For the last year, police have been warning people to be alert to scammers demanding payments in the form of iTunes vouchers, after an 80-year-old woman was tricked out of $4,000. However, because he was both aware of the scheme and suspicious of a stranger who kept calling him ‘baby’ in every other message, Jay Hall from Virginia, USA knew precisely what to do when he got demands for iTunes gift cards.
“I have not been targeted in the past by this particular iTunes scamming scheme, but I have had friends and family who have,” Jay told Bored Panda. “Unfortunately some people really do fall for these sort of phone scams.”
After making sure the scammer was hopelessly in his will, the guy took them on a savage journey they will never forget. “I just wanted to waste as much time of the scammers time as I could,” he added. “I was also bored at the time, haha. I came up with the phishing script as it happened.”
Jay was surprised the scammer went along with the absurd for so long, too. “To a normal person, it should have been pretty evident pretty quickly that I was an internet troll.”
Scroll down to check out how everything unfolded and if you’d like to see how other master trolls get back at people trying to con them, fire up our older posts here and here, too.
The more time these scammers waste being strung along by alert people, the less time they have to be conning the vulnerable
Amen. I'm not concerned about scammers feelings or time. Live by the sword, die by the sword "baby"
Load More Replies...This is funny. But fortunately for the scammers there are still a lot of idiots who fall for these simple tricks. You might think that in this day and age people are much more cautious. But no, they send money to complete strangers like they are billionaires. Their daughter sends a whatsapp-message asking for a gazillion dollars and they send it without even giving her a call to check what's going on. Next they are surprised and outraged when it turns out that it wasn't their daughter. Even the ancient "Microsoft helpcenter scam" still works. Getting rich robbing the stupid and gullible is really quite easy.
Probably is--that's why the title has "girl" in quotes.
Load More Replies...Yeah...leading along scammers is the new humor...Love it. Never tire of it!
I got a call once from a person who said they were from the IRS and I owed like 25k to them but I could "settle my debt by paying $200" over the phone I hung up on them and when they called back (same guy) he said he was an officer and that I would get arrested for hanging up on them... I played along for a minute but then had to go back to work so I just hung up on them again and he called me like 18-20 more times....I'm still not in jail so apparently the phone police haven't found me yet....
I did mention to him at one point that he could speak with my PO officer (he had no clue what that was also I DONT HAVE A PO) that was fun to say too.... I'll take any additional ideas cuz they keep calling
Load More Replies...As a woman who's on dating app, women get this same thing and its insanely easy to spot these "romance scammers" because they all have the same script, background story and no concept of casual conversational English. "I'm in the US military on a peace keeping mission in (insert African country)" They also lay on the romance talk incredibly thick and what they think women want to hear is HILARIOUS. Sometimes its fun to string them along.
I hate reading these--can we just have a bunch of PSAs and be done with it?
I am sorry, but if you get scammed by this person, or anyone like them, you deserve it. You would have to be a total moron...
The more time these scammers waste being strung along by alert people, the less time they have to be conning the vulnerable
Amen. I'm not concerned about scammers feelings or time. Live by the sword, die by the sword "baby"
Load More Replies...This is funny. But fortunately for the scammers there are still a lot of idiots who fall for these simple tricks. You might think that in this day and age people are much more cautious. But no, they send money to complete strangers like they are billionaires. Their daughter sends a whatsapp-message asking for a gazillion dollars and they send it without even giving her a call to check what's going on. Next they are surprised and outraged when it turns out that it wasn't their daughter. Even the ancient "Microsoft helpcenter scam" still works. Getting rich robbing the stupid and gullible is really quite easy.
Probably is--that's why the title has "girl" in quotes.
Load More Replies...Yeah...leading along scammers is the new humor...Love it. Never tire of it!
I got a call once from a person who said they were from the IRS and I owed like 25k to them but I could "settle my debt by paying $200" over the phone I hung up on them and when they called back (same guy) he said he was an officer and that I would get arrested for hanging up on them... I played along for a minute but then had to go back to work so I just hung up on them again and he called me like 18-20 more times....I'm still not in jail so apparently the phone police haven't found me yet....
I did mention to him at one point that he could speak with my PO officer (he had no clue what that was also I DONT HAVE A PO) that was fun to say too.... I'll take any additional ideas cuz they keep calling
Load More Replies...As a woman who's on dating app, women get this same thing and its insanely easy to spot these "romance scammers" because they all have the same script, background story and no concept of casual conversational English. "I'm in the US military on a peace keeping mission in (insert African country)" They also lay on the romance talk incredibly thick and what they think women want to hear is HILARIOUS. Sometimes its fun to string them along.
I hate reading these--can we just have a bunch of PSAs and be done with it?
I am sorry, but if you get scammed by this person, or anyone like them, you deserve it. You would have to be a total moron...
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