Ever Been Scammed??

[Zephyr Alexian]

A popular scam that's current:

People go up to foreclosed homes, take down the foreclosure notices, lock box, etc. . . and put the home in the paper as 'for rent.' Then, the perpetrators collect the first and last months security deposit from unsuspecting families and disappear. It has been happening all over the country.

In addition, people are also pulling up to foreclosed homes and stealing the appliances, carpet, counter tops, and other items. In one case, people stole the siding off of the home.

Other people are moving in to foreclosures and claiming 'squatter's rights'. I don't know about the legality of that nationally, but in my state, that's ninety days of rent/mortgage free responsibility.

 

[UA-Archangel]

Have you ever been scammed? By a company? Or someone posing to be with " such and such place" and they need to renew your account, so they ask for your credit card number..etc.

There's many ways to get scammed, but something that happened to a co-worker this past couple of weeks, prompted me to see if others have had this happen to them.

I was taking a lunch today with a co-worker and we passed a guy holding a "homeless help me sign." I had asked if he thought we should give the guy some change, and then my co-worker told me about something that happened to him just weeks prior.

He had stopped at Quick Trip and was getting some gas. A black man approached him and asked if he could take a minute of his time. The man had asked if my co-worker had any money he could spare. The guy was apparently traveling to see his sick mother in St. Louis and had run out of gas in Blue Springs. (It's 4 hours from here) The man pointed to his car crappy car and said he had just lost a job and now his mother was sick. My co-worker felt bad and gave him $40 dollars to fill up. The man was grateful and took the money inside and paid for the gas and fueled up.

It wasn't a week or two later, that my co-worker was at the same Quick Trip when he recognized the man talking to someone at a nearby pump. I guess this guy wasn't so kind to give him money, and the black guy was now making a scene about "nobody caring enough to help someone in need." My co-worker went over to both of the guys and told the black guy that he had given him 40 bucks not that long ago, and that it should have helped him and why wasn't he already in St. Louis visiting his mother. The guy had smelled like alcohol and was in a different vehicle, but once my co-worker had confronted the schemer in front of the other victim, his tone changed and he got in his car and sped off.

As he was telling me this, I had remembered that I once had someone approach me like that, but their story was more convincing. And then I started wondering if the same thing happened to me. But in a time with a horrible economy and high gas prices, I guess people get desperate.

Anyone have something simliar to this?? Or have you got scammed in general?

I dealt with this all the time where I worked and and it's always the same people over and over.

I find it more useful to direct these people to where they can get help and give my money to the agencies instead.

A couple of bucks in the agencies's hands go farther than a couple of bucks in a bum's hands.

 

[UA-Archangel]

One guy where I worked pulled up in a nice shiny SUV and pre-payed about $60 worth of gas in dollar coins.

I asked him where he got the money and he told me that he begs for change on the streets.

 

[Zephyr Alexian]

He should participate in bum fights.

 

[Silk Spectre]

There's a scam I read about in the local paper. Robbers are posting items for sale on craigslist. They arrange the transaction at an empty house under the guise that they are moving, tell the buyer to bring cash, and then rob them.

 

[Zephyr Alexian]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/12132006/business/mailman_bagged_business_kati_cornell.htm

 

[Morg]

Bwahahaha I can almost top that. I was out cleaning my truck because I was going to trade it in for a car (better gas mileage). Well anyways, this scragly looking guy comes up and tells me how he had to come down here to visit friends and his wallet got stolen. So, he needed money for a bus ticket to get back home...his story lasted like 3 minutes. He said he would mow my lawn, clean my truck, etc...to earn some money. I said no and gave him the change I had in my pocket because he looked like a druggie. So fast forward a few weeks and I have my car. I was coming out of the Wal-mart and low and behold the same guy comes up to me, tells me the same exact story and I let him finish. I then look at him and tell him you were at my apartment 4 weeks ago and told me the exact same thing. He recognized me and said sorry dude. Mother f***er drug addicts. I wanted to beat the **** out of him.

Copying from Fark?

 

[Poetic Chaos]

I once read a long ass page of Final Fantasy VII cheat codes when I was a young buck. After writing many down, at the very end it read "if you've finished this, you've mastered the materia of stupidity."

got my ass so good.

 

[PyroChamber]

I was scammed into being a door-to-door salesman for a couple of days.

 

[millennium movies]

Whats with all these lame Apatow "Trek" avatars? I smell scam...

 

[Ace of Knaves]

I once read a long ass page of Final Fantasy VII cheat codes when I was a young buck. After writing many down, at the very end it read "if you've finished this, you've mastered the materia of stupidity."

got my ass so good.

that is funny.
i've never been scammed but i remember last year when my Gran came over from Ireland to visit. My mum took her out and about to do some shopping. They stopped for some lunch in a cafes outside seating area. There was loads of gypsie kids (pikeys) running around their table, just generally being little gits. When they left the cafe my Gran realised her purse had been stolen. The little pikey kids parents were using their own children as distractions to rob people!!! scum bags. "I fooking hate pikeys!"