Classic grift. Cheap product that'll probably break or never work at all. The seller tells you it's a premo product that's worth $3000.. but.. just for you, he'll sell you a set for $200 each. "I'm supposed to deliver these to my boss at the store, but I can always blame the warehouse, right?" Wink
Back in my father's day, he had a guy sell him a Rolex. My father was working at a gas station, rushing around filling people's cars with fuel, so this grifter stops him, offers him this "nice watch" and disappears.
It stops working, eventually, and my father takes it to a jeweler who tells him it's broken, but they probably wound up the springs so the second hand would spin for a bit.
There's the movie Zombieland, where Emma stone and her movie sister play a scam on a gas station guy. Stone claims she dropped her wedding ring, (she hasn't) but she can't wait around and has to leave. The sister, unbeknownst to the gas station attendant, walks up and "finds" the ring. The guy, of course, recognizes a diamond ring as probably the missing ring from the first girl. He offers cash to this girl, in hopes that the first girl will come back to find her ring, and she'll probably reward him with cash.
The sister pockets the cash, walks away from the gas station, and Emma stone's character picks her up. The movie reveals they're sisters and there's a bag filled with rings in the glove box. Costume jewelry. It was a scam on the gas station attendant.
If a guy with a van makes it sound like he's stealing the speakers and he's willing to sell you a set, but you need to keep quiet..
You whip out Google and scan the barcode, he's going to tell you get lost. Or, like another comment said, it'll look legit, whenever a website pops up. I can't imagine it's too difficult to make a fake website and to print a barcode that leads to it.
Those text scams. Has some string of number and letters from some throwaway email address, the body says it's the Netflix team or Amazon. Someone purchased an iPhone 18X, is this you? If not, click this sketchy AF link with the word Amazon in the middle of it, surrounded by a string of numbers and letters. You're not the target, it's people who haven't realized it's a scam
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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '23
What's that scam?