59 Sneaky Scams Millennials Fall For—And How to Outsmart Them Before It’s Too Late
I ordered something from an Instagram ad during Thanksgiving sales. I was under the impression Instagram doesn’t promote scams in their ads (since that would in time greatly decrease people’s trust in their ads which would then hurt their ad revenue) but was sorely mistaken.
I never received the product and the vendor’s website went down 2 days later, nobody replied to my email, and I started seeing other complaints online of people ordering from them and never receiving anything and nobody ever replying to their emails.
Basically these guys made a fake website where they promoted a few popular products at good, but not too good to be true prices, put up a bunch of ads on Instagram, then just collected the money and took down the website.
It took me a few months to finally get my money back after MasterCard finished their investigation. The craziest thing was the scammer actually replied to my bank dispute! They tried to argue that they did send me the product 🤦🏻♀️ Obviously they weren’t able to provide any kind of shipping proof so MasterCard denied their “appeal”. But this just goes to show how unafraid these scammers are of getting caught / having to suffer consequences for their actions.
Lesson learned: never order anything off of social media ads.
There’s a popular one right now. I first heard of it on the Crime Junkies podcast, but then it actually happened to me! Funny how that works. Here it goes:
A man calls your cell and tells you he is with such and such police department and you have an outstanding warrant. It’s fairly elaborate and convincing, and because of the shock value of hearing you having a warrant, it immediately gives you panic and alters your rationality. That person will give you the option to venmo the department to remove the warrant. If it happens to you, tell the person that you will wait to be served in person by a process server….or just f**k with the guy. Up to you.
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