People getting scammed stories

Russ T Banger

To be honest I question the IQ of those who get scammed, i know one girl who responded to an online ad for a puppy for €100, coming from none other than Nigeria. She sends it off by western union and the shnake asks for more cash

Anyone have similar stories?

J_E

Some phishing emails have gotten really good - be really careful with anything that asks for your details or for you to click links, check the sender address as that will almost always give you a good indication of whether what you received was legitimate or not. Nearly got caught out once or twice.

whiskeyman

I went out to get a pint of milk the other night, and when I got home and opened the bag, it was a laptop!!
Can't make a decent cuppa with that...

The Diabolical Monocle

They got me twice.

Susan 26 Dublin didn't want to ... meet me after all. The money I spent on plane tickets.

The giant wanger pills didn't give me a giant wanger.

Pawn

Russ T Banger wrote: »

To be honest I question the IQ of those who get scammed

Me too. Let's be friends :rolleyes:

LizzieJones

I lost $15.00 in a scam once. I know it isn't a lot of money but it was the mid-eighties and I had very little cash at the time.

Stupidly, I had sent the money in to one of those newpaper ads advertising how to earn extra cash at home. I never realized at the time it meant their home.

Stavros Murphy

Russ T Banger wrote: »

To be honest I question the IQ of those who get scammed, i know one girl who responded to an online ad for a puppy for €100, coming from none other than Nigeria. She sends it off by western union and the shnake asks for more cash

Anyone have similar stories?

There was a Prime time special on people getting scammed with the "dodgy draft, get the tax book, sell it on quick to the next lad" scam. There was a couple on, faces blacked out, and I kinda went, jasus, sorry for ye, but feck sake, etc etc.. next day one of the lads who worked for me asked if I had seen the programme..I was about to launch into the whole "yeah, the feckin eej.." when I bit my tongue and he goes "that was me and the missus, the feckers got us for thousands.." And it gutted them and ruined their whole year financially, especially as she was due a second kid shortly afterwards.

TLDR: Scammers are scum who damage peoples lives, nice, decent, ordinary people, people just like you and me. Cnuts.

StinkyMunkey

This thread has the smell of a scam to it!

michael999999

I once voted fianna fail!

Kristopherus

StinkyMunkey wrote: »

This thread has the smell of a scam to it!

You mean a Stinky smell:D.

GenieOz

Getting scammed once can happen to anyone and anyone who 'questions the IQ' sounds like a bit of a pompous arsehole to me.
It's those who get scammed time and time again that I wonder about

Stavros Murphy

GenieOz wrote: »

Getting scammed once can happen to anyone and anyone who 'questions the IQ' sounds like a bit of a pompous arsehole to me.
It's those who get scammed time and time again that I wonder about

I've never been scammed, ever, and when those Nigerian millions plop into my AIB account, ye'll all be jealous.

Pawn

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Nigerian

Racist.

She sent a puppy to Nigeria by Western Union?

J_E

GenieOz wrote: »

Getting scammed once can happen to anyone and anyone who 'questions the IQ' sounds like a bit of a pompous arsehole to me.
It's those who get scammed time and time again that I wonder about

Totally agree, the best scams are the ones you never hear about or see, some very intelligent people out there who can manipulate money out of people, even if they're not the dopes people make them out to be.

Pawn wrote: »

Racist.

But even Nigerians themselves sing about their infamy in scamming...

Pawn

Cydoniac wrote: »

But even Nigerians themselves sing about their infamy in scamming...

Doesn't matter, they are racist too!!!

GenieOz

Cydoniac wrote: »

Totally agree, the best scams are the ones you never hear about or see, some very intelligent people out there who can manipulate money out of people, even if they're not the dopes people make them out to be.

Absolutely. There are plenty of scams out there in action that even the smartest people will be drawn in by, no matter what they say.
It's not always as simple as a western union transfer that people seem to assume.

HerrScheisse

I know of a fellow that arranged a mail order bride but was too cheap to go to the post office to collect her.

The One Doctor

My 'friends' asked their friends over for a few drinks one Friday evening. Turned out they wanted them to invest in a hotel room pyramid scheme they had going.

Some friends.

Stavros Murphy

Pawn wrote: »

Racist.

Homophobe.

orangesoda

I was scammed a few times, once with a video camera and other buying x-rated stuff, I hope the scum burn in hell for it, it wasn't big money so i learned my lesson without much harm. I know the scumbags name in one of the occasions

Stavros Murphy

orangesoda wrote: »

I was scammed a few times, once with a video camera and other buying x-rated stuff, I hope the scum burn in hell for it, it wasn't big money so i learned my lesson without much harm. I know the scumbags name in one of the occasions

Filmed by it or bought one that turned out to be a plonker? I bought a "Sony" video camera out in the Canaries that turned out to be a piece of crap when I took it out of the box. TBH, I was kinda impressed more than pee'd off. Them lads were slick. The "Sony" bit was in my head, so I conned myself, as is usually the case. Cheap? Normally nasty.

orangesoda

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Filmed by it or bought one that turned out to be a plonker? I bought a "Sony" video camera out in the Canaries that turned out to be a piece of crap when I took it out of the box. TBH, I was kinda impressed more than pee'd off. Them lads were slick. The "Sony" bit was in my head, so I conned myself, as is usually the case. Cheap? Normally nasty.

No i purchased on and the scumbag never sent it i have his name and phone number but i never bothered reporting him to the police as the savage filthy scumbag would probably have set his ghetto chums on me

Stavros Murphy

orangesoda wrote: »

No i purchased on and the scumbag never sent it i have his name and phone number but i never bothered reporting him to the police as the savage filthy scumbag would probably have set his ghetto chums on me

filmed it and stuck it up on Youpube as well. With "your" camera. The divil.

orangesoda

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

filmed it and stuck it up on Youpube as well. With "your" camera. The divil.

i text him every day for a month after it calling him all the names under the sun

emeldc

There was a kerryman once, who scammed CIE.
He bought a return ticket and didn't go back.

::o Sorry, too much beer.

Stavros Murphy

orangesoda wrote: »

i text him every day for a month after it calling him all the names under the sun

You need to movie on with your life.

Mammanabammana

Plenty of entertaining stories here of people scamming the scammers, not just catching them out but really nailing them. Worth a read...

http://www.419eater.com/html/letters.htm

Lou.m

I will be the first to say I am easy to scam. (And I will not be responding to your pms after this post nor shall I be looking at responses offering cute puppies and kittens from Nigeria).

I tend to assume the best in people and see the world through rose tinted glasses.

And now I must escape your nefarious scamming clutches and not look in this thread again.

Fred Swanson

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Stavros Murphy

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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At work, every time I walk into a pitch, I have to bite my tongue to stop from going "Gooooood Afta noon Sah!"

Pinch Flat

I always wonder about these scams and how people fall for them. Low iq or full ability perhaps I some some cases, pure greed in others. The black money scam apparently raked in a disproportionate amount if victims here a few years back - buying a suitcase of money that's been dyed black? Yeah sounds legit

Gmol

There was a clever guy a few years ago who wanted to buy a bank, lost his business over it.

Mink

When I was about 19 I unfortunately got sucked into that Women Empowering Women pyramid thing. You basically buy a "heart" for 3k or 1/2 of one. It goes to the person at top of pyramid and they get a lump like 12k. Everyone moves up a level etc. I had a couple friends doing it and they had come out with 12k and we're going through again. One of them spotted me the 3k. My sis also got into it. Of course it had been running a few months and was now being exposed and it broke up. My friend didn't come looking for the 3k but my sis got boned, as did a lot of others.

Serious rude awakening at 19 at how easy it is to just trust someone you know and get sucked into the con.

Mink

A friend of mine was investing the last bit of savings he and his wife had (say 3.5k) into a "business idea". So he bought a bunch of iPods from China and they all turned out to be fake - just the shells with same serial number on them.

He and his wife also got involved in at least 4 multi level marketing (pyramid) businesses and each failed. Each time they started one, it was the best thing ever, telling us we should get involved etc.

Mink

Ok last one, guy my husband works with ACTUALLY gave his bank details to one of those Nigerian prince email scams. He mentioned it to my husband that afternoon as he started to have a bad feeling about it (!) so my husband got him on the phone immediately to block his account. Amazingly he didn't get robbed by that point.

SamAK

Bought a quarter of hash in school when I was 15, turned out to be tree bark wrapped in tin-foil. Lost 30 quid.

That was the first and last time!

Felt really stupid for ages, but now...reading some of these posts.....HAHA.

tricky D

Plenty of insight into people not seeing the wood for the trees in this Banner Brokers thread: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056789845

Capt'n Midnight

I've got plenty of scam stories and tips to guarantee you will never be scammed again.

Check out your credit card on my site.

rwg

Mink wrote: »

Ok last one, guy my husband works with ACTUALLY gave his bank details to one of those Nigerian prince email scams. He mentioned it to my husband that afternoon as he started to have a bad feeling about it (!) so my husband got him on the phone immediately to block his account. Amazingly he didn't get robbed by that point.

Thats because its not very easy to withdraw money from a bank account using bank account / sort code

Fred Swanson

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Capt'n Midnight

rwg wrote: »

Thats because its not very easy to withdraw money from a bank account using bank account / sort code

It's actually a gullibility test filters out anyone too smart to fool easily. Anyone still talking at that stage is a mug.


also
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7174760.stm

Clarkson published details of his Barclays account in the Sun newspaper, including his account number and sort code. He even told people how to find out his address.

"All you'll be able to do with them is put money into my account. Not take it out. Honestly, I've never known such a palaver about nothing," he told readers.

But he was proved wrong, as the 47-year-old wrote in his Sunday Times column.

"I opened my bank statement this morning to find out that someone has set up a direct debit which automatically takes £500 from my account," he said.

"The bank cannot find out who did this because of the Data Protection Act and they cannot stop it from happening again.

"I was wrong and I have been punished for my mistake."