Have you ever Been scammed

has someone tried to scam you or tried to. Tell your story and how you found out, what you did about it?

Oh fuck yeah, I rent rooms in my house, I'm always getting scammed by fuckass grifter roommates.

Last time I got fucked by one of them, I made my ex fuck me in her bed and cum all over her sheets along with a pair of panties she had lying there as well. Plus I wore a sexy pair of her shoes for the event.

Nobody rips me off or scams shit. At least not without secret jizz.

I was travelling around the Southern States by bus and got stuck in Jackson, MS for a few hours overnight...
This guy said he was from Africa and had a shitload of money and wanted to find a hotel, but was scared to get robbed with all the money he had...
Me, being a nice, Canadian boy, told him I'd hold his money while he went for a hotel..
Turns out, it was a wad of papers that looked like money, and he got away with like, 300 dollars...
If I ever end up in Jackson, MS again... and I see him... fucking DEAD!

At drive through windows, all the time. I want extra onion, you jackasses!

I had a guy follow me around the Village once saying he'd lost his money and needed a hotel. I didn't want to at first, but after he chatted for 40 minutes I figured he'd earned it (not to mention could probably get a higher hourly wage doing real work) and gave him $5. About two weeks later I saw him trying to use the exact same story on a couple of dutch tourists, so I made sure to fuck it up for him.

That scam is very common, it had been happening quite frequently. Same basic idea, but they were targeting the elderly. Basically they said they had a large sum of money and asked the "mark" to hold it for them since the were from out of the country and didn't trust the banks. However they wanted the "mark" to match what they had in the bag. Long story short, the combined the to sums of money, did a quick switch and left the "mark" with a bag of newspapers. One guy lost $10,000.

i've been scammed. 2 bucks and a twinkie in 5th grade. the fucker said he'd trade for ice cream! i never got the ice cream.

so sad

I got scammed.
A 'friend' got kicked out of home and wasnt working full time.
She asked to stay at my place untill she found more stable work.
Was meant to pay me $80 a week in rent - which was half of the weekly rent.

I would ask for the rent and she would give me a line about needing to save for bond etc, but she would give me the money owed once she had the bond money out of the way.

I get home from work and shes gone, all her stuff is as well.
She also took my cat with her.

I never got the money, or the cat back. But I saw her 6 weeks ago. Shes now homeless and a junkie. So Im not so bitter and pissed about the whole thing anymore.

I wonder what happened to my kitty

You see....being a polite, well-mannered Canadian isn't always the best policy...us pushy, ugly-Americans fall for that scam at a much lower rate.

Here's a tip for the future...people who are "scared of being robbed" don't randomly pick strangers out of a crowd for the purpose of having said strangers guard their money.

Yes. I lost about $85.

A man stopped me in front of a building on campus. He told me about how his son had just died, he had found out who did it, and he had just received a gun and wanted to hunt the guy down. Supposedly, he was looking to talk to a priest, but he was unable to find one. Red Flag number 1.
You couldn't throw a rock on my college campus without hitting a priest.
Anyway, I know something's up, but I honestly have no idea how to extricate myself from the situation, and on the very rare off chance that he did go after someone with a gun, I wouldn't be able to handle the guilt.
Anyway, somehow the story segues from his dead son to his baby at home. His assistance check had been stolen, and if he didn't bring home diapers and assorted bullshit, his wife would flip out. So we go to CVS. He grabs a whole bunch of shit, we go to the counter, and I don't have enough cash.
So we go to the ATM. While I'm inside the bank, I'm thinking that I should just leave, tell him to fuck himself, and head back to campus.
But I don't.
Instead we go back to CVS and buy the diapers and crap.
To rub salt in the wound, the girls behind the counter know the guy and play along, since it very obviously shows at this moment that this is a scam he pulls all the time.
He gets his diapers, pretends to wait for the bus to Brentwood, and I go home, furious at myself and hating human beings in general.



[Edited on Oct 31, 2005 by Haverdeadchuck]

Thanks... I was wondering what happened exactly in the above story.

man that's fucked up . funny how things come around in the end though . I just hope the kitty is okay

I almost got scammed into buying really expensive copy toner at my office. And I'm usually so good at catching onto bullshit artists like that. I was tres ashamed.

I- I- I watched him for fifteen years, sitting in a room, staring at a wall, not seeing the wall, looking past the wall - looking at this night, inhumanly patient, waiting for some secret, silent alarm to trigger him off. Death has come to your little town, Sheriff. Now you can either ignore it, or you can help me to stop it.

Carfax Abbey had substandard wiring.

John Connoly's last book wasn't so good...


Oh yeah, last girlfriend lied her way through the whole relationship, does that count?

I was 10ish. Kid asked to ride my bicycle to the corner and back. Kept on going...

Never. I'm too smart for that shit. So smart, in fact, that I'm about to be the recipient of 100,000 dollars from a muthertruckin' Nigerian prince.


Jealous?

a long time ago, this guy ripped me off for some weed. I found out he was killed in iraq the first month of the war. Karma is a son of a bitch.

i haven't yet. but i'm sure its bound to happen.

(pulls up in van) are you in luck. i just delivered a buch of speakers to this high-end audio store but they fucked up the manifest and i ended up with a couple of extra pairs. theyre really nice and you can have them for less than wholesale.

Yeah, a friend on this site told me that if I put his trip to LA on my credit card that he'd pay me back for it. It's now almost 5 months later. I haven't seen the money.

a couple of times, i've been in a store, and someone has approached me, saying they've been given gift vouchers for this store as a present, but they never shop here, so would i like to buy the vouchers for half their face value? I've never been sure if it was a scam or not, but i've always stuck on the side of caution and said "no thanks".