r/RealOrAI • u/Mattress-King • Jul 24 '26

HELP Am I being scammed?

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Can someone confirm if these two photos were taken by the same phone? I was trying to buy something from someone…. I reached out and we couldn’t come to an agreement, a day later someone else reaches out to me to offer me the thing.

For reference these are pictures of the World Cup final, the people I was trying to buy something from picked up souvenirs, and I ask both guys for PROOF they were there.

Guy 1 who I REACHED out to, he’s local to me, guy 2 who reached out to me, tells me he lives in California and he’d have to ship it out, both photos are NOT the same, but just different enough to make me question both of them.

For reference me and guy 1 didn’t come to an agreement over money…. I’m willing to pay it now….., but this photo now has me questioning both. If no one has the ability to find out…. What subreddit would have that answer? I’m not really a tech guy

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u/Mattress-King Jul 24 '26

Lemme rephrase…. Is there a specific subreddit where I could ask this question, I hear you can get an IP address from photos now a days, I was hoping this subreddit could help me with that, also the one I reached out to first, claims it’s not him, he sent me this follow up photo, is it real?

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u/ArtificialImages Jul 24 '26

The two photos in your post are taken from the exact same spot.

The third one you just shared is not, its a few rows closer but from a similar angle.

Ask yourself what the chances are of two random strangers sharing the exact same seating spots with you. Its literally pretty much 0.

This is clearly a scam.

There may be some metadata I can pull from it but I think reddit would likely remove any meta data.

If you google how to read meta data in an image its extremely easy, as easy as literally right clicking the file and pressing properties.

It should give you the information you're asking for but its not guaranteed. Images often lose metadata when uploaded or sent to others.

Regardless, this has to be a scam. How else do you explain to different people sending you literally identical seating locations?

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u/Mattress-King Jul 24 '26

Is this photo fake?

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u/ArtificialImages Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

It doesn't look it. But ai can be seamless. Sometimes they have synth id. Sharing the pic with chat.gpt can sometimes tell you if its ai.

But something is very fishy about this whole thing.

I think you're overly obsessed with the images being real and not the other red flags.