We all know how it feels to be duped by another person. And in this day and age of technology, many of us have smartened up to detect a scam from a mile away.
Yet, many fraudsters continue to strike using the internet as their primary tool. Fortunately, there are people online who expose their behavior and how they operate.
We’ve collected some of the best screenshots showing scammers at work. Many of these are blatantly silly, and they may feel like an insult to your intelligence. Nonetheless, they are entertaining enough and worth spending a few moments of your spare time on.
#1 Miami Restaurant Attempts To Scam Extra Tip
Was at Miami restaurant with 4 adults and a baby. When our “check” came, the waiter reads out loud the itemized list from his wireless POS device, and I said “sounds good.” He hands me the device to pay, and the only thing I see onscreen is $175.33 total and a keypad screen to add tip to this amount. No itemized list, no pricing breakdown. Just $175.33. Naturally I try to tip the 20% and write $35 but the screen calculated that as 25% tip. I thought that was strange so I kept guessing tip amounts until $28 rounded close to 20%. Again I had to guess because there was no price breakdown and the payment screen was the most confusing I’ve ever see on a POS. Finally make the payment and email myself the receipt.
Finally get back to the hotel and the emailed receipt thankfully had the entire pricing breakdown and I see there was already a 20% service charge on the bill that the server never told us about and I guess expected customers to blindly add a secondary tip hoping they wouldn’t read the receipt. I found this extremely unethical and I demanded the second tip back. Just remember to always check your receipts!
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#2 Someone Is Using My Girlfriend’s Recently Deceased Cat’s Pictures To Scam People On Gofundme
What the hell is wrong with people, my girlfriend’s cat passed away due to smoke inhalation from a fire on October 31 2024 and people are using it to scam for donations.
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#3 Church Running Scam And Somehow Involving Cancer In It
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#4 Pizza Scam At My Hotel
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#5 This One Made Me Laugh
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#6 Two “College Kids” Selling Chocolate Outside Of Target Said They Were Gonna Charge Me $5, Ended Up Trying To Scam Almost A Grand
Luckily im broke as heck and was notified immediately of it declining.
As a recent graduate, I thought I was supporting two kids going through it right now. Ended up calling the police to hopefully have them sent away.
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#7 I Finally Started My Own Business And Got It Listed On Google Maps. I Was Thrilled Until This Started Happening Every Single Day
I don’t even want to answer the phone anymore because it’s always a recording asking about “something wrong with my Google account” and I know it’s a scam. But I also want to be able to speak to my customers so I guess I’m just stuck in spam call hell forever now.
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#8 I Fell For A Scam
Phone scam. Apparently I had warrants for missing court. They knew my name, my preferred name, signature, and home addresses.
They told me they were my local sheriff, I had to pay bail and submit to a signature analysis but if I hadn’t paid first I would be cuffed and jailed for 72 hrs before appearing before a judge. They kept me on the phone for literal hours while I drove around trying to get $9300. I had my kid with me. They threatened me with jail and cps. The told me there was a gag order on my case and if I mentioned even that the money was for bail cops would arrest me. They told me there were officers within 3-5 blocks at all times to arrest me if I don’t comply. They tried to get me to cash app them when I wasn’t able to get anymore money out of atms. When that didn’t work they then had me go to a bitcoin ATM ( they called it a state bail machine). Thats when I saw a sign describing my exact situation. I told the cashier I wasn’t sure if this was legit and the scammer got irrate. Screaming threats including, cops, swat, labeling me as armed and dangerous, 1-5 years in jail, life in jail, and CPS taking my kid. I had the cashier call 911 because I was still terrified to hang up the phone. Then the scammers hung up. I sat in my car shaking for the next 10 minutes not sure who was coming cops I called or the swat ready for a fight.
I’m not a dumb person but it all felt so real. Now typing this I’m like ” dude how did you fall for all these red flags”. I was just trying to do the right thing. I’ve already made a police report, notified my banks, signed up for credit monitoring. I just wanted to warn people.
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#9 Can’t Use My $200 Printer And $50 Ink Because I Haven’t Subscribed To This This “Optional” Service. Such A Scam
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#10 Details Were Stolen From A Selling Page And Used To Book A Car Rental. Email I Received When I Cancelled The Booking
So I got scammed and went through the fraud team at my bank to cancel / reverse transactions. Police involved.
One was for a foreign car company rental who I called and cancelled a booking after explaining.
The cheek of sending me an email in broken English and trying to guilt me about their father!
The hee hee to say was more than mildly infuriating.
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#11 Ordered A $1000 Graphics Card From Amazon, Received 4 Cans Of Beef Ravioli
It showed up, in the sealed amazon box, and inside that the graphics card box still had intact security stickers and shrinkwrap. Taking it up with support, but also screaming internally for fear that they’ll think I’m the one scamming and won’t refund or replace.
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#12 Scammer Getting Slightly More Creative
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#13 My Dad Got One Of The Scam Stickers
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#14 Biggest Scam/Most Ingenious Invention In History. Probably Been Through Over 10 Of These Adaptors Since They Got Rid Of The Headphone Jack
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#15 Do Not Click The Link. If Your iPhone Is Stolen And You Get A New One, This Is A Phishing Scam To Confirm Your Apple ID And Asks You To Log In So They Get Your Password
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#16 Received A Ring In The Mail – Is This A Scam?
A few weeks ago, I received this ring in the mail. It was addressed to me, but I did not order it. It did not come with any explanation, no enticement to order more. The band is adjustable, and the metal seems cheap – it’s definitely not gold or precious metal.
This is all that came with it – that card, and the envelope it was contained in. When I went to the QR code, it gave a 403 Forbidden.
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#17 Amazon Is Scamming People With AI Now
For $10,000 no less. This should honestly be made illegal.
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#18 I Received A Scam Text After Posting For Help To Find My Lost Cat
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#19 Found This Scam On Facebook
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#20 I Received A Zelle Payment Of $530 By Someone I Don’t Know
I woke up this morning with a pleasing surprise, $530 into my account sent to me by someone I don’t know. I confirm the money is liquid and the notifications are legitimate. Soon, the man contacted me claiming it was an accident and to help him by sending it back.
I am aware of the scams where you send the money back and then they chargeback your account through support. I haven’t sent them anything back. I declined and told them to contact their bank.
What would you do? How long should I keep the money if it isn’t taken from me?
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#21 I’ve Noticed People Sharing Scam Texts Recently. I Decided To Play Along
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#22 Phone Was Dying And I Was In A Hurry, And Didn’t Get The Chance To Read It Properly Until I Got Home
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#23 Scammed
Bought a speaker on eBay. I was really excited about it. It was quite expensive but was excited still. UPS had two tracking orders, one said it was delivered. I had checked and it wasn’t there. Looked again on eBay and there was a second tracking saying it would come two days later. Thought it was weird but waited patiently. Then when it was supposed to be delivered it wasn’t. Checked my cameras, talked to my neighbors, had them check their cameras. Nothing came from it. Called ups they told me to wait for the next day to have them call me back. Never got the call. Called them, they said it was delivered to the wrong address. The guy told me the address yet he’s not supposed to. I called the place, it was an iPhone repair store. They said there was no package. Called eBay they had me wait 5 days before letting me know that they won’t give me a refund so to it saying delivered. Yet it wasn’t at my address. UPS confirms that it wasn’t at my address, yet they don’t care. They say the seller sent it purposefully to somewhere else. So they delivered it there. So I’m paid for litterally a massive headache. Never buying anything from eBay again. This scam seems to be foolproof.
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#24 Daily Reminder That Hp Is A Scam. Ink Cartridges Come With 75% Empty Space
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#25 Double Jerk
The ad in this app claims you win real money and shows videos and reviews of people saying it’s not a scam and they earn 100s of dollars a day. Then in the fine print, says it’s all for illustration purposes only. THEN they misspell “no rewards” on purpose to “now rewards”.
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#26 Amazon Package Was Dropped Off Outside At 7am. Someone Opened It And Stole The Contents Then Left This Scam Support Note
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#27 Some Dude Tried To Chat Up/Impress My Friend With His Signed Tiger Woods Driver… Except It’s Not
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#28 Using The Dutch Prime Minister To Promote Your Scam App
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#29 Ah Yes, Scamming People Who Are Gullible Business 101
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#30 Got A Gift Card For Christmas. When I Opened It The Glue Ripped Off The Last Few Characters, Making It Unusable. What A Waste Of $50
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