Top 5 scam schemes

[PhilipV]

What about the hubber who sold a high end watch to another hubber and then when it arrived it was a box full of you magazines. 

I can't remember the details, as it must have been 2006/2007, but I remember it as a morsige skandaal.

Edited September 8, 2022 by PhilipV

[OVERDRIVE]

1 hour ago, PhilipV said:

What about the hubber who sold a high end watch to another hubber and then when it arrived it was a box full of you magazines. 

I can't remember the details, as it must have been 2006/2007, but I remember it as a morsige skandaal.

Fluek!!

[Scary Rider]

Deesdae meer "Scamhub" as Bikehub🙈🙊

[MTBRIDER1234]

3 hours ago, PhilipV said:

What about the hubber who sold a high end watch to another hubber and then when it arrived it was a box full of you magazines. 

I can't remember the details, as it must have been 2006/2007, but I remember it as a morsige skandaal.

That's a looong time ago, almost before my days haha

[ChrisF]

17 hours ago, Scary Rider said:

Deesdae meer "Scamhub" as Bikehub🙈🙊

 

And how many of these scams can work when BikeHub pay is used ?

[117]

Bwhahahahahahaaaaa.... 10.99 ronts shipping fee's 🤣

[TheoG]

My wifes niece just got scammed because she is stupid and gullible.  Guy sitting at Beitbridge border needing R100 urgently to get into SA, wife is pregnant, had cancer bla bla bla ....  🙈🤦‍♂️

Its only R150 cash send, but its the principle, why are there so many ID10T's that fall for this k@k ?

Edited September 10, 2022 by TheoG

[Shebeen]

forgot about this GEM of a human being

 

 

 

 

don't do anything dangerous in Worcester area, he could be your doctor

[ACE Cycles]

On 9/8/2022 at 7:15 PM, Scary Rider said:

Deesdae meer "Scamhub" as Bikehub🙈🙊

Not at all! Maybe 1 in 300 deals, in my recent experience. Thats 0.3%. Gumtree is about 50/50 

[stephenplumb]

I recall an interview many moons back on SABS am tv, where they were interviewing a scammer turned good guy that worked with the london Met on scams. The interviewer asked him if he had come across any scams that he thought were particularly cunning. 

He mentioned one for videos, should we say of an adult nature, that were advertised in the back of  a magazine. (It was many years back.) People were to send in money/money order/cheque and he would send the videos. 

He then sent a letter with a cheque, stating that his offer was heavily oversubscribed, and he was not able to fullfill their order, so please find a cheque attached with a full refund. The problem was that the cheque had the company details of the xxx/adult/porn company, and as a result very few, if any, punters actually deposited the check.

I cant recall if he had actually broken any laws at the end of the day. The ex-thief said it was a very clever scam.

[117]

That video scam was run by a saffer back in the late 80's. He exploited the Scope magazine( who remembers... ahemmm... 🤥) adverts in the back pages

South Africa was a rather conservative country at the time, it played right into his scam. Could you imagine going to the teller at the Volkskas/United/Perm/Trust bank to deposit that cheque, to the teller that knows your mrs from the cake and tea group that congregates after church every sunday. 

If I recall he was caught by the plod back in the day but was never actually charged with anything as he did give a legitimate full refund - it wasnt his fault that the person that had the cheque never deposited it

[The Ouzo]

18 minutes ago, 117 said:

That video scam was run by a saffer back in the late 80's. He exploited the Scope magazine( who remembers... ahemmm... 🤥) adverts in the back pages

South Africa was a rather conservative country at the time, it played right into his scam. Could you imagine going to the teller at the Volkskas/United/Perm/Trust bank to deposit that cheque, to the teller that knows your mrs from the cake and tea group that congregates after church every sunday. 

If I recall he was caught by the plod back in the day but was never actually charged with anything as he did give a legitimate full refund - it wasnt his fault that the person that had the cheque never deposited it

updated for the modern era is a scam that claims to be from a one of the many free websites with adult videos. It tells you they tracked you on the site, activated your webcam and recorded you and if you dont pay them x amount they will send the video of what you did whilst browsing that site to all your contacts.

[117]

How would you know of that scam? 🤣

[The Ouzo]

1 minute ago, 117 said:

How would you know of that scam? 🤣

Long story short - I found many emails along the same lines in my spam folder.

Short story long - Every morning on my phone I go to mail, hit select all and "mark as read". Most of the mail is spam, but from sites I've subscribed to so I dont make them junk mail as occasionally I'm interested in what they are sending me.

But, the "mark as read" and "mark as junk" buttons are so close together that I've occasionally hit the wrong button. And then I have to go scrolling through hundreds of mails to mark the ligitmate ones as not junk and get them back to my inbox.

This is how I found the many emails like this trying to scam me. They all seem to reference the same site, one that I've not been to. (although I have been to others on occasion)

[117]

Yep, its amazing how they play/prey on the unsuspecting 

[M L]

49 minutes ago, ouzo said:

Long story short - I found many emails along the same lines in my spam folder.

Short story long - Every morning on my phone I go to mail, hit select all and "mark as read". Most of the mail is spam, but from sites I've subscribed to so I dont make them junk mail as occasionally I'm interested in what they are sending me.

But, the "mark as read" and "mark as junk" buttons are so close together that I've occasionally hit the wrong button. And then I have to go scrolling through hundreds of mails to mark the ligitmate ones as not junk and get them back to my inbox.

This is how I found the many emails like this trying to scam me. They all seem to reference the same site, one that I've not been to. (although I have been to others on occasion)

Yeah we believe you 😉