Scams To Look Out For

[Breadbassket]

There is no lack of con men and shams in the world.

 

[urr13 account]

Generally just avoid indians and you should be okay.

 

[Basement Dwelling Dork]

Anything obvious such as toll scams or paying for your packages type of shit.

 

[clara red bottoms]

Taxes. You don't actually have to pay them. Medical bills also

 

[Nicholas Gur]

If you have yellow fever avoid dating apps or you'll end up in a pig butchering scheme.

 

[Ed Special]

Anyone promising to give you year-over-year gains comparable to or better than Nancy Pelosi's """""blind trust""""" stock portfolio with zero risk, is obviously full of shit

 

[General Emílio Médici]

If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

 

[The Last Stand]

If you're not careful browsing the Internet, you'll run into those faux Windows/Apple "tech support" sites with fake numbers scaring you that there's a virus on your device. I hate those things. I also hate when people fall for them.

 

[jameskopp]

If you're not careful browsing the Internet, you'll run into those faux Windows/Apple "tech support" sites with fake numbers scaring you that there's a virus on your device. I hate those things. I also hate when people fall for them.

You’ll be fine unless you’re a grandma.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

those stupid fucking toll text messages they keep sending me

 

[MrTroll]

Nintendo claims that it is releasing a "Switch 2", but I have it on good authority that they've really just taken an original Switch and painted a white "2" on it without changing anything. Don't believe their lies.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

I got a text a few days ago from the "dmv" demanding I pay a fine or lose my license. I always wonder how many people actually fall for that. Like, statistically, how dumb are we?

 

[hotcheetospuffs]

I called to activate a new credit card and without realizing dialed the number one number off. I got a live person who asked for the card number and all my info and the person didn't speak the way most customer service people speak and seemed to not have a script or possess phone skills. I got suspicious and hung up, checked the number, and sure enough, I had called the wrong number. Scammers had acquired a number that was one number different than the credit card activation number.

Lesson: make sure you dial the correct number.

You can report scams here. https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Generally just avoid indians and you should be okay.

Any time I pick up the phone and I hear an Indian accent, I immediately hang up. If they call me again, I ignore them. It's to the point that I only pick up the phone if I recognize the number.

 

[Brenda Holiday]

Don't give cash to panhandlers

 

[oh no its pipkun]

Any time I pick up the phone and I hear an Indian accent, I immediately hang up. If they call me again, I ignore them. It's to the point that I only pick up the phone if I recognize the number.

The VOIP war dialing has gotten hilariously worse since covid. the ones that call me multiple times a day are debt scammers.

 

[Rogue AI]

Have there been enough people who have been catfished by ai celebrities to start a thread on them? The woman who gave fake Brad Pitt 800,000 dollars had the original article taken down about her because people were trolling her.

 

[NoReturn]

Somebody texting you out of nowhere as a "Wrong number" who continues to text is usually an intro to a pig butchering scam as well.

 

[FamicomGorby]

Somebody texting you out of nowhere as a "Wrong number" who continues to text is usually an intro to a pig butchering scam as well.

I got some of those, bein an introvert that's suspicious of everyone really paid off. Besides that it was always "some attractive woman is randomly texting you and keeps doing so after you told them it's a wrong number." Only retards, who I get are their target demographic, would fall for that.

 

[biglurker]

Somebody texting you out of nowhere as a "Wrong number" who continues to text is usually an intro to a pig butchering scam as well.

I think a lot of them also phish for data in these. I had three in a row a few months back, and the scammer texting kept trying to get a name out of me and shit like "do you like dogs?!?!"