Ever Been Scammed?

On holidays in Morocco a few yrs ago I bought myself a lovely watch,only €30 but never got to wear it.....the dude in the shop kindly offered to pack it up in a nice box but he must have got mine mixed up with the one hand missing rusty piece of sh1t that I left the shop with!!

Naive or what and to make it worse it was on the last day so I couldnt go back and point out his error.....:(

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Almost on a daily basis you see threads on boards in relation to one scam or another be it something online, a call to your phone or something that happens to the street.

A good few years ago I got scammed by a chap that started coming to our local pub on a regular basis and one night 'forgot' his wallet so I spotted him a fifty. Worse fool me, last I ever saw of him!

Anyhow, that was small beans but I've seen and heard of people falling for scammers on a fairly large scale, i.e. running in to thousands.

So have you ever been scammed? Was it an ingenious well thought out ploy or were you just a dumbass (like me )?

Yup. A guy who a year ago took my wifes mac laptop to be fixed. He said if he couldnt fix it he'd give us our money back. it's now been over a year and we have not seen our 250 euros or laptop since.Worst thing is that he done work for mybrother all the time as my bro owns a business and we've never seen him again.

phoned him couple of times but kept saying he'll drop the 250 euros next time sees my brother again. but to no avail.

I've had a few minor cases of people taking advantage of kindness... but nothing damaging financially.

My Dad though is another story altogether. He was forced to pack a brand new top of the range mac book into his checked in bag on a flight from Miami to Heathrow. When he arrived the case had been opened and the laptop box had been opened with a knife - everything was still there... except of course the laptop. Can't blame him for that one - he should have demanded to be allowed to bring the laptop separately... but can't blame him for not jumping to the conclusion that Miami airport staff would steal from him. I have no doubt this is a regular occurance there.

He was scammed by the same scamming gardner twice... Willy, his name was.

He was scammed out of a loan/investment of 200,000... by a supposed long term friend.

He bought a car which as it turned out, ended up being stolen by the person he'd bought it off. By chance I happened to be driving it when this revelation popped its head up. I was taking the ferry back from Hollyhead when I was stopped by a radom police check. They lifted the bonnet and peeled off a fake chassis number. The car was taken, I was locked up and when released ended up being stranded in the utter ****hole that is Hollyhead for the next 24 hours.

He's had a few other petty scam / car related incidents, but at the moment nothing I can remember.

Either he's too trusting or just a bit daft...