Ridiculous Scams

douglashyde

What is the worst/ridiculous scam you have ever come across?


After reading another thread comments, I decided to ask. What are the worst and most ridiculous scams you have come across?

I’ll go first:

Everyone is probably aware of this one; the scammer sends you money for something you are selling, however he accidentally over pays you – so you are to send him the difference by money transfer.

PhysiologyRocks

When you walk into a shop and they expect money in exchange for goods.

Madness.

OutlawPete

Winning the Lottery in foreign countires when you have haven't even entered it, seems pretty ridiculous to me.

IvyTheTerrible

The silliest one I heard was the crowd that want to export money in a suitcase of money but they don't want to get caught. So they say they have this method of dying money black, so it just looks like black paper, and then you use a chemical to remove the dye. You get ten percent for helping them or something.
Some people really got caught with that one in Ireland.

IvyTheTerrible

OutlawPete wrote: »

Winning the Lottery in foreign countires when you have haven't even entered it, seems pretty ridiculous to me.

Oh yeah or when I bank you don't have an account with sends you an email saying there is a problem with your account.

Corcaigh84

NAMA.

Riamfada

subscribing to boards.ie

Biggins

Grimes wrote: »

subscribing to boards.ie

Aye, they must be mad!

douglashyde

When someone calls saying that there is a Midget stuck in your bank account and that they need your bank account number to get in to let him out. Brilliant.

I love phonejacker.

anniehoo

This is not one word of a lie.My friends sister wanted to get a Bulldog puppy, but instead of going through the proper channels and/or researching anything about the breed she just googled it. Low and behold a breeder in Cameroon (!!!:p) of all places magically appeared.

She contacted the seller who obligingly replied and explained all she needed to do was pay the one way airfare ticket. So she did :rolleyes:...and waited for the reply to say the "puppy was on the plane"....guess what???:D

When my friend told me the story i nearly got sick laughing.The worst thing is her sister was shocked it was a scam. Seriously i worry about people sometimes

star.chaser

when you get an email from lloyds, barclays or some other british bank saying you've locked yourself out of your online banking account :rolleyes:

OutlawPete

anniehoo wrote: »

So she did :rolleyes:...and waited for the reply to say the "puppy was on the plane"....guess what???:D

LMAO

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Goldenquick

OutlawPete wrote: »

LMAO

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Lol@both!

anniehoo

OutlawPete wrote: »

LMAO

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ahahaha....i wouldnt be surprised if my friends sister thought this is how it was being flown either.

aine-maire

People should watch out for this one...

Saft Hans

Play TV

plein de force

i heard of a ridiculous one where an american woman got caught out by a nigerian sending her an e-mail saying he was royalty or some such and his country wouldn't let him acess to the fortune his father had left him in his will so all she had to do was give him her bank details and he'd transfer all the money into her account and she'd keep 30% of it

if you're that stupid to fall for such a ludicrous idea you kind of deserve it

Paco Rodriguez

An email correspondant from Ukraine, beautiful looking, naturally, who was using a sotware to translate what she wrote into English.......unfortunately the trial had run out and she needed $5,000 to buy it, and couldnt afford it. And she was the love of my life:rolleyes:

MitchKoobski

The Calvin Harris gig scam around Cork in October.
Some genius was putting up the posters everywhere and selling tickets. Cant remember what venue they listed.
Went down to visit a few mates for the week before Hallowe'en and heard about this quite clever but shoddily run scam. Everyone was buying the tickets, bar a few smart people, and it was only about 2 weeks after tickets selling that someone went to the venue to ask about it.
The gig never existed, every ticket was fake. I found this out the day I was heading back home, and laughed heartily.
The hilarious part was I was at a party later and this drunk girl came up to me, took two tickets out from between her boobs and waved them in my face going "ha ha look what i got, and i only had to give some guy a blowjob for them" and wobbles off.
Said guy then walks down the stairs with a big smile on his face telling everyone to shush.

Frank Spencer

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

The silliest one I heard was the crowd that want to export money in a suitcase of money but they don't want to get caught. So they say they have this method of dying money black, so it just looks like black paper, and then you use a chemical to remove the dye. You get ten percent for helping them or something.
Some people really got caught with that one in Ireland.

That scam plus others.

OutlawPete

Lottery win prank ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZiM1nx6Bxk