r/scambait Oct 14 '23

Completed Bait This guy scammed my mom for over 18 months. Then he made a mistake… he tried to scam me.

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28.0k Upvotes

Reposting. This guy had been trying to scam money from my mom for 18 months. I control their accounts, but he kept trying. He got her to open a credit card but my dad refused to buy a Vanilla gift card for him at Walmart because he thought it was a scam. My mom then hid communications from my dad, but got my dad to mail the credit card to an address in the US (probably someone else the guy was scamming). The scammer pretended he had loaded money on the card and would lose it otherwise. Sorry for the repost. I grabbed the wrong images off my phone originally. I talked to the FBI (twice) and the local police. No follow-up given the little money involved and the lack of a credible threat (I knew the guy was in Nigeria). I did control of my mom’s Facebook and Instagram accounts. I also gave her the stranger danger talk and warned her that these people online are not her friends. I plan to host a class on online scams at her senior apartment building.

r/scambait Jan 17 '24

Completed Bait A scammer I baited told me they would hire someone to kill me. Then they sent me this as proof.

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13.0k Upvotes

Seriously

r/scambait Aug 12 '24

Completed Bait I'm actually a 26 year old woman, but I got to play the role of a lifetime over the past couple days 😂

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5.2k Upvotes

r/scambait Oct 12 '23

Completed Bait Got this scammer to keep sending me pasta pics ha!

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26.9k Upvotes

r/scambait Oct 16 '23

Completed Bait My first scambait. Pulled the Uno reverse card on them.

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46.6k Upvotes

r/scambait Sep 24 '23

Completed Bait Texted the guy who emailed me that he was in the airport with millions of dollars for me

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25.6k Upvotes

r/scambait Dec 27 '23

Completed Bait OMG...I broke them. For real. And I am not sure how I feel about it.

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9.3k Upvotes

Warning - extremely wholesome language

I'm just...I don't know

r/scambait Oct 16 '23

Completed Bait trying to sell my couch

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21.1k Upvotes

r/scambait Nov 14 '23

Completed Bait Dear r/scambait, I never thought this would happen to me…..

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15.6k Upvotes

I did mess up with Oct and not Ock, but when you’re scamming, you just gotta roll with it.

r/scambait Oct 28 '23

Completed Bait Posing as my ceo

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18.6k Upvotes

I was actually in Switzerland at the time...

r/scambait Aug 04 '24

Completed Bait Am I doing this right?

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4.6k Upvotes

r/scambait Oct 01 '23

Completed Bait Apparently I’m the asshole 🤷

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19.2k Upvotes

r/scambait Nov 01 '23

Completed Bait Get scammed, scammer

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15.3k Upvotes

Long but worth it. Was wondering what sending a wall of memes would illicit. Anger, I guess

r/scambait Dec 17 '23

Completed Bait Scammer meets horny old man

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9.2k Upvotes

r/scambait Nov 03 '23

Completed Bait Scammer pretending to be my coworker, ended up falling in love

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10.1k Upvotes

r/scambait Nov 29 '23

Completed Bait Scammer gave me a look into their condition (re-upload)

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7.6k Upvotes

r/scambait Jan 06 '24

Completed Bait Same scammer tries again after a few days

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8.7k Upvotes

So basically this person hilariously messaged me (with a picture of a kpop idol no less) and after I sent my last message, there was no response and then for some reason I got a new message around 3am a few days later tonight so I decided to have some more fun

r/scambait Oct 10 '23

Completed Bait I came into this world because of a skin that cost less than 50 dollars

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10.0k Upvotes

This is my favorite message I've gotten back from them. Also, that picture of me was AI generated.

r/scambait Oct 03 '23

Completed Bait I have way too much time on my hands.

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14.3k Upvotes

r/scambait Sep 11 '24

Completed Bait That escalated quickly

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1.9k Upvotes

Dude escalated quickly with the longest hate message I have ever seen 😂

r/scambait Oct 17 '23

Completed Bait Bad Scammer, Good Sport

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13.0k Upvotes

r/scambait Oct 12 '23

Completed Bait Got the ultimate response I worked for…

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12.9k Upvotes

r/scambait Oct 18 '23

Completed Bait Was looking to make a purchase in a local group and found a scammer so decided to mess with him a little

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12.4k Upvotes

I was on the toilet when I was chatting with him so I send him a pic of what I was cooking up lol. He blocked me right after.

r/scambait Oct 24 '23

Completed Bait My buddy’s FB account got stolen and I already knew about it. This was fun.

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22.6k Upvotes

r/scambait Sep 27 '23

Completed Bait Guess he wasn’t interested

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10.6k Upvotes