The other day, April 2020, my girlfriend received an email from the address [email protected]. It read as follows:Your PayPal Account in Under Review. After a recent review of your account activity. we've determined you are in violation of PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy. Your account has been limited until we hear from you. While your account is limited, some options in … [Read more...]
The Airbnb Vip Telegram Scam
Being an Airbnb host, I already have to deal with quite a load of work: bookings, inquiries, questions, complaints, messages of all sorts, repairs, improvements, whatnot... That makes it especially frustrating to also have to deal with those stupid Russian scammers who recently found their way into the Airbnb platform. It was about a month ago when I first got contacted by … [Read more...]
How a Fake Buyer attempted to Scam me when Selling an Item Online
No-one doubts the convenience that online marketplaces offer us when we want to get rid of our old stuff. This convenience, however, comes with a downside. The scam artist's profession is arguably one of the oldest professions. The Internet, just as it has opened up a whole new vast marketplace for us legitimate sellers and buyers, it also has created a new field of action for … [Read more...]
Fractal Mandala Money Circle: the new-age-hippies Pyramid Scheme Scam
I recently happened to hear about a pretty interesting Pyramid Scheme scamming operation which is dubbed the ‘Fractal Mandala’ and targets members of the - if I may call it so - over-spiritual new-age-hippie community. It is a professional scamming operation that, of what I understood, must have made quite some serious money for its contrivers. I decided to write this report as … [Read more...]
The Viber International Ballot Award Program Scam – Did you win money on a Viber lottery?
On this post you will read how I had some fun extracting personal information from those morons behind the Viber International Ballot Award Program Scam: one of the most idiotic scamming attempts circulating the Internet. You may also want to check out my scamming-the-scammers archives for more similar posts, and especially this very funny story of how I scammed a bunch of … [Read more...]
The Inheritance Scam – Did an old person contact you to donate their fortune?
On this post you will read how I had some fun with those idiots behind the Inheritance Scam being played out on Instagram and other places around the Internet. You may also want to check out my scamming-the-scammers archives for more similar posts, and especially this very funny story of how I scammed a bunch of real-world Indian scammers while on a trip to Rajasthan, India, … [Read more...]
How that Nigerian Scammer attempted to scam me, pretending that he wants to buy an item I had for sale
This world is full of scammers: folks who try to make their living counting on others' idiocy and naïveté. The internet has offered a new vast field of action for such folks. One of them recently made an attempt on me. They contacted me in English, expressing interest for an item I had for sale on a big Greek selling site. The main idea was that they claim they have already … [Read more...]
The Gem Scam in India – How I Scammed those Indian Scammers
It all began that late afternoon. I sat alone at that Sikh-family-owned restaurant I used to go to during my sojourn in Pushkar, one of India's holiest cities, sipping a cup of coffee and waiting for my dinner.Then I noticed a group of four men exiting a new Toyota Corolla car they had just parked across the street and heading straight towards my table in a strongly … [Read more...]
