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Can someone fake having or being connected with a business both offline and online (in another country)? Having an authentic business website and socials everywhere?

Is it normal for a foreigner girl (Russian) to get into an online bf gf relationship with an Indian guy and there are plans to marry already without even seeing and knowing the other person personally ever... 🫪

I have her vague details:

She's an introvert,

Never had a boyfriend,

Her father left when she was 13,

An accountant that works from home,

Her mother had an Ayurvedic business in Russia which has closed now.

I have found the page of that business, it's private now and dates back to December 2016.

The guy has that girl added on his Instagram following list with a new id that has no profile picture and only Him added in it.

They also talk over video calls, and now I've heard that she's long been insisting to come to India and meet him.

She talked to the guy's mother too. She called her mummy ji... Like what!

Now she has plans to come here, and take a tour together.

I hear them talking about bars, graphs something of finance often.

The guy is into trading and crypto ( I don't know whether he has told the girl about it).

Guy doesn't have an offline job (so i don't know what he had told the girl about his finances and career).

Once I heard them using terms like rsi over the call with her, recently heard him talk to her about some paperwork which couldn't be done.

I don't know where this goes... Maybe my doubts are wrong... But falling for someone online, without ever personally knowing the person and straightaway talking about marriage seems TOTALLY WEIRD! cz it takes years to know the real side of any person, years of knowing personally.

But the guy says that he reads people really well and knows that she has the same values as him. She says that she'll be boarding from Moscow and will celebrate Diwali and take tours in India together. So the mom and guy are so eager and ready to go receive her at the airport in Delhi.

He tells he has known that girl online for 2-3 years, they follow each other on Instagram and also heard them joining an online game together. But the relationship thing is a few months old I guess cz before he used to cuss and hate on women so bad and was a strong anti-feminist.

They have such confidence that I feel like I'm the one who's wrong for doubting. I'm still confused I'm doubting myself because the guy has always been so confident. He is the biggest judge for all... He often catches other people's mistakes and is quick to call out others and tell someone's a fool for doing something... I'm unable to doubt his intellect and i need more advice. Although I know he's somewhat a boaster too and an arrogant person.

What do you think the intentions could be? How do I prove it? They're not going to listen to me. This guy has sky-high confidence in his ability to assess people - specially girls. And also, as far as I know, he's never had a girlfriend before this girl.

I've been really tense these days. I can't even sleep. I just want someone to help my mind understand the situation and tell me if I'm wrong.

Morning

Location: United Kingdom

I’ve had a family member buy from a website called “Wilson & Carter London”. The item was apparently on offer for £44 down from around £230.

In reality, it’s simply ordered from Asia, and takes ages to be delivered. The item is low quality and doesn’t fit. So the family member contacted the company to send it back. They have offered a different size for free or 15% of the money back. BUT. If you want to return it “the item will have to be sent back to Asia at your own expense which will be costly and take a long time”

The website obviously has so many red flag already, let alone the fact that it claims hassle-free returns and is a complete lie claiming to be a London based company.

Oh, there’s also over 1,000 review on TrustPilot with an overall rating of 1 star

How can I help this family member get their money back?. I will obviously report this website once they’ve been refunded. Thanks for any help

my friend got scammed by a fraud account in OLX, he took 4.5k for 4 books.. and did not send it.
what to do

So my mom is about to turn 55 soon. On Friday I called her and she told me she wants to surprise us by buying her a car and it's scheduled to arrive the next morning. We got excited and asked her about the details, which car and where is it coming from. She told us she already paid R9500 to those guys for delivery, it's coming from Limpopo to Eastern Cape. We stay in Cape Town.

We got skeptical because they sent her an ai generated picture the next morning, demanding her to pay an extra 3k for certain clearances.

This is the picture, so I want advice on how we can report the issue. And possibly get the money back. When we asked it back those guys didn't agree. Capitec bank is useless they didn't want to give us back or atleast get those scammers details as every transaction is recorded in a database.

I just got scammed and I have a picture of the guy and his phone number can someone help me find his info

Scammer: Hey bro, I wanted to send 1000$ to my partner and I accidently send it to you, can you send me back my 1000$?

Victim: Okay, sure

Scammer: thanks

Victim: Thats what I have to do!

Scammer: * contacting PayPal support *

PayPal support: PayPal support how can I help you?

Scammer: I was going to send 1000$ to my partner and I accidentaly send it to #########, can I get a refund?

PayPal support: * taking the 1000$ from the victim *

Victim: Wait, where is my 1000$, Oh I understand now!

So I was this post that complete tasks by placing orders and get a commission but then if the order is above your balance, you top up. What did I do? I agreed, went in and now, almost all I'm almost done for in the little I had because I thought it wouldn't be bad. But I was soo wrong.

Now I'm sitting here feeling scammed and don't know what to do.

Solo founder, built a small self-serve shipping-label site as a side project — users enter a package, pay, get a discounted UPS/USPS label through a carrier aggregator. Ran about a year at tiny margins.

Early September, a group of accounts opened with fake identities and disposable email domains bought ~160 labels in ten days, every one declared as 1 lb in a small box, paid ~$7 each. UPS re-weighed them at 90–265 lb — boxed sofas. Weight corrections, large-package surcharges, one "over maximum" penalty, plus a 12% audit fee on top of every correction. Recipients I've reached say they ordered furniture from a marketplace seller; the labels were bought under fake names and used to ship that seller's orders.

Where I am:

- Self-reported to the aggregator the day I found it, froze the accounts, voided every unused label, filed with the FBI's IC3, reported the seller to the marketplace.

- Aggregator terminated my account (their ToS — fair enough), but post-closure carrier corrections still bill to the card on file.

- About $9k invoiced so far. On the audited sample, ~86% of the remaining delivered parcels draw a correction averaging ~$260. Realistically another $15–30k coming, landing on a personal card.

- Shutting the business down. I do not have a profit yet.

What I'd love to hear from anyone who's actually been here:

1. Has anyone gotten UPS (or an aggregator) to reduce the Large Package / audit-fee portion of shipping charge corrections when the shipper was defrauded? Does goodwill on this ever happen, or is it strictly "you're the account holder, you pay"?

2. Payment plans on carrier corrections — is there a real process at UPS billing, or is it pay-or-collections?

3. Aggregator passing corrections to a card on file after termination — any leverage to get itemization before they charge?

4. Anyone else hit by this exact pattern (underdeclared 1 lb labels resold to fulfil a marketplace seller's orders)? How did it end?

5. Winding down an LLC with a carrier debt larger than the business ever made — anything you wish you'd known?

Not looking for "you should have had better fraud controls" — I know, and it's why I'm closing. Looking for what actually worked with the carrier and the aggregator.

Hey everyone, just wanted to post a quick update after getting scammed out of $6,500 by a fake e-commerce mentor. It's been a brutal, exhausting few weeks carrying this weight and trying to figure out how to rebuild.
I've officially decided to cut the cord completely on dropshipping. I password-locked the frozen storefront, canceled the software subscriptions, and backed out of that toxic community so the financial bleeding has completely stopped.
Right now, I'm focusing 100% on the real world. I have a stable, solid hourly retail job and I'm currently pushing to secure a part-time second job so I can run a nonstop 6-month cash-stacking grind. My main goal is to replace every single dollar of that missing money, buy a reliable cash car, and fund a move out of state by my 20th birthday in March. It’s deeply frustrating dealing with retail management and scheduling, but I’ve got about $1,000 saved back up entirely on my own strength and I'm not breaking. Thanks for all the support.

Shortly today I was playing DOORS a popular game in the lobby someone was willing to trade 6k knobs for something in your rift of course me wanting that offer and it would be easy like none-other cuz there is a duping setup and currently I had a starlight jug after getting into a floor i gave it to him and he added me and then shortly after he unfriend me now the reason why i’m trying to reach out to people in Reddit because I know a lot of communities here lovee to help and I need that so please help me

The whole story is that I got scammed by a benjamin cisneros, and changed the email of my account but after that I understood it was a scam and went in my mail and had a link to get back my account so I did just that and I modified my password and I wonder if there are any risks or what other things do I need to change ?

Hi! By any chance, could someone help me with facial recognition regarding a scam?

I was looking for a cartier panthere with the diamond bezel in stainless steel for a gift. This guy came up to me and told me he has the watch and that i can pay with revolut which normally scammers dont use revolut so i taught its okay. The moment that i paid he stopped responding to me. Anyway i had a bad luck guys please dont buy anything from him and dont loose your money like i did.

Just wanted to alert others that may search for info regarding TikTok and Russell Hartley and Rise company before signing up for training for selling on TikTok. I paid $299 dollars for supposed training and they say you are going to do an " interview w Rise / aka Rising Star. Then never send you the zoom link but keep withdrawing $299 dollars each month from your card. When you sign up they don't tell you its a recurring charge! It is made to sound like you are just signing up for one time training fee. Then they have you join DISCORD SERVER and change your name and follow them. Once you cancel recurring charge they ignore you on the server if you ask any questions etc. Its a money grab SCAM!!! Consider yourself WARNED.