27 Of The Most Obvious Scams That People Still Fall For

Better robed than naked.

Oh Lord. That could turn ugly, lol.

My cat got out and was lost, I made the mistake of posting in a few places with my phone # and immediately got scammers like this - it was so infuriating

Yep, that one is a scam.

If you’re ever unsure of a message’s veracity, NEVER click a link in the message. Call the usual support line or type the business’ main website address yourself and log into your account to find out if there’s an issue.

If you're not in my contacts, you can leave a message. Don't answer and punch numbers or scream at them, whatever. All you're doing is letting them know your number is active. Real spammers will not be deterred.

They're just as big at scamming as the worst of them.

It feels like a turtle biting your leg... 😂😂😂

Can someone tell me how Zelle functions that it enables scammers? Never used it before

Is it possible someone else picked up order and driver assumed it was customer?

Wait, so apparently the airline staff put them in a taxi to go from one terminal to another? I’m really not buying it. While JFK is somewhat confusing given how many terminals there are, the train between them is clearly marked, easy to access and one would literally have to purposefully avoid it to get to a cab stand. Who is ever at an airport and thinks the quickest way they move people between terminals is a taxi through arrival & departure parking and all the stops for unloading or picking up and pedestrian crossing to islands? This is silly. Also, I can’t imagine for a second with all the security & cctv that some airline employee is running a scam with a cab driver, given that the ease with which to identity the scam and the culprit. While I’m usually not skeptical or cynical, I cannot see how this really happened as told in this story. And I fly transpacific twice weekly!

Imagine meeting a creature IRL that looks like that filtered thing! You'd remember for sure.

Chocolate company? Watch out, Wīlly Wonka's sister is trying to lure some new Oompah Loompah into her grasp!

Hmm, I should show this to our security guy as an idea for next "will you click on phishing link?" exercise.

That was someone full of cr@p trying to scam money. Once they realized it wasn't working they went off the rails.

I love you you and your friend go out to dinner to celebrate the little things like a random stranger's number being one digit off hers.

Lucy really gets around, doesn’t she?

This one is over my old head.

A great AD block works for ones like this.

Never sure if these should be read left then right, or top down.

That's why I have Firefox with Ublock Origin on PC and Revanced on my phone. I haven't seen an AD in a very long time.

Why so scammers I’ve themselves away by asking about the weather. “We haven’t seen each other/talked/emailed/texted in ten years! How’s the weather?” because EVERYONE contacts old friends after years because they don’t know how to Google the weather. 🙄

Why is anyone buying anything of tiktok? More importantly why is anyone over the age of 13 using tiktok?

Maybe not a scam as such, more like predatory and opportunistic. Instead of checking whether a car was legally parked they just boot everything and if you can produce the parking receipt take off the boot.

Biggest giveaway is offering to pay $500 for a 1-2 min song. Shoulda gone with $5 then switched to abuse and an assertion that the artist should be paying because it's worth loads more for the exposure.

That's a very typical replica based on a real lighter that, if I'm not mistaken, is in a museum. Is seriously anyone surprised that they didn't get the original? Should be obvious.

So how does this scam actually work? They're offering to pay. You can create an invoice through paypal. So what? the person does some sort of charge back against the paypal payment? Or do they believe the person is fishing for their paypal name in the hope they can guess a password and get in?