Not all heroes wear capes, some of them just devote their skills and time toward shutting down those dang IRS phone scam centers. This is the kind of victory that just makes everyone feel good, except for the phone scammers, of course.
Just imagine that talk that the guy had with his parents after the fact. Whole lot of yikes going on there. If you enjoyed this tale of revenge, check out another sweet case of professional revenge with this shipping company that broke a $600 TV, denied it, and then ended up paying millions.
It's probably easier just to assume that literally any stranger trying to contact you for money is completely full of BS, but this person went through the whole arduous process of trying to root out the truth, culminating in a link that made them realize the person was exactly as sketchy as they seemed. Sometimes people get more creative with scammers, like this person who trolled a scammer with made-up neighbor drama.
Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the various ways that people managed to troll their bosses without actually breaking the rules. You've got to hand it to anyone that puts in the time and effort to troll someone, and manages to pull that trolling off while still playing things by the book.
Anyone who is out there making a point of wasting a scammer's time is fighting the good fight. This scammer that claimed they were "Jeff" was trying to go for the stereotypical Apple pay scam, and ended up being found out in no time at all. What ensued was a thoroughly entertaining little conversational rollercoaster.
There's nothing that melts our hearts quite like a scammer getting their time wasted, after trying to waste someone else's time (and money). This particular scammer got taken on the kind of journey that we could only hope taught him a necessary lesson. And that lesson is to NOT be a scammer. They are the bane of everyone's existence.
Many of us see scammers as a dangerous nuisance, but played correctly, every scammer interaction can be an opportunity to get extremely weird toward a confused stranger. For more scammers messing up, here's the worst scammer the world's ever seen, as well as a scammer who got trolled with some Photoshop skills.
There's literally zero logic in anything that he's saying. Would expect nothing less from a scammer who calls a police captain and threatens them with an arrest.
