Scammer ‘Sells’ This Disabled Woman A PS5 For $450 And Never Sends It, So She Decides To Mess Up His Life
It’s been difficult to get your hands on the new PlayStation 5 since its release. So if someone really wants the console, they have to be open to all kinds of opportunities.
Which is why artist Brittany Everette pursued one that presented itself on Twitter. Or at least she thought it did.
“This guy … reached out to me saying he was selling his PS5 digital edition that his fiancé gifted him because it was the wrong version. He was selling it at the regular price too,” Everette tweeted.
The woman was skeptical at first but he seemed genuine, so she agreed to a 50% down payment and the rest 50% on arrival. And that’s when she realized she was being scammed.
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The woman never had any personal interactions with scammers prior to this experience. So for someone without any “formal” training, you gotta give it to Brittany, she’s certainly quick on her feet!
“Surprisingly, the authorities haven’t responded after I reported the scam,” Brittany told Bored Panda. “The only thing I’ve received are confirmations that my reports/complaints were filed.”
She said the reaction her thread has received was overwhelmingly supportive. “I had no idea my story would reach this many people. The amount of love and positivity has been truly incredible.”
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Even though she got her money back, Brittany still doesn’t have a PS5. “I’ve tried every restock at Target, Walmart, Amazon, GameStop, Sony, and Best Buy with no luck,” she explained. “Bots buy entire stocks out within seconds then resell them for over $1,000. I really want one, but it’s starting to seem impossible (this is me asking if Sony wants to send me a PS5 digital edition).”
And she isn’t alone in this situation. Sony has created one of the hottest gadgets of recent years in the PlayStation 5, but its launch has been spoiled by scalpers who are buying up scarce supplies and threatening the long-term health of the company’s most important product.
Scalpers, who buy the PS5 at retail and then resell at a higher price, have long been a challenge in the gaming business. But the problem at this particular time is even bigger since the coronavirus has squeezed production and pushed more console sales online — where scalpers use sophisticated bots to buy up the PlayStation 5 (and the new Microsoft Xbox).
These bots constantly monitor online stores for changes in inventory and supplies, then automatically place orders and check out in seconds when the goods become available. The technique is based on familiar web-crawling or scraping technology, but specifically tailored for e-commerce and can sometimes jump to the front of order queues.
A console’s debut is planned to set off a virtuous cycle of consumers rushing to buy the devices, while developers release games that capitalize on new graphics and processor capabilities, increasing the demand on both sides.
“The PlayStation 5 could miss a critical chance to get into a good hardware-software upward spiral,” said Kazunori Ito of Morningstar Research. “The peak of the platform will likely be low and the platform’s total revenue earned won’t be as strong as we hoped for.”
As for Brittany, she isn’t ashamed she got herself into this mess and thinks other people shouldn’t be too. “At the same time, don’t let the scammers/scalpers get away with it! Hold them accountable for the terrible way they’re treating people,” she added.
People think Brittany handled the situation like a pro
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Children, please don’t imitate that one without checking your countries’ laws before. Pretending to be a lawyer can get you in serious legal trouble in several countries.
But I doubt if any scammer will file a complaint or report you to the police. Criminals generally aren't too keen on contacting the police.
Load More Replies...I don't know how she was able to know that the new twitter handles were for the same individual. Also, how did she find the e-mails of his fiance? This kind of information doesn't seem like something you could get from a simple internet search.
Load More Replies...I got ripped off and called the USPS police. Holy cow that's where retired nazis go to work. never be afraid to get them on your side if scammed and snail mail is involved.
A long-time friend of mine (and most decidedly not a Nazi, as his father and his family fled Germany to get away from those vermin) spent his career as a USPS lawyer. His work motto was that of Bruce Banner aka The Incredible Hulk--"Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."
Load More Replies...Just dont pay someone in advance, find one in your own city and then Dont buy them from people trying to make money off the lack of PS5s I just report everyone of them on Facebook marketplace as a scam. Ive noticed no one reselling the new Xbox
Especially paying them the second amount before getting your stuff - Stupid.
Load More Replies...Ok, I give her credit for following through, but all that effort could have been avoided if she had not sent good money to a stranger.
I see what you're saying but also have you sold anything online before? I wouldn't ship anything until I was sent the money first. But I do usually go through Ebay or Marketplace so it's more legit.
Load More Replies...People think they will never fall for a scam, but I almost did fall for an apartment fraud. So ... Don't gudge. I am happy she got her money back, because the police dosent help much
Idk, I’m not convinced the bank AND Apple Pay would be unable to do anything. Also I get that ps5s are currently not in stock, but I sure as hell wouldn’t buy one off a stranger for basically a new price. I mean, f**k scammers, and if this story is true she was just trying to help a guy out. But you gotta be super wary of this stuff.
After you send the money, yeah it's a done deal.
Load More Replies...I think it is a bit presumptous. I agree he needs to be punished but he may be a d**k and a loving das (speaking as someone who cut all ties with her dad). Most relationships are not this onedimensional.
Load More Replies...Hey, quick question, up near the top they were saying how the text bubbles were green. Does that mean something important? Sorry, I know this is probably a really dumb question.
I know this was ages ago but I can answer your question. Blue Text Bubbles mean when the person is using iPhone to iPhone. Green Bubbles mean an iPhone user is texting to an android user so if the author used Apple Pay it should have been blue text bubbles.
Load More Replies...What we really need is some kind of organisation that would look into scams and other frauds like this with a view to getting things either back to how they should be (ie money back) and/or getting them into court. If such an organisation existed they could be given legal powers to actually take people away from their homes to ask them questions. To make it fair they could have, say, a lawyer or something? Anyway, it's a shame nothing like that exists..
There are. In Germany are love-scammer-hunters for example.
Load More Replies...So that we’ll disregard her bad decision to foolishly send the 2nd/final payment? To me it reads as: being disabled makes/made her profoundly more sensitive (than the rest of us) to his sick daughter therefore, it excuses her bad decision, and any judgements about the bad decision are unacceptable. Emotional manipulation, which is one of the reasons I doubt the story. Sharing that she took Ativan is equally irrelevant to the story but sharing both these things may be intended to “check the boxes” relating to any special/protected classes, which (for some) makes her above reproach. As though anyone who reveals their skepticism is attacking their disability/race/gender, etc. Those with dissenting opinions are often treated with contempt and, to sharer & those who agree with/support sharer, is a justifiable. For some, it’s okay to be hateful but it’s not okay to respectfully disagree.
Load More Replies...I'm so happy for you. It can seem too hard to get justice but once you're on a roll, it's not about the money anymore. You are called to a higher purpose. The energy and resources you discover and access become limitless. What you have shown is a true superpower better than any stupid Marvel character. You are an authentic superhero!
i loved this! i don't know if anyone else in the 90s got a phone call regarding a bill that was looong overdue to the tune of a couple of hundred dollars but i did. the guy was so official sounding regarding the legal issues i would face if not paying. so, that was when i told him that i was an officer of the court via the district attorney's office (which was true) so i would like to speak to a supervisor regarding the statute of limitations of such a claim. he said he would have someone call me and then...never heard another thing.
RIGHT ON LADY. So if everyone could pull this off it would be great. I was scammed on my debit card and the bitch thought I still lived at the area code on my phone which was attached to the information. What the bitch didn't know was I had moved and she lived in the same city as me now. So when she called Better Buy and bought a 600 dollar camera on my card, she did the STUPID THING Best Buy does which is let ANYONE pick it up. BUT since the Best Buy she chose was ten minutes from me I went down there and showed them the fraudulent use of my card, and my email from my bank they gave me a copy of her State I.D. with name and address. I went to P.D. and showed them all the evidence including her name and address, my emails and bank info and in this state over 500 is a felony. SO I got to follow them the next morning when they went to her apt and after she answered and tried to lie and say it wasn't her they showed her a copy of her license and picture and then she (continued below
tried to bolt and they grabbed her. They did not show me to her as boyfriend was linebacker large and not the same color as me. They said here is the camera can she be released and the cops said NO. Since the amount was now a felony she would be arraigned and bail set. So she got bailed out according to cops and they asked if I would testify and I said yes but she took a plea, did 20 out of 30 days. Got my money back and Best Buy got their camera back as the money had been taken out of their account by my bank.
Load More Replies...I am so sorry but I couldnt stop laughing for 5 minutes at that bratz doll picture 😂
Really sad to see to what extent one is left to fight alone by the "authorities" who SHOULD do all of this work! And who DO all of it if YOU have an unpaid parking offence etc.
The best part of this story is that you showed yourself to be an honest and kind-hearted person, while he acted like a crooked, cold-blooded, manipulator (also stupid). When the money is long gone, those two things remain. You also may have warned off another woman he would have hurt. Congrats.
“Surprisingly, the authorities haven’t responded after I reported the scam"? More like, unsurprisingly.
They always always say Buyer be wear greed to have the latest whatever is why scammers succeed
This article describes how "regular shoppers" will get so disgusted with not being able to buy hot items. I can see this as the potential demise of online shopping for those types of items. Anyone who figures out how to identify and stop scalper/scraper purchases will make bank.
The online retailers know. Who else would buy up their entire stock of an in-demand item the second it's available? It isn't that they can't identify the scalpers, it's that they don't care. It's all money in their pockets.
Load More Replies...Same thing happened to me but I trace their IP and was able to find his location and kicked their door (figuratively or or not is up for you to decide). Called the local PD and told them what was up and they helped me get my money back. Dude had TONS of consoles just sitting in his living room which were confiscated by the PD as they had been purchased using stolen money from various people.
Hell yeah! The best part of this is the -far more- money and heartache she saved the fiancé and her child.
I dud something similar. It's not hard to find people, when they're idiots.
Yeah, I run a law firm in the CoV, and frankly...I'm impressed. Homegirl did some homework--though she night want to try using paypal next time...?
This is why I never buy things from people online. Too many dishonest people looking to scam others. If I want to buy something, I'llgo to the store itself and buy it.
Way back in early 2000s, I had a pricey Graco stroller that eventually was recalled 2 years later for a fast fix-it part. Prior to the recall, as a first time mom who invested in a "good" stroller to last, the stroller was bending and tilting. This happened just outside the 90 day Babies R Us return time and there was no extended warranty to buy. I contacted Babies R Us, Toy R Us, and Graco, and everyone said so sad, too bad, buy a new one. I was pissed off. I gathered every single email address I could find. All my local, state, and national consumer television anchors, advocacy rights groups, stay at home groups, BBB, and Fight Back with David Horowitz (which had long been off the air). I called Toys R Us & Graco corporate and weaseled the email addresses for corporate officers, HR, charity outreach, and executives! I tailored a polite, but very disgruntled first time buyer disappointed mass email listing every single person and entity openly on the email and as a written list
of CC at the bottom of the list. A few days later, I was CCd on a reply from the President of Graco to one of the executives at Toys R Us asking them to "please take care of this for Us"! A little while later, I received an email from Toys R Us asking for information to send me a replacement, even more expensive, stroller. Those were the only replies I received to sending out an email with over 100 addresses!! This was long before Facebook, Twitter, and Instashaming!
Load More Replies...It's a lot easier than scammers think to track them down online. I commented about scammers in India in another post and got downvoted for it. There's people that track down scammers for a living and post videos about it on YouTube. Some of them are pretty entertaining because they hack into the scammers' video cameras and actually watch them.
Sell his bootyhole? After you'd just reamed him like that, it'd be cents on the dollar.
I generally have the prestigious law firm of Howard, Fine & Howard take care of my business. ;-)
Well, I too will call BS. You used phrases like "pandemy, bc, and sheesh." Clearly a 12 year old girl writing fan fiction. And no, you cannot find everyone's information so easily online, this is not NCIS.
You're not too bright, seemingly. You'd be surprised what you can find about people on directory and genealogy websites. As for OP's saying "bc" and "sheesh" making her a 12-year-old girl... hardly. I'm 35, and both are part of my standard vocabulary & have been for years. So *I* call BS on *your* stupidity, because not only are you lousy at estimating somebody's age, you clearly have no idea how much info you give up - or your parents give up about you! - every day of your life. Good luck if you ever develop a stalker, you'll never get away from them if you're truly so naive about what folk can find on the web about you.
Load More Replies...Kudos to you! Good job dealing with all this while you're sick!!! You are my hero. So happy to hear that your investagative skills worked in your favor!!! That low life scammer belongs behind bars. The world is full of them!!!! GOOD JOB!!
I'M SO IMPRESSED BY HER SAAVY TO KNOW HOW TO REVERSE SEARCHES!! I WOULDN'T KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN!! BRITTANY, KUDOS TO YOU, AND YOU MIGHT LOOK INTO, WORKING FOR THE FBI!!! YOU'VE GOT MOXY AND SMARTS!!!
Great sounding story. I will wait for the movie to come out. I have dealt with lyers and scammers, and they say the most craziest stuff, to convince you that they are in dire need - My wife left me, my car broke, my dog died, my..........
This is a bit educational--this is all the information that can be revealed about you from simply telling your name.
And they say we are the weaker sex! HE stole her money but SHE burned his life to the ground plus got her money back. Sony really should send her a PS5 for the mess she went through trying to buy their product. Great story.
I was looking to do some extra work when I received a letter from the postman I had to sign for. upon opening it there was a check for 2,900 dollars ,there was a detailed letter with it explaining what the job was about and what I was to use the money for. So I thought it was okay thinking because of me having to sign for it, it had to be okay. I took the check to the bank asked them if it was okay they said it was. so I took the money did what I was told to. Then the very next afternoon the manager calls me from the bank and tells me it was all a scam. So right now I am paying the bank back because of it. It is called secret shoppers it's all a fraud.
Not paid back till he catches a beating. Robbing a sick woman is the worst.
It's not surprising to me that the authorities had not responded. There are even laws which keep all sorts of crooks in business, and no layer will touch them. When you sign a contract, you lose, even though you proved that all the information in that contract is willful lie. So what is a consumer to do? Hire a lawyer to check anything before signing any written agreement? Thank you The Department of Injustice.
We are never safe, the scammers are everywhere, and modern technology, gives us more issues, I believe in Karma, it works at least, some of the time, there are too many, people who were, born without a soul, caution is best !!!
You are my hero! I just get pissed an tell the person that whatever, had better be delivered within the week, ( after waiting over a month or two in non pandemic times) and if it isn’t, I will a take them to court, make sure no one ever buys this from them again, file fraud charges with internet fraud companies and the FBI, etc. etc. . Usually that get the point across. I am also like a dog with a juicy bone and can find out what ever I need to also, and make sure they know this. And then I add, and I am u able to work, and all I have is time, to make their lives miserable, so pay up, or send the product. Thank you very much.
wish i could do that to some sites. two china sites, where they promise you a live like puppy! I sent the money and got a "if you're blind its acts like a real one." most expensive fake! Glad you got your money!
I wish I had this dedication! My daughter was scammed through PayPal for $80 and I tried to go after the scammer but it was hard work, trying to figure out who he was. After a bit of searching I gave up...
It takes a bit of know-how, yeah, but it's not that hard once you have it. The original permalink to any tweet stays valid even when the user changes the name of that account (he'd have done better just to make a whole new one, less traceable). If you have someone's phone number, or their social media identities, and they use the latter the way most folk do, you can usually find their state or city, and through the linked accounts find their relatives on sites like Ancestry. From there, you can find newspaper reports, obituaries, marriage announcements, and if you're in the UK the electoral roll will tell you the address most recently used by them or their family to register to vote ... It's shockingly easy, for someone used to the internet and with any experience at all in genealogy, to trace people.
Load More Replies...I love scammers❤️❤️❤️ even more I love when people get revenge on them!
Is what she did even legal? Plus destroy someone’s life over a toy? I think she has some issues to work through.
Yes, it was legal. Read the comment section for details on the legality of her "lawyer thing", some people have explained it very clearly. I don't know about you, but $450 is more than a month's rent for me. Hell yes I'd go that far to get it back if I'd somehow managed to save up that much. No, just because people use it to "play" things doesn't make a PS5 a "toy". It's an expensive, & difficult to replace, technological item. If her life is anything like mine - I'm chronically ill & a gamer, too - gaming might be one of the few hobbies she can engage in on a bad day. I'm often bedbound & my gaming console (though I cannot afford a PS5 - I'm still on a PS3) helps stop me going mad with pain, frustration, boredom & isolation. Who's to say it's not the same for her? Personally, I'd say you have more "issues to work through" than she does, Dianne - like your unwarranted ageism toward & denigration of gamers, & the other part of your attitude problem here, which verges on ableist.
Load More Replies...It would be more believable if she hadn't implied it would be nice for Sony to send her a PS5 for her trouble.. Scammers be scamming, for sure.
Also I had other victims come forward to me on social media of this Vanilla Visa Gift Card Hotline Scam!
There's scammers in india buffering their phone numbers with the Vanilla Visa Gift Card Help Hotline I'm a victim and use gift cards alot cause I can't do online banking cause I'm disabled too! What they do is they hack/buffer the Vanilla Visa Gift Card Help Hotline and ask for your card's full card number and pin then they quickly before you use your card take all your money on your Vanilla Visa Gift Card into their paypal account! I only have one paypal and it's anime themed name btw but this scammer's paypal was one from I could tell india I lost $150! I was gonna use it on buying an older game console! I like older consoles
I seriously doubt this is all true, just like a lot of others here have stated as well. Right from the title of the article: "...so she agreed to a 50% down...50% on arrival. And that’s when she realized she was being scammed." Um, actually no, no she didn't realise until after the lack of a response from him and after she had already sent all the funds to him so that's not true. And why the mention of being disabled? At the very least it's to minimize people questioning her story, or maybe it was to be used as a shield against the inevitable "How did you fall for this TWICE?" queries that were sure to come. Then there's the over-share about Ativan, all the "All I know is pain." dramatics. Plus I'm not positive but I don't think a name and an email address gets you the kind of information she claims to have gained from it. It's just not that simple, or legal either. But it was the "Hey SONY, you should send me a PS5 for this." that sealed it for me. Ah well, cute story though.
Clearly, you haven't the faintest clue about just how much information you give away on and offline every day. If I knew your Instagram or Facebook username, I could probably tell you your birthdate and your parents' names for a start, and that without even going into the paid reverse-phone-number or directory websites. And I'm just a hobby genealogist.
Load More Replies...Black Americans have a whole other language I don't understand.
I don't know man. She f****d up by trusting him and should accept her loss. Yes, the guy was a d**k, but encouraging this behaviour is scary as hell. I got screwed falling for a "sick kid" scam once and watched the lady walk away to buy drugs but I didn't try to ruin her f*****g life and instead I learned something. Just wow, I think everyone in this story is an asshole.
HOW CAN THESE MASSIVE COMPANIES (MICROSOFT/SONY) BE SO STUPID? WHY HAVEN'T THEY FIGURED OUT HOW TO ELIMINATE THIS ISSUE, THEY DON'T CARE OR THEY SUPPORT IT! ALL THEY HAD/HAVE TO DO IS ANY ONE THAT IS ALLOWED TO BUY A UNIT LIMIT 1 OR 2 PER, HAVE A SOCIAL SECURITY # DUH! YOU CORPORATE RETARDS BLOW THE SCROTS OF GOATS!
Of course they don't care, they get the money either way. Also, why should a social security number be a requirement? That's stupid. Just because they exist in the USA doesn't mean every country gives those out.
Load More Replies...If this is even true, sure he did a awful thing but the so called victim's disability aside and other things who ever decides to buy things from a stranger without any legal guiding and platforms and uses cringe memes to communicate YOU SURE DO DESERVE TO BE SCAMMED!!! AS A MATTER OF FACT PEOPLE LIKE YOU SHOULD BE PUT OUT OF ORDER SO NORMAL PEOPLE WOULD NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT SCAMS, BECAUSE BRAINDEAD IDIOTS LIKE YOU ARE THE REASON WHY EVIL PEOPLE EVEN EXIST!!! You both did illegal things and both of you deserve to be locked up! So I would never really be stupid enough to even share this story as a trophy of some kind. Down the years this might hit you in the head when some legal manner comes to play.
Boy when you get on a roll of abuse ,thers no stopping you! Nasty.
Load More Replies...Go hang out at r/thathappened, we're bored of you here.
Load More Replies...You go, girl! You know what to do and say to get your money back........woohoo! Lol
Because of lost idiots like you we actually have evil people, scammers etc. For a change learn to speak and write and stop using idiotic memes as means of communication. Never buy junk from the wild internet pages and you both did illegal things which one day will cost you. You didn't win anything. He saw you that you are an idiot and used the chance, maybe he is in bigger need then you ever will be.
You must have had a really bad day to write such a comment. So sad.
Load More Replies...NOT BEING RACIST ( we get scammer's calling us on our land line every month ,they have a Indian or a chines ascent.
While I commend her energy, cleverness, and initiative, she reminds me of a baseball pitcher who walks a batter, commits an error, walks another, then strikes out the side to get out of danger. Lots of adrenaline, lots of posturing, but it would have been easier to not let herself get conned in the first place. I'm glad she got her money back, don't get me wrong.
That’s like saying my friend wouldn’t have gotten hit by that car if they hadn’t crossed the street. If folks knew in advance about some things, they wouldn’t have done them. Duh.
Load More Replies...Is Wilson your first name or your last name? Cos I can tell you no woman has Wilson as her first name unless her daddy really wanted a boy. Oh and what a load of hogwash.
Load More Replies...Hahahahhaha, this is a joke right? Do you really think that something like a ‘lovespell’ exists? you have been scammed..
Load More Replies...Its all listed in credit reports. You can find some of it with a basic background check. And the US makes fun of China' social credit score
Load More Replies...I’m sure you knew the guy who sold you the device you’re on? I happen to be great friends with every single person at Best Buy, to ensure I know everyone that I buy electronics from.
Load More Replies...Children, please don’t imitate that one without checking your countries’ laws before. Pretending to be a lawyer can get you in serious legal trouble in several countries.
But I doubt if any scammer will file a complaint or report you to the police. Criminals generally aren't too keen on contacting the police.
Load More Replies...I don't know how she was able to know that the new twitter handles were for the same individual. Also, how did she find the e-mails of his fiance? This kind of information doesn't seem like something you could get from a simple internet search.
Load More Replies...I got ripped off and called the USPS police. Holy cow that's where retired nazis go to work. never be afraid to get them on your side if scammed and snail mail is involved.
A long-time friend of mine (and most decidedly not a Nazi, as his father and his family fled Germany to get away from those vermin) spent his career as a USPS lawyer. His work motto was that of Bruce Banner aka The Incredible Hulk--"Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."
Load More Replies...Just dont pay someone in advance, find one in your own city and then Dont buy them from people trying to make money off the lack of PS5s I just report everyone of them on Facebook marketplace as a scam. Ive noticed no one reselling the new Xbox
Especially paying them the second amount before getting your stuff - Stupid.
Load More Replies...Ok, I give her credit for following through, but all that effort could have been avoided if she had not sent good money to a stranger.
I see what you're saying but also have you sold anything online before? I wouldn't ship anything until I was sent the money first. But I do usually go through Ebay or Marketplace so it's more legit.
Load More Replies...People think they will never fall for a scam, but I almost did fall for an apartment fraud. So ... Don't gudge. I am happy she got her money back, because the police dosent help much
Idk, I’m not convinced the bank AND Apple Pay would be unable to do anything. Also I get that ps5s are currently not in stock, but I sure as hell wouldn’t buy one off a stranger for basically a new price. I mean, f**k scammers, and if this story is true she was just trying to help a guy out. But you gotta be super wary of this stuff.
After you send the money, yeah it's a done deal.
Load More Replies...I think it is a bit presumptous. I agree he needs to be punished but he may be a d**k and a loving das (speaking as someone who cut all ties with her dad). Most relationships are not this onedimensional.
Load More Replies...Hey, quick question, up near the top they were saying how the text bubbles were green. Does that mean something important? Sorry, I know this is probably a really dumb question.
I know this was ages ago but I can answer your question. Blue Text Bubbles mean when the person is using iPhone to iPhone. Green Bubbles mean an iPhone user is texting to an android user so if the author used Apple Pay it should have been blue text bubbles.
Load More Replies...What we really need is some kind of organisation that would look into scams and other frauds like this with a view to getting things either back to how they should be (ie money back) and/or getting them into court. If such an organisation existed they could be given legal powers to actually take people away from their homes to ask them questions. To make it fair they could have, say, a lawyer or something? Anyway, it's a shame nothing like that exists..
There are. In Germany are love-scammer-hunters for example.
Load More Replies...So that we’ll disregard her bad decision to foolishly send the 2nd/final payment? To me it reads as: being disabled makes/made her profoundly more sensitive (than the rest of us) to his sick daughter therefore, it excuses her bad decision, and any judgements about the bad decision are unacceptable. Emotional manipulation, which is one of the reasons I doubt the story. Sharing that she took Ativan is equally irrelevant to the story but sharing both these things may be intended to “check the boxes” relating to any special/protected classes, which (for some) makes her above reproach. As though anyone who reveals their skepticism is attacking their disability/race/gender, etc. Those with dissenting opinions are often treated with contempt and, to sharer & those who agree with/support sharer, is a justifiable. For some, it’s okay to be hateful but it’s not okay to respectfully disagree.
Load More Replies...I'm so happy for you. It can seem too hard to get justice but once you're on a roll, it's not about the money anymore. You are called to a higher purpose. The energy and resources you discover and access become limitless. What you have shown is a true superpower better than any stupid Marvel character. You are an authentic superhero!
i loved this! i don't know if anyone else in the 90s got a phone call regarding a bill that was looong overdue to the tune of a couple of hundred dollars but i did. the guy was so official sounding regarding the legal issues i would face if not paying. so, that was when i told him that i was an officer of the court via the district attorney's office (which was true) so i would like to speak to a supervisor regarding the statute of limitations of such a claim. he said he would have someone call me and then...never heard another thing.
RIGHT ON LADY. So if everyone could pull this off it would be great. I was scammed on my debit card and the bitch thought I still lived at the area code on my phone which was attached to the information. What the bitch didn't know was I had moved and she lived in the same city as me now. So when she called Better Buy and bought a 600 dollar camera on my card, she did the STUPID THING Best Buy does which is let ANYONE pick it up. BUT since the Best Buy she chose was ten minutes from me I went down there and showed them the fraudulent use of my card, and my email from my bank they gave me a copy of her State I.D. with name and address. I went to P.D. and showed them all the evidence including her name and address, my emails and bank info and in this state over 500 is a felony. SO I got to follow them the next morning when they went to her apt and after she answered and tried to lie and say it wasn't her they showed her a copy of her license and picture and then she (continued below
tried to bolt and they grabbed her. They did not show me to her as boyfriend was linebacker large and not the same color as me. They said here is the camera can she be released and the cops said NO. Since the amount was now a felony she would be arraigned and bail set. So she got bailed out according to cops and they asked if I would testify and I said yes but she took a plea, did 20 out of 30 days. Got my money back and Best Buy got their camera back as the money had been taken out of their account by my bank.
Load More Replies...I am so sorry but I couldnt stop laughing for 5 minutes at that bratz doll picture 😂
Really sad to see to what extent one is left to fight alone by the "authorities" who SHOULD do all of this work! And who DO all of it if YOU have an unpaid parking offence etc.
The best part of this story is that you showed yourself to be an honest and kind-hearted person, while he acted like a crooked, cold-blooded, manipulator (also stupid). When the money is long gone, those two things remain. You also may have warned off another woman he would have hurt. Congrats.
“Surprisingly, the authorities haven’t responded after I reported the scam"? More like, unsurprisingly.
They always always say Buyer be wear greed to have the latest whatever is why scammers succeed
This article describes how "regular shoppers" will get so disgusted with not being able to buy hot items. I can see this as the potential demise of online shopping for those types of items. Anyone who figures out how to identify and stop scalper/scraper purchases will make bank.
The online retailers know. Who else would buy up their entire stock of an in-demand item the second it's available? It isn't that they can't identify the scalpers, it's that they don't care. It's all money in their pockets.
Load More Replies...Same thing happened to me but I trace their IP and was able to find his location and kicked their door (figuratively or or not is up for you to decide). Called the local PD and told them what was up and they helped me get my money back. Dude had TONS of consoles just sitting in his living room which were confiscated by the PD as they had been purchased using stolen money from various people.
Hell yeah! The best part of this is the -far more- money and heartache she saved the fiancé and her child.
I dud something similar. It's not hard to find people, when they're idiots.
Yeah, I run a law firm in the CoV, and frankly...I'm impressed. Homegirl did some homework--though she night want to try using paypal next time...?
This is why I never buy things from people online. Too many dishonest people looking to scam others. If I want to buy something, I'llgo to the store itself and buy it.
Way back in early 2000s, I had a pricey Graco stroller that eventually was recalled 2 years later for a fast fix-it part. Prior to the recall, as a first time mom who invested in a "good" stroller to last, the stroller was bending and tilting. This happened just outside the 90 day Babies R Us return time and there was no extended warranty to buy. I contacted Babies R Us, Toy R Us, and Graco, and everyone said so sad, too bad, buy a new one. I was pissed off. I gathered every single email address I could find. All my local, state, and national consumer television anchors, advocacy rights groups, stay at home groups, BBB, and Fight Back with David Horowitz (which had long been off the air). I called Toys R Us & Graco corporate and weaseled the email addresses for corporate officers, HR, charity outreach, and executives! I tailored a polite, but very disgruntled first time buyer disappointed mass email listing every single person and entity openly on the email and as a written list
of CC at the bottom of the list. A few days later, I was CCd on a reply from the President of Graco to one of the executives at Toys R Us asking them to "please take care of this for Us"! A little while later, I received an email from Toys R Us asking for information to send me a replacement, even more expensive, stroller. Those were the only replies I received to sending out an email with over 100 addresses!! This was long before Facebook, Twitter, and Instashaming!
Load More Replies...It's a lot easier than scammers think to track them down online. I commented about scammers in India in another post and got downvoted for it. There's people that track down scammers for a living and post videos about it on YouTube. Some of them are pretty entertaining because they hack into the scammers' video cameras and actually watch them.
Sell his bootyhole? After you'd just reamed him like that, it'd be cents on the dollar.
I generally have the prestigious law firm of Howard, Fine & Howard take care of my business. ;-)
Well, I too will call BS. You used phrases like "pandemy, bc, and sheesh." Clearly a 12 year old girl writing fan fiction. And no, you cannot find everyone's information so easily online, this is not NCIS.
You're not too bright, seemingly. You'd be surprised what you can find about people on directory and genealogy websites. As for OP's saying "bc" and "sheesh" making her a 12-year-old girl... hardly. I'm 35, and both are part of my standard vocabulary & have been for years. So *I* call BS on *your* stupidity, because not only are you lousy at estimating somebody's age, you clearly have no idea how much info you give up - or your parents give up about you! - every day of your life. Good luck if you ever develop a stalker, you'll never get away from them if you're truly so naive about what folk can find on the web about you.
Load More Replies...Kudos to you! Good job dealing with all this while you're sick!!! You are my hero. So happy to hear that your investagative skills worked in your favor!!! That low life scammer belongs behind bars. The world is full of them!!!! GOOD JOB!!
I'M SO IMPRESSED BY HER SAAVY TO KNOW HOW TO REVERSE SEARCHES!! I WOULDN'T KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN!! BRITTANY, KUDOS TO YOU, AND YOU MIGHT LOOK INTO, WORKING FOR THE FBI!!! YOU'VE GOT MOXY AND SMARTS!!!
Great sounding story. I will wait for the movie to come out. I have dealt with lyers and scammers, and they say the most craziest stuff, to convince you that they are in dire need - My wife left me, my car broke, my dog died, my..........
This is a bit educational--this is all the information that can be revealed about you from simply telling your name.
And they say we are the weaker sex! HE stole her money but SHE burned his life to the ground plus got her money back. Sony really should send her a PS5 for the mess she went through trying to buy their product. Great story.
I was looking to do some extra work when I received a letter from the postman I had to sign for. upon opening it there was a check for 2,900 dollars ,there was a detailed letter with it explaining what the job was about and what I was to use the money for. So I thought it was okay thinking because of me having to sign for it, it had to be okay. I took the check to the bank asked them if it was okay they said it was. so I took the money did what I was told to. Then the very next afternoon the manager calls me from the bank and tells me it was all a scam. So right now I am paying the bank back because of it. It is called secret shoppers it's all a fraud.
Not paid back till he catches a beating. Robbing a sick woman is the worst.
It's not surprising to me that the authorities had not responded. There are even laws which keep all sorts of crooks in business, and no layer will touch them. When you sign a contract, you lose, even though you proved that all the information in that contract is willful lie. So what is a consumer to do? Hire a lawyer to check anything before signing any written agreement? Thank you The Department of Injustice.
We are never safe, the scammers are everywhere, and modern technology, gives us more issues, I believe in Karma, it works at least, some of the time, there are too many, people who were, born without a soul, caution is best !!!
You are my hero! I just get pissed an tell the person that whatever, had better be delivered within the week, ( after waiting over a month or two in non pandemic times) and if it isn’t, I will a take them to court, make sure no one ever buys this from them again, file fraud charges with internet fraud companies and the FBI, etc. etc. . Usually that get the point across. I am also like a dog with a juicy bone and can find out what ever I need to also, and make sure they know this. And then I add, and I am u able to work, and all I have is time, to make their lives miserable, so pay up, or send the product. Thank you very much.
wish i could do that to some sites. two china sites, where they promise you a live like puppy! I sent the money and got a "if you're blind its acts like a real one." most expensive fake! Glad you got your money!
I wish I had this dedication! My daughter was scammed through PayPal for $80 and I tried to go after the scammer but it was hard work, trying to figure out who he was. After a bit of searching I gave up...
It takes a bit of know-how, yeah, but it's not that hard once you have it. The original permalink to any tweet stays valid even when the user changes the name of that account (he'd have done better just to make a whole new one, less traceable). If you have someone's phone number, or their social media identities, and they use the latter the way most folk do, you can usually find their state or city, and through the linked accounts find their relatives on sites like Ancestry. From there, you can find newspaper reports, obituaries, marriage announcements, and if you're in the UK the electoral roll will tell you the address most recently used by them or their family to register to vote ... It's shockingly easy, for someone used to the internet and with any experience at all in genealogy, to trace people.
Load More Replies...I love scammers❤️❤️❤️ even more I love when people get revenge on them!
Is what she did even legal? Plus destroy someone’s life over a toy? I think she has some issues to work through.
Yes, it was legal. Read the comment section for details on the legality of her "lawyer thing", some people have explained it very clearly. I don't know about you, but $450 is more than a month's rent for me. Hell yes I'd go that far to get it back if I'd somehow managed to save up that much. No, just because people use it to "play" things doesn't make a PS5 a "toy". It's an expensive, & difficult to replace, technological item. If her life is anything like mine - I'm chronically ill & a gamer, too - gaming might be one of the few hobbies she can engage in on a bad day. I'm often bedbound & my gaming console (though I cannot afford a PS5 - I'm still on a PS3) helps stop me going mad with pain, frustration, boredom & isolation. Who's to say it's not the same for her? Personally, I'd say you have more "issues to work through" than she does, Dianne - like your unwarranted ageism toward & denigration of gamers, & the other part of your attitude problem here, which verges on ableist.
Load More Replies...It would be more believable if she hadn't implied it would be nice for Sony to send her a PS5 for her trouble.. Scammers be scamming, for sure.
Also I had other victims come forward to me on social media of this Vanilla Visa Gift Card Hotline Scam!
There's scammers in india buffering their phone numbers with the Vanilla Visa Gift Card Help Hotline I'm a victim and use gift cards alot cause I can't do online banking cause I'm disabled too! What they do is they hack/buffer the Vanilla Visa Gift Card Help Hotline and ask for your card's full card number and pin then they quickly before you use your card take all your money on your Vanilla Visa Gift Card into their paypal account! I only have one paypal and it's anime themed name btw but this scammer's paypal was one from I could tell india I lost $150! I was gonna use it on buying an older game console! I like older consoles
I seriously doubt this is all true, just like a lot of others here have stated as well. Right from the title of the article: "...so she agreed to a 50% down...50% on arrival. And that’s when she realized she was being scammed." Um, actually no, no she didn't realise until after the lack of a response from him and after she had already sent all the funds to him so that's not true. And why the mention of being disabled? At the very least it's to minimize people questioning her story, or maybe it was to be used as a shield against the inevitable "How did you fall for this TWICE?" queries that were sure to come. Then there's the over-share about Ativan, all the "All I know is pain." dramatics. Plus I'm not positive but I don't think a name and an email address gets you the kind of information she claims to have gained from it. It's just not that simple, or legal either. But it was the "Hey SONY, you should send me a PS5 for this." that sealed it for me. Ah well, cute story though.
Clearly, you haven't the faintest clue about just how much information you give away on and offline every day. If I knew your Instagram or Facebook username, I could probably tell you your birthdate and your parents' names for a start, and that without even going into the paid reverse-phone-number or directory websites. And I'm just a hobby genealogist.
Load More Replies...Black Americans have a whole other language I don't understand.
I don't know man. She f****d up by trusting him and should accept her loss. Yes, the guy was a d**k, but encouraging this behaviour is scary as hell. I got screwed falling for a "sick kid" scam once and watched the lady walk away to buy drugs but I didn't try to ruin her f*****g life and instead I learned something. Just wow, I think everyone in this story is an asshole.
HOW CAN THESE MASSIVE COMPANIES (MICROSOFT/SONY) BE SO STUPID? WHY HAVEN'T THEY FIGURED OUT HOW TO ELIMINATE THIS ISSUE, THEY DON'T CARE OR THEY SUPPORT IT! ALL THEY HAD/HAVE TO DO IS ANY ONE THAT IS ALLOWED TO BUY A UNIT LIMIT 1 OR 2 PER, HAVE A SOCIAL SECURITY # DUH! YOU CORPORATE RETARDS BLOW THE SCROTS OF GOATS!
Of course they don't care, they get the money either way. Also, why should a social security number be a requirement? That's stupid. Just because they exist in the USA doesn't mean every country gives those out.
Load More Replies...If this is even true, sure he did a awful thing but the so called victim's disability aside and other things who ever decides to buy things from a stranger without any legal guiding and platforms and uses cringe memes to communicate YOU SURE DO DESERVE TO BE SCAMMED!!! AS A MATTER OF FACT PEOPLE LIKE YOU SHOULD BE PUT OUT OF ORDER SO NORMAL PEOPLE WOULD NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT SCAMS, BECAUSE BRAINDEAD IDIOTS LIKE YOU ARE THE REASON WHY EVIL PEOPLE EVEN EXIST!!! You both did illegal things and both of you deserve to be locked up! So I would never really be stupid enough to even share this story as a trophy of some kind. Down the years this might hit you in the head when some legal manner comes to play.
Boy when you get on a roll of abuse ,thers no stopping you! Nasty.
Load More Replies...Go hang out at r/thathappened, we're bored of you here.
Load More Replies...You go, girl! You know what to do and say to get your money back........woohoo! Lol
Because of lost idiots like you we actually have evil people, scammers etc. For a change learn to speak and write and stop using idiotic memes as means of communication. Never buy junk from the wild internet pages and you both did illegal things which one day will cost you. You didn't win anything. He saw you that you are an idiot and used the chance, maybe he is in bigger need then you ever will be.
You must have had a really bad day to write such a comment. So sad.
Load More Replies...NOT BEING RACIST ( we get scammer's calling us on our land line every month ,they have a Indian or a chines ascent.
While I commend her energy, cleverness, and initiative, she reminds me of a baseball pitcher who walks a batter, commits an error, walks another, then strikes out the side to get out of danger. Lots of adrenaline, lots of posturing, but it would have been easier to not let herself get conned in the first place. I'm glad she got her money back, don't get me wrong.
That’s like saying my friend wouldn’t have gotten hit by that car if they hadn’t crossed the street. If folks knew in advance about some things, they wouldn’t have done them. Duh.
Load More Replies...Is Wilson your first name or your last name? Cos I can tell you no woman has Wilson as her first name unless her daddy really wanted a boy. Oh and what a load of hogwash.
Load More Replies...Hahahahhaha, this is a joke right? Do you really think that something like a ‘lovespell’ exists? you have been scammed..
Load More Replies...Its all listed in credit reports. You can find some of it with a basic background check. And the US makes fun of China' social credit score
Load More Replies...I’m sure you knew the guy who sold you the device you’re on? I happen to be great friends with every single person at Best Buy, to ensure I know everyone that I buy electronics from.
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