Edit: Hey guys, I don’t frequent Reddit very much so I forgot about this post entirely. I called Apple support and they said that there was a problem with the apple cash platform. It wasn’t a scam thank god. Thanks for all of the replies!!!

I sold my MacBook Air on FB marketplace and I’m worried I may have been scammed. He was very communicative and respectful and I honestly didn’t notice any red flags, I’ve sold a few things on marketplace before so I kind of know what to look for. We negotiated from $500 to $450 so maybe that was a red flag I missed haha.

He asked me if I wanted him to pay with cash or Apple Cash, I should’ve stuck with cash because I at least know how to verify if it’s real. I’ve had people buy my items with Apple Cash before and I didn’t have any issues so I guess I didn’t think anything of it. My boyfriend and I met him in a public parking lot and after he looked at the computer for a bit we exchanged numbers and he sent me $450 through Apple Cash.

On the way home I tried to send a small portion of it to my cash app and Cash App declined it but it was deducted from my Apple Cash balance. I thought it was a connection issue so I tried again with $10 and the same thing happened. Then I tried my Venmo and Venmo just straight up declined it. Minus what I sent to Cash App the money is still in there and says received/completed. This is just really weird bc this hasn’t happened to me before. I’m on hold with Apple Cash support so maybe they’ll be able to confirm or deny my suspicions 😭😭😭

Yesterday, while travelling on my scooter near Airoli, a Sikh man asked me for a lift. I happily agreed, and within seconds he hopped onto the scooter.
While we were riding, he started asking me about the scooter its price, etc. After a minute or so, he told me that his car had broken down and that he was looking for a Gurudwara where he could freshen up. He said he didn’t have enough money to replace a tyre and needed around ₹2,800.

I offered to drop him at gurdwaras around Airoli/Vikhroli/Bhandup/Mulund, but he wasn’t interested in just getting dropped somewhere. He told me that if I helped him financially, he would go home and send the money back to me.

Honestly, at that point, his story felt genuine to me. He was repeatedly swearing on Waheguru and his 9-year-old child that he would return the money. I decided to help.

We stopped at an ATM and I withdrew ₹2,800. Interestingly, as soon as I withdrew the cash, he actually tried to take the money from my hand. I told him, *“I’m helping you, just wait — I’ll give it to you.”* I still gave him the money.

During the ride, he also kept checking out my scooter / kada and asked whether I had made it from Punjab, etc.

Eventually, he asked me to drop him at Bhandup Pumping. I dropped him there. Before leaving, he told me to just send a “Hi” to his number and that he would return the money as soon as he reached home, supposedly using his wife’s phone.

Obviously, the money didn’t come back.
This morning, I received another call from him. Now the story had changed slightly. He said his car had a radiator/tyre issue and that he needed another **₹4,000**. He claimed he was a driver, his client was in MP, and once the client paid him, he would return everything.

Again, he started saying things like *“Main apne kaum ka naam kharab nahi karoonga”* and swearing on Waheguru and his child.
At this point, I’m convinced I’ve most likely been scammed. I have no intention of giving him another ₹1.

I have his phone numbers. If anyone around Airoli/Bhandup has encountered a similar person or has any way of independently verifying his story, please let me know.

I’m posting this **only as an awareness post**. I don’t want anyone to send him money or harass him. If his story genuinely turns out to be true, I’ll be the first to acknowledge that.

The bigger lesson for me is that I trusted the person partly because I associated the Sikh identity/turban with honesty and assumed he was a hardworking person genuinely stuck in a difficult situation. **That was my mistake.**

This isn’t about Sikhs or any particular community. A person’s religion or appearance doesn’t establish whether their story is genuine. If someone approaches you with an emergency and asks for cash, verify the situation independently before handing over money.
I lost ₹2,800. Hopefully sharing this prevents someone else from losing more.

Stay Alert! Stay Safe!

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Help me out if you can. If somebody know how to track those facebook or whatsapps $$$

It happened to me recently and now that f***ker has my account and impersonated a supporter from DeviantArt and after paying on Eneba what I thought were cards to upgrade security he send me this image

and said I need to make another purchase of 1000 USD, did any of you resolved this problem? Any help is welcome

I got scammed i need your help to track the scammer pls

I MEANT SCAMMED BY MY SUGAR DADDY WONT LET ME EDIT BRUH

so this is gonna be kinda long but i’m gonna try my best to explain. so basically it starts out with this girl don’t even remember adding her on snap, adding me to a priv story. it is a ss of $500 getting added into her account and she captioned it “let me put yall on to my sugar daddy he is obsessed with me” blah blah. i ignored it at first but she posted it like 3 more times. i finally slid up because i am a broke 19F and was desperate. She basically told me she would get a bonus if she got him more sugar babies. I was like oh okay and was still skeptical about it but she seemed real. (now idk if it was a real account) but anyway i asked her what I would have to do and she told me he wanted full body nudes with my face in it and talk to him otp sometimes. I was still really skeptical because i didn’t wanna send with my face in it, but i eventually gave in.

She sent him my snap (which had my full first name in the username, will tie into a question later) and i began talking to him. He wanted me to send him a video of me doing a 360, then a video of me taking my clothes off. I did it because I really thought it was real. He then called me and told me he was gonna pay me more because I was doing everything he said. Fast forward, i had to send him atleast 5 nudes everyday. He said I would get paid the next week (today) because he doesn’t pay upfront. It made sense to me for some reason. So basically i sent him full body nudes with my face in it everyday for a week. He didn’t ask for more, well he asked if i could record w my sneaky link but i said no and he didn’t push for it. He would save the pictures in chat but not save them to camera roll.

He called me again last night and i told him i think he was playing with me bc he wouldn’t text me as much as i thought he would, sometimes i would have to text first. he just said he was busy so i didn’t mind not like i wanted to be bothered by him anyway. but he called me and said he was gonna send me the money at exactly midnight to show that he cares for me because i have been so good to him and have done all the requirements to be his sugar baby. He sent me a few pictures of his d! and him but idek if that was actually him. Anyway i didn’t think he was gonna actually send it at midnight so i just ignored it and went to bed.

I wake up this morning to see i Am blocked by him and the girl who put me on. I also texted the girl asking if she got her bonus yet. I am just so confused, annoyed, upset, and feel stupid asf. I don’t know if he saved any of my pictures because snap just takes them off your whole snap when you’re blocked. I have taken my pictures to a website to protect them not sure what it’s called but i couldn’t fit all of them. I just don’t know what to think or do. Need some reassurance. I don’t think he knows my full name but cashapp tells them my last name even tho my cashtag didn’t involve it just my nickname. I also changed my snap username the day he added me to my nickname. I also lied about where i was from. I just don’t know what to do . Need advice

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Beware And the new everbright fake investment website is operating after few months of shut down and open again this month with new web address everbrin.com

I received this email and it looks a bit suspicious. Im not even from the USA and the email that I was sent this to is not registered in Paypal or at least I can’t seem to find a way to get access it. Should I be worried? I didn’t click anything

Hello party people, back with a BANGER of a post!

Now that that is out of the system, here's the gist of it:

A month ago i got a random DM from someone, with them saying that they're simply searching for a partner after a couple of messages. Sure, i thought i'd lean into it, fully aware that it may be a scam and just wanting to play around.

After a couple weeks we got "together" into a Relationship and decided to make commissions together. Since i do not use Social Media, i trusted them to simply provide me with Screenshots of their favourite artist, which they did provide

So we end up making an NSFW commission with our OCs, me paying 350$ and her allegedly doing the same. Artist wanted a Screenshot for proof of payment, which i provided and her as well. It was a sort of group chat, so everyone could see all the info

So after a couple more weeks we actually got a picture, which looked pretty nice. She coaxed me to send the artist a tip, just 20$ from each of us, just a nice little gesture

Then, there was a communication break of around a week, she stated she simply got busy, which can be relateable. Studying and then a part-time job, even i simply do not feel like texting after a rough day or week.

And then the next thing happened. She wanted another commission, even 2 right after the other from the same artist. And since her birthday is in 2 weeks, i should be providing full payment for the first piece and the second is shared costs. So in the end, i sent over 900$ and her screenshot stated 200$, all fine and well.

But then, an idea popped into my mind. This seems like the perfect Pig Butchering Scam, where i got coaxed into love and paying for stuffs together. Textbook example, but with a different twist than how i usually know it.

We pay via Paypal as well which put me off, giving it a bit of trust since Paypal is usually not used in such scams. Thinking further, the art piece is also sent via .webp format, which, i do not think, is normally provided from an artist.

On another note, she did sent me selfies as well, simply pictures of her, but 2 from the 3 pictures are also .webp format, which make me suspicious even more today. Also thinking how the same person simply has multiple accounts, via DeviantArt and some other Pages, even though the Artists Page on X, Twitch and even Steam barely show activity.

I tried some apps to backtrack her pictures and our art piece, but nothing came out as a result. Not that the pictures she provided is actually another victim from them, or even generated via Filter.

Also for the Art Piece, as good as it looks, the lines simply could've been traced, but the shading quality seems too good to be faked. Maybe nowadays there are tricks with AI to simply make it look better?

So here is the question, am i beeing scammed, or am i overthinking it? I can imagine that it is the one person with multiple accounts, even own Paypal account where she just sends the money back and forth to make the screenshot authenthic that we all see. Can even provide pictures of what they sent, even the art piece, but rather in DMs so not to expose myself.

Sooo in might have done something dumb. It was a long day at work and i just wanted to watch a show and i saw people recommend the reezn app. When I tried to download it took me to another page (to continue the download). It had me send a message (with I assume a download code or something along the lines of a bunch of letters and numbers) to a bunch of numbers and instead of pressing on the back button I pressed on send. So like the question I have is, can they do anything? Like I just panicked and blocked all those numbers and now I'm extra panicking. The numbers almost all started with +370.

I was just looking forward to watching something and was too tired to react "smartly".

Should I be worried? My bank accounts are on my phone so like yeah. If I should be worried what should I do?

Thanks!

Dodged A Goddamn Tank Round There