Have you ever been scammed?

Question

If so, how did it happened?

Answer 1

Unfortunately yes!

We had a "friend" who was in the real estate business. We had discussed buying some rental properties through him for investment purposes.

Supposedly we were puchasing homes much below market value. These were foreclosures, etc. However, it turns out the appraiser was in on the scam with him, as well as some of the lenders agents. They gave us artificially high appraisals, and therefore our mortgages were all for much more than the properties were worth. Of the six homes we had purchased, they were all over-appraised between $30K and $50K!!!

Additionally, some of the loans we applied for were doctored by the lenders to take out a larger amount of money than we had requested. They had stolen this extra money.

I know a mutual friend who ran a credit report when opening a small business. Upon doing so, he found out that 3 homes were purchased in his name by this con-artist "friend" of ours. The signature had been forged and everything. Seven years later, he's still fighting with them about it.

Thankfully, all of these people are now in prison. They did it to someone who was able to catch them. I'll never forget the day I was coming home from work and heard their names listed on the radio as suspects in a $30M mortgage fraud scheme.

Answer 2

Sure, several different times. I had someone take out a cell phone in my name on the other coast. Not sure where they got my personal info from but I suspect it was from a credit card I signed up for online (tried to buy a car on my name too).

I bought stock in a company where the ceo was an outright embezzler. I bought because the price seemed great, and I thought the honesty concerns were overdone - lesson learned.

I had a guy come up to me many years ago near my work and say he was out of gas (had a gas can in his hand and everything). I gave him a dollar even though I suspected he was lying (I was not sure and just being nice). About 6 months later, same guy with the same guy asked me for money with the same story - that time I declined.

Other minor stuff, but you get the picture. You just learn to protect your assets and personal information real well, and be very dubious of anyone wanting money for anything. I never give money to anyone soliciting a product to me where they do it through the mail, at my door, eMail, phone calls, whatever (except maybe girl scout cookies and 25 cent lemonade stands run by 8 year olds). No way to tell which ones are scams, and if I need the product I'll go to the store.

Best luck.

Answer 3

Yes, i have been scammed alot but one way is that these people called me and told me i one a free vacation to florida it was just this summer and i believed it and gave out my information which was a bad idea! And now i know that i will always say no when someone calls you offering a free vacation! LOL!

Answer 4

Yeah like when somebody cheats on you, or when the clerk at 7-11 doesnt give you the right change... "Scammed" is a pretty broad word.

Answer 5

I have been scammed pretty hard. I don't know how it happened, all I remember is waking up in the middle of a parking lot and my butt hole hurt really bad.

Answer 6

no haven't but if i were it would be chatting like right now. A person advertising 1,000,000 and u would trade it for 500,000 an du get nothing. Thats bad scamming which had happened to my uncle who's stupid enough to trust that jerk

Answer 7

Yes, well one time when I was on vacation my mom parked her car in it looked like an abandoned parking lot. Then we went to the board walk, when we got back this guy wanted like $20 because she parked there so she gave it to him. Then we find out he worked at a pizza place down the street and was just tricking people to get money. To park there it was free, and he got away with it there wasn't anything we could do.

Answer 8

Yeah, we (my husband and I) were at the beach and this one particular guy we kept seeing in different bars, so we struck up conversation and shot some pool. He was a local guy and after we determined he was "cool" we started talking about smoking a "J", but we didn't have any because we don't travel with it. So he was like, "Yeah, I can get you some real good stuff. My guy stays a block from here...lemme go get it and I'll meet you here." So my hubby gives him $40.

He never came back.....jerk.

Answer 9

Yes. I once paid a cover at a bar, only to realize a moment later that this bar didn't charge cover. I turned around just in time to see the guy leaving in his car. 5 bucks I'll never get back...

Answer 10

Anyone that is a trusting person will be taken in from time to time. When someone wants to do something for you and makes promises sometimes it doesn't come out like is sounded like.