29 Wild Scams People Have Witnessed

Those aren’t real Buddhist monks!
29 Wild Scams People Have Witnessed

Scams and mugging. If you’re going to have a chunk taken out of your checking , you at least want to get a story out of it.

A asked the Reddit community to share the best scams they’ve ever seen, and past victims, observers and even practitioners obliged. They offered a variety of scams that range from the devilishly clever to the beautifully simple, but all in their own way effective. 

Read ahead to prepare yourself in case you come face-to-face with one. Purely out of intellectual curiosity, of course. For obvious reasons, we can’t condone becoming a flim-flam man yourself.

 . 9y ago Calling up elderly folks and pretending to be a grandchild who just got arrested and requesting a wire transfer of bail money. It's absolutely horrible but works quite well for the scammers. 612 ...
Whols-JusticeBeaver 9y ago A few years ago, a homeless man came up to my husband (then boyfriend) and I and told him, 'I bet you a tenner | can make your girlfriend go aaaaah!', and made this moaning sound. Obviously we were like what the fuck?! And right before Mr JusticeBeaver could tell him where to go/deck him, the man unzipped his coat and........... Out pops the head of a little puppy! I go, aaaaaaaaw! Husband coughs up the dough and we just laughed!
potterpotterpotter . 9y ago . Edited 9y ago There are now Buddhist monks walking around in Manhattan asking for money because that is something important in the Buddhist monk culture... The catch? They aren't real monks and are really just stealing from poor, naive tourists.
AKAM80theWolff . 9y ago After walking through a casino just last night, im gonna say the casino.
stripytoaster . 9y ago I once wrote to all the big restaurant chains I could think of pretending to be a young child that really loved their restaurants. I asked them all to branch out to my local town. 6 replied with no, we shan't branch out, but have some vouchers for you to spend with your parents anyway. I was 16. So proud of myself.
Hippydippy420. 9y ago In the 90's, a friend of mine made up a fake culinary business and used it as a front to purchase huge tanks of nitrous oxide for cheap and make bank at shows and festivals.
Goddess_Of_Gaming . 9y ago Pick up artists. An old friend of mine paid 800 euro's to go to a PUA boot camp. Не just stayed there for one night and did a few exercises talking to girls. There's thousands of lonely men going to these kind of things. The books are also very expensive.
Tsunoba 9y ago In one of the stories labeled as true on Snopes, there was an ment for a potato bug killer during the 1930s. You could save your crops from these terrible pests, and it was quick, sure-to-work, and so easy, a child could do it. It cost about $1.25. It was two planks of wood, which would normally have cost about 5Ф total. You scoop the potato bug onto one plank, and you slapped it with the other.
 9y ago I had a buddy that kept a close eye on celebrity news, and who was ill or not. Created an ebay . Told people he was a tabloid journalist, and followed celebs around for a living. And would steal discarded tissues, napkins, etc, and sell them. Не made about $100 a month doing this. Only thing was, he was 16, lived in central U.S, and had never met any celebrities in his life. His stock came from when I got the flu.
josefbud 9y ago I used to be good friends with a guy who is a sort of sports betting advisor - possibly one of the scummiest jobs/best scams I've seen. You pay him for the service, which means he still makes money even if you lose, but if you win you also have to pay him a percentage of your winnings...
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superpunkalicious 9y ago When we go out to bars a buddy of mine goes and stands outside the front door. When people walk up he lifts up his hand like he's showing them some invisible object. They pull out their ID and show it to him. Не then holds up two fingers. They pull out $2 and give it to him and then walk inside. Не doesn't get in trouble for this because he never speaks a word.
cheesedanish93 9y ago Not sure if its been posted yet but studentaidassistant.com comes up first on google if you want to do the fafsa form. It's a managing site that charges you 30-60 bucks for a FREE and FEDERL FORM you can fill out online yourself. For, you know, FREE. Even my high school staff and my teachers insisted the service was required. No, it's free if you do it yourself at FAFSA.GOV. You're paying 60 bucks for a person to type your info into a form and submit it. And who needs FAFSA? Poor kids who can't afford college.
gouge2893 9y ago Dating myself with this one... As a book loving teen I ed a ton of those 5 hardback books for $1- then just buy 3 more at full price over the next year! But I always ed them with a random name i pulled from the phonebook. Then after i got the 5 free books I would always fill out the Moving? card they'd include to update my address to the one that matched the name I'd signed up with.
 a 9y ago I heard of a scam one time (from someone I followed on tumblr or something) where they bought something expensive online with their own credit card, received the item at a different address (like a PO Box or something idk how they did it) and then claimed they never received the item with their institution and got a full refund while they kept the expensive item and bragged about it, kind of annoyed me working for a financial institution tbh but I have to it it was pretty slick
MCommandant 9y ago In China. Cute girl asks to step into a tea shop and practice some English, says she'll help with your Chinese as well. You stop, talk some in Chinese and some in English, and have some tea. Then the bill comes. Tea suddenly costs equivalent of several hundred dollars US. Rough-looking man tells you you'd better pay it. Cute girl slithers away. Pro extortion 10/10
MrScurrah . 9y ago My buddy sold a level 3 runesape , with a yellow party hat. After receiving 300 dollars he sent them the  details, and a yellow party hat from a Christmas cracker in the mail.
 9y ago There was a guy in britain who was a parking attendant in front of a zoo. Except the zoo never charged for parking, nor did the city. They each just assumed the attendant was with the other guys. Не worked as a parking attendant for 20+ years, putting all the money in his own pocket. Then one day he just stopped showing up. They only realised he was a scammer when the zoo asked the city why their attendant wasnt comming into work.
atomicbrett .9y ago College textbook companies 117 ...
 . 9y ago Haven't seen it, but rather it was told to me. There was some guy a long time ago my grandma talked about that would sell people lands in the sky for them to use after death...
Kaupaloki . 9y ago Homeopathy. 50 ...
 9y ago | didn't see this myself but someone I knew told me this story. Somewhere around Las Vegas, there was a pay to park lot. The attendant is waiting at the front of the lot, next to a sign that says $10 parking. This was apparently really cheap compared to the other lots. So, the lot is filling up with cars. When people left to leave on the exit side of the parking lot, they were stopped by another attendant who said the cost of the parking was $20. It turns out the guy at the front brought
crafting-ur-end 9y ago Hello, I'm calling you to raise money for the funerals of two police officers that recently died in the local area, could you donate maybe $30-50 to help. | thought it was real but | was too poor at the time to donate- made me feel like shit. I didn't find out it was a scam until I was browsing the subreddit for my city. Honestly they played it off perfectly- the only time it would have been better to do this scam was by doing it after those officers had be sniped on Texas.
J-rizzler . 9y ago Was in Denver (as a tourist) and saw this guy doing street magic. Не was actually really good and had gathered quite a crowd to watch him do some cool card tricks and other slight of hand things. Then he says for his next trick he needs someone to give him a 20 dollar bill. Someone promptly did and he immediately bolted and legged it down the street and round the corner.
VTHUT . 9y ago Now there's a star named after you! 24 ...
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furrysquirrel . 9y ago One time someone sold copper engraved portraits of Abe Lincoln for $1. People sent in the money and got a penny in return.
ExPatriot0 9y ago 2 years after I started business I got a legal notice about my sales tax payment for an event we attended in Texas, and it cost an additional $50 due to an istrative fee. Except...I have never been to Texas and we wound up not doing the event due to shipping costs and cancelling the permit before using it. The 'legal notice' was consructed to look EXACTLY like the Texas state notices except for very fine print saying it was a consultation firm with no relationship to the State government. I can't imagine how many out of
RunDNA K 9y ago A friend of a friend was underage and wanted to drink, so he found a website where you pay some money,  your photo and details, and receive a fake Driver's License in the mail. A week later he received a package. Inside was a shiny, new Diver's License.

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