Asklemmy

Indian car insurance is expiring call around 2010. That was still kinda novel at the time. But before I read off my debit card number, I asked what model car I had. They hung up and I was saved.

I got ripped off for $100. I was on Haight street in San Francisco and a guy offered me acid. I said no thanks, but I am looking for some hash. He said no problem, led me around the block and then said he needed the money first and he'd be right back with the hash. He pressed a baggie full of "acid" into my hand as collateral. Twenty minutes later, he hadn't returned and I inspected the baggie and it was full of little pieces of (not blotter) paper.

World Games Inc. (A pyramid scheme originating in Australia, billed as selling stock in an online gambling site)
A few friends recommended that I joined. I probably would have if I wasn't already broke.

Wanted to sell my ps4 cause I wanted something else, nearly fell for a scam on offerup.

Didn't fall for it but one time I was recruited to be a secret shopper. They mailed me a cheque for 6,000 dollars with instructions to deposit the money into my chequing account and use it to make a money transfer with Western Union.

Once I got over the initial shock of the money I did some googling and found out how the scam worked. The troubling thing is that I was communicating with my parents the whole time and they never once clued in that what was happening was suspicious.

I don't care what anyone says, the first time they encountered "You're the 1 millionth visitor" they clicked on it unless they'd heard about it before.

For most of us netizens though, it's so long ago that we consider everyone gullible who clicks on it while denying to ourselves that our first time is just further back than it is for most.

Almost gave my credit card to a "verification service" on grinder for "safety" on it.

A bank tried to sell me a pension fund contract. Luckily, I know my math and found out that it was so bad that I'd call it a scam.