What's the worst scam you've ever seen/fell for?

What's the worst scam you've ever seen/fell for?
If you were involved, how did you cope with it?

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I scammed Jow Forums out of $3000 last year by selling fake whitelistings.

I got scammed out of $40 just by being an idiot my freshman year of college when some homeless guy started talking with me and claiming he knew me and everything and said he'd go in and get me beer from this place but never did.

I got scammed out of my Maplestory gear by dropping it and then being sent into a minigame where I couldn't access it.

Take your pick.

Ethercraft

Chainlink

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Kek bought a telephone that got never delivered.

I fell for biz shilling Verify (CRED) and Dcorp

kek you aint the only one, fagman

I fell for the bitmex scam, lost all my money and now I’m out of crypto trading completely.

Electroneum

I bought those speakers dudes sell out of the white vans when I was a teenager. Looking back it made me never rush into a purchase ever again, at the time though my rage was off the charts. I spent a couple weeks hanging out in parking lots on the weekend to see if I could spot the people that sold them to me. I had a jug of old rotten piss from my collection I was going to pour on them.

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I honestly think I've never been scammed my whole life

one time some nigger in paris mugged me for 200 euros though

I would say I was scammed into going to Paris, but I knew the place was a shithole like Trump said. My girlfriend forced me to go

It would be fair if she gave you the 200 back. It was her idea to go there.

0xbitcoin.

Xtrabytes

Scamming founder was shilling it everywhere in December and January. Then he dumped his bags and this piece of shit coin with no tech has dropped 95%

got rekt in a brothel in china travelling with a friend

we just wanted to go out drinking but got swindled by some mobbed up faggot in a suit to take a taxi that he would pay for to a different location so we could get a 'lapdance' (legit all we actually wanted)

get there and he takes us up 18 floors in an elevator which should have been a redflag but we were young and retarded. he fucks off and some girls come in, legit 10/10 at least by gook standards, I was drunk and horny so I ask to fuck one. They say it's $150AUD so I pay and go fuck her, was pretty awesome. Get back to the room we started in and my friend is still there, I sit down and like 5 guys walk in and close the door behind them.

they are carrying three or four card scanners and just start setting them up on the table not saying anything. they all had these fucked up tatoos on their arms, idk if they were triad but they were intimidating as shit. basically forced us to empty our cards with threats of violence and sign the printed receipts, took photos of our IDs and shit. lost about 5k AUD. whole process took like an hour and we were both shitting ourselves thinking theyd just kill us afterwards.

eventually they agree to let us go, they all leave and the first guy that brought us there comes back in laughing and smiling and saying its all ok and we should take this as a lesson not to get up to shady shit in china. he said he would pay for our taxi home but we just started walking because we were still shitting ourselves. he yelled out that if we called the cops they would know.

my friend and i laugh when we think back on it but man it really was a fucked up experience

Bounty0x

I was naive

Holy shit. Never trust a chink

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Blackmoon, lost 90% there, if it wasnt for that I would have made it already.

can't you just do chargebacks on all this stuff?

>the first guy that brought us there comes back in laughing and smiling and saying its all ok and we should take this as a lesson not to get up to shady shit in china.
He was right. Too many foreigners come to china thinking they can do whatever they want. Lesson learned.

>he used 100x leverage

Fuck. My fiancee has always wanted to go to paris

Yeah fuck China, never going there or anywhere I can't have a gun and defend myself from that kind of bullshit

Years ago, I was about 14 and got involved in those stupid "refer 10 friends and get a free ipod" bullshit. I made a website and everything and posted posters all over town.

Anyway, it turned out to be a scam, but after months and months of this shit, some IT guy who also did this shit said to me on a forum: "You should check out this Bitcoin thing"... me being a dumb kid and wanting to get rich did exactly that, and the rest is history bros.

fucking chinks

I was never really scammed (expect for low starting salary) but i scammed on online dating sites.

I first took all the pictures from some whore in motherless. She had pictures nude and not nude. Then i would on dating sites and tell them we could fuck for money after larping around a bit as silly girl. Always posted pics and nude pics as proof.

I could cash in on one retard twice. Told him i need to take the pill and its better without condom, but he gotta give me some money for that ;^)

Most of the time i told them to meet somewhere very far and they always went there while i was sitting at home playing vidya. I was very young at the time and needed the league of legends skins. I wish i knew how to get the money by not using Paysafe cards but what ever.
I also waited for the mad messages they gave me, was really fun.

I think i taught them a good lesson on never let hornyness be the greater thing in you.

Once a cutie guy asked me for autograph and the pen ended up having a shocker in it ;_;

But desu certain health insurances
Actually ADD more price to me meds than buying otc

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>I got scammed out of $40 just by being an idiot my freshman year of college when some homeless guy started talking with me and claiming he knew me and everything and said he'd go in and get me beer from this place but never did.
holy shit, how dumb some people are

bitconnect, honestly.

NEO

pussy
and you say the french are cowards?
with a friend we fought 3 colombians in Medellin, in a dark public garden at 2am, they had knives and they wanted my omega seamaster and our phones

Same in Philippines where I one shoted a cab driver who were driving me to narrow and poor af streets

Hey, I got scammed like that once.
are you from puerto rico by any chance?

Satan confirmed. Burn him.

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I got scammed by those retarded pump and dumps 6 months ago. I was new and thought "easy money"
oh well

early days of the silk road, i bought some bitcoin and went onto hiddenwiki for an exchange, and put in an order for 40 bucks worth of acid. the exchange had reviews and it looked trustworthy but the entire site was a clone of a legit exchange. later i found guides for reputable exchanges, and i found the same dealer and in his description he said "i only sell on these exchanges"

ChainLink is an scam currently happening but apparently no one can see it. You don't make a silly eth token to solve a problem that doesn't even exist lmao

dude you should've laughed, you can easily get your fucking money back on that shit.

This

Maplestory...those were the days

I scammed people by selling them fake WU transfer. 250$ FOR $3000, 1000$ for $15000, $8000 for 100k etc
And I'm white in case you think I'm a nigger scammer. I talked so nicely and politely with my ''clients''without doing any pressure on them to buy my service. This way, they thought I was totally legit unlike niggers that sacmmed them before.

Well at least you got to fuck

whalegate
i did make a lot of money following their calls though

That’s what I was thinking. Larping fggt

Same ._.

I was called a LARP on here and other places, but it is actually true. Lost $45k to someone finding out my wallet's private key.

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hacked or did you leak it?

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I unintentionally leaked it myself.

it's biz

I bought FUN ICX and ETH down about 1.5k my initial investment

Explain, please.

Top fucking Kek... I fucking hope that's not real desu.

how?

How?

>Jow Forums folder on HDD
>wants to upload a meme pic
>picks wrong file
>uploads pic containing entire wallet details

BIIIIICCCOOONNNNNEEEEEEECCCC

LOL

A guy swapped like 10 rune scimmys for 10 iron ones... Also this dude i bought charcoal from for like 70k because he told me it was a hood that looks like the H.A.M hood, which was a member outfit (i was a f2p scrub).

FeelsBadMan

i bought an iphone 3gs from ebay 9 years ago which then was never sent to me after having paid

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I never understand how people fell for the swapping shit. They ended up ruining rs after all the scams.

>I got scammed out of $40 just by being an idiot my freshman year of college when some homeless guy started talking with me and claiming he knew me and everything and said he'd go in and get me beer from this place but never did.
lmao, I was hammered walking back from the bar one night and a nigger asked if I wanted to buy some weed. My drunk ass gives him a $20 and he walks into this apartment behind him. He walks back out and plays dumb like he doesn't have the money. I don't like to fight, even when I drink but once he took a step away I went right in for the tackle. Got some sloppy ass hits and his squirrelly ass managed to slip out, jump up and run. Tried chasing him but was in cowboy boots and he was a nigger.

Still pissed about it desu.

Oh, the real kicker was that I told him I didn't even want weed, just seeds because I wanted to try to grow some. He didn't even have the agency to go scrounge up some shitty seeds to appease my drunk ass.

They can beat you up. But when westerners go missing in China. Their embassy usually files a complaint to the city. Most Chinese city governors usually take care of this promptly since lesser city ship governors usually has a spy or two in his admin and could smear shit on him to take his seat.

This would end in death for triad members if they thought they could beat you up. Just laugh and tell them your phone has a GPS and if you die people will come knocking. This wouldn't intimidate the gang members directly. But when a boss ends up losing a branch, people get tortured and fall into trucks.

You should have moved your assets to another adress right after uploading it

chinks and aussies are faggots
who would be afraid to travel in China?
Who would be as dumb as an aussie to follow a fucking cab chink driver

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most embarrassing shit ever.
A couple of years back when I was 19 i had 600 euro cash stolen from my wallet cos i was sitting in a bar with a bunch of people drunk and talking. Left to the bathroom, came back they were gone.

I worked as an undercover journalist for a bit and infiltrated a few of these things. I've seen:

-Selling knife sets as part of a pyramid scheme
-Selling vacations as part of a pyramid scheme
-Selling cosmetics as part of a pyramid scheme
-Work out routines as part of a pyramid scheme

What I've found is that the end product doesn't matter so much as the inherently pyramidal nature of the place. The vacation place was at least somewhat up front about their salesmen about how it hinged on scamming people further down the line, although they called it "business" instead of scamming.

I lost money on Mt Gox but then a few months later my dad got a job at Nintendo.

blockchain cryptocurrency

The problem is. People in China who are triad members are either dumb as a box of bricks or desperate. The minimum sentence for triad affiliation is like 25 years doing who knows what, 70 years or death for pretty much everything else. Most Chinese 'salesmen' think they are above the law in "teaching stupid easy barbarians" are plenty stupid and cling on the idea of ethno superiority.

Traveling in China can be plenty dangerous. Also goes for the food. I've seen chefs in 3-4star restaurants use old ingredients, saying "they're good enough" and someone getting food poisoning.

We Chinese, especially country folks have this machismo about us. When we are sitting high in position, we tend to do stupid shit such as rules don't apply, and we shit diamonds, today will be just another day, etc.

I had to really notice and correct this behavior so not as to let it resurface. I stayed too long with my cousins out in the boondocks.

How was this embarrassing? That's pretty good material for reports.

nvm. disregard. checked op post. mbmb. im a fag.

What about the night markets

Lost $100 to BITCONNEEEEEEEECCCT

I knew it was a scam, I'm just a degenerate gambler.

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THATSGREAT BT I WASNT LARPING
T. BOUGHT IN 2011, COULD SIGN A MESSAGE TO PROVE IT

MEANWHILE YOU BOUGHT MY BAGS THIS YEAR THANKS

Never got involved with them. I heard blood curling stories how someone caught AIDS or some other STD. Or roofied and left with the trash in some alley way naked, cleaned out. card swipers which charged them something like 2-3k in yuan for shit they don't remember. Having the pimp threatening a lawsuit because the girl claimed you threatened her and he wants 1000 yuan for silence or else he space his case to your embassy.

I just avoid it all together. Safer to fap than dick yourself irl.

Buying Fibonacci ltc miners

They targeted the kids
Lots of people who were new to the internet there

UFR

jnt

When I was a teenager I fell for a ponzi scheme called Cherry Shares, I lost around $2000.

I fell for YoBit. Straight up stole my 25 dollars in Litecoin. Was researching YoBit stumbled upon some guy who left 660 bitcoin on an exchange and someone with access to his private wallet keys stole his bitcoin kek

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PeepCoin
Tron
SpherePay
Odyssey

When i first moved to Berkeley CA I bought a CD from a bum selling them on the corner because I felt bad. Couldn't get it to play on my laptop so I took it to a CD store. There the clerk laughed at me and confirmed there was no music on it. Fucking nigger couldn't even make a shitty beat or two for me lel.

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also working on a scam right now

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I had guys try to sell me speakers out of the back of a pickup on a few occasions too. What's the deal with these? Are they just an empty box/grill and you don't find out til you get home?

$ 100 on Bitcoin past June
i`m still trying to cope

bitcoin private

Paying for college.

It set back my life about 10 years.

i gave 2000$ to darksydephil

feels bad man

It's all your fault for choosing a liberal arts degree.

Well user...
Bought into the ICO of Confido, first ICO I ever got into, put in 2 eth, at my ATH I was up to 38 eth within 2-3weeks, got out about 10 but woke up one day and yep Joost had exit scammed. Was sad because I had 25k AUD at ATH ended up with 6.8k. Bought into another shitty low marketcap MN coin called ARTAX off some miners in a discord. Put in 5k woke up 5days later and It had drastically mooned, ended up selling stack for 4.3btc's now worth less than 0.1 btc (Kek). Ath of about 100k during feb from 1k all starting from confido.

Now sitting at 25k. Crypto is one hell of a ride

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this, what was the scam?

I bought 1K worth of NIMFA

My friend's dad lost 15 million dollars on a bad investment.

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Bought $20 of "weed" from someone when i was about 13, made a pipe, got a few mates and went somewhere to smoke it. Unwrapped it and it was bark, top kek

if you tards actually want to scam someone...

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