When Fraud Becomes A Side Gig

Scammers have been around for a long time and they are not leaving anytime soon! With the rapid growth of social media and other available platforms on the internet, more and more people are in the enterprise of scamming and manipulating random people.

Scammers use fake emergencies to play with people’s emotions to steal their money. They are counting on you to fall for their lies to help your friends or family. Sometimes they hit us with accurate information and other times, they are far from correct.

This office employee told a little story about when his office received an email from a supposed “Site manager.” The site manager Danny requested them to purchase gift cards from eBay for a client.

It is interesting to see how scammers take their time to compose a long text with the wrong intention. Perhaps this is a method to get people to confess right in the comfort of their homes if at all they are guilty. Reading the entire text sounds unintelligent; hence it couldn’t have worked.

Have you ever received a scam message that was so pathetic you couldn’t help but laugh? Well, you’re not alone. Some people share their hilarious encounters with scammers online for everyone to enjoy.

It’s no secret that Nigerian Prince scams have been circulating the internet for years. But what happens when someone falls for it?  That happened in a recent news story about $43 million in cash in a Nigerian apartment.

Scammers will stop at nothing to swindle people of their hard-earned money. Thankfully, some people are wise in their tactics and can see right through their attempts.

Scammers will try almost anything to get their hands on your personal information and money, but sometimes their attempts are so ridiculous that they’re almost comical. Take the conversation above, for example.

While hacking is usually associated with negative connotations, the conversation above sheds light on a more wholesome and heartwarming side of hacking.

Beyond the intended idea of sharing hilarious spam experiences, this right here seems so much like a two-generational beef. A beef between the old generation, who are more gullible to scams, and the new generation, who can not write cursive.

There are different levels to these fake/spamming activities from people. Imagine going to the extent of printing fake exemption cards; all in the name to avoid wearing a face mask? It’s unbelievable.

Nothing will ever make anyone miss the glaring signs on this ten-dollar counterfeit. First, this ridiculously looking figure is not the picture of Alexander Hamilton, who is the face of ten dollar U.S. note.

If you’re ever going to use this kind of scam strategy, the least you could do is source the right information. Walmart is a multinational retail store that anyone can research on.

All thanks to mobile phone technology, a lot of scammers now face busted situations with their strategies. It is quite a common thing for phones to detective any number that’s suspicious of spam, just like the shown image.

Attention, attention! If you receive a call demanding payment in the form of gift cards, don’t panic, it’s just your friendly neighborhood scammer trying to ruin your day. These grifters are so common, they should come with a “Don’t Fall For My Tricks” warning label.

This is not only hilarious, but also ridiculous. This is possibly the most flimsy scam attempt ever devised. The scammer attempted to take advantage of the pandemic fear and social isolation in 2020.

This has to stop. Cosplaying as celebrities to scam people has to be the laziest way to try to rob unsuspecting people of their money. The annoying part is that it works most of the time.

It always begins with a phone call from an unknown number, a text, or a dm on Facebook saying something like, ‘hey you’re among the lucky people who have won or are eligible for something that sounds awesome.’

Trust Them? Do you believe a low-budget Dwayne Johnson who asks for your debit card information in order to send $1000 to you, his random follower on another account? How do you respond when a con artist asks you to believe them?

One sunny day, while you are sipping your favourite beverage, you hear your phone ding. Guess who it is? Someone is asking for your banking details! Their claims have a sense of urgency, such that you need to take immediate action, or they offer false rewards, such as a prize. This one had a lousy sentence structure, but the scammer was straightforward.

You come across their website looking for a reputable company; everything checks out until you notice the conversations flooded with blanket statements. There are too many “maybes”, “ifs”, and a barrage of “we’re the best and we never scam anyone” scams.

The best part about inexperienced and unorganized scammers is their innocence and simplicity. It’s like your 6-year-old nephew trying to put on a sheet and scare you as if they’re a ghost. Only, you know it’s a grown man, and the entire thing is an extremely unfunny, annoying ordeal.

Strangers on the internet sell strange things, including ads claiming that you can live in IKEA for only $650 a month. That is a good deal, but you must admit it sounds a little sketchy. This isn’t Tom Hank’s movie; it’s real life; the ad does not involve an airport but rather a homeware store. These types of ads are a favourite way for scammers to prey on struggling people.

Scammers are usually on the lookout for new ways to trap people. Ironically, they are often forgetful of who they have scammed. This leads to them scamming the same individual twice in different ways. This scam is easy to catch and sometimes a little funny.

Any enthusiastic pet parent loves and takes their four-legged companion as a family member. So, if they stray away, it’s distressing for their owners. Unfortunately, lost pet scammers know how to target the most vulnerable as they know how much they desperately long to have their pets back.

What a funny way of sniffing out some dollars from fidgeting folks. So many things would jump into my mind upon getting such a letter from Telstra. The author doesn’t sound very bright, from their grammatical mess “we are formally inform you formally…” to their writing “TERT” for “TART.”

Some scammers act like no-brainers. How do you want to imagine Meta’s CEO going for a secondhand gadget? Meanwhile, Craigslist is known for thousands of scams.

Scammers are used to using big-name companies like banks or tech giants to trick naïve users into clicking on phishing links. A Reddit user said, “I get scams about my apple account by email and phone at least 3 or 4 times a month.”

Who said scamming was easy? That’s a hard job, even for the intelligent. This time, the scammer lost inspiration and went direct by asking for the user’s Facebook password.

Not every scammer is smart enough to cover their tracks. As someone said, “Common sense is seriously not common.”