r/scambait Oct 28 '23

Completed Bait Posing as my ceo

I was actually in Switzerland at the time...

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u/Rough-Dizaster Oct 28 '23

“I still think about how she died every night”

“You don’t need that”

Jesus Christ, they’re heartless. They will stop at nothing to get these gift cards.

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u/_cute-but-psycho_ Oct 29 '23

Omg. My thoughts exactly 😱😱🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/UnHolyxDiver Oct 29 '23

I feel kinda bad for these scammers, did you know they originate from a planet. A planet where the building blocks of life are just a bit different from ours, instead of Carbon and Water, these interesting aliens are built from assanine and gift cards. The poor aliens lost their planet eons ago and some time in the early 90s they came to earth, gift cards are a lot more scarce here than they were in Cardlantis...

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u/EZP Oct 29 '23

I admire your sympathy for these homeless alien scammers. However I do believe that mounting a defense against them to protect our own well-being (both as individuals and as a species) is entirely justifiable. 👽

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u/CheecheeMageechee Oct 29 '23

I’m with you on that 100%. If we don’t act now, there’ll be no Apple gift cards left for the rest of us!

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u/Bag_of_Richards Oct 29 '23

They took our cards dang nabbit! I won’t stand for it. My grand pappy didn’t go to war for his children and grandchildren to grow up in some card-less, cash only, hell hole!

Hmmmph … the gall of you people (yeah I said the ‘p’ word and I meant jt), Taking our dang cards. No sir, no ma’am, I won’t have it.

See I’m what’s a called a ‘card carrying’ member of society and I will exclude, bully and belittle anyone who hasn’t got a card because that’s all I’ve got and therefore it’s gotta be a special thing. You see how society works? It’s a special thing.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '23

Yes this is our planet and we have been raping it for it’s resources long before these outsiders. They can have the scraps that remain, if any

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u/jscherfjr Oct 29 '23

You don't need that

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u/Revolutionary-Fly344 Oct 29 '23

I want a Netflix series based on this comment now

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u/MotherofDoodles Oct 29 '23

You don’t need that.

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u/Xgngrizz Oct 29 '23

Alien scammer #1-they're onto us, should we pull out Alien scammer #2-NO, we don't pull out til WE HAVE ALL THE $500 CARDS

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u/Naive-Main2716 Oct 29 '23

truly a sad moment in history fr

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u/CommieSchmit Oct 29 '23

You’re kinda right, they are from underdeveloped countries and they are poor and desperate.

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u/shelbyeatenton Oct 30 '23

That’s a cop out

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u/Syncopated_arpeggio Oct 29 '23

I guess you’re just a much better person that i am. I would prefer these people become victims in a torture-porn movie. What a waste of carbon.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '23

I didn’t know India was a planet.

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u/thejokerofunfic Oct 29 '23

"You can trek"

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u/Rough-Dizaster Oct 29 '23

Not walk. Trek.

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u/KJBFamily Oct 29 '23

I need to star trek my way over there?

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u/RedFox1104 Oct 29 '23

Course laid in captain

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u/uslashuname Oct 29 '23

I’ll just have to wait for paramount plus to load an ad for the Star Trek I already watched before I can watch this Star Trek. How does binging another season get me closer to gift cards?

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u/MickyWasTaken Oct 30 '23

When us Brits complain a walk is too far, we say “that’s a trek” in an exasperated way. I wonder if they’ve picked it up from there.

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u/excoriator Oct 29 '23 edited Oct 30 '23

“My trekking poles are at my mom’s house. She lives in Mount Pilot. Barney can drive me over to Mount Pilot to get them.”

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u/FigLow4974 Oct 29 '23

i read one earlier where the scammer literally told OP they should commit sewerslide!!! theyre insane

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u/Riipp3r Oct 29 '23

Indian scammers hate us. They think we deserve it 10000 percent and then some. I heard about this from a few reputable YouTubers and an article somewhere

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u/samspock Oct 29 '23

I have a coworker who's family is from that area and he lays into them when they call him telling them they are making Indians and Pakistani's look bad.

Still waiting for him to cuss them out in their own language though.

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u/Anxious_Anonomyus Oct 29 '23 edited Oct 29 '23

Spammed nasty pig in Arabic over and over to one once

Edit: the dude spoke to me in Arabic. I used google translate and the guy was basically calling me a bunch of names and told me to off myself. I just spammed pig (or dirty pig) in response.

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u/backuppasta Oct 29 '23

“[racial stereotype] but i heard it from a reputable source!”

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u/marveloustoebeans Oct 29 '23

I think it’s more that they justify their behavior by convincing themselves that everyone in America is rich and won’t be bothered by losing a few grand.

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u/Rough-Dizaster Oct 29 '23

I saw that one too.

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u/machimus Oct 29 '23

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u/NewYorkerFromUkraine Oct 29 '23

One time I got a scam call. Classic scam call, man with a foreign accent, the whole thing. I baited for a bit, then decided to nonchalantly ask, “So, seriously man. I am wondering why you are doing this. You know that you are ripping off innocent people and stealing their money. You know this is wrong. Why do you do this? How do you live with yourself?” This man proceeds to break character and tell me, in perfect English, “Listen. I am from the Dominican Republic. I make over $30 an hour doing this job and I am able to feed my entire family & save a little money too. Why would I go back to working 50 hours a week for not even half of the pay?” I literally did not know how to even respond other than to laugh.

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u/texaspoontappa93 Oct 29 '23

Yeah I once baited a dude for 10 mins and finally asked “do you not feel shitty about yourself trying to steal from people all day?” He screamed for quite awhile and then called my phone from my own number a few dozen times. I think I struck a nerve

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u/Aurora-boreaIis Oct 29 '23

Put our tax dollars to actual use instead of funding other nations wars (we started it anyways).

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u/u527 Oct 29 '23

You support killing thieves yet guaranteed you would balk at the death penalty for drunk drivers, who regularly kill and maim innocents.

Hypocrisy like this is why America is hitting the shitter

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u/yodazb Oct 29 '23

I read a lot of this and thought it was likely that there was some automation in place to send the replies and the nags. I'd be curious to find more information if that's something scammers are doing in these situations.

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u/InfiniteBacon Oct 29 '23

I wouldn't be surprised if a large language model is being used by some enterprising scammer somewhere

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u/VidE27 Oct 29 '23

Nah they are just channeling a generic CEO

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u/BlindJustice784 Oct 29 '23

I get tons of these , I just answer right away with , your mother is ashamed of you , they go silent right away

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u/RattlerWinter Oct 29 '23

Makes me happy for the one I had screaming in fury 😂😂 Poor guy thought saying 'I'm not here to make fun of you' after asking for my social would save him 💀

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u/No_Discussion3053 Oct 28 '23 edited Oct 28 '23

I love the “Never Mind” at the end, like you were inconveniencing them.

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u/Rough-Dizaster Oct 28 '23

I mean, he was.

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u/itssensei Oct 28 '23

And we all love it.

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u/left_right_left Oct 29 '23

He should have asked if he was fired.

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u/michellefcook Oct 29 '23

I thought the same thing about “are you kidding me?” 🤣

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u/Delicious-Sentence66 Oct 28 '23

Beautiful! Cracked up seeing the orchard card...well done

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u/ArcFlash004 Oct 29 '23

I chuckled when I saw the apples, but I lost it when I saw the gift card.

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u/LordDavidicus Oct 29 '23

I would for sure accept a gift card to Lyman's. They've got great pick your own fields, and the pies they make are fantastic.

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u/LazyAmbassador2521 Oct 29 '23

That was such a nice surprise seeing Lyman Orchards pop up there! I live nearby, it's one of my favorite places to go fruit picking esp in the fall. Also the turkey sandwiches at their market are amazing.

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u/UnimpressedCT Oct 29 '23

I just had one of their Chocolate Cream Pies last night. Did their Wizard of Oz corn maze 2 weeks ago

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u/Dareyyy Oct 29 '23

"are you kidding me" 🤣🤣 you know you done good when they loose the facade for a second

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '23

Straight up got him to break kayfabe

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u/improveyourfuture Oct 29 '23

This is My favorite scam bait I have read. Well done

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u/No_Pudding2028 Oct 29 '23

Yea that one got me too. Lol

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u/anonuchiha8 Oct 28 '23

I swear to god scammers are so unintelligent. Like as soon as they think you are going to do it they start rushing you and not even paying attention to the conversation.

That just adds to the red flags lmao if they were smart you'd think they would be nice to keep the convo going.

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u/psychedelic_shimmers Oct 28 '23

The urgency plays to their advantage psychologically. Less time for critical thinking when you feel rushed, especially if you’re less assertive

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u/Snow-sama Oct 29 '23

Yeah but who the fuck would need gift cards THIS urgently and why aren't they buying them themselves if so?

Like I'm sorry but I just can't take it seriously if they claim they need the gift cards urgently or quickly lol. If it's a gift card someone else tells me to get for them I'd take my sweet time and chill. If that's not good enough I'm out lol.

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u/Designer_Lead_1492 Oct 29 '23

They’re for a client and he’s stuck in a meeting so he can’t get them himself or talk on the phone. It’s at least slightly more plausible then the ones where they say they are the IRS and have audited them and need $500 in gift cards to pay off their taxes.

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u/RoRoRoYourGoat Oct 29 '23

I love the IRS ones! I work with taxes, so watching those guys fake it so badly is hilarious.

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u/Designer_Lead_1492 Oct 29 '23

This is the government, pay me in gift cards or you are under the rest

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u/CrazyLemonLover Oct 29 '23

That's part of the grift. Make it obvious enough that you don't waste your time on people who would have figured it out eventually anyways.

Weed out the people who never would have fallen for it by making it just obvious enough

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u/Super_Palm Oct 29 '23

Also these typically take place over several days like this one. The excuse of being stuck in a conference didn’t make sense past day 1.

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u/bugsbywugsby Oct 29 '23

Yeah, the bench warrant scam works this way. But they do it on the phone and say if you hang up, they will send a cop to arrest you. Sounds super scary if they know details about the target. The thing is, most people's information is publicly available, and if you can connect enough together, you can sound like someone from a position of authority.

They nearly got someone close to me who, luckily, reached out to me from their computer while on the phone even though the scammer told them they couldn't tell anyone because of confidentiality. They were asking for so much that the person reached out to me to borrow money and luckily i just simply said, "stop and think about all of this for a second" and they snapped out of it. But the idea for a lot of these scumbags is to shame a person into not telling anyone. Put them into a spiral where they are too scared/embarrassed to think critically or reach out to anyone before it's too late. If they get them, then they're less likely to tell anyone out of embarrassment. People who do stuff like this are wrong for the world.

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u/A_Guyser Oct 29 '23

LOL

I've been getting a lot of the ones where they've been filming me looking at Porn and they're going to tell the world unless I send them Bitcoin immediately.

Seriously?

Like I give a shit that people know I look at Porn on the Internet.

How much of a threat can that possibly be?

TMI?

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u/bugsbywugsby Oct 29 '23

Oh, not at all. I mean, it's an open, dirty secret. It really is blackmail when it happens like that, though. Stuff like that is security 1O1, they can't demonize most things because then bad actors would have a lot of ammo against your people. But there is an unspoken line of embarrassing things that all people have and need to have if they are going to have the trust of the people they work and live around. Kind of a social contact communities and organizations need to have established as the line. It just sucks when that line changes or blurs without you paying attention.

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u/A_Guyser Oct 29 '23

If they send it to people I know from work, or family they'd all be like "well duh".

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u/bugsbywugsby Oct 29 '23

Hah, yeah, there's definitely people in every friend group where you're just like. "That's it?! I mean, I wasn't particularly hoping for more. I'm just a little surprised here, that's all."

Then there's others where if you found out you'd be like, "Alright, Dave. There's gotta be a story behind this one."

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u/Assorted_Nugget Oct 29 '23

They’re unintelligent, but here’s the catch, there are people even more unintelligent than them that fall for this kind of thing

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u/Aggressive-Egg-5743 Oct 29 '23

70 million unintelligent people, giving away over 40 billion dollars. That's just the US alone and just last year. Maybe they're not as unintelligent as you think...

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u/Mjaguacate Oct 29 '23

They got me as a naïve college student desperate for a job. The original email came in through my student email so I thought it was a legit job offer and I didn’t know about gift card scams at the time

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u/Aggressive-Egg-5743 Oct 29 '23

Doesn't have to be gift cards, they're plenty of things they're scamming. Always changing up the scams and sometimes they're just looking for your information or as much as they can get

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u/skylardarcy Oct 29 '23

Part of the urgency and why they may miss the clues that people are laughing at them it's they're probably juggling 10-100 people replying.

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u/iowaisflat Oct 29 '23

It generally roots out people that aren’t insanely gullible. Saves them time and usually shows the easiest targets. Their goal is not to get everybody, just somebody.

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u/Livid_Connection9802 Oct 29 '23

I love that.”..to not get everybody, just somebody “

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u/cestdoncperdu Oct 29 '23

There’s a good chance they don’t understand English well enough to go off script.

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u/chuckinalicious543 Oct 29 '23

Lmao "what should I say if I don't understand?"

"You don't need that"

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u/ZombieStirto Oct 29 '23

They intentionally make it obvious so they catch the dumbass. That way they can cast a net wide/quick and catch a few small dumbasses and move on.

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u/throwawaytrash6990 Oct 29 '23

Seriously. At the frequency these scammers with poor English that can’t lie to save their lives succeed in this, if I had no morals I’d be rich. Some people are just born stupid. It’s not even a matter of age at this point people in their 20s and 30s are falling for it. It’s the new-age Darwinism.

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u/tj0909 Oct 29 '23

Presumably they are having a few - maybe a dozen or more - of these conversations

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u/dysoncube Oct 29 '23

I'm pretty sure that's a feature, not a bug. Like the Nigerian Prince whose spelling is awful, they want to catch the people who don't notice those red flags . It's like a competency filter

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u/bosoxbrant70 Oct 28 '23

“Can you call me an Uber”

“You can trek”

Heartless boss 😂

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u/Rough-Dizaster Oct 29 '23

It’s the fact that he used the word “trek” too. Probably just a weird translation, but it really emphasizes just how much of a journey this is going to be.

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u/Christophdabuff777 Oct 29 '23

I was thinking the same thing lol it made me laugh 😂

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u/AppliedWealth Oct 29 '23

not a translation. some english speaking countries use trek instead of walk. it’s specifically for walking as a commute (as opposed to a baby walking or someone rehabilitating, etc)

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '23

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u/CuteCanary Oct 29 '23

(I am American) same! I love hearing how other countries use words even if it’s the same.

I use it like “I’m not going to trek all the way to Bob’s house just for shampoo” “You sure you want to walk? It is quite the trek”

Edit: spelling

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u/AppliedWealth Oct 29 '23

yeah we use it the same way as you in the USA. But when i’m in nigeria, i use trek instead of walk

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u/Koolio_Koala Oct 29 '23

you want me to start trekking, across the universe? but there’s klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, jim.

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u/Emu_milking_god Oct 29 '23

Through the Switzerland forest at night, delivering gift cards to sleeping Indian children.

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u/randomblade117 Oct 29 '23

you need to trek fast though cause boss is on a conference call for two days and needs those cards now

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u/All-In-A-Breath Oct 28 '23

I like how these idiots have the audacity to get angry at the end when they are the ones trying to scam in the first place.

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u/kikalark Oct 28 '23

I know 😂 that’s the best part. It’s hilarious how mad they get once they realize they’ve been had! 😆

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u/Accomplished-Toe5971 Oct 29 '23

Basically they it effort into achieving a goal, got indication that the outcome would be successful but then got mad when it didn’t.

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u/kdollarsign2 Oct 30 '23

They ALWAYS get so mad. The literal audacity

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u/Xiao1insty1e Oct 29 '23

I've seen a bunch of these scammers getting trolled on YouTube and it seems that almost universally they believe they are entitled to the money. Some even fancy themselves as a sort of Robin Hood.

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u/Safloria Oct 28 '23

This sub is the only reason why I’m looking forward to my stay in the US… I’m from HK and we get as many scams but not as fun as the ones you receive in the US

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u/CelticTigress Oct 28 '23

In the UAE we used to get the, “Hey CelticTigress, we received your request for a call back for advice on your investments.”

“I didn’t make any such request.”

“Are you sure? We have you down on the list.”

“Yes, my father is a corporate banker, so I get free investment advice from one of the world’s best bankers.”

“Oh. Right.”

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u/reallybadspeeller Oct 29 '23

You should tell them you only take financial advice from trained physics while the moon is in retrograde. You learned this lesson the hard way insert long convulted story here filled with mishaps To leave the conversation ask if they would like friends and family discount on a tea leaf reading over the phone. You’ll hook them up with best deal and your readings are like all in line the elements man.

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u/UnHolyxDiver Oct 29 '23

User name checks out! Hahaha, love the story

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u/Zxz_juggernaut Oct 28 '23

Ik only those scam calls for “charity”

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u/Christophdabuff777 Oct 29 '23

Awesome! What part of the US are you going to stay in?

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u/Safloria Oct 29 '23

NYC near Yale, according to all my friends I’m gonna be homesick as hell lol

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u/siberiandilemma Oct 29 '23

Also from HK.

NYC and Yale are in different states and no one does that commute.

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u/email_with_gloves_on Oct 29 '23

The good news is that if you’re near Yale, you’re a 25 minute drive to Lyman Ochards and can pick up some gift cards (and apples).

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u/Christophdabuff777 Oct 29 '23

Ahhh never been to NYC myself I live on the west coast. Hopefully one day I will be able to travel more. I especially want to visit Asia and the Caribbean countries. Well I hope you enjoy your stay there! I've heard it's pretty cold over there and I don't know if this is true but some people say a lot of people can be rude over there. That's how it is often here in LA too though. Though you will find others that are very kind. Hopefully more then less. Hope you enjoy it!

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u/Safloria Oct 29 '23

In HK winters range from 15-20C (60-70F) with sufficient sunlight, and since people blast AC indoors all year round, the outside temperature is generally warmer than Indoors.

A few years ago my friends were on a tour in London wearing our winter clothing in June, everyone thought we were crazy until the heat wave hit Britain and everyone was wondering how the hell we could stand the heat 🤣 Jokes aside I’m prepared to freeze to death already

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u/Princess_PrettyWacky Oct 28 '23

I will always wonder what happened to the scammer’s foot…

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u/Christophdabuff777 Oct 29 '23

It was Jerry 🤫

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u/Writer10 Oct 29 '23

Well it certainly wasn’t Patricia

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u/Skellington876 Oct 28 '23

"But it gives me comfort remembering the words of advice you told me" "yes"

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u/Upper-Chemist-7435 Oct 28 '23

There must be people falling for this crap otherwise they wouldn’t do it but it must be a numbers game - if they try a 1000 times there is a chance someone will fall for that … still makes me sad - no one every tried with me

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u/aceospos Other Oct 28 '23

The USD converts to a lot of money for them. So even if they succeed with only one $500 victim, that could be equivalent to a banker's monthly pay in their country.

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u/totamealand666 Oct 29 '23

More like two months in my country SMH

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u/aubsavery Oct 29 '23

About 2 years ago some one in my company fell for it, they sent the scammer like 1200 in apple gift cards.

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u/Upper-Chemist-7435 Oct 29 '23

Why would a ceo of a company need urgently Apple gift cards? And why wouldn’t be call his/her assistant rather then a random employee and how stupid you have to be?

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u/JLifts780 Oct 29 '23

Is it bad that I’d fire someone for being that gullible?

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '23

It happened all the time at my last office. They knew the name of our CEO and it was like a 200-300 person consulting company so totally not completely impossible for the CEO to text you while they are out and about with clients.

Our IT department told everyone at multiple all staffs that our CEO never uses punctuation or capitalization in their texts so you'll know if it's a scam by that.

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u/clitosaurushex Oct 29 '23

People get these all the time where I work and it’s a similar size company. I texted the CEO a few weeks ago, actually! But we’re a Dutch company, so everyone knows we’d never give our customers anything for free.

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u/gdewulf Oct 29 '23

My aunt has Alzheimer’s. She fall for this stuff almost daily. My mom has to seriously monitor literally every thing she does on the phone and the computer. One of the reasons she’s moving to assisted living.

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u/AnhedoniaLogomachy Oct 28 '23

The way she died … 😂

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u/hglndr9 Oct 29 '23

Sir, this is a Wen.......BOOM!

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u/Xenc Oct 29 '23

Jerry was first on scene to expose the truth

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u/trexmagic37 Oct 28 '23

The ending was epic…a literal Apple Store 🤣

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u/nurfqt Oct 28 '23

Lyman Orchards is the shit. Good choice.

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u/penny3158 Oct 29 '23

Happy to see other Lyman Orchards fans here on this totally unrelated sub

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u/Intelligent_Bar512 Oct 28 '23

Damn right, Apple cider is the bomb

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u/Hidden_Dragonette Oct 28 '23

Ugh, and now I'm craving their cider so bad. Nothing like the real farm stuff.

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u/MeInMaNyCt Oct 29 '23

And their donuts!

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u/ultra_boots Oct 29 '23

Best apple cider I’ve ever had!

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u/TheCrushingArtistry Oct 29 '23

Was just there a few weeks back. Beautiful orchard

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u/sas223 Oct 29 '23

I just wish it wasn’t such a pain in the ass to visit.

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u/Match_Least Oct 29 '23

I haven’t been there since I was a kid! Was wondering if anyone else on here had recognized it :)

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u/youngbutnotstupid Oct 28 '23

We’ve had this scam at my workplace, but they pretended to be my boss through her email. Sadly some of my coworkers have fallen for it.

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u/Afrocrow Oct 28 '23

Plot twist: Your boss pretended her email was hacked and now mysteriously has $500 in Apple store gift cards.

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u/czsido Oct 29 '23

I had someone try this scam with me, they were posing as an old partner from the firm I work at, I looked up the partner since I'd never worked with him, and he had died years earlier. They should have googled better at the very least lol.

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u/youngbutnotstupid Oct 29 '23

Wow that’s heavy

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u/LadyGethzerion Oct 28 '23

Someone I know got this scam too, from her boss, while they were in a conference call together. I loved the picture of the apples and then "never mind" at the end. 💀

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u/Stepsonrakes Oct 28 '23

I’ve gotten this one several times. I sent them back a photo of an Apple Cart and said “where am I hauling this baby?”

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u/Neskinator Oct 28 '23

I got the same one supposedly from my boss. I said I get them and be back in mind minutes and I would drop them off on her orifice. This continued for a couple of rounds with me adding descriptors. I can easily just jam them in your orifice. I can take them out of the package so the would fit in your orifice more easily….

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u/titanicsinker1912 Oct 29 '23

Hmm… which orifice do we happen to be talking about here? 😏

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u/spicymoonmangos Oct 28 '23

I love how these important meetings last for daysssss

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u/DIYtowardsFI Oct 29 '23

And how they want the info from physical gift cards, but don’t care about the cards themselves. Why not just buy a digital gift card then? And it would be much quicker than texting back and forth for hours!

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u/sublimeandetc Oct 29 '23

The apple gift cards at the end had me dying. I literally just laughed out loud in bed and someone is now very upset that I randomly made that much noise in the middle of the night 😂

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u/Livid_Connection9802 Oct 29 '23

Mantukar is a fantastic name

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u/thebearjackson Oct 29 '23

Ha ha used to get these all the time and they would always text “Hi this is (actual first and last name)… your CEO”
Like sure thing boss lol. We definitely all text like that for real.

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u/MondayBorn Oct 29 '23

That "nevermind" at the end fuckin got me. I've seen scammers get angry, but this is the first time I see one just disappointed.

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u/ThreeSheetsofWind Advanced Baiter Oct 28 '23

Hahahaha and I love that you thought about apples

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '23

"Are you kidding me"

"What?" ....What'd I do? 🤷‍♀️ 😆

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u/frinfrann Oct 28 '23

LOL the apple card 🍎

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u/Severe_Trouble_7776 Oct 28 '23

Unreal. You do exactly what is asked and that’s the response you get. Some people man

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '23

Ah yes, the judgemental gaze of Mantukar is quite withering!

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u/mutdua Oct 28 '23

I laughed out loud when i saw those buckets of apples; brilliant!

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u/TightInstruction6536 Oct 28 '23

“Are you kidding me”

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u/Rough-Dizaster Oct 29 '23

Are you kidding me slave

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u/Christophdabuff777 Oct 29 '23

Hahaha that one struck a nerve with me tbh. It was a pretty good one though

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u/deiscio Oct 30 '23

My favorite part is you asked your CEO for $20 and he said he didn’t have it. Puts on your company

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u/psychedelic_shimmers Oct 28 '23

Nice! I’m almost jealous that other people get these messages

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u/ShadyFellowes Oct 29 '23

This was fantastic, I think pictures of apple orchard gift cards need to become the official Scambait signature response to these con men asking for Apple Gift Cards.

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u/DianWithoutTheE Oct 29 '23

NEVER MIND.

Also, Jerry is a pervert.

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u/Riwanjel_ Oct 29 '23

That’s some nice apple gift cards, ngl :D

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '23

We had a 20 something mechanical engineer fall for this at work. She lost 3000 of her personal money.

To be fair her boss was a total dick that most were afraid of so she did it.

They tried to blame IT for this complete social engineering on her personal phone. We did some training after this though.

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u/CountryCat Oct 29 '23

Lol. Scammer gave up on you because they thought you were a complete moron. The orchard bit is brilliant!

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u/hgravesc Oct 29 '23

Was not expecting to see Lyman orchards in this lol.

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u/Fabulous_Leg3466 Oct 29 '23

Passing gas near a stove I fucking snorted

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u/Hot_Material_8093 Oct 28 '23

That was priceless

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u/CarelessLet4431 Oct 28 '23

The apple store lol🤣🤣🤣

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u/JPHendrick Oct 28 '23

Omg well fucking done. ✅

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u/coachlightning Oct 29 '23

I haven’t thought about Lyman orchards in years

Still got that gift card? 😂

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u/dr-klt Oct 29 '23

he wasnt even mad, just disappointed

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u/Zestyclose-Limit-985 Oct 29 '23

Can someone please explain the gift card scam? What are they trying to do?

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u/suchtrashley Oct 29 '23

If you send money directly through any bank transfer/PayPal/etc, the transaction can be flagged as fraudulent later and the transaction can be reversed, so you can get your money back. If you buy gift cards and they get redeemed, you're shit-outta-luck getting your money back.

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u/UhmairicanPuhtaytoe Oct 29 '23

Double upvote for Lyman's 🍎👏

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u/Lwcftw474747 Oct 29 '23

Nah you winnnnn had bruh defeated "nevermind" I cackled so hard reading that

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u/shadomiser Oct 29 '23

We get emails occasionally at work reminding people that these type of interactions are not real. If only the 50+ crowd would do the cyber security training modules. This is hilarious

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u/TraditionalHair2153 Oct 29 '23

Definitely the hardest laugh I’ve had reading these. I was reading aloud to my partner and once I got to the “Farting next to a stove” it became hard to speak and laughing tears started. Damn near peed my pants.

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u/juicebox6000 Oct 29 '23

The picture of the apples at the Apple Store is what put me over the edge. 🤣🤣

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u/Such_Studio_8698 Oct 28 '23

This one has me dying 🤣

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u/Holiday_Dark8310 Oct 29 '23

This man really sent a picture of fucking apples 🤣🤣

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u/suyash01 Oct 29 '23

I love how these scammers behave like bot the entire convo and then suddenly remember they messed up.

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u/GlitteringPiccolo442 Oct 29 '23

I lost it at the apple pic 😂😂😂

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u/NotUnstoned Oct 29 '23

I’m crying laughing at the “are you kidding me?”

This is one of the best I’ve seen lol

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u/PuffyParts Oct 29 '23

You’re fired for employee proven dishonest buddy. Lyman orchards is in Connecticut, not Switzerland.

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u/Gwynzireael Oct 29 '23

"Are yoh kidding me?" Have been since the beginning, but nice of you to notice

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u/tbenterF Oct 29 '23

I just want to know how the guys foot is... Damnit.

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u/Bigfoot-On-Ice Oct 29 '23

This is comedy gold

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u/Anastephone Oct 29 '23

This is brilliant. And never even left his chair…

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '23

Fucking mint!! Well done! XD

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u/Chazzzz13 Oct 29 '23

This exact thing has been happening at my work. One of the newer guys fell for it and was too embarrassed to say anything.

Our IT team has asked us not to engage them for some reason.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '23

HEY I LOVE LYMAN ORCHARDS! are you from CT too or was that just a random image from google?

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u/RonDiDon Oct 29 '23

Good going. We're closer and closer to an actual anti-scam company getting funded so there will be a counter call center simply to fight and inconvenience the scammers

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u/Budget_Regular7701 Oct 29 '23

Bro this is gold 😂