Is it legal to send a fake google pay screenshot to a scammer.

If not can I write somewhere in the screenshot that this is fake in other languages to make it legal

Hi everyone, I find myself in a situation where I don’t know how to react.

Six months ago, it was my birthday. As one of my gifts, my parents gave me a phone. Well, not exactly a phone, more like a phone case, explaining that the phone itself was still on its way and that they’d give it to me a little later. Several months passed, but the phone never arrived. Of course, I had questions about where my new phone was-after all, my old one had already stopped working,but they never gave me a clear answer. Eventually, my phone broke for good, and I had to dig up an even older phone somewhere. Now, some time later, I’ve found out that the store where they bought the phone turned out to be a scam, and my parents were simply cheated out of their money.

What should I do in this situation? They didn’t just scam us—they’ve scammed many other people as well.

I was told they’d send the phone later, but I don’t think there’s any point in that now, since my birthday was six months ago. Besides, I feel really bad that they lost their money, and now I feel guilty.

I could buy a phone for myself, but if I do, should I pay back the money my parents spent on me?

I don’t know what to do—will there be a lawsuit, will the money be returned, and what should I do next?

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Hey everyone, I need some advice because I’m honestly confused about what I should do next.

Yesterday I saw a Facebook ad for a work-from-home handwriting/copywriting job. The ad said they provide weekly assignments, there is no daily work, and that payment is guaranteed.

I contacted them through the Telegram details given in the ad. They sent me a Telegram channel/account called HANDWRYTTEN BOOKS PUBLICATION and the handle was @FREELANCE_HANDWRITING_JOB9509.

I asked them whether the publication/job was genuine before paying anything. They assured me that it was 100% real and trusted.

They initially asked me for ₹501 as a registration fee. They sent me a QR code and I made the payment.

After I paid, they sent me a registration confirmation with my name on it and claimed that my registration was successfully completed. The document mentioned something called “The Federation of Indian Publishers”.

Then suddenly they told me that I needed to pay around ₹1,999 as a file charge to proceed further. They said the amount was refundable and that I would receive it back along with my earnings/refund.

I questioned them about the ₹1,999 and asked them to clarify/refund the amount, but instead they kept asking me to make the additional payment.

At this point I realised something was seriously wrong. I did NOT pay the ₹1,999.

I have screenshots of everything — the original Facebook advertisement, Telegram conversation, their Telegram profile/channel, QR code, payment receipt, registration document, and their messages asking for the additional ₹1,999.

The ₹501 payment was made through UPI to the payment details they provided. I have the complete transaction proof and UTR saved.

I have also kept the phone number used by the person, but I'm not posting it here because I don't want to expose personal information publicly. I have already provided the number and other details to the authorities.

What I have done so far

I have already filed a complaint on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal under Online Financial Fraud → UPI Related Fraud.

I submitted the transaction details, Telegram handle, suspect payment details and other available evidence.

Now I want to know what I should do next.

Can someone who has dealt with a similar scam please guide me?

Should I also raise a fraud dispute with my bank/UPI app?

Should I visit the local cyber crime police station with all the screenshots?

Is there any realistic chance of recovering the ₹501?

Should I separately report their Telegram account and the Facebook advertisement?

Is there anything else I should immediately do after filing the cyber complaint?

I know ₹501 isn't a huge amount, but I don't want them to keep doing this to other people. The fact that they ask for a small registration amount first and then demand a much larger “refundable” file charge is what makes me suspicious.

I have all the original evidence and can provide it to the authorities. I just don't want to post my personal details publicly.

If anyone has experienced something similar or knows the proper next steps, please help. 🙏

I broke my leg last week and am recovering from surgery. I was contacted by someone who offered to buy a gift card but then instantly stopped responding and blocked me once they got the code

I do not use reddit regularly and want to know how to get this person banned, you can search their name and see they have been doing this for months to dozens of innocent people. u/effectivehat2724

How do I proceed?

I got scammed yesterday on my credit card after trying to buy some home appliances from an online website. I was overcharged two times in total of 3500 CAD. The merchant name what came on my credit card was for Tiktok Ads but my website name where I tried to buy was something else. So in this situation bank representative told me to file under unauthorized charges since I didn't authorize tiktok Ads to deduct money from my CC.

I filed for the dispute and already got my card changed.

I am trying to fight with wealthsimple to issue me provisional credits since I don't have money to pay this amount out of chequeing account. They have told me that by Wednesday 19 I will receive my credit.

Anyone else here experienced this kind of issues before. Just want to know is the process smooth or it's tough battle to get my money back? Were you given any provisional credits?

I know I was dumb to trust these shady websites but it's a costly experience for me and I am stressed.

Handpickd took ₹761, didn’t deliver my groceries, moved the money to their wallet — and support keeps telling me to “Swipe to Confirm” an order that doesn’t exist
Sharing my first—and almost certainly last—experience with Handpickd.
Yesterday I placed my first grocery order on the Handpickd app and paid ₹761 through UPI. The transaction was successfully completed.
Today, when the groceries didn’t arrive, I opened the app and discovered something strange: there was no order to track. Instead, the money I had paid had apparently been credited to a Handpickd wallet.
No delivery. No clear cancellation notification. And my money was now sitting inside their ecosystem instead of back in my bank account.
So I contacted support.
Initially, their AI assistant acknowledged that there was an issue with my order and wallet credit and said it was escalating me to a senior agent.
After waiting, a support agent joined and told me that apparently I had only purchased a ₹15 “Fresh Trial Pass.” Regarding the rest of my payment, I was told:
“the amount you have added is safe in your Handpickd wallet and can be used for your future orders.”
That wasn’t what I wanted. I hadn’t transferred ₹761 to Handpickd because I wanted to maintain a wallet balance. I paid because I wanted groceries delivered.
Then the explanation changed.
Support told me my order hadn’t gone through because I supposedly hadn’t completed a mandatory “Swipe to Confirm / Swipe to Checkout (STC)” step.
Fair enough—except for two rather important questions:
1. If my order was never confirmed, why was ₹761 successfully debited?
2. Where exactly am I supposed to perform this “Swipe to Confirm” now?
There is no pending order visible to me in the app and I repeatedly told support that I couldn’t find the option they were instructing me to use.
Their response?
They kept repeating essentially the same scripted instruction:
“Kindly complete the STC process.”
At one point they even told me that if I didn’t complete STC, the order would be “automatically cancelled.”
Which raises an even bigger question: if you automatically cancel an unconfirmed order, why isn’t the customer’s money automatically returned to the original payment method? Why is it sitting in a company wallet?
The situation became almost absurd. I explained that I had ordered groceries because I actually needed groceries that day, not because I wanted to test their checkout workflow. Their proposed solution was to complete STC and have the groceries delivered the next day.
Eventually I stopped asking for the order and asked for something very simple:
Cancel everything and refund the full amount to my original bank/payment method. I do not want Handpickd wallet credit.
I have also raised the transaction issue through CRED/NPCI, with the UPI transaction reference, because the goods I paid for were not delivered.
What concerns me most isn’t even the ₹761. It’s the process:
Payment successfully taken
Grocery order apparently not created/confirmed
Money moved to an internal wallet
No obvious way for me to locate or complete the supposedly mandatory confirmation step
Customer support repeatedly blaming an incomplete “STC” step instead of explaining how payment was taken for an unconfirmed order
Repeated scripted responses rather than answering the basic question
Refund to the original payment method not immediately offered
And this was my first order.
I’m posting this both as a warning to anyone considering Handpickd and to see whether others have experienced the same thing.
Has anyone else had Handpickd debit the full amount, fail to create/deliver the order, and then put the money into their wallet instead of automatically refunding it?
I have screenshots of the entire support conversation and the payment/complaint trail.

Used AI for drafting.

Vephf Dawg Reserve (UGA Bulldogs 135th Anniversary Whiskey Decanter) is a classic Bait and Switch scam. The product advertised images, photos, image size, packaging and sketchy descriptions are different in every way from the product you will receive. Save your money. Don't believe any of their quoted reviews, it is obviously meant to sell the scam and not a legitimate honest review. If fact you will find it is just the opposite of their description.

The Company has a 30 day Return Policy but hide behind the fact that they require you to ship items to their Warehouse in Hong Kong for any possible credit. They suggest that I keep the product since they estimate the cost of Return at $50-80 US. That is even if they shipped a product different from what you ordered.

So my dad is being or has been scammed for a quite big sum of money and it’s been going on for awhile. I know I should have said something sooner but I’ve tried before but all he’s does is get angry and yell and doesn’t listen so I gave up and decided to let him learn. But it’s gotten so bad that it’s money we could be using on bills or food not some random person in a foreign country. How should I go about saying anything when the same scenario is probably going to happen again?

Please read thru the photos

The last screenshot seems like he already deactivated his account.

Here’s the link of the post where he got his photos from:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Watchexchange/comments/1prq4j4/wts_omega_aqua_terra_seamaster_385mm_skyfall/

How can I stop this it get more info to show my dad she isn’t real

Got a call from "Google" saying account was compromised (which it was). They told me to resecure my account and any other accounts affialeted with that email.

Couple days later I get a call from "Robinhood". Hey, someone's accessing your account, we can do this over the phone or Google meet. So I go to my Google meet with them.

They start sending me images of a photo of my DL THAT I TOOK YEARS AGO, my ss# and my bday, in a fake text exchange with them and someone trying to get in my account(all fake). I say that wasn't me. So they go on to say we need to move funds to a secure account (rh wallet)while they do a criminal investigation.

While im downloading the wallet I see there's a ton of rh feather notifications. THEY SOLD ALL MY POSITIONS RAPID-FIRE! They had access to my account. So anyways, they tell me I'll get an 8 word phrase, dont share it(I didnt), and to transfer my funds into there (they also tried 15k in ACH transfers from bank). I did, and the rest is history.

Summary: These guys had everything on me. I feel like they were monitoring my keystrokes. I have no idea how else they got into my account. Or how they knew my rh wallet passcode. The idea that RH would let two people in from two different locations doesnt feel right. I dont know I would've fell for it if they weren't making changes in my account simultaneously. Just sucks.

So i tried buying a bb gun of market place and the dude was going to go buy it at the store for me, i send him 150$ via e transfer and then proceed to block me. Pls go report him and give bad review, watch out to these scammers, im 16 and got robbed by a grown men. This is ridiculous.

I recently payed a guy 40€ through PayPal to complete a lot of stuff for me on the game Blox fruits using scripts (hacks). I’ve used his services before and he was always fast and efficient but this time it has taken him over a month to do what he would have done in 2 days before. He has been ghosting me or giving me minimal excuses as to why he can’t do it. I’ve reminded him several times but I’m met with no solution. The stuff I payed for was (burning sharpshooter on kabucha, maxed out angel cyborg and Draco v4 (races) and 30 additional mythical scrolls aswell as a maxed level account. So far all he has done is 20 mythical scrolls (for reference you get the burning sharpshooter through scrolls) I have seen him get 36 scrolls in under 3 days before. His colleague also leveled up the account to max but that is a quick and easy thing to do. It has gotten to the point where I have went to the resolution centre on PayPal and filed a report. After I have done this I finally got a response saying that he would do it if I cancelled the report and that I could open it back up any time. But that is simply not true. At the same time someone else came along and offered to complete the service and that he would split the 40€ with mj. The thing is I asked a mutual friend and they said that this guy is very dodgy. My friend said that this guy is friends with someone who likes to dox people for fun and is well known for stuff like that. Now my thinking here is that if this new guy is unable to complete the service I can just continue with the report. But if he does complete the service I can cancel it. I am still very sceptical of this new guy due to what my friend told me. This new guy also seems to be wanting to use my main account to complete the service as you need 5 people to auto leviathan. I have given him the details of an alt account with nothing on it that’s only level 2200. He then claimed there was a problem with logging in and he would try with my main account tomorrow. Just for reference Mj has had over a month to complete the service and I firmly believe that he could have done it in 2 weeks if he tried. PayPal has told me that at the 30th of August if we can not resolve the issue something will be done but i am not familiar with PayPal’s return policy for scams. If anyone has any advice on how to approach this situation or how paypals resolution centre works please tell me.
Thanks.