We can't believe this scamming tactic ever works. How many people believe that a complete stranger claiming to be a CEO or government official or whatever would need you to pay them with gift cards? Either way, when it happens to savvy people, they try to have fun with a text message scammer. The person on the other end is apparently so desperate for those gift cards that scammers can get trolled for a ridiculously long time.
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We love nothing more than a case of one person deciding to waste a scammer's time. Cause you know, that's what they're doing to us. It's funny to see how the scammers respond to a taste of their own medicine. It's almost like it irritates them to no end. Surprising stuff.
Aunt "Karen" (or Jay, but we thought Karen could be more fitting) came at this situation with all kinds of shady baggage and aggressive entitlement. This translated to her not being willing to pay family for their hard work on art pieces. On top of that, she was cleaning out credit cards, and racking up lavish expenses. In the end, Aunt Karen's greedy antics catch up with her.
Via Nicole Mayhem
That is one way to deal with a phone scammer. Never forget the time that this programmer decided to write a script that called phone scammers 28 times a second, which resulted in service denial, which prevented future scams.
This dude decided to give a scammer a taste of their own medicine. And that medicine looks like intentionally eating up as much of their time as possible. By playing it out like he was naive and confused, he managed to fool the scammer for quite some time. The ending with the drawing was really the icing on the cake.
This failed scam artist had the audacity to try and scam the same shop three times in a row. Not once, not twice, but three times! Absolutely absurd.
This Facebook scammer wasn't ready to contend with the power of logic. If anything, this interaction could serve as a helpful guide for other people out there to employ, when they find themselves facing a scammer who's trying to get away with some stupid BS. Enough with all the scamming, people!
Via Jim Browning
Some people might find this dude's mission (a successful one at that) to spy on scammers more satisfying than ASMR. Jim is truly a hero of some kind.
Via Jim Browning
This man gained access to a scammer's CCTV's, and the resulting video is really a work of art. It all results from him realizing that a scammer connected to his PC, reversing the connection from there, and then discovering that they had CCTV's.
This "CEO" was found out pretty much from the get-go. Who signs their texts with "CEO" at the end of it, anyways? That was a bright enough red flag to bring the whole scamming attempt crashing down. From there, the trolling was smooth and well executed. Love the moment at the end when the scammer realizes they've been played for the fool all along.
