redwolf143
01/23/13 8:47 am
Pool being installed, company pulled a bait and switch and up charged $7k. Avoid blue world ( the one that's all over the tv) like the plague.
Joey5Girl
01/21/13 8:01 pm
I never online shop but my credit card information has been copied twice now, a different credit card both times. We're at the point where our bank will notify us for anything above $50.
Joey5Girl
01/21/13 7:57 pm
My credit card has been copied twice in 3 weeks, two different cards. Don't know how it keeps happening. But, I'm counting that as being scammed.
pinkyusuck The Carribean. I wish.
01/21/13 12:31 pm
If you take the ending price of the examples they show, and multiply it by 60¢ per penny of the price, the penny auction sites make 2,3,4 or more times the regular cost of the item in profit. I wouldn't call it a scam per se, but unlike a regular auction you lose your money even if you don't win.
cawench
01/18/13 7:11 pm
I find online scams uber easy to spot. The fallacious lies that my conservative friends send me are also transparent. It makes me chuckle sadly that they are sucked in by such dreck.
TopsQueen Oregon Coast
01/18/13 4:43 pm
I was going to be a secret shopper. They sent me a very generous check I had to deposit in the bank and then send money off to Nigeria to make sure that Western Union was actually working. I'm not that dumb!!!!
susanr Colorado
01/18/13 2:06 pm
I'm pretty careful about online shopping - I do a lot but only with legitimate businesses & haven't had a problem. The only credit card fraud I've been a victim of was apparently attempted by someone who took advantage of a card swipe at a local business. (CC company called me to check, so no prob.)
neferure in a foreign country
01/18/13 1:37 pm
I fell in love with a guy I met online. Skype dating basically. Some sexting & phone sex, I admit. After a few months we were about to finally meet- when he tells me he can't because he's married. And of course, I wept for days.
zedd Desert Dweller
01/18/13 1:16 pm
While your intentions were honorable, vigilantism isn't the answer. What if the jerk was carrying a gun? You should have contacted the police and let the professionals handle it.
chinito Florida
01/18/13 8:06 am
I am a prince of Nigeria and have 83 million Dollars and my goverment want to take it from me. Please send me your name, address, phone, bank account, SSN, email, password, previous addresses, mother's maiden name, make and model of first car, city you born, and a blank piece of paper signed.....
dabomb
01/18/13 5:40 am
@tddaddy I meant no disrespect I was laughing when I said it. I love both of those as well especially filling out a bracket & constantly checking it with a hi lighter & pen!
Fact Its ok to be white
01/18/13 4:53 am
We lured a man to a friends house pretending we were a 14 year old girl that would have sex with him. 2 friends and myself were going to kick his ass but he made it back to his car too fast. Im sure that was a bad online scam for him.
gonzoboy Arizona
01/18/13 4:00 am
Not personally. I don't know if "scammed" is the SAME as identity theft, but 3 friends have been a victim. Purchases were being made in their names, each in Russia, Mexico, and Texas. It's been enough for me to develop a HEALTHY paranoia in my online activitie$. Gots to be vigilant!
canecorso Las Vegas Nv
01/18/13 3:59 am
Jimmy I think you may have been a rare lucky one. Or maybe that was before so many people knew about the site. I was amazed when I watched that auction and the price the auction house was getting. I am too cheap to risk money like that.
canecorso Las Vegas Nv
01/18/13 12:51 am
Oh yeah one of them damn penny auction sites got $20 bucks off me. 55 cents a bid and gotta bid a gazillion times to win anything. After that I stopped looking for too good to be true. I'll save myself the headache and just buy it at the store with the lowest price.
praetorianus65
01/18/13 12:09 am
you missed the opportunity to get a 10% share from a 20 million bank account in Nigeria whose holder died and you luckily bear his last name so all you have to do is give all your private info - they'll transfer the 20 mil to you to avoid confiscation. Just send some processing fee up front ;)
kut17
01/17/13 11:36 pm
Oh really? Cause I've been specially selected in my area to receive $100,000 multiple times. I'm set for life!!
praetorianus65
01/17/13 11:19 pm
What I get offered often is getting a "free" tablet or such IF I choose one or several overpriced items I don't need and don't trust that cost more than the tablet is worth, not knowing if I ever receive the "free" tablet. Just because they profiled me as nerd doesn't mean I'm a sucker ;)
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