r/scammers

I'm hooked on Katie Price at the moment. One minute 'my Lee is missing' then 'why not buy a £10 lucky bag and maybe get this gorgeous jumpsuit' followed by
'Lee has been kidnapped and bundled into a van' finished with 'my anxiety is through the roof this week, but with the cobs oil I'm managing to relax!' Great time for a bit of marketing

im like 80% sure its a scam dont better safe then sorry (sry if the screenshots dont line up or have dupes)

If somebody tells you they need your email to send you money through Venmo, it is a scam.🙃

When I told him I hadn’t received a text from Venmo yet I magically received another text from a different random number🤔😂

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Saw an ad on Instagram, moved the chat to WhatsApp, and paid them through Binance. (Is there way to get money back or report this?)

First he said there’s a delay, then he stopped responding and blocked me on WhatsApp. Posting this so others don’t get caught.

If you’ve dealt with the same account/handle, DM me. I won’t post their details here to follow sub rules.

Stay careful.

For months, the same group keeps lighting my phone up, not exaggerating, near 100 times per day. They ask if I have Medicaid or Medicare and after I dodge around their questions they just hang up. I asked who they work for and they just say The Do Not Call Registry. Does anyone mnow how to make this stop? They generate a new phone number each time so blocking the number doesn’t help.

They claimed they’re from Chase Bank, I qualified for xyz because of my credit and wanted my information(pure Indian Accent). I hung up. Who should i report this to? I’m an international student so i’m not familiar with how things work in the US. (Got to know this is very common in the US so i’ll not report it to the police)

I applied for an events staffing company called NYE Staffing several months back. If I’m being honest, I can’t remember if I applied for this specific company but I know I applied for local events staffing companies, just can’t remember the names and couldn’t locate an application confirmation to cross reference.

On May 15th, I got an email of an interview invitation (photo 1 attached) for banquet servers for the FIFA World Cup here in Seattle next month. I responded and set up an interview. That same day, I got a text message to set up interview (2nd photo). The person I was corresponding with texted and called me from a NY phone number, and sent me a Google Meet link for the interview that took place today at noon.

The interview seemed normal, no red flags. She shared her screen to show me a little presentation about the company and the role. She sent me dates for shifts and told me that she would send me the onboarding paperwork. All normal.

I was sent a text from the same number as before (3rd photo). The red flag for me here is the direct deposit authorization form. It’s through FormStack, and doesn’t seem secure (https://nyestaffing.formstack.com/forms/directdeposit) I’m not savvy at stuff like this so I’m not sure if this is normal?

They created an account for me on Roosted HR (an app they use for scheduling and essentially a job board I can pick up gigs on). I used the temporary password they provided to login. This app looks legit. I attached a photo (4th and 5th photo) of the homepage of the app when I log in as well as the details provided for my first shift. The part that seems shady to me is that I am supposed to upload documents of my SSN, ID, and W9 within this app (6th photo). I was also sent an onboarding packet to fill out this same information through SignNow (7th photo).

Another important detail is that all emails are coming from what look like legitimate emails (ex: ashley@nyeventsny.com and support@roostedhr.com). When I googled the phone number I’ve been corresponding with, the first thing that comes up is the NY Events website. When the woman logged into Google Meet for our interview, an NYE monogram showed before her camera turned on, and she looked like a normal, well-adjusted individual! When we had technical issues, I called the phone number she texted me from and someone from “NY Events” picked up. The person who answered was not the same woman but told me she would let the woman I was speaking with that I called to let her know I was rejoining the video call.

What do you guys think? Am I being overly paranoid, or does this seem like a legitimate job offer? If you were me, what would you do?

I needed a laugh, I got this yesterday. I barely saw it today because it was sent to my spam.

I got this email just now. I hope nobody falls for it if they get it too.

This seems to be a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) scam targeting Chinese-speaking Americans. I don't, but my mom does, and they called me claiming that my mom (or someone with my mom's information) was in Xiamen, China and created a U.S. number (929) 319-4443 and was using it to scam Americans. The caller claimed to be "Allen Yang" (who does work for the FCC according to https://www.fcc.gov) but I don't think that's him. He seemed to expect that his victims would be Chinese-speaking because he insisted that I speak Chinese and his English didn't seem too good. This has all the signs of a scam, but he never did, said, or asked me to do anything that would get him money. If he was not in it for the money, what was the point of the scam?

Worth harassing? 🤣🤣🤣

Got this text. I didn't order anything. Memorial city isn't close to me. I looked at my accounts - I didn't purchase anything. The text itself seems fishy. Google said this is an Apple number but could be spoofed. What do you think?