“Went to China on a HS trip. Bought some knock off Heely’s (basically just 2 sets of rollerblade wheels you could attach to the back of your shoe).

I gave the guy 100 yuan and he gave me back 30 rubles. The bills had a similar color and it was dark outside so I didn’t notice. Rubles are worth about 10% of the same amount in yuan.

The kicker was that I actually saw the same dude the next day when we were leaving the hotel. He booked it out of there the moment we made eye contact.”

“Homeless crackhead guy bet me he could do 90 push-ups for $10 I obliged thinking he would stop after like 20 or so but he did 90 in a row and earned his $10 I didn’t really get scammed but I shouldn’t have bet against his crack fueled exercise.”

“Girl in my high school made up a sob story about her little sister needing money for her cancer treatment, I felt so bad I gave her the $50 I got as Christmas money.

There was no cancer. The money probably went to drugs :/”

“Thailand.

Second day of my two week long honeymoon in Thailand. My wife and I decided to go exploring and wanted to visit the local mall in Bangkok. We get off the ferry boat with a map in hand, looking somewhat confused and a nice, well- dressed Thai man comes up to us asking if we need help in surprisingly good English.

He mentioned that the shopping malls are closed till 1pm due to the “ morning of the Kings death” but he knows of a place where we can get high end suits and dresses discounted. If we follow the road all the way down a Tuk Tuk ( Thai taxi type of thing) will take you there. Sure enough we walk along along the road and a gentleman was waiting right there for us.

We hop in, and they drop us off at this big fancy clothing store. They separated my wife and I to our men’s and women’s departments much to my dismay and horror. She didn’t seem too concerned so I let it fly. They start showing me fabrics for a custom fitted suit. I pick out some and before I know it I’m being measured. Finally find my wife and she has two dresses picked out. Grand total came to about $1500 American dollars.

We leave and the same Tuk Tuk is waiting for us, and then takes us to a Jewelry store where a gentleman is showing us rare “gemstones.” My wife is a sucker for Jewelry so buys one for about $250. Finally we leave and get a regular cab back to our hotel. I pull out my phone and look up the “suit” place we went to. It literally was hundreds of people describing the scam from beginning ( nice, well-dressed Thai man giving assistance, to the Tuk Tuk Driver) to the end. We felt absolutely robbed. Also read that the gemstone was fake hence the “no return” policy.

We finally got our shit in the mail back in the States about two weeks later. My wife’s dresses are essentially Wal- Mart quality. My custom fitted suit is surprisingly decent and does fit incredibly well so it wasn’t a total bust. But we were tourists that got absolutely swindled.”

“A few years back when I was unemployed I got a call from a women who told me that they found my resume online at whatever site I happened to throw it up on, and were interested in hiring me. She talked about how it looked so good and she couldn’t believe I had been out of work.

I was super excited and eagerly set up an interview. I got there and they wanted me to sell CC knives.

Words can not express the betrayal I felt at realizing I was still jobless.”

“When I was 21 I went to Vegas with a group of friends. We got separated due to people just wandering off and doing their own thing for a little while in some random casino. I had quite a lot to drink and these two pretty girls started talking to me. They seemed really interested. I felt like a stud. They asked if I wanted to come to a club with me at the other end of the strip. Me thinking my night was going to be awesome, I obliged and we went outside to find a ride. They suggested we take a black car because hey, fuck it. We get in and they start flirting and laughing with me. Amazing.

We get to the location a few miles away and they hop out and apparently we were not splitting the ride, but they said they’d wait for me. They get out and close the door and I see them walking away. The driver just looks back and me, winces and says, “Yeah man, Im sorry man, but thats going to be $150″ Feeling like a chump but not giving up hope, I get out and the girls are gone. The driver, apparently having pity on me, offers to give me a ride back down to the other end of the strip for free since that was going to be his last one of the night.”

“a mexican cop pulled us over and jabbered in spanish for awhile while we stared at him. then, in perfect english, he said “gimme $50 bucks.” i was happy to pay it and be on my way.

ok, perhaps not a horrible *scam* per se, but visions of being sodomized in mexican jail were dancing through my head at the time, so it’s stuck with me.”

“Worst in the sense that it gave me false hope. But my first job “offer” out of university was with a company that was owned by the Citi Group. Turns out Primerica was a MLM company and wanted me to pay hundreds of dollars in setup/training fees and eventually get my relatives to sign up.”

“When I was 18 my friend and I were in a hookah lounge and we met this guy who said he ran this pretty popular online radio station and he could give us a program on it. I was kind of skeptical about it, but my friend was really excited to do it and she convinced me we should do it. He said we had to pay $35 to buy the slot, which I thought made sense at the time, so I put up the money. We were supposed to meet with him again the next day so he could show us how to do everything.

My friend was really excited and we spent the rest of the evening putting together a mix CD of what songs we wanted to play. The next day, we went to meet him again at the hookah place and he was not there. We asked an employee about him, since he said he often hosted the program there. They said they had never seen him before yesterday.

It was only $35, but at that time it was a decent amount of money for me and the worst part was I was actually excited to do a radio show.”

“Primerica.

As a recent high school grad, someone told me to sit thru this presentation of how you can earn $xxx.xx per week, yada yada. And every person you get to work for you, you get a share of what they earn. Up to this point, I’d never heard of a pyramid scheme. I sat thru the presentation. Then they take you individually (or with one other person, I can’t remember) and get you to sign up requiring a direct deposit from my bank account. When I told my parents about this, I immediately knew this was a huge mistake. I promptly went to the credit union where I had an account and cancelled it. Luckily never heard from them again.

TL;DR: don’t apply at Primerica for a “sales job.””

“Ugh someone called my grandmother last week saying her granddaughter had been in an accident and the police took her to jail. A man pretended to be an attorney and asked my grandmother to send over $4000 for her bail. Her “granddaughter” got on the phone too and started fake-crying. My grandmother was so upset and almost fell for it because she would do anything for her family :'(“

“Bet you 5 bucks I can tell you where you got your shoes?” “Ok?” “You got ’em on your feet!” I paid the man.”

“Wanted to buy a 100€ concert ticket from a dude via facebook, big mistake.”

“Booked flights with Ryanair.

Tried to change them, got in contact with a Ryanair guy who changed them. (Website is 100% bullshit and doesn’t work, Livechat is always offline).
Went to pay the fee for changing, couldn’t see the changes before paying.
165 Euros to view, and see he changed to the wrong month.
Got in contact with him again.
Now the fee to change to the correct date is an additional 532 Euros.
Fuck Ryanair, and their additional fees for winking, taking a breath or sitting in the plane.
Never again.”

“My great aunt was tricked into thinking her grandson was being detained in a Guatemalan prison and needed money to help get him out (they live in the U.S.). The trick was foiled when her grandson called asking her to dinner that night.”

“Went to China on a HS trip. Bought some knock off Heely’s (basically just 2 sets of rollerblade wheels you could attach to the back of your shoe).

I gave the guy 100 yuan and he gave me back 30 rubles. The bills had a similar color and it was dark outside so I didn’t notice. Rubles are worth about 10% of the same amount in yuan.

The kicker was that I actually saw the same dude the next day when we were leaving the hotel. He booked it out of there the moment we made eye contact.”

“Homeless crackhead guy bet me he could do 90 push-ups for $10 I obliged thinking he would stop after like 20 or so but he did 90 in a row and earned his $10 I didn’t really get scammed but I shouldn’t have bet against his crack fueled exercise.”

“Girl in my high school made up a sob story about her little sister needing money for her cancer treatment, I felt so bad I gave her the $50 I got as Christmas money.

There was no cancer. The money probably went to drugs :/”

“Thailand.

Second day of my two week long honeymoon in Thailand. My wife and I decided to go exploring and wanted to visit the local mall in Bangkok. We get off the ferry boat with a map in hand, looking somewhat confused and a nice, well- dressed Thai man comes up to us asking if we need help in surprisingly good English.

He mentioned that the shopping malls are closed till 1pm due to the “ morning of the Kings death” but he knows of a place where we can get high end suits and dresses discounted. If we follow the road all the way down a Tuk Tuk ( Thai taxi type of thing) will take you there. Sure enough we walk along along the road and a gentleman was waiting right there for us.

We hop in, and they drop us off at this big fancy clothing store. They separated my wife and I to our men’s and women’s departments much to my dismay and horror. She didn’t seem too concerned so I let it fly. They start showing me fabrics for a custom fitted suit. I pick out some and before I know it I’m being measured. Finally find my wife and she has two dresses picked out. Grand total came to about $1500 American dollars.

We leave and the same Tuk Tuk is waiting for us, and then takes us to a Jewelry store where a gentleman is showing us rare “gemstones.” My wife is a sucker for Jewelry so buys one for about $250. Finally we leave and get a regular cab back to our hotel. I pull out my phone and look up the “suit” place we went to. It literally was hundreds of people describing the scam from beginning ( nice, well-dressed Thai man giving assistance, to the Tuk Tuk Driver) to the end. We felt absolutely robbed. Also read that the gemstone was fake hence the “no return” policy.

We finally got our shit in the mail back in the States about two weeks later. My wife’s dresses are essentially Wal- Mart quality. My custom fitted suit is surprisingly decent and does fit incredibly well so it wasn’t a total bust. But we were tourists that got absolutely swindled.”

“A few years back when I was unemployed I got a call from a women who told me that they found my resume online at whatever site I happened to throw it up on, and were interested in hiring me. She talked about how it looked so good and she couldn’t believe I had been out of work.

I was super excited and eagerly set up an interview. I got there and they wanted me to sell CC knives.

Words can not express the betrayal I felt at realizing I was still jobless.”

“When I was 21 I went to Vegas with a group of friends. We got separated due to people just wandering off and doing their own thing for a little while in some random casino. I had quite a lot to drink and these two pretty girls started talking to me. They seemed really interested. I felt like a stud. They asked if I wanted to come to a club with me at the other end of the strip. Me thinking my night was going to be awesome, I obliged and we went outside to find a ride. They suggested we take a black car because hey, fuck it. We get in and they start flirting and laughing with me. Amazing.

We get to the location a few miles away and they hop out and apparently we were not splitting the ride, but they said they’d wait for me. They get out and close the door and I see them walking away. The driver just looks back and me, winces and says, “Yeah man, Im sorry man, but thats going to be $150″ Feeling like a chump but not giving up hope, I get out and the girls are gone. The driver, apparently having pity on me, offers to give me a ride back down to the other end of the strip for free since that was going to be his last one of the night.”

“a mexican cop pulled us over and jabbered in spanish for awhile while we stared at him. then, in perfect english, he said “gimme $50 bucks.” i was happy to pay it and be on my way.

ok, perhaps not a horrible *scam* per se, but visions of being sodomized in mexican jail were dancing through my head at the time, so it’s stuck with me.”

“Worst in the sense that it gave me false hope. But my first job “offer” out of university was with a company that was owned by the Citi Group. Turns out Primerica was a MLM company and wanted me to pay hundreds of dollars in setup/training fees and eventually get my relatives to sign up.”

“When I was 18 my friend and I were in a hookah lounge and we met this guy who said he ran this pretty popular online radio station and he could give us a program on it. I was kind of skeptical about it, but my friend was really excited to do it and she convinced me we should do it. He said we had to pay $35 to buy the slot, which I thought made sense at the time, so I put up the money. We were supposed to meet with him again the next day so he could show us how to do everything.

My friend was really excited and we spent the rest of the evening putting together a mix CD of what songs we wanted to play. The next day, we went to meet him again at the hookah place and he was not there. We asked an employee about him, since he said he often hosted the program there. They said they had never seen him before yesterday.

It was only $35, but at that time it was a decent amount of money for me and the worst part was I was actually excited to do a radio show.”

“Primerica.

As a recent high school grad, someone told me to sit thru this presentation of how you can earn $xxx.xx per week, yada yada. And every person you get to work for you, you get a share of what they earn. Up to this point, I’d never heard of a pyramid scheme. I sat thru the presentation. Then they take you individually (or with one other person, I can’t remember) and get you to sign up requiring a direct deposit from my bank account. When I told my parents about this, I immediately knew this was a huge mistake. I promptly went to the credit union where I had an account and cancelled it. Luckily never heard from them again.

TL;DR: don’t apply at Primerica for a “sales job.””

“Ugh someone called my grandmother last week saying her granddaughter had been in an accident and the police took her to jail. A man pretended to be an attorney and asked my grandmother to send over $4000 for her bail. Her “granddaughter” got on the phone too and started fake-crying. My grandmother was so upset and almost fell for it because she would do anything for her family :'(“

“Bet you 5 bucks I can tell you where you got your shoes?” “Ok?” “You got ’em on your feet!” I paid the man.”

“Wanted to buy a 100€ concert ticket from a dude via facebook, big mistake.”

“Booked flights with Ryanair.

Tried to change them, got in contact with a Ryanair guy who changed them. (Website is 100% bullshit and doesn’t work, Livechat is always offline).
Went to pay the fee for changing, couldn’t see the changes before paying.
165 Euros to view, and see he changed to the wrong month.
Got in contact with him again.
Now the fee to change to the correct date is an additional 532 Euros.
Fuck Ryanair, and their additional fees for winking, taking a breath or sitting in the plane.
Never again.”

“My great aunt was tricked into thinking her grandson was being detained in a Guatemalan prison and needed money to help get him out (they live in the U.S.). The trick was foiled when her grandson called asking her to dinner that night.”