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2 years ago

PSA- phone numbers and personal information in posts

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3 months ago

READ BEFORE POSTING HERE

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Posted by14 hours ago

Conversation with my “cousin” More than likely it’s not her but someone who hacked her account.

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Posted by1 day ago

House across the street is for rent. There's a real listing and a fake one

House across the street from me has been listed for rent for a bit now without much foot traffic. Not surprised given what they are asking for rent. The company that owns it has done a bunch of renovations though, it is looking nice.

All of a sudden yesterday there was a steady flow of potential renters looking at the house. It's one of those self-tour things, sign up for a time and they send you the lockbox code. One family knocked on our door and asked me if we knew the owner. I told them it's a corporation, but I don't remember off the top of my head. They had been texting with some guy who wanted them to cashapp the deposit. And the rent was half the market rate.

Been here long enough to know instantly that was a scam. Asked my better half and she remembered the company's name. Looked it up on the county records to confirm. We called the company and let them know about the fake listing. I'm guessing they changed the code, almost every daylight hour since someone has been standing outside unable to get in for their "tour". I've now stopped over a handful of people from getting scammed. Some have driven over 2 hours to see this place.

I stuck some signs up on the door warning of the fake listing, with the company's approval. Reported the fake listings I found on rent.com and apartmentfinder. They're still up. Called the police non-emergency number too. Let's hope no one else gets taken by these scammers. If you got any other ideas please let me know.

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Posted by10 hours ago

My girlfriend's dad has been investing money into a crypto scam company.

Is there anyway for him to get his money back? He says he is giving his money to a broker called Crypto-Guider and the platform he has been using is called Tnxtechno. He has put 10,000 CAD into this thing and he says he got 26,000 but they wont let him take his money out. He says they're going to try and make him a deal to stay with this company. He has been putting money into this thing since October of 2022.

Edit: since posting this, I have been privately messaged by several people advising me on how my GFS father can get his money back. Some of your advice has been to hire a hacker and other advice has been to reach out to a law agency. I intend on reporting this, but if you message me I'm just going to assume you're a recovery scammer even if your intention is to actually help.

Thank you all for your comments.

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Posted by18 hours ago

got scammed and the scammer is threatening me for money

hi, im a 19 year old student. i matched with someone on tinder. we shared nudes. and now he is threatening me for money or he will leak my nudes to my friends and family. i already sent him $1900 and $1400 is stuck on some app. he forced me to call the app and get the money. now he received $1200 and still asking for more. i dont have anything else.

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About Community

Online, offline, email, or postal. If you think someone is trying to scam you, this is the place to ask about it. Post your questions here and have them answered by people who are knowledgeable about all types of scams. If you have fallen for a scam, you can post your experience here to warn others. This is a help forum - bad advice will get you banned, and we do not consider "just joking" to be a defense of advice that would be harmful if followed.

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Our Community

Welcome to r/Scams, a subreddit for all your scam identification needs!

If you believe you are being scammed, you can post your questions here and have them answered by a community that is knowledgeable about all types of scams. If you are the victim of a scam, you can post here to share your story and to warn others.
We have detailed stickied threads to help you identify some of the scams we see most commonly in this subreddit; please read the stickies before posting!

Posting Guidelines

Posting guidelines:

You should post details in order to receive quick advice. Include details like: what the person sent you, details included in texts/emails/in-person conversation, etc. The more detail, the better. If you post screenshots, you should also copy and paste the text from the screenshot into your post so that the text shows up on Google and other search engines. Make sure you redact all personal information from your screenshots.
Given the nature of this subreddit, you should treat any external links as suspicious, and you should be careful visiting any unfamiliar websites.
External links, such as websites or videos, must be posted as a self post. We only allow images and self posts on this subreddit for safety reasons. If you use the link-only posting feature in this subreddit, it will be removed automatically by the AutoModerator.
Please try to use archive.is, archive.org, unvis.it, or another archive website instead of posting the direct link.
If you are posting an article, please copy and paste a few relevant paragraphs and submit them along with the link in a self post.
If you're posting about another redditor then please report them to Reddit admins at www.reddit.com/report

AutoModerator

You can summon AutoModerator to explain any of the following scams by writing a comment with an exclamation mark (!) in front of the keyword for the scam you want to be explained. If you would like to help expand AutoModerator's knowledge base, message the moderators. Here are the phrases the bot currently looks for:

list - AutoMod will respond with a list of all current keywords
advancefee/advance/advance-fee - The advance-fee scam
blackmail - The blackmail email scam
brushing - The brushing scam
calendar - The calendar spam technique
car - The eBay/Amazon car shipment scam
cartel/escort - The cartel threat scam
courier - Courier fraud
crypto - Fake crypto site scams
deaththreat - The blackmail email scam death threat variant
fakecheck/fakecheque - The fake check scam
fakepayment - The fake payment scam
google/googlevoice - The Google Voice code scam
influencer - Influencer scams
instagram - Instagram account takeover scam
job - Fake job scams
muse/artist - The muse fake check variant
mlm - Multi-level marketing schemes
parcelmule - The parcel mule scam
pet/puppy - The pet scam
pin/verify/verification - The verification code scam
ps5 - The PS5 tester scam
recovery - Recovery scams
refund - Refund scams
rental - Rental scams
review - The Amazon review scam
romance - The romance scam
sextortion/Skype - Sextortion/Skype sex scam
steam - The Steam admin/item verification scam
sugar - The various sugar scams
task - Task scams
techsupport - Tech support scams
tax/irs/cra/hmrc - Tax scams
underage - The underage girl scam
wrongnumber/Mandy - The wrong number/Mandy scam

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People who consistently give good advice will be given the "Quality Contributor" flair. If you think you deserve this flair, please do not hesitate to send a message to the moderators.