Flights Merchant The website is an online shopping scam. I was sent to the site through the price comparison app Jetcost which I will never use again. I had no reason to believe my travel plans would not be available after booking and now I'm having to depute the transaction with my bank as no tickets were issued for the flights I paid for and no refund is being processed as this "flights Merchant" is a criminal front. Do not get ripped off. Please take the time to report, flag or review flights merchant as a fraudulent website they are scammers and ripping people off booking travel.

I have mixed feelings about this. I don't like sending my SSN and I.D. over text and not only that the way she text. Doesn't seem professional and a bit rude/impatient. She did provide a pdf form for me to print and sign which does look legit. She also said she's in Florida? I live in AZ. If she was looking to hire wouldn't she be here as well. She did send me an address of where I'll be house. For some reason I can't provide any screen shots or pictures. It'll be a LOT easier to understand what I mean if I could put pics but I guess not.

EDIT: WOW. I got a lot of replies so fast. Thank You all for your help and I already blocked the person. Is it safe for me to provide their email so other can stay away? I'll put it in the comments.

FIL received an “account has been breached” email that was probably spam. He clicked a link and then called a number associated with the email.

He then talked to someone on the phone that walked him through all these actions to take on his computer that were disabling security settings. They asked him to reboot and the updates were apparently 13% installed. My BIL happened to call at this time and told him to shut everything off.

Has anyone heard of this? Any advice on what the hell to do with computer now would be helpful. Also is there someone to contact?

Sorry if this sounds a little convoluted but it was dictated to me secondhand from my wife as she described it.

Received a call from a “John Thomas” claiming he was a personal locator- call came from a local area code, included my first and last name, last 4 of my social and that he needed to serve me papers by 5pm tomorrow either at home or work and to call a number back referencing a specific case number. Called the number back and reached a “John Beck” with “LSM Associates”. When I asked what this was in regards to he said I was being sued in a “civil matter” and then upon further questioning gave me a “full case number” and said it was for an old debt that had gone to collections/garnishment (this didn’t surprise me, I made poor financial decisions when younger and recall having the card he was speaking of) and that I could set up a payment plan of $100/month for the amount or do a lump sum payment to get a discount on the amount due. I set up the payment plan with him and stupidly GAVE HIM MY DEBIT CARD INFORMATION 🤦🏻‍♀️ he mentioned he was going to have his assistant send over a “hellosign” stating it’s similar to docusign. all of this occurred while I was at work and busy, so didn’t even really have time to second guess and it sounded legit.

I get off work and finally have a chance to look at the email from the assistant/documents… red flag #1- assistants email is sketch… red flag #2-they have my OLD old address on the documents… like haven’t lived there in almost 5 years! I begin to Google and see a lot of reports of this being a scam so I’m now panicking… they have my debit card information! I have NOT signed anything, but now what?!? I have called the number back and requested they send debt verification letter, but conveniently that department was closed when I called. My debit card is currently turned off via my banking app, and I can easily secure a new card tomorrow, but is this enough for the time being?

Thinking about a couple of things after the fact, I now realize that in my initial conversation they never said the whole “this is an attempt to collect a debt blah blah blah” that typically comes with a debt collector, they asked for my debit card information rather than my checking acct info which is odd… when I’ve set up payment plans in the past they’ve always asked for my checking acct info and done checks rather than my debit card. I’m sure there’s more but this is all I can think of at the moment.

Thanks for any advice! I feel so silly 🤦🏻‍♀️

hey guys! sooo i’ve been applying for insurances, i’ve been dealing with some crazy heart issues and have been looking for whatever low-cost insurance im eligible for, I did get a quote from blue cross blue shield but never sent in a full application, i did accidentally give one scam insurance company (boost) my ssn so i’ve been pretty worried about that but it was a while ago and nothing has seem to happen just yet! this morning under my spam folder i received this email? now i’ve already called the real company and they said i did not have an account with them and to disregard the email im just unsure of it since it said i would be receiving a card and im not super educated on scams! would this cause problems with me getting insurance now or is this just a silly email i can ignore or something i should worry about? thanks! also any insight on how to decipher insurance scams would be great!

Basically some guy messaged me on insta calling me skinny and saying he bets me $40 that he can bench press more than me because I was talking shit about someone in a reel comment section (I was) I sent him a vid of me benching 225 and he sends me $40 through PayPal. He then says he feels bad and wants to send me $20 weekly for the next 3-4 weeks to humble himself. Could this be a scam or does this guy just have a fetish for sending money or something? He originally wanted to venmo me the money but I don’t have venmo

My dad died in June and his will was pretty straight forward. Everything would be divided equally amongst his five daughters.

However, my half sister Emily is technically an ex step daughter who he took in as his own, treated her children as his grand children, and wrote in to his will as if she were his own daughter.

We are weeks away from closing the estate account and our estate lawyer received a phone call from a man from Arkansas (we live in MA) and who is visiting his gf in Florida. He stated that he knew people were messing with my dad's will and that they were trying to add Emily to the will.

The lawyer said the man sounded genuinely concerned and repeatedly asked if any of us knew him or if we thought he could have been a friend of our dad's. It sounds like a scam to me, BUT the man didn't ask for anything. He did leave his email, but he didn't ask for information or money.

Has anyone heard of anything like this?

I was buying a product off the facebook marketplace and this was the receipt I was provided with, the buyer has been a little sketchy about the receiving and sending of payment as well as withholding the tracking ID until the rest of the payment was sent. I have seen a couple people post similar pictures but I am not good at judging with this stuff and figured I'd get the opinion of people who know more then me any help is appreciated!

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At some point a few days ago, someone got access to both my debit card and credit card at the same time. They did not have the CVV which I can tell from the "charge backs" the bank spoke to me about, many websites declined the cards while others accepted it. From what I can see, the charges are at places in the same state as me as well as MANY online stores. They even sent a venmo using my card. My suspicion is possibly a gas pump that I used, but I only tapped my debit card. It does not explain how they got my credit card information. Are there actually skimmers that can get within close proximity and grab information from multiple cards? There was only one website, Amazon, that had both my debit and credit card information. I didn't even have both in my Google wallet. Any experts on the subject, your opinion would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

My FIL (69) is woefully naive about the internet, and has been falling for these romance scams via FB and WhatsApp. I've been warning him about meeting ladies that he surreptitiously message him this way. He's been made aware that it's probably a guy on the other side, using images pilfered from OF, and other AI generated media, but he just keeps taking the bait and interfacing with these scammers, because he's lonely and these ladies are attractive. He doesn't have any money to his name, so there's not much at risk.
Until, the twist to this story, One of these ladies (32) actually showed up... (let your imagination run) for about a week, and he told her to go home, she just hung around the house and slept most of the time. Now, this scammer has threatened Blackmail, Jealousy, Drama... etc, but only over messages. Now they're talking about getting married, moving in together and pretending to be a real relationship after 1 meetup. On the financial side of things. His bank account got wiped out once, thankfully it was only a few hundred, but he's still talking to this one girl in particular.
I'm fairly certain that the lady who visited, is different from the person sending messages. Either she's in on the scam and participating, or was just hired to make the scam more convincing.
I'm wondering if she/they managed to clone his bank card for the scammer to process transactions. Or if this scam goes deeper as if they're trying to get survivor benefits as spouse? Steal his identity? Take lines of credit out in his name? Perhaps the angle is to get married and then try and get possession of the house? Surprise to the scammer, he doesn't own the house.

What's the angle?

I was selling something on Facebook Marketplace for $100 when this buyer with a brand-new account (made in 2024), an obviously fake name, and no profile picture offered me $80. I countered with $90, and they agreed, saying they could pay via Zelle or CashApp.

Their main Facebook page was empty, but their Marketplace account had listings, so I thought it might just be someone weird but legit. We met up, and they scanned my Zelle code to send the $90. One odd thing was when they said, “I’ll send the $100—oh, I mean $80.” I reminded them, “It’s $90, that’s what we agreed on.”

After a bit of waiting (and being suspicious), the payment hit my account, so I left. Later, I noticed their Zelle name was completely different from their Facebook name—this was more than likely their real name.

Here’s the weird part: now I see the item relisted on Facebook Marketplace by them for $100. It’s bizarre because they drove like 20 minutes to meet me just to flip it for $10 profit. The guy was about 22 years old and the whole scenario kinda seemed fishy to me.

Am I overthinking this, or does something seem off?

This week Chase froze my card when they (rightly) suspected fraudulent charges. 2 at a local nail salon and 2 at Target for ~$800. I was found not responsible for the charges and refunded.

Today I visited the nail salon and let them know about the fraudulent charges. They looked into it and a few hours later sent me a photo of the alleged fraudster and said she's a regular named [xyz]. I immediately recognized both the person and the name.

What is the best way to proceed here? Is it worth filing a police report? Will they do anything? I have to imagine she does this to other customers as well.

Extra galling is that I am friendly with this bartender when I patronize their business. And I was sitting mere feet from her when she snapped the photo of my card!

Sidenote: too bad paying with Apple Pay can't be the norm at bars/restaurants. How else to prevent this from happening again if they're taking my card to run it at the POS station?

Hello! Bit of an odd one, I got talking to someone on Grindr who was a 10/10 supermodel so straight away I was skeptical. I went along with the conversation out of curiosity/boredom. Anyway, after a while they wanted to talk over Telegram/email, strange but, again, I already figured something was up and was intrigued at this point. They then sent me a link for Adult Friend Finder and wanted me to sign up, one month for about £25$30ish. Their reasons being so I could talk to them there/access this person's other media (it was a sub/Dom thing). I told them no, I'm not comfortable with that and then they said I could sign up for one single day for £1$1. I also didn't follow their link but instead went via Google so I was safe on that front.

I noped out of the conversation at this point but I'm confused what their angle was. It was definitely strange and didn't seem legit, but I can't work out what they'd have to gain from that? I sent them a screenshot of my profile on this Adult Friend Finder and they were pleased, so it wasn't a dodgy link/phishing scam.

Apparently Adult Friend Finder is a legit site so I'm not sure how this person would have got anything from me? I'm 99% sure it was a scam, the person was too good looking and responsive, but maybe the sub/Dom thing comes into play with seeing this person's other stuff or something, I don't know. I'm pretty sure it was a scam, there's just a tiny bit of me hoping that I'm right and not just missed a good opportunity. Has anyone any thoughts?

I’m feeling pretty terrible right now and wanted to share what happened to me earlier. While I was shopping at Walmart, a lady approached me with a cart that had some items in it. She asked if I could pay for her stuff. It wasn’t a huge cart, and the total came to $300. I agreed because some of the items were kids’ stuff and cleaning supplies, and I felt like helping.

Here’s where I think I messed up: after paying, I kept the receipt because I didn’t want her to have it, but she insisted on taking a photo of it “just in case she was stopped outside.” I didn’t think much of it at the time, but now I’m worried she might try to use the receipt photo to return the items for a gift card or something shady.

I didn’t care about the money at first because I thought I was helping someone in need, but now I feel so dumb for falling for this. Has anyone else experienced something like this? Any advice on what I should do, or should I just take this as a lesson learned?

So I didn’t see all the texts, but the person sent my dad his own address and even said my name. He specifically kept saying he was going to kill ME. I am his only kid, and they kept only saying me. And sent the address which of course freaks me tf out.

My dad is not the brightest and was drunk and deleted the texts but I know the person didn’t sound like a bot and knew information about my dad. Not sure if he was asking for money or what.

Then he messaged my dad either on a different number or same one (I think different) a bunch of dead people, dismembered people, etc etc.

Please tell me this is a scam bc wtf?

so i have just gotten EIGHT phone calls today from “paypal”. they left a voicemail to call back to a completely different number… i just wanted to confirm that this is definitely a scam right??

i just changed my password and added double verification because i got an email at early this morning saying someone tried to get into my account.

i don’t have anything wrong with my account and there are no cards linked to the app thank god but i just wanted to make sure.

Okay so I got a message around 11am EST today. The message from a phone number which I couldn’t find anything about online except for the fact that it was Canadian. It is currently almost 5pm EST and the message had said to reply within 24 hours. I’m going to assume that it was Canada post or a scammer who sent this to me. I don’t remember if the shop that I ordered from had my number attached but i believe it does. The message wrote; “Canadian Customs: You have a  parcel being cleared, due to the detection of an invalid zip code address, the parcel can not be cleared, the parcel is temporarily detained, please confirm the zip code address information in the link within 24 hours.

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(Please reply with a Y, then exit the text message and open it again to activate the link, or copy the link into your Safari browser and open it) Have a great day from the Canada Post Team team!” I ordered two Brandon rogers shirts off of shark bait so i have a feeling it could be about that. The last time i checked the website for tracking it had said that my package is at the border. That was about November 14th. It is December 3rd. I ordered these shirts November 4th. How can I figure this out?

Got a call from a supposed county official saying I had been sent a jury summons in October and hadn't responded. I said I'd never received anything. They provided an address from 5 years ago and asked if that was current. I said no and when they asked for my current address, I stupidly provided it. They hung up immediately... and I immediately realized I'd probably been scammed.

Oddly, they didn't ask for money or anything else. Odd as this seems like it'd be easy enough to find without calling me.

What's the angle here? Am I good? Are they trying to get samples of my voice or something?

I immediately froze my credit and am changing passwords everywhere. Anything else I should do?

Okay so I got a message around 11am EST today. The message from a phone number which I couldn’t find anything about online except for the fact that it was Canadian. It is currently almost 5pm EST and the message had said to reply within 24 hours. I’m going to assume that it was Canada post or a scammer who sent this to me. I don’t remember if the shop that I ordered from had my number attached but i believe it does. The message wrote; “Canadian Customs: You have a  parcel being cleared, due to the detection of an invalid zip code address, the parcel can not be cleared, the parcel is temporarily detained, please confirm the zip code address information in the link within 24 hours.

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(Please reply with a Y, then exit the text message and open it again to activate the link, or copy the link into your Safari browser and open it) Have a great day from the Canada Post Team team!” I ordered two Brandon rogers shirts off of shark bait so i have a feeling it could be about that. The last time i checked the website for tracking it had said that my package is at the border. That was about November 14th. It is December 3rd. I ordered these shirts November 4th. How can I figure this out?

I keep getting these emails requesting quotes for unspecified "products", whatever they may be. Sometimes my address shows in the To field, sometimes it doesn't.

I do have a personal website, mostly some random articles and blog posts, but it's not an e-shop so any reference to "my products" is obviously made up. I don't sell anything and never did!

Conveniently they never mention what kind of "product" they're after, and I'm getting so many of these fake enquiries that it can't be explained by a typo in the address.

How does this scam work? I can only think that if I had a shop and shipped them whatever and they never paid for it they'd end up with free goods but since they are apparently blind shooting and hope to get a response they may end up with truly random "products" that may not be of much use?

What's going on here?

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I sold an account in Nostale like two weeks ago, right after account got banned due to user's behaviour in game. He commited to issue a complaint saying that I tried to steal that or smth. Account had security block due to suspicious activity, so we both agreed to try and unban the account throguh support ticket which I did and it didn't work out. Support found out that account was sold and then he issued a refund. It's all fine but the g2g company took over 120 replies from me providing valid evidence of talk with support, and right now they even asked me for proof of the guy changing any data to the account (You'd ask yourself how the fuck would I have it right? Let me answer that question: This guy in his submitted evidence wrote that he changed DETAILS CAN YOU IMAGINE? NO NO HERE COMES THE NEAT PART he attached a video where he tries to log in using different email than the one I submitted in delivery. They keep avoiding my legal attemps to solve the issue and I don't even know what to do any more. I'm frustrated and angry it's been going since two weeks and it's day after day after day of just responding to their support.

This was a disappointing experience, something I never thought could happen in the United States. Let me share my personal experience, hoping it will be helpful whether you're buying insurance or considering joining an agency.

In October this year, I came to know PFA while purchasing insurance but was later persuaded to join the company. At first, everything seemed normal, but as I got more involved, I discovered their chaotic and opaque management practices:

Unclear Fees and Rules

On the first day, I was asked to pay a $125 membership fee, which they said was a one-time payment for lifetime access to company resources. However, after paying, I was automatically assigned to a team without clear explanation. There was no document copy for my record, just a receipt stating “goods and services.” This hidden process meant I couldn’t transfer to another team within six months, even if I realized I didn’t want to work with the person who introduced me. Surprisingly, agents aware of this rule still recruit transfers for personal gain, driven by the company’s profit-driven system.

Difficult Exit Process

Transitioning from a customer to a partner should have been a positive experience, but it turned out to be the opposite. When I decided to leave the company after realizing its issues, PFA refused to sign a release form, even though I had officially terminated my contract. Without this form, some insurance companies couldn’t reappoint me at my new agency, forcing me to wait six months.

Problems with Insurance Purchase

There were several issues with the insurance purchase itself, which I won’t elaborate on here. Ultimately, I not only quit the company but also returned the policy. Now, I’m working with a new agency that charges no membership fees, operates transparently, and provides clear documentation of my rights and obligations, aligning with my values.

My Advice: When buying or selling insurance, always shop around, just as you would with any other product or service in life.

I have received verification codes for apps I have not singed up for, and every two days I have been receiving a text from a different number each time about “instawork” the texts went from the verification code, to saying the account was successfully created, now to a message about finding jobs. I also received a verification code for the storage app “Mega” that I created an account for thinking I would organize my photos but never got around to it. Since I never used the app I deleted my account after receiving the message.

Essentially, I am just freaked out and worried as I have never experienced anything like this before. My biggest worry’s are can they see my texts, and what do I need to do to be safe?

The claim that they use your internet bandwidth to run AI research and pay you for it. However, they don't use ANY of your bandwidth. They just show you a counter where you make USDC at $1 every 11 days and offer you upgrades for $50, $200, $500, $1000, $3000 to boost your "mining" speed. There is no technology in this project. It's just a counter on your screen. I tested network packages sent/received before and after starting the connection and there is no increase in network bandwidth. Meaning it's just a counter on the screen.

I work at my local car wash as a manager. Today I received a phone call from someone's planning to the from a utility company of some kind that said my job was eligible for a lower rate on our bill. I replied with a no thank you and probably hung up the phone and they actually had the audacity to call me back and try to explain that they're not trying to sell me anything, they just need an account number or something similar to apply the rebate.

Obviously this set off alarm bills because why would they call and ask for an account number? What I don't understand is where the scam comes in. What do they gain by having the business account number.

I wanted to share my experience with a loan app scam in India to warn others and hopefully prevent this from happening to someone else.

A while back, I needed a small loan and came across an app called CC Credit. I applied for a ₹10,000 loan, but they only disbursed ₹6,000 to my account. A week later, they reached out for repayment. When I tried to repay through their app, I couldn’t because of some UPI regulations.

I contacted the person who had reached out earlier for repayment. He gave me a UPI ID and asked me to transfer the amount directly. I paid ₹5,000, thinking it was fair since they initially disbursed ₹6,000. However, he demanded the remaining ₹5,000, claiming it was due to their terms.

I argued but eventually gave in and transferred total ₹6,000 as compensation. Right after I made the payment, he deleted all our chats, blocked me, and switched off his phone. When I tried calling from another number, it was immediately disconnected.

Since then, people who I believe are from the same company have been harassing me nonstop. They have my contacts, and they’re blackmailing me by threatening to share doctored profile photos of my contacts. When I tried explaining that I’ve already paid, they asked for proof—but I have none because the person deleted all evidence.

I know I probably won’t see my money again. Sadly, I don’t have much faith in the Indian judiciary system resolving this quickly, if at all. But I wanted to share this so others are aware of these scams.

If anyone has been through something similar or knows how to deal with such situations, please share your advice. Let’s look out for one another.

Stay safe, everyone.

Well, I feel so dumb. I received a Docusign link from a trusted email address this morning. I clicked it, and it led me to a Microsoft login page. I entered my credentials, which didn't work. Then I realized...... it was not a good idea to click this.

I changed my Microsoft password immediately, but I'm a little concerned. My Microsoft account is linked to a lot of company files - especially my OneDrive. How can I feel secure going forward? I've been changing passwords to other accounts, but I'm honestly ready to just create an entirely new Microsoft account to avoid any malware, etc. Is it too late? Should I be concerned?

Macbook Air using Chrome, if that helps.

Note - 2FA is and has been enabled on this account. I reviewed my sign-in activity and nothing was out of the ordinary at all.

Thank you for your time and replies! I feel like such an idiot right now!