7k. I was pissed at the bank in her tiny Iowa town, because my name is on the checking account so they should have contacted me when she asked them to wire that much money. Maybe not in a large town, but everyone at the bank knows her, knows she was recently widowed, and knows she is gullible. They know my name is on the account specifically to keep an eye on her finances.

Years ago my Dad got a call saying I was in jail in Denver I think and needed a bunch of money for bail. He knew I was actually in Michigan for business, but just replied "he has more money than I do, he can bail his own ass out".

 

[alaskanseminole]

Have you ever been the victim of a scam?​

Yes.

FSU Football 2024

 

[goldmom]

I always assumed Nigeria and Cameroon were the worst. Never heard that about India. Good info

I always thought it was a bunch of former USSR satellite countries where burly unshaven men worked in dark rooms scamming Americans on a daily basis.

 

[goldmom]

I once had a sexy blonde woman trick me into signing a contract that gave her half of everything I own in exchange for NO sex OR blowies.

Sigh. Why do I have to fix everything around here?

 

[LuteHawk]

Several years ago I got an e-mail stating that our local
high school basketball coach had been arrested in London
and needed money for bail. They listed an address to send
the money. However, I had just talked to our basketball
coach the day before and knew that he was not in London.

Bottom Line: The coach and I had a good laugh over this
attempt for money.

 

[Bishop_71]

I always thought it was a bunch of former USSR satellite countries where burly unshaven men worked in dark rooms scamming Americans on a daily basis.

I think that is actually happening

 

[tumorboy]

Think I’m currently in the midst of one. Changed cell phone providers. They’re supposed to reimburse me for my buyout of contract within two weeks. Working on week 5.

 

[tigerguy_]

My cc got skimmed at a gas station in 2015. A few days later my bank called and asked if I had purchased $7,000 worth of I-phones at the AT@T store in Virginia Beach?

A pain in the ass to get it all cleaned up

 

[stanzithemanzi12]

Does marriage count?

 

[jellyfish10]

@TarponSpringsNole you got some splainin to do.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

I nearly purchased a dozen pairs of Hokas from some random guy on the interwebs…

 

[ICWestfan]

Debit card got skimmed. Whoever did it made 3 or 4 innocuous purchases, and then went over to the USPS in Ankeny and took out a $960 money order. I had to file a police report. Bad part was we had the time and date but police didn't bother to have the Ankeny USPS check their cameras.

 

[ICWestfan]

About a year ago a church close to me was having some major renovations done. The contractor e-mailed the church about making a payment for work done up to that point and had a link where they could pay online. Later that day the church got another e-mail just like the first except the link was an http: link and not a https: link like the first one. They didn't catch the difference and sent all the info to the http: link. A few days went by and the contactor called the church wanting to know why the bill had not been paid. The church got in touch with their bank and found the account had been cleaned to the tune of around $800,000. The bank told them it was all done overseas and there was no way to get the money back.

This happened to the city of Swisher not long ago. Not that much $$ but 5 figures for sure.

 

[BlIIlken2]

A lot of people lying about their trump shoes collection

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Early this year, I tried adopting a dog. Scam. F' me for trying to do something nice.

 

[Bank of Hawk]

About a year ago a church close to me was having some major renovations done. The contractor e-mailed the church about making a payment for work done up to that point and had a link where they could pay online. Later that day the church got another e-mail just like the first except the link was an http: link and not a https: link like the first one. They didn't catch the difference and sent all the info to the http: link. A few days went by and the contactor called the church wanting to know why the bill had not been paid. The church got in touch with their bank and found the account had been cleaned to the tune of around $800,000. The bank told them it was all done overseas and there was no way to get the money back.

cringeworthy and also the reason why it works for scammers.. can try 100,000 various scam attempts throughout the year and only need one of them to payoff bigly.

 

[Hendy hawk]

My mom (about 90 years old at the time) got scammed with the cliché telephone call from a grandson in distress. Took her for about $7k. I was pissed at the bank in her tiny Iowa town, because my name is on the checking account so they should have contacted me when she asked them to wire that much money. Maybe not in a large town, but everyone at the bank knows her, knows she was recently widowed, and knows she is gullible. They know my name is on the account specifically to keep an eye on her finances.

Ahhh yes, I remember about 10 years ago a young person calling me like this.
Actually, sounded like my 14 yr old grandson in Florida at the time. Said he was in Colorado at the time and needed money to get back home. Thought things were fishy him being where he was as no one we knew that he had a reason to go there for lived there.
I told hm he needed to call his dad (my son) for money, and he hung up. Realized then it might have been a scam.

 

[kcnole63]

Several months ago, my SIL (who is always short on money) took out a loan from an on-line loan company. She provided her bank information for the loan and the loan payments. Of course, the company turned out to be a scam and as soon as her next paycheck hit the bank (about $1600), they cleared out her bank account. For my SIL, this was a lot of money.

 

[EasyHawk]

The soles flop on my gold sneakers and I can’t find anyone to trade action figures with me and my Chinese watch runs slow. But it’s not over yet as I was told my trump bucks will bee worth millions on January 7th!