People getting scammed stories

Russ T Banger · 2014-04-11 22:17:51

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?

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#32 12-04-2014 01:03AM

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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

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#33 12-04-2014 01:05AM

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

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#34 12-04-2014 01:42PM

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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.

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#35 12-04-2014 01:45PM

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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.

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#36 12-04-2014 01:48PM

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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.

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#37 12-04-2014 01:51PM

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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.

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#38 12-04-2014 02:01PM

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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

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#39 12-04-2014 02:17PM

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

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#40 12-04-2014 02:24PM

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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

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#41 12-04-2014 02:30PM

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#42 12-04-2014 02:31PM

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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."

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