Worst scam you've fallen for

ILoveYourVibes

Hairdressers they know ****.

ILoveYourVibes

Also buying a ticket for a seat in an open air stand. You are still out in the elements!

ILoveYourVibes

Anyone who has to pay those charges to companies if you live in an apartment ...you are so so being scammed.

poisonated

I know someone who got talking to a guy and the guy asked her if she wanted to smoke a joint of weed. The girl said yes and then the guy pulled a (fake) police badge on her and robbed her. He then called her the next day and said that he was going to charge her unless she wired him money. Sounds like a weird situation. Not sure if she made it up.

The worst scam I’ve fallen for was trying to get a tuk tuk in Thailand and the only reasonable rate being offered was from a guy who said we would have to stop by a shop owned by one of his friends for a minute....an hour and a half later and we were still at the shop. None of us bought anything

G Shock

Has anyone mentioned "Carbon Tax" yet, because we're ALL being done with that one...

darragh o meara

Got caught in Times Square a few years back. Was standing outside McDonalds and these lads walked up to me and asked me if I wanted one of their new CD's for free. I thought OK something free and agreed to take one, this started this chap off telling me how he was trying to make it as a rapper and was giving out his CD's. After this he asked me my name and offered to sign the disc. After he gave me the disc he started looking for a donation so I offered 5 bucks but they got offended and were pushing for 20bucks which in the end I gave him.

Fast forward a few hours back in the hotel and I decide to listen to this up and coming rapper.... Nothing on the disc Crafty buck had bought a spool of blank CDs and was selling them for 20bucks a piece.

ILoveYourVibes

darragh o meara wrote: »

Got caught in Times Square a few years back. Was standing outside McDonalds and these lads walked up to me and asked me if I wanted one of their new CD's for free. I thought OK something free and agreed to take one, this started this chap off telling me how he was trying to make it as a rapper and was giving out his CD's. After this he asked me my name and offered to sign the disc. After he gave me the disc he started looking for a donation so I offered 5 bucks but they got offended and were pushing for 20bucks which in the end I gave him.

Fast forward a few hours back in the hotel and I decide to listen to this up and coming rapper.... Nothing on the disc Crafty buck had bought a spool of blank CDs and was selling them for 20bucks a piece.

New York is full of that. It was BUILT on that.

The REALLY good ones will be busking. Singing etc and possibly be good too. Getting donations in a hat etc.

Then they will get out CDS 'Here is a recording of our act what you just heard etc'

Put some money in the hat you get one. People put like ten dollars etc.

They are blank cds.

ILoveYourVibes

Oh charities. Fake ones or obviously dodgy ones etc.

the_pits

Years ago trying to quit smoking.
Walking through town saw two guys selling special liquid to help you stop smoking and claiming to have 100% success rate.

They asked me to light a cigarette and then take a drink of liquid, offered to hold my cigarette while I had drink, my next pull on cigarette was foul and bad taste in mouth.

Paid £20 for bottle and thought I was cured.

Later had another drink and smoke ....NOTHING ...Normal and all way through pack ...same

Found out later when they took cigarette off me they dipped filter into nail varnish
to give it that horrible taste.

MarkY91

archer22 wrote: »

Possibly but in any case he could have just told us to walk across the road..it was only a few minutes on foot

Anyhow no matter taxi fares are low in Manila.

Next time..use "grab" app. Cheaper taxi fares that are set price before you even acceot the driver. I'd never use s normal taxi in South east Asia.

branie2

People see religion as a scam

poisonated

I went to New Orleans and someone in boutbon said “I bet I can tell wheee you got your shoes?” The trick is to say that they are on your foot.

branie2

Or a shoe shop

razorblunt

poisonated wrote: »

I went to New Orleans and someone in boutbon said “I bet I can tell wheee you got your shoes?” The trick is to say that they are on your foot.

“You got them on Bourbon Street”.

Never saw that once on Bourbon Street, one of the lads did and told him to fûck off.

rob316

Never.

My dad told me two things "if it sounds to good to be true walk away" and "if someone says you owe them money let them worry about that not you".

BorneTobyWilde

Banana in the tail pipe

Peatys

About 2002ish.. i was an apprentice (shíte wages), one of the qualified lads told me about extremely cheap Dell laptops being sold on eBay.. i gave him the cash for one and he ordered two. Both of us were scammed and never saw a penny back.

Classic to good to be true story.

touts

Voted for Paul Murphy because he promised me someone else would pay for everything I wanted. Turned out I work for a living so I was the "someone else" he was talking about.

punisher5112

Scientology.... Didn't fall for it though....

Ciampino Airport, Rome. Arrived off a Ryanair flight looking for a taxi, and outside was a group of legitimate looking taxis. A “friendly” invited me to step inside a taxi which was allegedly being driven by his surly “son”. Pa was along for the ride, showing me the landmarks, and it did indeed seem that they took the most direct route. I was reassured. We arrived to my hotel, and car pulled up a little distance before the building and I wondered why he didn’t pull right up to the door. Pa had got out and was holding my luggage some distance behind the car, well away from hotel. “Son” said fare was €80, and when I said “what???”, he replied “it’s double for a Sunday, so it is now €160...pay up, pay up now, pay! Pay! Pay what you owe!!” I looked at “Pa” who was smirking, tightly holding my luggage and had boot open threatening to throw it back into boot. I very reluctantly paid and was thrown a fake receipt. Hotel staff said “oh you can never get a taxi from Ciampino, they are all mafia there”.

mr_fegelien

Speaking of, has anyone here ever gotten the Bank of Ireland scam texts that tell you "Your account is locked, please click on the link to unblock your account".

****ing phising website. Almost fell for it but realized that BOI and other banks never ask for all your online passcodes at once. Someone with a keylogger could take all that and use your account.

kenmc

Peatys wrote: »

About 2002ish.. i was an apprentice (sh wages), one of the qualified lads told me about extremely cheap Dell laptops being sold on eBay.. i gave him the cash for one and he ordered two. Both of us were scammed and never saw a penny back.

Classic to good to be true story.

I don't think you were *both* scammed....

astrofool

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Anyone who has to pay those charges to companies if you live in an apartment ...you are so so being scammed.

Yes, all those apartment blocks that didn't pay to upkeep the common areas are really somewhere that people want to live.

Peatys

kenmc wrote: »

I don't think you were *both* scammed....

Thought it looked that way when i typed it out, but yeah, both got taken to the cleaners.

astrofool

touts wrote: »

Voted for Paul Murphy because he promised me someone else would pay for everything I wanted. Turned out I work for a living so I was the "someone else" he was talking about.

10 years ago the oil off our west coast was going to make us all rich and we'd be living in a socialist utopia once we got rid of the corporations, fast forward, and the same people are trying to get it banned to tackle climate change, number of barrels produced in Ireland in the intervening years: 0 Talk about populism.

One More Toy

I was young and only starting out in investing, some guys called me offering alibaba pre-ipo shares at a knockdown price. They were based in Hong Kong. Anyway I was almost ready to go to the bank when I read a thread on here describing it as a scam. Thank God I did as I almost pulled the trigger on sending thousands of euro to these con artists. I was young and naive.

poisonated

I got a text from bank of Ireland saying that there were transactions on my card that I didn’t make and asked me to click a link. I thought this sounded fishy so didn’t click.

Stephen Gawking

P.R.S.I. has to be one of the greatest scams going. Work your bollöx off & get next to nothing back but pay for junkies & associated dregs to do phuk all whike they get so much more.

mr_fegelien

Stephen Gawking wrote: »

P.R.S.I. has to be one of the greatest scams going. Work your bollöx off & get next to nothing back but pay for junkies & associated dregs to do phuk all whike they get so much more.

Well you can be like my country Tanzania which has no form of P.R.S.I but it's a ****hole tbh...

Anyway, would you really like to live like a junkie tbh? I know Ireland has absurdly high taxes but when I hear stuff like this, I kind of think about people who say that prison must be a holiday camp cause of the playstations, gyms, and TV's. Yea, that's all good and well but you have to sleep and deal daily with ****ing murderers, assaulters, wife beaters, thieves.

mr_fegelien

poisonated wrote: »

I got a text from bank of Ireland saying that there were transactions on my card that I didn’t make and asked me to click a link. I thought this sounded fishy so didn’t click.

Smart lad. I almost fell for that. It's a phishing website used to take you to a scam site that imitates bank of ireland pretty well (must commend those hackers who do that for their ingenuity nevermind how immoral).