59 Sneaky Scams Millennials Fall For—And How to Outsmart Them Before It’s Too Late
I fell for a clone of the .gov passport application website not long ago! I was so pissed I had to cancel my credit card but I gave them all of my info and my baby’s info. Its because I’m used to opening up the browser with google search default and typing into google not the url directly. So pissed about it still.
Probably dietary supplements like AG1 greens or AMRA colostrum.
A lot of these comments aren’t scams, just trends people don’t like (labubu, funko pops, etc). ACTUAL scams millennials are falling for include:
* **MLMs/pyramid schemes** – I thought we knew better but so many of my peers are into “wellness” MLMs, it’s embarrassing
* **crypto** – crypto is, at best, a bad investment vehicle, and often just an outright rug pull scam
* **following investment gurus** – people are spending money on scam courses from these “influencers” claiming they’ll become multi millionaire investors
* **sports betting** – this one is iffy as to whether it’s a scam or just it’s own thing as gambling a*******n, but the number of millennials blowing THOUSANDS of dollars on sports betting is insane. Apps have made gambling frighteningly easy and I really think there’s a gambling a*******n epidemic happening.
* **micro transactions** – similar to above, this might fall under gambling a*******n, but millennials seem REALLY easy to suck into apps like Monopoly Go where you’re essentially just spending money ($1-$2 at a time, but it really adds up) to make lights and colors flash on their phone screen. Those “games” are designed to psychologically manipulate you into spending money without thinking, hence why I think it counts as a scam.
* **tiktok shop, shein, temu, fast fashion in general** – these shopping platforms are so obviously scammy that I can’t understand why anyone uses them. Yes, they’re cheap. Yes, sometimes you get the thing you paid for. But a lot of the time you’re getting something completely different than what was shown in the product photos. Even if you get an item you can use/wear, the quality is so poor it’s going to fall apart pretty fast and need to be replaced and end up costing more in the long run…..plus they’re made with questionable materials that can be hazardous. Fast fashion is definitely the thing I’m becoming a grump old person about. The late, great author Terry Pratchett explained it best with the Sam Vimes boots theory: “A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. … But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and *would still have wet feet*.”.
I’ll add one because I have recently seen it pop up in some subreddits I frequent…
The whole Steve Jobs “do what you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life” platitude is making the rounds again. Not a scam per se, but this single thing pushed thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of eager college bound student to pursue worthless degrees in areas of ‘passion’ rather than going into pragmatic well paying careers where they may also excel at but not necessarily ‘love’.
I don’t know if it was a scam but I recently bought an abandoned storage unit that appeared to be full of monitors thinking someone’s reseller store went under. Boxes were all nice 4k new stuff. Some high end curved gaming monitors etc. Been having some decent side hustle success selling older computer stuff I’ve gotten my hands on and figured why not try grabbing some bulk?
All broken. Every single thing I’ve opened so far. Physically damaged. Some dumping ground for RMAs? Don’t know. Items were repacked into their original boxes so clearly a return. Some of them have “liquidation sale” tape on them from CDW.
Only out a few hundred and hours of my labor moving it but d**n I’m disappointed. Now I have a literal mountain of e-trash to deal with. Feels bad man.
I got scammed trying to buy DMT online recently. I also got sold fake coke in Vegas once lol. Guess I’m just a mark 😅.
AI videos on Facebook advertisements
I’ve got my father on strict instructions to run any/all online purchases past me after he ordered some “crystal/mineral coffee cups”. The advertisements showed lovely quartz crystal coffee mugs with pink and purple colors and he thought cool!
Never showed up, BBB rating for the company is a F and the comments for the video are loaded with complaints about never receiving their cups.
