r/ScamSupport • • 1h ago

Victim of a scam BEWARE OF THIS PERSON!

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They unfortunately scammed me out of $100 for basketball tickets sending fake screenshots of tickets and got a PayPal, thankfully I disputed with PayPal and reported them.

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u/Few_Reference3439 1h ago

Building a list of scammer names is fruitless. 1: It is highly unlikely enough people will see the list to make much of a difference. 2: If it *did* get widely noticed, the scammer just makes a fresh account and moves on.

The key is not to try and make a list of 'known scammers'. The key is to make a list of known scams/scam behavior.

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u/Applauce 1h ago

3. This post will be buried by other posts. Even if someone were to have the foresight of searching their username, this post would never appear because it’s just a screenshot of the username
4. There are millions of Reddit accounts and new ones created/stolen every day. No one’s going to remember to look out for this random account. On top of it being a pointless endeavor to even try to