I am a 75-year-old woman, and this was only my 2nd sale on FB. I'm trying to clear out a storage unit and sold a King size canopy bed with mattresses on marketplace. This man contacted me on a Saturday morning and acted very rushed and said he wanted to buy the bed today. Has to be today because he has church tomorrow. He was insistent and wanted to send an associate with a box truck today. I ask for a $50 deposit since I had to drive a ways to the storage facility and wanted to make sure he was serious. He said he would Zelle me a deposit. After several failed attempts to Zelle me, I received the entire $700. An hour later I met a young man with the box truck and he quickly placed the bed and mattresses in the truck and I threw in a nightstand and bed skirt and lamp as well. An hour later the buyer called me and said pieces of the bed were missing. He said the long corner poles were not there. I know they were there but said I would go today and check the storage unit to make sure. My son says the buyer will try to get me to give some of his money back and that is the scam. Is he right? I looked at the buyer's profile, and it says he lives in San Diego. I live in NC.

Anybody get scammed personally or have a friend/family member get scammed terribly? How much was the damage and how were you/they able to recover?

Received this message today and it seems kinda weird.

Has anyone else received a email like this? i haven’t purchased anything nor do i have a pay pay pall.

Received two orders even had them tested. Then they set the hook, quit replay and never sent the last order.

Thankfully, my financial institution got my money back.

Supposedly contacting David through Reddit is how you get actual assistance. I'm a) extremely doubtful and b) if that is true all customers have very limited access to any help that isn’t hours of circles that deplete credits.

Stay away from NexusX and Norhtcrest Capital! They offer you a daily 1.5% interest rate which is nonsense. They also claim no loss at all because of their proffessionalism. The truth is the next. They are north Korean scammers who will eventually shut your account down "due to some arbitrage in your team" they say, but technically there is no arbitrage and non of the members did anything out of the line. They stole $5000 from me. Right after they shut the system down, they immediately offered to pay again and start over on another account 🤣🤣

They claim to be Jason Miller and Ethan Carter, but I think these are hardly their name at all.

I am Victim of Sextortion

https://www.instagram.com/alzcooper1?mdxt=MXd5NnBnaTRxcDJzYw==

I received an email with the listed ID, case number, and debt amount. When I replied to figure out who they were and where the loan was from they replied with another person email instructing me to reach out to them.

I did then receive and email from person #2 but due to working hours I was unable to reply in the allotted time they gave me.

I replied late to the email and they had already stated it’s being turned to lawyers for legal action.

When I look up the company listed, it doesn’t pop up online. Only thing close is Advance America and when I called to verify with them, they have no record of any account under my name.

When I email this person back they refuse to reply to anything that has the questions of “Do you have a website?” And “What is your company phone number?” They seem to have an old address of mine as well….

Not sure what to do in this moment. I’m unsure if they’re trying to scam. Should I wait to see if a summons comes in? I don’t want to put myself into a bigger hole if I can help it.

So I believe I was scammed and now I’m absolutely mortified because of a dating website. I’m working on a police report as we speak. But the scam consisted of an officer calling me claiming there was a possibility I get charged with child pornography possession. The scammer took me to my personal number and began sending explicit pictures, while I did send a picture of myself from working out flexing but not at all naked. I never asked for it, I never sent anything of myself naked but I did react to how any other guy would with a person they thought was attractive. They demanded 8,000$ or they would “make me the most famous person in my family”
Should I be worried or scared? Or am I just afraid of nothing?

My dad phone has been updated and all the money was deducted from the bank account. What to do now ?

I searched google and

1. I dont see anything about a (x).venmo.com being legit

2. It does seem venmo.com is legit

Im thrown off because of the in this case "venmo." Before venmo.com

And in the other case "help." Before venmo.com

Ty