I Almost Got Scammed Today

[Loyal]

It's a day like today when the World seems to be a little meaner and I am easier to take advantage of than I thought.

There was a slick video on YouTube that I liked about a compact MotoCompo clone, done by a mechanical engineer. It was well crafted and had fun things like a nerf arrow launcher. It was meant to be compact enough to fit in a hatchback car. They were built by Honda in the 80's but were never sold in the USA. This guy built one and sent it to a much more popular YouTube channel called Bikes and Beards. The opening of the crate and building the bike was featured on B & B and redirected traffic back to the engineer's channel. It was smart in all ways and so I subscribed to the channel.. Anyway, I received a notification that I had won a prize, apparently from the engineer's channel. I contacted the scammer and they told me I won this $1500 prize and to just send $85 for FedEx shipping. Alarm bells went off, but this seemed to be from the channel itself. I almost paid through PayPal and then I examined the highlighted post more closely and it went to an empty YouTube channel.

I feel like a fool.

 

[norcalramfan]

It's a day like today when the World seems to be a little meaner and I am easier to take advantage of than I thought.

There was a slick video on YouTube that I liked about a compact MotoCompo clone, done by a mechanical engineer. It was well crafted and had fun things like a nerf arrow launcher. It was meant to be compact enough to fit in a hatchback car. They were built by Honda in the 80's but were never sold in the USA. This guy built one and sent it to a much more popular YouTube channel called Bikes and Beards. The opening of the crate and building the bike was featured on B & B and redirected traffic back to the engineer's channel. It was smart in all ways and so I subscribed to the channel.. Anyway, I received a notification that I had won a prize, apparently from the engineer's channel. I contacted the scammer and they told me I won this $1500 prize and to just send $85 for FedEx shipping. Alarm bells went off, but this seemed to be from the channel itself. I almost paid through PayPal and then I examined the highlighted post more closely and it went to an empty YouTube channel.

I feel like a fool.

I get them in my email all the time. I check the email address every time to make sure its a legitimate vendor.

 

[Loyal]

I get them in my email all the time. I check the email address every time to make sure its a legitimate vendor.

This was in the actual video and highlighted with the avatar of the actual channel owner. That's what confused me.

 

[nighttrain]

It's a day like today when the World seems to be a little meaner and I am easier to take advantage of than I thought.

There was a slick video on YouTube that I liked about a compact MotoCompo clone, done by a mechanical engineer. It was well crafted and had fun things like a nerf arrow launcher. It was meant to be compact enough to fit in a hatchback car. They were built by Honda in the 80's but were never sold in the USA. This guy built one and sent it to a much more popular YouTube channel called Bikes and Beards. The opening of the crate and building the bike was featured on B & B and redirected traffic back to the engineer's channel. It was smart in all ways and so I subscribed to the channel.. Anyway, I received a notification that I had won a prize, apparently from the engineer's channel. I contacted the scammer and they told me I won this $1500 prize and to just send $85 for FedEx shipping. Alarm bells went off, but this seemed to be from the channel itself. I almost paid through PayPal and then I examined the highlighted post more closely and it went to an empty YouTube channel.

I feel like a fool.

you didn't fall for the scam, good job. you are no mark amigo!
train

 

[TK42-RAM]

It's a day like today when the World seems to be a little meaner and I am easier to take advantage of than I thought.

There was a slick video on YouTube that I liked about a compact MotoCompo clone, done by a mechanical engineer. It was well crafted and had fun things like a nerf arrow launcher. It was meant to be compact enough to fit in a hatchback car. They were built by Honda in the 80's but were never sold in the USA. This guy built one and sent it to a much more popular YouTube channel called Bikes and Beards. The opening of the crate and building the bike was featured on B & B and redirected traffic back to the engineer's channel. It was smart in all ways and so I subscribed to the channel.. Anyway, I received a notification that I had won a prize, apparently from the engineer's channel. I contacted the scammer and they told me I won this $1500 prize and to just send $85 for FedEx shipping. Alarm bells went off, but this seemed to be from the channel itself. I almost paid through PayPal and then I examined the highlighted post more closely and it went to an empty YouTube channel.

I feel like a fool.

Did you say you almost got scammed and almost paid? … but didn’t .

Makes you smart in my book. Good work to get wise to it. We all have to keep vigilante with these online parasites.

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

It's a day like today when the World seems to be a little meaner and I am easier to take advantage of than I thought.

There was a slick video on YouTube that I liked about a compact MotoCompo clone, done by a mechanical engineer. It was well crafted and had fun things like a nerf arrow launcher. It was meant to be compact enough to fit in a hatchback car. They were built by Honda in the 80's but were never sold in the USA. This guy built one and sent it to a much more popular YouTube channel called Bikes and Beards. The opening of the crate and building the bike was featured on B & B and redirected traffic back to the engineer's channel. It was smart in all ways and so I subscribed to the channel.. Anyway, I received a notification that I had won a prize, apparently from the engineer's channel. I contacted the scammer and they told me I won this $1500 prize and to just send $85 for FedEx shipping. Alarm bells went off, but this seemed to be from the channel itself. I almost paid through PayPal and then I examined the highlighted post more closely and it went to an empty YouTube channel.

I feel like a fool.

My in-laws fell for one of those years ago. It opened my eyes. I get free gift offers through texts and email and Fakebook. I delete them. If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.

 

[snackdaddy]

I'm still waiting on that ten million a Nigeria prince promised me. Sounds legit. All I had to do was give him my bank account info and social security number for tax reasons.

 

[Dodgersrf]

Basically, anyone that calls you is a scam.
Always hang up and log in to your account. Or call a number that's on your bill.

I got a call yesterday from someone claiming to be from Amazon and needed to verify a $1000 ipad purchase.
Amazon doesn't make phone calls.

The same goes for utilities. Utilities don't make phone calls either.
A few years back, someone called my girlfriend at the time, claiming to be from Edison and they were shutting off the electricity by 2 pm if the bill wasn't paid to them directly.
I told her to call Edison, using the phone number on the bill. Not the number they gave her.
She called Edison and her bill was verified as being current and wasn't being shut off.

Just hang up on anyone you don't know.

 

[snackdaddy]

When I get calls that are suspected scammers I like to mess when them. Like when someone said my social security account was compromised and asked me to verify my number. I said "Oh my god. Thanks for alerting me. Here is my number. 555-EAT SHIT! Ha ha you think I'm that stupid?"

 

[Loyal]

When I get calls that are suspected scammers I like to mess when them. Like when someone said my social security account was compromised and asked me to verify my number. I said "Oh my god. Thanks for alerting me. Here is my number. 555-EAT SHIT! Ha ha you think I'm that stupid?"

Well, we are getting older and like small dogs....

 

[snackdaddy]

Well, we are getting older and like small dogs....

When I start biting ankles its time to worry.

 

[RamFanWA]

My wife got wired into this scam - and was in the process of acquiring debit cards, until I intervened... I'm like, that is not how the county works - they use snail mail, exclusively.

You receive a phone call or email claiming you’ve missed jury duty and must pay an immediate fine to avoid arrest. The person contacting you demands personal or financial information or payment by wire, gift card or reloadable debit card.

But that was close!

 

[Tano]

My wife unfortunately fell to the you need to verify a paypal purchase scam.

If you submit this entry, you will get credit your paypal account for the $20 purchase

Oh no - you hit the wrong decimal point and credited your paypal account $2000. You must pay us back in the next hour.

My wife called me frantically that she was doing something wrong and needed to pay the paypal account for $1800

I had to leave work and come home.

My wife was talking to a guy from India and I got on the phone and basically said FU asshole scammer and hung up.

He called back and told my wife they were sending an arrest notice to my wife and finally my wife wised up and said go ahead asshole and hung up.

We put the number on phone block and we are still waiting for the arrest warrant on her

 

[RhodyRams]

the following texts are screen shots of a conversation I ha add with a text scammer

fyi Fr.Paul is the real pastor of my church, but this wasn't him obviously.. they got my number because I advertise in the church bulletin

I think I uploaded them in correct order

 

[snackdaddy]

A co-workers elderly mother almost got scammed out of $2K. She got a call that her grandson was in jail and needed to be bailed out. He's the co-worker's son. She's in her 80's and very gullible. She likely gave them her grandson's name by mistake and they used that to convince her it was legit.

She was literally in the Walmart parking lot with the $2K to meet the guy. But when she called my co-worker to say she was bailing her son out, the she called her son and he was at work. She told her mom to get in the car and get out of there. Her mom said there was a guy walking through the parking lot looking for someone that was probably him.

I told her someone better be monitoring her calls because they know they were close. She'll be on their list and they will try again at some point.