Scams To Look Out For

[Meat Target]

You know you're interviewing for an MLM when the company can't tell you what their business does in plain English.

 

[Soup Sammiches]

Look, buddy I'm just collecting for charity. Chicago All Saints Hospital. Just make out your checks to C.A.S.H. and I'll be on my way.

 

[Dysnomia]

Look, buddy I'm just collecting for charity. Chicago All Saints Hospital. Just make out your checks to C.A.S.H. and I'll be on my way.

Some guy in Pennsylvania was doing this by recruiting random kids to go door to door with him. The kids were found safe. But that's scary. People still fall for this sort of thing. Same with the guys posing as utility workers. Always ask to see proof that the guy from the gas company really works there. People do fall for those scams. One guy will be talking to you outside while his partner goes in and helps himself to your valuables.

I once got a colored index card in the mail saying I owed a ton of money to this medical company and need to pay it right now. Sadly, there are people that fall for these "red card" scams. If you owe money to a company they will give you official mail in a company envelope. They won't send a red, green, blue or yellow index card with random capitalized letters.

 

[oh no its pipkun]

Look, buddy I'm just collecting for charity. Chicago All Saints Hospital. Just make out your checks to C.A.S.H. and I'll be on my way.

I don't think "cash" works as well as it did even a decade ago. a few banks refuse to cash checks made out to cash and the ones that do want ID even paki bodegas don't cash checks made out to cash.

 

[Mister Fister]

I had an Indian call my wife to tell me that someone had bought 9 illegal semi automatic handguns using a credit card she had never opened, and I live in a Pro-2A state.

 

[Made In Wales]

Had a call earlier from some weirdo stating that I had 'non compliant asbestos' in my attic as insulation.

I told him 'Bullshit, I have fiberglass insulation and I'm not interested in your scam.'

The idiot then got irate, called me a liar and said he'd report me to the Police.

My reply to that was 'Oh good, I love 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic''.

I've still not (as yet) been arrested for having non-non compliant asbestos.

 

[WilliamDeLaPole]

Received a call from someone named, "Medical." . I have no contacts named Medical and none of the doctors offices I go to call with that name, so I let it ring. They didn't leave a message, called again, no message, so I blocked the number. If you've got older loved ones, make sure they don't label any of their contacts generic names so they don't get confused by a situation like this.

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

When you buy a house you will get tons of scam mail and it'll look real. If you're buying with a partner and mail only has one of your names on it, it's fake. If it has both of your names still verify it. home warrantys are scams.

If you finance a car you'll get mail saying your payment is unusually high and they can lower it.

This will sound really stupid, but if you work retail or know an older person who does, and also handle cash office stuff or the ability to activate any gift cards you should be aware of scam phone calls. I have known multiple people to fall for these, workers and overnight stocking managers. They'll call and pretend to be corporate or someone and say they need gift cards activated and threaten your job, often at closing hours or even overnight. In my experience they are not Indian or foreign. They are everyday Americans as far as I can tell. One was a young girl who seemed very anxious and unsure of herself. It makes me think someone out there is coercing these people into doing this.

Any website that sells guns and ammo and lets you purchase these with ZELLE, crypto, or PayPal is a scam.

Don't purchase any potentially life saving equipment off Amazon (like tourniquets). Or name brand flashlights. You're very likely to get a fake even when ordering from say "Streamlight" for a flashlight. Amazon just throws everything in one bin. Lots of fakes.

Been seeing a lot of scam texts lately like others have said about licenses, tickets, tolls, etc.

If you have older people in your life who have someone "investing" their money for them. Verify them. They will take everything from them.

 

[User names must be unique]

I had taken to just repeating hello over and over when the pajeets call me, it really seems to rile them up but I haven't had any call me in a long time.

Their most common gambit was pretending to be from my mobile network operator but they were always pretending to be the wrong one probably because I've moved my phone number across 5 different networks. That could potentially be a way to protect a vulnerable person from at least some of the scams.

 

[Day of the Cope]

I've run into a lot of "can I pay you now to hold it for several days?" type scams trying to sell stuff that's been collecting dust. It's pretty much always a reverse etransfer type scam.