Comment on Is this a scam or am I being paranoid? And if so, what kind of scam is this?

one_old_coder@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeahh im aware, but the curiosity what what it is they were trynna do had me titillated 🥴 I wanted to see how it’d play out

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  • Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Likely they send you a bad check, ask for a cut or say they over paid, check bounces and funds go away from your account, they keep there cut, you take the 100% of the loss.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As long as you understand that you absolutely are taking the risk of fraud being assosiated with your own personal bank account.

    Like don’t post in 2 days “GUYS!!! I WAS HACKED!!! THEY STOLE EVERYTHING!!!”

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    • Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nah I aint givin this fucker my bank account. I do wanna troll the shit out of em but idk how to go about it other than just wasting his time by yapping about random shit

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      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Oh, ok.

        I remember when I was 17, my mom would hand me the phone whenever telemarketers would call.

        I’d waste their time as a hobby. Sometimes I’d say my mom was on vacation in Jamaca, eating lots of blue flavored snow cones. Other times I’d say she was in the shower.

        Either way, I’d start a counter to see how long they’d stay on the phone with me. My record was 2 hours 26 minutes. And my mom actually ended it. She came up and asked who I was talking to. I held up the hand signal for telemarketer.

        She was in one of her pissy moods, so she grabbed the phone out of my hand, and screamed into the phone “THIS IS HIS MOM! WE DON’T WANT ANY!!!” and hung up.

        To this day, I still believe I could have hit the 5 hour mark if she had just let me.

        My reasoning was if they’re talking to me, they AREN’T talking to someone who could be scammed.

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      • ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Tell them they’re so fun, you want to pay them to be your penpal, and you’ll send them a picture of $50

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      • Forester@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Open a new banking account. . Deposit the check digitally, block the scammer, deposit into the new empty account. Let it sit for a few months. If the money is still there. You have won.

        Most likely the check will will be fraudulent and revoked within 1 or 2 weeks.

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