59 Sneaky Scams Millennials Fall For—And How to Outsmart Them Before It’s Too Late
I took one 1-2 second glance at the advertisement and immediately knew it was AI.
Another situation was my cousin loved putting his face and likeness on silly facebook reels, things like him and his buddys doing the night at the roxbury head bobbing.
Then a few months after he stopped doing it my uncle got a video of my “cousin” facetiming him from a unknown number explaining that he hit a women in a car accident and that a lawyer witnessed the crash and agreed to represent him but he needed 4000$ immediately to secure the lawyer.
Now I never seen the actual facetime video but my uncle (who’s 71) swears up and down that it looked EXACTLY like my cousin, he said the only indication that it was fake was my cousins voice was flat and monotone but my uncle thought he was in shock from the “crash”
So he sent 4000$ to this person, only for my cousin to walk in the front door less then an hour later, confused as all hell as to why his dad was raging at him for causing a crash.
Anything bought used from a boomer. D**n near everything from a car, ATV, truck or boat I have had boomers tell me they are perfect only to find something that they Mickey moused together, then sell it. Everything I buy from millennials have a digital repair trail and the everything I buy from the silent generation has been babied.
Air fryer. It’s just a convection oven re-named and you millennials bought them up like it was faraday cages on Y2K!
Ugh please don’t make fun of me but I fell for a fake joann fabrics website, put my credit card in and everything and the only thing that tipped me off was the email they sent me confirming my order had a bunch of errors in it. I ended up canceling my credit card and ordering a new one smh.
Ive recently tried going back to concerts and I don’t know if it’s that I moved from the East Coast to the West Coast since, or if it’s covid, or anything else, but I can’t score concert tickets for the life of me anymore. Even if im willing to fork up the money, like I’ve tried getting two tickets to see Oasis and im sure both were scams. One was through ticket master so im hoping i’ll at least get my money back for that one.
Also not sure if i’ll be getting my Coheed & Cambria or Steven Wilson tickets. This kills me as im finally able to afford these concerts. 🫤.
Bought a book on Amazon that was self-published AI slop instead of the book i was trying to buy.
Homeaglow. it advertises “house cleaning for $19.99” but what they don’t tell you is all they do is recruit a local house cleaner in your area and they are going to charge you hundreds of dollars to do the actual work. on top of that, you go to cancel because of the unexpected charge and they charge you a $40.00 cancellation fee. so you end up paying $60 for nothing.
My elder dog walked off one afternoon after I forgot to close my fence gate. We spent hours looking for him, also posted it on Ring and Nextdoor apps. Someone responded on one of the posts with a recommendation for a local pet recovery team that used a drone and linked the Facebook business page. Page seemed legit, so I contacted them. They had a fee of $130, I expected some sort of fee anyway so I Zelle’d them the cash. 5 min later neighbor shows up with my dog. Contacted the business and requested money back since they never came out and my dog came back. Assured me they would send it…and after multiple messages a week later they are leaving me on read. F*****g taking advantage of people in their desperate times, hope they have a special place in hell reserved for them.
“Toxins” in your body, and associated grifty products to detox you.
I was in downtown Tulsa. I needed to pay for parking. There was a sign with a website, saying to download the app, something like park tulsa. I googled it. I clicked one of the top links, which was word for word what the sign had said. i sleepily entered my payment info and clicked submit. Thats when i realized my error. I had clicked on a sponsored link and purchased a subscription to some chinese scam site.
My firend tried to tell me you can pay a company to “get your information off the internet”. I laughed and asked if there was a company that can get just my pee out of the ocean.
I bought a boombox off a guy on the street and it didn’t work. They know where to get us.
I’ll admit to getting scammed, but to be fair to myself, it was a surprisingly sophisticated man-in-the-middle attack.
In short, I needed a contractor and contacted one I was recommended to me on a small neighborhood listserv. (This recommendation probably came from the scammers, who I’ve since learned target neighborhood listserv and Facebook groups like that one.) The contractor and his email account were real, but his email had been compromised by the scammers. I was receiving emails both from him and the scammers, who were probably using generative AI to mimic his writing style.
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