Have you been scammed?

Ivar

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What have been your experience when it comes to scammers of any sort? There are online scammers and offline scammers. All of them are linked into one investment or another but they are all set up to deceive people into investing their money wrongly for the investment company to disappear.

Do you have any encounter with scammers?
 

Foxybananas

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A couple of weeks ago while looking for a specific watch, I finally found it online. The big name stores no longer had it so I was excited to find it online. I've never purchased from this particular online store, but it looked legit, I browsed all the links, about us page, read reviews, pictures posted from reviewers so I made my online purchase., YaY!!! But then I received a strange alert from PayPal.

Thank God I paid with PayPal as right away I received a notice on my phone that I had signed up for DAILY withdrawals.. What!!!?? I logged in to PayPal and seen that the store I had just purchased my watch from had subscribed me up for automatic daily withdrawals. I right away contacted PayPal and explained what happened and took care of the problem. In my case, I caught the scam right away.
 

Ragnarok

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Painfully yes. I've been a victim of pig butchering cryptocurrency scam 7 years ago. I'm very disappointed with myself about it because I was too greedy and it's how they got me. I lost $50k in that scam.
 

Shortie

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I have had a few instances where I have been scammed in the past but they were only little things.

As much as I hated being scammed, one thing I know is it taught me what to look out for.
 

Ivar

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A couple of weeks ago while looking for a specific watch, I finally found it online. The big name stores no longer had it so I was excited to find it online. I've never purchased from this particular online store, but it looked legit, I browsed all the links, about us page, read reviews, pictures posted from reviewers so I made my online purchase., YaY!!! But then I received a strange alert from PayPal.

Thank God I paid with PayPal as right away I received a notice on my phone that I had signed up for DAILY withdrawals.. What!!!?? I logged in to PayPal and seen that the store I had just purchased my watch from had subscribed me up for automatic daily withdrawals. I right away contacted PayPal and explained what happened and took care of the problem. In my case, I caught the scam right away.

Did you get a refund for the payment of the watch or was it the only money you lose to the scam because I'm very sure that they will never deliver the wrist watch you paid for.
 

Frank

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I have been very careful and also basically focused on not letting anyone have to brainwash me in any way. That has made me not be scammed, but believe me when I say that being scammed can be possible, especially when one is greedy.
 

Prisca

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I have been scammed by some scammers who made me lose money via my bank. I was naive and fell into their trap. It was never an easy experience recovering then.
 

Sarah

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I nearly fall into their trap last year December. The voice I had when I wanted to list down what they demanded from me, jerk me out of my subconscious mind and I tell them off. I haven't been scammed and I will never encounter such.
 

Ragnarok

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I nearly fall into their trap last year December. The voice I had when I wanted to list down what they demanded from me, jerk me out of my subconscious mind and I tell them off. I haven't been scammed and I will never encounter such.

When it comes to becoming a victim of scam, your greed is definitely going to get better of you before you are going to fall into their scam trap. This is why if you manage to tame your greed, falling into scam will be impossible.
 

Sarah

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When it comes to becoming a victim of scam, your greed is definitely going to get better of you before you are going to fall into their scam trap. This is why if you manage to tame your greed, falling into scam will be impossible.
Yeah. That's correct. It was from the act of greediness that made some people being scammed. My greediness haven't reach the point of looking for what I don't have from anybody.
 

Frank

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Yeah. That's correct. It was from the act of greediness that made some people being scammed. My greediness haven't reach the point of looking for what I don't have from anybody.

If one can be able to tame the mindset of being greedy, they will definitely not fall to scam. I will always tell people about that and why they need to be very careful about being scammed.
 

Sarah

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If one can be able to tame the mindset of being greedy, they will definitely not fall to scam. I will always tell people about that and why they need to be very careful about being scammed.
Exactly. Firstly, greediness and glutton can make one to be scammed in such a way that there's much damage whenever it happens. Our mindset need to be tame in order not to fidget when we hear some certain amount that we haven't feel or touch.
 
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