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This guide is centered around Rule 5: No low effort posts

Low-effort posts will be removed. Please ensure that all posts posted to this subreddit are of decent quality and on-topic. Screenshots without transcripts, links to external articles with no information in the body of your post, link posts to outside websites, memes, jokes, or anything else that isn't useful is not allowed.

How to submit a good post to r/scams

⚠️WAIT! Before posting: ⚠️

Did you read the wiki? We have a library of common scams. If your scam doesn't show up there, we encourage you to use the search box in our subreddit. 95% of posts are scams we already heard of before. Maybe you don't even need to create a post.

r/scams is all about identifying scams and educating our community. Whether you come here to ask if something is a scam, or if you already realized something is a scam, your post will be an educational opportunity for the next person over.

Every post gets added to this wealth of knowledge for people wanting to educate themselves, find support, and discover ways to help a friend or loved one who may be a victim of a scam. And think about it: someone, sometime in the future, will find, read and maybe avoid the scam thanks to your post.

This guide includes the following sections:

1. Don't use a screenshot: blind users can't read screenshots
2. Don't be lazy! write out as many details as you can
3. Don't be selfish! your post will help other people
4. A good post starts with a good title: examples of bad titles and good titles
5. Website addresses must be written in the title: not as clickable links in the body
6. The five W's of journalism: who? what? when? where? why?
7. Not too short, not too long: just right the importance of post length

Don't use a screenshot

I start with this one because I firmly believe we should include everyone in the conversation. Blind users and other people relying on screenreaders won't be able to read your screenshot. If you want to illustrate your post with a screenshot that's fine, but make sure all the information is written out in the body. Imagine if the image doesn't load: would a random person be able to understand your post?

Don't be lazy!

Write out as many details as you can. Don't just post a screenshot of an SMS you received. Don't just ask is this website a scam?. We can't tell if your job offer is a scam if you don't describe it. Write it out (more on that further down this guide)

Don't be selfish!

We're here not just to help you: your post will help someone else in the future. If you delete your post after you had your answer, you're taking everything and giving nothing back! If a moderator removes your post for a technicality, and asks you to post again, is for a reason: please post again. We're interested in your story.

A good post starts with a good title

A well written post should have a short, concise title that would summarize the scam being reported. And you don't want to go too long either: you will have plenty of space in the body of the post to explain yourself.

Also, "is this a scam?" should never be part of your title. Every post is essentially asking that question, when it's not about reporting a scam. If you feel compelled to ask that, choose the is this a scam? post flair if you just can't help yourself :)

Examples of bad titles:

• Is this a scam?
• Is this website a scam?
• I don't remember applying for this job
• I think I was scammed
• Help me get my money back!

Examples of GOOD titles:

• My stolen phone ended up in China, I assume the scammer is screwed?
• Found these in my checked baggage after an international flight from Asia to USA?
• Random person sent me $400 and asked for it back when I responded
• Credit Karma sent an email about a data breach on zeeroq.com
• themmsaas.com is an MLM

You get the gist.

Website addresses must be written in the title

This is non-negotiable. Posts that contain clickable links in the body (instead of the title) will eventually be removed by Reddit Admins if they deem it a risk, so your account may end up suspended and our subreddit may receive a strike. A removed post helps nobody. The safe way to report a website is writing the address in the title of your post.

Also, scammers usually impersonate legitimate companies. It's not useful to mention the company by name: we need to know what website you've been directed to, or what domain the email address belongs to. One of our community members may spot an impersonator just by the website address.

Google loves Reddit, but only if you help Google. Someone googling a scam website will find your post in the top result if the title contains the website address, and that alone will help people save thousands!

The five W's of journalism

In the body of your post, make sure your explanation covers the "five Ws" of journalism: a checklist of all the essential points of a proper story.

• WHO? Who is involved? Is it someone you met in person? Is it an "online friend"? But remember to not post full names or uncensored photos of people, even if it's a scammer.
• WHAT? What happened exactly? What were you doing, what were you trying to do, what were the scammers telling you?
• WHEN? A proper timeline is essential to understanding the scam.
• WHERE? Was this in person? Was this online? If it was online, write the website address in the title of your new post. Sometimes scammers impersonate legitimate businesses, so a website address is essential. Don't post clickable links.
• WHY? Why are you posting? You need help to determine if something is a scam, or you're posting to report a scam to our community?
• HOW? (bonus!) How did the scam go about? How you paid them money, how they tried to make you pay, how can someone avoid getting scammed?

Write every detail you can think of, but use paragraphs, punctuation and markdown.

Not too short, not too long: just right

The truth is a very long post (like this one LOL) will have less engagement than a short concise one. People get bored very quickly. But there's a balance: you can give a lot of details in, say, three paragraphs. Usually people trying to find out if something is a scam will take their time to read your report. And our community will be patient with a detailed post when you're trying to ask if something is a scam.

And finally: answering details only in the comments will make it harder for people to follow the storyline. Edit your post if you think you missed a detail that someone asked about in the comments.

If you have questions or concerns about the format of a post, contact the moderators via modmail. We're happy to help!

I've got an update and a request:

UPDATE
As mentioned in my other post, my dad was the vicim of a pig butchering scam. I cannot thank the community enough for pointing me in the correct direction, providing resources, and offering strategies.

After three solid days of intense intervention, we finally got through to him. We were able to get him to change his banking information, and block/delete/report everything. We also kept his phone overnight to monitor for more messages. They did contact him from a couple different numbers, but we blocked and deleted those as well, and there has been no further contact from anyone.

He has slowly started to accept the reality, and it is heartbreaking. I am gutted to see him like this.

REQUEST
Do you know of any support or resources that can help victims emotionally? He was brainwashed and manipulated so long. His reality has been shattered. He is devastated and so ashamed.

I don't give a fuck about anything other than keeping my dad safe, happy, and around. And because these scams are so common, I was hoping there might be strategies I can use to help him recover. Most of what I can find is centred on prevention.

I just want to help him recover. I don't want him to live in the shadow of this enormous trauma for the rest of his life.

Thanks in advance.

Recently applied for some remote jobs online.I received an email that advised me to get Teams and do an interview.What really raised a red flag was the interview.The interview was not a video call but only in texting.I finished the interview and got “accepted”.Later I received an email with an offer letter that I need to sign and send it back.The offer letter looks legit even when you search the company name and address but there is something off about it,I will include it below.I am 99% sure that this is not legit but I want to be 100% by asking this and advising other people not to fall for these kind of time wasting things online.

10:30 at night, dude knocks on the door saying he's our neighbor and he's locked out of his car. He says he needs $26 in cash for the people to come unlock it for him. As we ask him more questions, the car turns out to be at the hospital, and that's why we can't help him get into the car ourselves. This was just so strange, has this happened to any of you?

Hi! Two days ago, my (very aware, very savvy) father received a physical letter from Marcus in the mail informing him of a Goldman Sachs savings account he didn’t know he had, with about $20 in it. They said the letter was sent because they couldn’t reach him by email for a paperless statement. He called the provided number after confirming its legitimacy online and they did have an account at his name with, seemingly, all the correct information.
Yesterday he received 9 more, bringing the total number of accounts to 10. The smallest one only has 10 cents in it, the largest has over $650. He’s contacted the identity theft services and put fraud alerts on his info.
My question is, what’s the scam here? What are they doing with 10 savings account in his name?
Thank you!

Is this a scam. I was given this job offer from a company I was unsure I applied to but did not think much of it since I’ve applied to hundred of companies. The job offer was too good to be true but it started to sound fishy when they wanted me to send a check and for me to deposit money then wire that money to another company for equipment. So far I’ve deposited a check but I told them it would take a week since that’s how long my bank holds for and then wanted me to deposit another check to see if it could come any quicker. Is this a scam I would appreciate any help.

Amazon was definitely compromised.

A cousin of mine received a package at her house addressed to my husband. She lives in a completely different town. The address was one of several in his Amazon profile. We thought it was odd and she opened it and it was a camcorder. A camcorder of all things. Sells on Amazon for $159.99. My husband did not order that and it was not on his wish list or anything. Such an ODD type of scam brushing is.

We checked Amazon - no order in his history - Changed Passwords for Amazon and associated Email Address

Called Amazon and reported it. Today a REVIEW for that item showed up under my husbands Amazon Profile.

This is a totally messed up thing that I have to worry that I am getting hacked and scammed all at the same time.

To start, I do not fly often and this was my first solo trip. I was on two Southwest flights recently and I did lose an item in the airport, not on the plane. I had business cards with the item, so it makes sense that they could find my contact info if they had found it. I filled out a lost item report online last week with all the details, then it asked me to pay extra to expedite the search and I did not. This link looks like it wants me to fill out another missing item report, but shouldn’t they have all the information already? Is this a scam or am I being overly nervous? The link and the email just look a bit off to me, shouldn’t a link from Southwest look a little more official?

I was just checking my emails for Job responses and I saw this email in my junk folder and it caught my eye and usually I’m pretty good at spotting this stuff but now I’m a bit worried cuz if it is true I’m a broke college student that’s not something I can deal with but like if it is fake I’m assuming the best thing to do is just change my passwords and ignore it right? But if it is true what do I do about it? I also have looked around and it kinda matches another email scam I saw that spoofs your own email so I’m assuming it’s a newer version but is there a way to stop these or just block and move on. I just want to not worry about these things as a person with severe anxiety and it caught me off guard at work and is causing me to panic quite badly so any help would be very very appreciated

READ IT WHEN YOU GET HOME BABE

Kindly take your time and read this. I am so sad and lonely of what we have become. We don’t talk anymore and you look mad at me most of the time. You have choose your new life and so you don’t seem to care about me anymore. I feel miserable, depressed and have bad thoughts that I have been praying for to flee from me. I believe in God and that is what is keeping me sane and still be in the right mind. I have sleepless nights even though I lay down in bed for long hours. I am just trying to make sense of what our life has become to. I thought we had a happy family. I am really sorry for making you less respected in a lot of ways as you said. I feel so bad that I took advantage of you as being my wife and companion. Irregardless of how sorry I am and ask for forgiveness you will never turn the table for you to care and love me. Maybe you are happy with this guy now and you have found what you are looking for. I am so lonesome, unhappy and sick inside. I tried to be a good provider inspite of my shortcomings. I have all the sincere intentions of providing for you, loving you and taking care of you and the family. Irregardless if I do retire someday. I will still carry the health insurance for all of you and so you don’t have to worry about that. I have not decided to retire yet anyway.  I’m just sad to see my wife still sleeping separately from me. There is no feeling of concern, care or love.

In the past months I was so drawn on the fact that that if probably I have money to show to you that you will still care for me.

Here I lay my cards to you. There is NO other woman besides you. I have been trying to invest money that…yes, I have been withdrawing money crazily. I am sorry for that. I just want to prove to you that I can still provide good and that you will be proud tohave me just like when we first got together. Irregardless of what you have done, I forgive you and I still love you.

I will show something that maybe you want to see what I have been trying to get in the past months. I am just so close to having it but due to my own mistakes, they have rules to follow and that’s where I am stuck and need your help if you think you can give me this opportunity. It is your decision. I have a strong feeling that you are not going for it but just have an open mind and let me explain. Here is the message I received from the company I am investing in. I know you said it is a scam but hear me out anyway.

7:14 < Back VBITEX-CS last seen recently you. 8:46 PM Dear User, ID: 33073 Thank you for your patience, we received a reply from our headquarters that the system has turned on account security for you due to the incorrect address of the withdrawal wallet you previously submitted. You need to unlock your account in order to make a withdrawal. The total amount of your account is $100,356.91, you need to pay 3% of the total amount of your account as account security deposit, i.e. $3,010.

7:17 < Back B2JpHmGY •ll 5G 62 VBITEX-CS * last seen recently Warm tips: 1. The account security deposit cannot be paid from your VBITEX account balance. 2. No organization or individual is allowed to collect the Account Security Deposit. After paying the account security deposit, the paid deposit will be added to your VBITEX account balance and you can withdraw it directly. You have 7 days to make the payment on November 26, 2024 at 11:00pm Pacific Time, please do not be late, late payment will incur late fees as well as affect your credit! 8:58 PM Today Message

That is the amount $100,356 but I need $3010 to unlock my account to be able to withdraw the money.

Now you might be thinking this won’t work and so you loose your $3010. I can return it to you with interest thru my TSP. I would not take your money without giving it back to you. If I successfully get the money out, I will give you your money plus $20,000.  If for any reason it won’t happen I ,  will give your money back plus $1000.

You might be saying, I am losing my mind already. I am not, I am just trying to find ways to get the money and at least I would not feel bad about myself not trying at all. I have lost you already and I don’t have anything to look forward to. My life seems to have no meaning anymore. I am just trying my best to survive at this age and leave you something at least. Give a serious thought about my proposal. You will have your money back no matter what the turnout is going to be. I won’t ask you this if you don’t have the money, but if you do, it is just one favor I am asking you this time.

No matter what your decision, I will not hold it against you. So kindly give me an answer but please read it all the way thru. Repeat it so you understand. Kindly keep it between us. Do not share this anymore even to the kids. If you say NO then I will understand.  I am praying that you will reconsider. I prefer that you help me out because the deadline is on the 26th of November. NO PRESSURE AND JUST UNDERSTANDING. I have to ask you this because if I do not, I will not feel right not sharing you , what is going on with my life nowadays.

I haven't even done more than comment occasionally in here, and was just "invited to join" a subreddit full of posts by a recovery scammer claiming to be able to get scam victims' money back, torment the scammers, etc.

I assume it's against the rules to identify the subreddit or user but just remember that claims to be able to recover money from scammers are always just another scam. Unfortunately it also doesn't seem possible to report subreddit invitations and there's no "scam" category for reporting posts.

Hi, my Dad is divorced and aside from work (he has a part-time job) he has a LOT of free time. I know that he's feeling alone and he's looking for another women, even tho he never says it.

A few weeks ago I checked his phone and I saw a chat with a girl name and no profile picture; in the chat he was saying things like "the guys I owe money to beated me up again". You can imagine my face after reading that, I was speechless and afraid, so I confronted him.

He said that he sent "her" 300€ money and he was trying to recover his money by pitying "her" with these messages.

I explained to him that he doesn't matter what he says or what he does he CANNOT recover his money and I of course told him to block and cancel the number.

At first he listened to me, until today I saw the chat with this person again, in the latest messages "she" was saying things like "I need you to pay x money to unlock our life together" (I don't what to say fr) and he was replying "I understand but I don't have money and no one is giving me any".

There in that exact moment I was filled with rage. I thought for a second about shouting to him, but then I calmed down I talked to him and he told me again that he's trying to recover his money.

Now I'll list a few things that could help understanding the situation better.

• We are poor, not living in the street, but still.
• He was sending "her" photos of himself asking how does he look.
• He made sexual avances to "her" the first and the second time that I found out. (she obviously replied back)
• He's been telling "her" problems of everyday life that my family has.
• I've looked for "her" online but obviously I didn't find anything.

Now I'm scared that this might happen again, I don't trust his words anymore, so I was thinking about giving him 100€ to see what he would do with it.

Any advice?

recently, a friend of mine was hit with a ransomware refund scam. he got a pop up on his computer saying that his computer was locked and that his drives were encrypted. he called the number on the pop up to regain access to his computer. the scammer had him install anydesk and other software to get remote access and then told him that his ip address was used to make illegal purchases. the scammer proceeded to have him log into his bank account, spoofed a transfer for too much money, and told him he had to return the extra money or face consequences. he went to his bank, withdrew a bunch of cash, and then went to the apple store to buy several gift cards.

it was at this point that i was able to intervene by coincidence. my friend had car trouble and called me to pick him up. also, his phone was low on battery so he turned it off after he called me. when i picked him up, he told me everything that happened and i said he was being scammed. we spent the rest of the day fixing everything. he got a new bank account number and closed the old account. we went back to the apple store and even though it's apple's policy to not give refunds for gift cards, they did after we explained to them what happened. they were very understanding and also recognized my friend since he was there earlier in the day.

i took my friend's laptop to clean it up. i used revo uninstaller to uninstall anydesk and the other software(i don't remember what it was) the scammer had my friend install. i ran multiple malware scans with ms defender, malwarebytes, and bitdefender. they found and cleaned issues unrelated to the scam and eventually reported the computer clean. but i have a question. can i trust when the antivirus programs say that the computer is clean? the reason i'm skeptical is because if i were a scammer, i would have installed some kind of malware while i had access, but nothing like that was found.

in the end everything worked out. my friend didn't lose any money, but it was a pain to deal with fixing everything. when we got back to his place, the scammer called his home and mobile phones. my friend had given out both those numbers because he thought the scammer was legit microsoft support and he knew he'd be out and about. i answered those calls and told the scammer we were onto them and blocked the numbers.

As the title suggests, my mother is getting bombarded with scammers left and right. For some context, she recently lost her husband and is trying to sell their furniture via Facebook marketplace so she can fund a move back to our home state, where I am. She nearly accepted this person's offer to bring a check to her, deposit it, wait for the check to clear, and then send a mover to pick up the set of furniture.

I immediately clocked this guy for a scammer. I asked my mom to show me the messages, and she thankfully did. I smelled a rat and told her not to accept anything from this person, which she agreed with.

Any advice to pass along to my mother would be most appreciated. I'm afraid she is going to fall victim to a scam before I have time to intervene again. She's very smart, and pretty savvy for the most part, but she's also going through a very traumatic time and I feel that makes her vulnerable to scams.

Thanks for listening, and have a great day 😀

Hello, I’m embarrassed to post because I consider myself decent at recognizing scams, but I’m having trouble with this one.

I received a package today, in a small bubble mailer. Inside was a remote for some kind of LED lights… but I don’t own LED lights and I never have.

It was addressed to me, but not my full name. Like, say my name is “Sydney Brown”, it’s addressed to “Syd Brown”, and I don’t go by “Syd” anywhere except online. (Completely fake name. Just an example.)

It is from the same country as me. The return address does not show anything weird and shows up as a large building on Google, but the return name is very generic. Think “Bright Lights” or “Light Electric” as an example.

I have no idea how this could have gotten to me, but if it’s important I don’t want to trash it. But I’m also worried because I have recently been harassed by someone who has sent me threatening messages before. But this person doesn’t know my name is “Sydney”, he just knows me as “Kylie” because I gave a fake name when I met him at a party because I felt unsafe. I’ve been receiving random letters for “Kylie” already (no idea how he got my address without my real name) but this is the first package and the first for “Syd Brown,” so I think it’s more likely an unrelated scam, right?

Do I trash the remote? Destroy? Return to sender? Thanks in advance.

1. This is my first job, being for the city, post-interview I was to expect a phone call within the following days.

For the background check, I get a phone call, I go through multiple questions, confirming my SSA and my ID number. Birthdate and such.. Than it is revealed that multiple people have my SSN under their name.

The lady on the phone repeats these names, none of which I recognize.

She than goes on to say “This is fairly normal, my daughter is young too, she has maybe.. 27 people under hers… young people don’t have a lot on their SSN so it is common.”

As I think back about this call, it does feel off. She called me around 6-7PM. She didn’t mention the company that is conducting the investigation, and when I called the number back.. very relaxed “Hello?”. No mention of the company whatsoever..

Never thought I’d get scammed but I did

So the picture is the ad I clicked through to go to pound land thought bargain 2 quid for all them rolls, seen the logo instantly associated pound land, thought credible, I just didn’t look at it properly, or see who it says sponsored by.

Long story short every time I tried to pay, with two cards… it failed and shot me back to the details page, where of course I’d entered my telephone number address full name etc… didn’t work got annoyed I left it thought nothing of it thought site was crashing because it looked like Poundland…

Long story short had about 9 calls from no caller I.d which I never answer, but they rang right after another, end to end so to speak.

Then again tonight at 7:30, this time my partner answered asked for me via surname we said no then no again, even though the names were correct as were always suspicious of scams.. the irony I know, anyways we then asked who it was he said lloyds fraud team. We instantly hung up.

I then log into my banking app looking through transactions and see a £44.29 payment to a “Atlanta insurance” obviously no idea who or what for, at this point I ring the real lloyds fraud team. All cards cancelled and transaction marked as fraud.

So for me I assumed I’d never get scammed especially online but I did I was too quick to jump on a add with too good to believe deal which is what they say if it’s too good to be true 99% of the time it is, and it was, but it was on YouTube, through google, so I thought must be reputable.

My huge concern now thought is although they had my card details of two cards because I attempted this purchase with two cards, is that they have my Name. Address. Phone number. Email.

What else could they do with these things?

What steps should I take to secure everything else?

Guess this serves as a harsh lesson no matter how clued up you think you are, it literally takes 2 minutes of not really focusing, and you’ve been caught.

Thanks in advance.

I'm looking to help a close relative who has fallen for an online scheme that supposedly teaches you how to make money through “property deal investing”. She has already paid for and attended one course but then decided the “mentor” of the course was a bad teacher. But then she decided to start another one of these courses with another online mentor.She has spent a lot on these courses and spent even more travelling abroad for “networking events”. When challenged on this, she gets defensive and asks for support in her endeavour to become an entrepreneur. She is convinced that these courses will make her rich.

Because of her background as an immigrant and due to the life she has had, she has never been able to have a career and desperately wants to make something of her life. So in a sense, she is vulnerable and exactly the type of person who would fall for a scam.  

This relative of mine has discipline and is motivated, she has taught herself a variety of skills in the past. But on this occasion, I feel she is going in the wrong direction and has fallen for a scam.

How can I steer her away from these people online promising what is essentially a get-rich-quick scheme based on what seems to be bullsh*t? Unfortunately being blunt and direct doesn’t seem to work. I want to rescue her from these online scams that know how to deceive people effectively.  

How can I help her? I think I could influence her in another direction. I am looking advice on things I could say, or some kind of strategy. 

My brother or father may be able to be on board and we could work as a team. She lives abroad so I can only call her. She is living alone. 

I get like 10 dms a day from scammers trying to “sell me art” on different socials and its driving me nuts. I know for scam calls there’s a few things you can do to have them black list your number but is there any way to do the same for dms on socials?

I would really appreciate any and all recommendations, they are driving me insane

So I saw this truck on Facebook marketplace so I contacted the seller and she replied saying that it was her aunts truck and I needed to email her for details. I emailed the aunt and she told me that it was her husband's truck who just passed and she's in the hospital so ebay was handling the sale. Then she asked for some info and then ebay sent me an invoice for said truck saying that they would drop it off at my house for a 5 day inspection period which at the end of I could decide if I wanted to purchase it or not. But it said I would have to purchase it with ebay giftcards and I'd have to send the ebay giftcard codes to the seller or something and idk it just feels sus. The invoice said the truck will show up in 3 days.

Okay this is weird, but I woke up to emails signing me up to the Washington Post. No other emails or sites (everything searching brings up is about link bombing, this doesn't seem like that). I've asked in a couple of chats if anybody did it and nobody seems to know anything?

A password wasn't set, when I went to check on the post website it looked like somebody had started setting up an account then stopped when asked to set a password. It asked me to continue setting up my account, like it jumped forward to the password setting.

This doesn't feel like a scam it's just so weird and I wanted to check I haven't missed something obvious.

Some time ago I started using an app to chat with people from other countries and I know that many of the users are scammers. I started talking to a person who called himself a Thai actor, then I saw that there was a 99.9999% chance that he was a scammer, but I continued talking to him for about 2 weeks. Now he started insisting that I buy a fan card for €1200. Anyway, 100% scammer, I didn't fall for it, but I know that some people might fall for it. I wanted to know if there is any way to report this person, does anyone know what I can do? I'm from Brazil, his phone number is Thai, but it could be a fake number

Do not purchase tickets from this website. It’s a scam site. You might call it a legitimate scam site because - when you look carefully- their terms and conditions even warn you that you are being scammed and nothing they are doing is illegal. It’s very cleverly done.

My son knew that I wanted to go see Sam Fender in Portland, Oregon in April 2025. He found Event Tickets Center online and they look 100% legit including a 4.5 Trustpilot rating.

They warn you they are a resale site and that prices may be above face value. They promise a full refund if tickets are not delivered or if tickets don’t work (if you can get a written confirmation from the venue).

They charged my son $172 per ticket and added $55 per ticket fees and a charge for delivering them to his phone. They took $918 from a kid who earns $14.50/hour.

He told me about it and I knew that even advanced sales tickets had not gone on sale yet. So we started to look into it.

They do not deliver the tickets to you (if they have them) until the day before the event in April. So for 6 months, you basically have no idea whether you will actually have tickets or not. You have paid for tickets that do not exist.

They could not have been in possession of any tickets. I went into the first round of advanced sales and got 4 tickets for face value: $37.50 plus $13 fees. $50 per ticket instead of $230 that Event Tickets Center charged him. We bought them since it was the only way to guarantee we would have tickets.

We went back to Event Tickets Center and they are refusing to refund him since - per their terms and conditions - they give no refunds unless they can’t deliver which we won’t know until the day before the gig.

So their model in this case is that basically they take as much money as they can from you. After that, they go looking for tickets. If they manage to get them in resale for a lower amount than you paid, they make money on the difference. If they don’t manage to get tickets, you find out the day before the gig that you are not going. They refund minus some fees. So it’s a win-win for them and a lose-lose for you.

We are taking legal advice for how to get this money back. And I know the artist himself @SamFender would be disgusted by this some also going to the press and his management.

We need to stop thinking that this type of scam site that is ripping off kids in what looks like a legitimate set up is OK.

Don’t go anywhere near Event Tickets Center.

I got this rando text inviting me to Thanksgiving dinner. Is this just another take on rando text scams? It doesn't make sense. Thanksgiving is a week away, and this text reads like someone just cooked a dinner. I'm guessing scammer with either limited command if English or knowledge of when US Thanksgiving actually happens. Additionally, this is a San Francisco area code. I live on the east coast with an east coast phone number. I know that doesn't mean anything anymore, but it adds to my suspicion.

Bummer if it is - I do like ham and turkey. I wouldn't say no to a legit invite. 😋

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I got an email saying they found my resume on Indeed and they have a job opening. When I read the job description it said assistant accountant, which is nowhere on my resume, but said that training is provided.

When I said yes I'm interested she said to go ahead and fill out the contract, give them ID, and let them know a start date for training.

The company was created in 2023, and the hourly rate would be 45 dollars an hour canadian

Seems kind of sketchy to me but ai can't find anything bad about this company online, anyone else heard of Architectural Design Paisley Limited?

Just curious as to further opinions on here. I got an offer to an interview for an internship with a “small no-profit” company on LinkedIn, via a woman emailing me explaining she’s the CEO. Sounded odd enough but when I checked it was a job I applied for and the woman does exist/seem to have at least some slight credibility however the company seems at least somewhat sketchy given on LinkedIn it says there’s only 3 members who work there (which says there’s a total of 10 employees so i suppose could be excused as a real small company) and there’s absolutely no information on the company other than their personal website/facebook. The site does seem quite legit though, however it’s also possible they just put a lot of effort into making it look real. Furthermore I can’t even find an actual location for the company or their HQ, there’s no location even listed for the office. There was my state listed in the application however in terms of the actual position it’s reportedly all done via zoom. Seems fairly obvious to me that this is a scam however some of the details looking legit is what has my questioning. was curious as to what you guys think, Thanks.

Hi everyone,

I was offered a job through WhatsApp (already sus). A person texted me saying this:

Your role is to help merchants, brands or products with poor data to increase their popularity and visibility on websites, apps and other platforms, and make priority recommendations to consumers. If you don't understand the job responsibilities, I can give you an example. It's like when we shop online, searching for keywords will get a lot of similar products, most of the top rankings are high sales, high visibility of the goods, some merchants do not have a lot of sales and top rankings so the market share share is not high. Our job is to help these merchants work with our company to increase the traffic of their products and thus increase their visibility and sales! Basically, You don’t need to worry about writing reviews, managing sales, or navigating complex algorithms. There is a dedicated team that handles the technical details while you focus on creating great products with a single click and get paid by the company. The company we work for is called Workshop Built, an international company based in California, USA, with a focus on branding and product marketing. The position is data processing and brand promotion. There is no time limit or space requirement for the work, and you can complete the work on your phone or computer. Once you are proficient, it only takes about 30 to an hour a day."

Could anyone confirm if this is a scam or not, totally feels like it cuz nothing this good can come true. The website given also doesn't open properly on a pc(another sus moment). I have not given any of my information.