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50 Times People Pulled An Uno Reverse Card And Trolled Scammers In The Most Satisfying Ways
Interview With Expert
Whether we'd like to admit it or not, we fall for scams sometimes. Maybe not we Pandas particularly, but we as a society. According to a report by the Global Anti-Scam Alliance and Feedzai, scammers siphoned away over $1.03 trillion globally in 2024.
Yet not everyone is so easy to scam. Some people know how to play scammers at their own game, and when they put their scammer detective hats on, hilarity often ensues. We love to see scammers getting payback, so, we've collected some of the most creative and funniest conversations of the kind. See them below and rejoice!
We also want Panda to be safe online and know how to protect themselves from scammers. So, we reached out to Jake Moore, the global cybersecurity advisor at ESET, Europe's number one cybersecurity company. He kindly agreed to talk to Bored Panda about the risks of scam-baiting, the most common scam tactics today and offered some practical tips on how to keep scammers away. Read his expert insights below!
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#1
Scam Texts. But Scammers Are Such Fun To Mess With At Times
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#2
Currently My Go To Response:
Just found this sub and love it. I got a bit to learn from you guys regarding baiting them in for a bigger sting.
#3
Tolkiened A Scammer Out Of Existence On Telegram
#4
Got Eeeeem
#5
Got A Message From A Scammer, Decided To Play With Them A Little
Whatshername 1 year ago
Since I learned that people are enslaved in scam farms, things like this hit differently. Especially the "I beg you" 🥺
#6
My Buddy’s Fb Account Got Stolen And I Already Knew About It. This Was Fun
#7
First Time Getting A Scam Text. Had Some Fun With This One
#8
Oops
Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago
I read this in Kip's voice from Napoleon dynamite- when he calls out the door to the girl selling her caboodle crafts "your mom goes to college!"
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
An oldie, but a goodie. Sorry Moms, but these snarky retorts will never go out of fashion.
#9
So Sad
#10
Wanna Date?
#12
After Years Of Texts, I Finally Responded
This person has been texting me this exact message for years. I am not Lile and I do not live at this address. For context, I sent him a photo of the house from Texas Chainsaw M******e.
#13
Molly Doesn’t Remember The Accident. Poor Girl
#14
Another CEO Gift Card Scam
#15
Short And Sweet… They Are Being Tracked In Their Nightmares
#16
Tarot Scammers On Instagram “Feeling My Energy” Just From Reading My Username
#17
This Is How I Deal With These Jerks
Bewitched One 1 year ago
I would’ve said the daily subscription cost of 299 per daily fact lol
#18
Well That Escalated Quickly (Common Whatsapp Scam That I Have Been Getting)
#19
Scammers, I Always Have Fun With Them, Do You?
Wang Zhuang 1 year ago
It's hilarious how some scammers don't even bother to read what their potential victim is saying
#20
Scammer Text From Today
Pitbull Dad 1 year ago
Hi its Elysia again "Do you have time to talk about your car's extended warranty?"
#21
I’m On The Books Guys. I Cannot Wait For My Appointment
#22
Went With The Plot Of Ozark
#23
I’m A Lil New To This
#24
Got A Scam Text
#26
I Finally Got One! How Did I Do???
#27
Bad Scammer, Good Sport
#28
First One How Did I Do?
#29
I Did My Best To Help Them. They Are Not Responding Anymore But Will Update If They Do
#30
Another Fake Cam Girl Scammer On Instagram Again, They Really Need A Policy For This Stuff
#31
First Attempt And I Have No Self Control
#32
I Think I Took It Too Far
#33
Rip Kelly
#34
Laughed A Little Too Hard Messing With This Scammer. Can't Believe He Didn't Want To Go To Our Mother's Funeral
#35
Who’s Scamming Who
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
Ah yes, the well-known fact that you can opt out of taxes by just telling the IRS 'STOP'
#36
Had A Little Fun With A Scammer. They Didn't Take It Well
#37
I Hate When Scammers Don't Do The Smallest Bit Of Research Ahead Of Time
Peeka_Mimi 1 year ago
They even hit you up on games like jeopardy and the like. They've tried the Army sweetheart scammer on me and I was actually in the Army. Despite me saying that, they keep up the scam as long as they can. I figure as long as I'm keeping them busy, it's one less vulnerable person they're scamming.
#38
Got The Ultimate Response I Worked For…
#40
A Pleasant Conversation I Had With A Whatsapp Scammer Today
#41
Nice Try Buckaroo
Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago
Who wants a rock hard boner for 5,5 hours? Doesn't Viagra's warning label tell you to go to the ER after 4 hours?
#43
This Guy Must Be New
Kohl_Keene 1 year ago
They’re so brazen now I don’t think they care. I got one from “LisaAndFrank@hotmail.com” and it said it was from the IRS. 🧐
#44
I Played An UNO Reverse
#45
No Response
#46
I Have Never Been Called This Before
#48
Scammers Don't Fall For Scams
#49
“I Think You’re A Psycho Patient”. All Pics I Got From A 1 Second Google Search
#50
Scam Gone Wrong
#51
My Boss Needed Apple Gift Cards
#52
Scammer Angered By “What”
#53
Louise Here
#57
Scammer Got Ahold Of A Local Artist’s Instagram And Messaged Me. Luckily, I Was Playing A Show With The Guy At The Time (And I Work At A Bank So I Know These Scams)
#61
Scammer Pretended To Be My Grandma
Recently got this Facebook DM on my personal account and got really excited bc I have talked to my grandma in a really long time and thought she might’ve changed her mind, low and behold it was a scammer pretending to be my grandma. I’m so tired of this.
LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
All of my grandparents died by the time I was 8 - the youngest of them would be around 110 years old (the others closer to 130) so I'd love to see someone try to scam me this way. 😄
#62
Bored With Them Now So I Just Do This. Wrote A Python Script That Takes Text And Randomly Cases It. They Usually Stop Pretty Quickly
#63
Get Scammed, Scammer. Long But Worth It. Was Wondering What Sending A Wall Of Memes Would Illicit. Anger, I Guess
#64
I Respond To Scam Texts Differently Than Most
LauraDragonWench 1 year ago
The tail end of the convo and that last line - I'm wheezing so hard I'm crying!
#66
Craigslist Phone Scammers Are Annoying
#70
Phishing Scammer Gets Sent A Masked Url To Meatspin
#71
Ever Since I Found This Subreddit I’ve Been Looking Forward To Being Texted By A Scammer! Finally!
#73
Though So Short Lived, I Thought Yall Might Get A Good Laugh. 99.9% Sure This Was A Scam Attempt
#74
Trolling Made Scammer Mad LOL
#75
Should I Be Worried?
I’m kind of new to this subreddit and I gave myself an opportunity to scam a scammer back and I actually succeeded, but the only problem is that they have my number and they can have the opportunity to text me. Now the way that “she” said “I’ll make you surfer” is kind of worrying me a little bit and I don’t know if she actually means it or not. I’m kind of freaked out. And I’ve seen at least seen 13-17 year olds do it and have fun. But I’m kind of worried about the outcome for me though. (I’m 15 years old with somewhat high anxiety). I just need some clarity if they’re actually bluffing instead to strike fear.
#76
Finally Got My First One
Had a good laugh with this one throughout a long work day so figured I would share. Blocked them before they had a chance to respond to the last pic.
#78
The Old Mum I Changed My Number Scam
They must be desperate. They didn't even pretend to care about what I was doing, just straight into pay for this.
Besides everybody knows it's the phone that dies not the sim card. Am I wrong for being disappointed in the effort they put in?
#79
I Got My First Scam Text. I Woke Up To The Text And Replied Cuz I Wasn’t Having It And Then It Clicked That I Can Mess With The Scammer, Apparently The Darkhold Doesn’t Phase It
#81
Scammer Tried To Steal My Email. This Trick Is As Old As My Great Grandma That Passed Away Last Year At The Age 102!
#82
I Scammed The Scammer
#83
They Still Haven’t Replied
I was cracking up the entire time typing the last paragraph, and was really hoping for a response back as i had a lot more stuff to share.
#84
Snitched
So I got a text from "yahoo" earlier today saying something along the lines of "someone has tried to add a phone number to your account. Rely 'N' if this was not you, otherwise just ignore this text." Without thinking, I replied "N". Something seemed off, as I didn't get an immediate auto response. So l went online and logged into yahoo. I changed my password, checked to make sure I still had two factor authorization set up, and looked at my account activity. There was nothing there regarding any phone number change attempts Fast forward to about 10 minutes later, I get another text from the original number saying I need to provide them with the security code that yahoo is sending me so that they can secure my account. While reading that text, I get a text from yahoo with a verification code. Naturally I deleted both conversations and just went about my day. Another ten minutes goes by, and I get another text (pictured below) about how this is my last opportunity to send my yahoo verification code. Boom, another code comes through from yahoo. Being as I am home with Covid and bored, I decide to see who I can cry and whine to about this. After a few minutes poking around, I find myself filling out a cyber scam report on fbi.gov. Once I was done, 1 was about to close the web page when I thought 'let's have some fun for once! So I took a screen shot of the page and sent it to the scam number. I couldn't be happier with the response I received.
#86
Its Been 30 Mins And No Response. U Think The Scammer Caught On To My Third Person Reply. Clearly A Whatsapp Scam Baiter. They're Giving Me The Silent Treatment Now
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Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
I understood that the best advice is to ignore scammers, so that they don't have confirmation that your contact number is a valid one. I've never received anything like these, are they just whatsapp (which I'm not on)?
Michael Fernandez 1 year ago
I get 1-2 per week over regular SMS. My practice is, if a message appears to be from a company I deal with, I log on separately to their website; if they want to contact me, whatever they texted me will be there. If it’s from a “government agency” (e.g., Post Office) it’s bogus, as only snail mail is official. Otherwise I just report it as junk. The only links I’ll click on is if they’re from someone I’m expecting; e.g., a link to check in for a medical appointment.
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Ron Man 1 year ago
I made it through about 15 of these before I realized I really didn't care and reading other people's messages is annoying. If you made it all the way through, you may have been scammed.
Binky Melnik 1 year ago
Same here. I didn’t find the handful I read clever or funny. I think I’ll skip these from now on as they’re not interesting. I watch a fellow on YouTube who drives scammers out of their damned minds (you can tell from some of their emails that they’re in tears!) and I enjoy the snot out of that, but SMS scans are sooo very dull.
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Trisec Tebeakesse 1 year ago
I am partly bi-lingual. I respond in Russian, complete with Cyrillic alphabet. I usually never hear back from them again.
Roberta Surprenant 1 year ago
With phone scammer, act like you can't hear anyone on other end. Poor guy was yelling "I am here!"
Karen Klinck Klinck 1 year ago
I call them back at 2 AM. You tried to get hold of me today?
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TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 year ago
my mother told me earlier today in the car that i shouldn't respond to scammers, since they might be overseas and that it would cost money or something among those lines(i wasn't really paying attention). then i found this post and downloaded a few images so i can try the responses and see what the scammer does lol
Corvus 1 year ago
I remember one case from many years ago, and it was in real life, not by phone. I was going back to the dorm with my college roommate, when two girls stopped us on the street and claimed they knew us. We denied, as they were clearly strangers. So they gave us this whole story how we met on a sea resort last summer and partied so much, and there was even "some chemistry" between us. Spoiler: neither of us had been to a seaside resort the previous summer, so it was a very obvious lie. Mispronouncing my rommate's name didn't help their case either. I'm not sure what exactly they were trying to pull off, but it didn't work...
Sandra Bull 1 year ago
There are a lot of untrue recommendations and its hard to tell who is legit. If you have lost money to scam contact (Zattechrecovery AT Gm ail| com) they will surely help you out. Took me long to find them.
silverfish imperitrix 1 year ago (edited)
When I get scam calls I answer the phone with "This is Agent Smith from the Nevada Department of Consumer Affairs. May I have your full name and business license number please?" Either that or "I'm glad you called. Did you know your car warranty is about to expire?"
Lily Anne 1 year ago
These are good and definitely feel good, but since the discovery of that scammer factory in Myanmar, I always think, that the person on the other side is probably under some sort of duress too. There were people from 30 nationalities, some of them kidnapped against their will and made to scam other people, and if they didn’t make the quota, horrible things were done to them. I’d recommend doing as people in Japan do- just report what has happened to the police. If you are fast enough, they can be cyber tracked.
Karen Klinck Klinck 1 year ago
I haven't been bothered by a scammer in almost 40 years. Back when I first started working for the county, I used to get them all the time. At work, for crying out loud. This was an official government account. (I sometimes really wonder about people.) I've gotten them from 'lawyers', 'bankers', and my favorite, 'the IRS'. My absolute favorite was the Nigerian lawyer. (Nigerian princes were a stock joke by then.) It seemed an unknown distant relative had died in a car accident and left me 5 million dollars. This was in '81 or '82, I believe. I didn't own a computer, myself, so this utter moron was sending this c**p to a government computer. Oh, but I'm adopted, does that make me ineligible? Oh, no, no, no! ust send me the details of your bank account, and I'll take care of everything. To quote Bill Cosby, Ri-i-i-ight!) But there's my brother, and my parents, shouldn't you contact them, too? No, no, just send me your bank information, and *you'll* get the whole thing.
Karen Klinck Klinck 1 year ago
NEXT: According to an ancestry listing, there are 200 people in America with the same name spelling. What about them? No, he specified you. (If he was an unknown distant relative, why?) Are you sure about this? That's a lot of money. Yes, ust send me your bank information, and it will be deposited directly. By this time it's Friday; this farce started Monday morning. My final reply to him was, Oh, how wonderful! I'll forward all this to my lawyer and let the two of you work out the details! Never heard anything more from the--ah--Nigerian lawyer.
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Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
I understood that the best advice is to ignore scammers, so that they don't have confirmation that your contact number is a valid one. I've never received anything like these, are they just whatsapp (which I'm not on)?
Michael Fernandez 1 year ago
I get 1-2 per week over regular SMS. My practice is, if a message appears to be from a company I deal with, I log on separately to their website; if they want to contact me, whatever they texted me will be there. If it’s from a “government agency” (e.g., Post Office) it’s bogus, as only snail mail is official. Otherwise I just report it as junk. The only links I’ll click on is if they’re from someone I’m expecting; e.g., a link to check in for a medical appointment.
Load More Replies... Ron Man 1 year ago
I made it through about 15 of these before I realized I really didn't care and reading other people's messages is annoying. If you made it all the way through, you may have been scammed.
Binky Melnik 1 year ago
Same here. I didn’t find the handful I read clever or funny. I think I’ll skip these from now on as they’re not interesting. I watch a fellow on YouTube who drives scammers out of their damned minds (you can tell from some of their emails that they’re in tears!) and I enjoy the snot out of that, but SMS scans are sooo very dull.
Load More Replies... Trisec Tebeakesse 1 year ago
I am partly bi-lingual. I respond in Russian, complete with Cyrillic alphabet. I usually never hear back from them again.
Roberta Surprenant 1 year ago
With phone scammer, act like you can't hear anyone on other end. Poor guy was yelling "I am here!"
Karen Klinck Klinck 1 year ago
I call them back at 2 AM. You tried to get hold of me today?
Load More Replies... TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 year ago
my mother told me earlier today in the car that i shouldn't respond to scammers, since they might be overseas and that it would cost money or something among those lines(i wasn't really paying attention). then i found this post and downloaded a few images so i can try the responses and see what the scammer does lol
Corvus 1 year ago
I remember one case from many years ago, and it was in real life, not by phone. I was going back to the dorm with my college roommate, when two girls stopped us on the street and claimed they knew us. We denied, as they were clearly strangers. So they gave us this whole story how we met on a sea resort last summer and partied so much, and there was even "some chemistry" between us. Spoiler: neither of us had been to a seaside resort the previous summer, so it was a very obvious lie. Mispronouncing my rommate's name didn't help their case either. I'm not sure what exactly they were trying to pull off, but it didn't work...
Sandra Bull 1 year ago
There are a lot of untrue recommendations and its hard to tell who is legit. If you have lost money to scam contact (Zattechrecovery AT Gm ail| com) they will surely help you out. Took me long to find them.
silverfish imperitrix 1 year ago (edited)
When I get scam calls I answer the phone with "This is Agent Smith from the Nevada Department of Consumer Affairs. May I have your full name and business license number please?" Either that or "I'm glad you called. Did you know your car warranty is about to expire?"
Lily Anne 1 year ago
These are good and definitely feel good, but since the discovery of that scammer factory in Myanmar, I always think, that the person on the other side is probably under some sort of duress too. There were people from 30 nationalities, some of them kidnapped against their will and made to scam other people, and if they didn’t make the quota, horrible things were done to them. I’d recommend doing as people in Japan do- just report what has happened to the police. If you are fast enough, they can be cyber tracked.
Karen Klinck Klinck 1 year ago
I haven't been bothered by a scammer in almost 40 years. Back when I first started working for the county, I used to get them all the time. At work, for crying out loud. This was an official government account. (I sometimes really wonder about people.) I've gotten them from 'lawyers', 'bankers', and my favorite, 'the IRS'. My absolute favorite was the Nigerian lawyer. (Nigerian princes were a stock joke by then.) It seemed an unknown distant relative had died in a car accident and left me 5 million dollars. This was in '81 or '82, I believe. I didn't own a computer, myself, so this utter moron was sending this c**p to a government computer. Oh, but I'm adopted, does that make me ineligible? Oh, no, no, no! ust send me the details of your bank account, and I'll take care of everything. To quote Bill Cosby, Ri-i-i-ight!) But there's my brother, and my parents, shouldn't you contact them, too? No, no, just send me your bank information, and *you'll* get the whole thing.
Karen Klinck Klinck 1 year ago
NEXT: According to an ancestry listing, there are 200 people in America with the same name spelling. What about them? No, he specified you. (If he was an unknown distant relative, why?) Are you sure about this? That's a lot of money. Yes, ust send me your bank information, and it will be deposited directly. By this time it's Friday; this farce started Monday morning. My final reply to him was, Oh, how wonderful! I'll forward all this to my lawyer and let the two of you work out the details! Never heard anything more from the--ah--Nigerian lawyer.
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