59 Sneaky Scams Millennials Fall For—And How to Outsmart Them Before It’s Too Late
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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