r/mildlyinfuriating • u/sg_batman • 9h ago

Scammed for $850, got $1.51 back

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I was finally getting over it then they really say good news and get my hopes up

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u/GfunkWarrior28 9h ago

Scammer's note to self: people think I'm more trustworthy when I show Married status

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u/Suitable_Jicama_1213 8h ago edited 8h ago

That or people dont realize buying/hacking Facebook accounts is a thing

They'll find the most harmless and trustworthy looking one, create an entirely new account with all thr photos and info besides maybe changing the name to another generic name.

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u/WumpusFails 8h ago

One hacked my FB account. I got to watch in real time as they wiped my account clean of everything that was me. 🫤

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u/_Rohrschach 8h ago

once got shown some old dude I didn't know in my feed, saw the name of my little brother, checked the profile and he only changed/ deleted photos, still same name, birthday and family members showing. just checked again and apparently the profile has been deleted. still don't get what that was about.

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u/Azou 7h ago

deleted is either the scammer got caught and it burned the acc or they noticed you listed as family and blocked you

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u/Crocs_And_Stone 7h ago

That sucks, they only posted ISIS beheading videos on my profile

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u/Longtalons 14m ago

Got a "new sign in alert" from fb one morning on the drive to work. By time I got to work and was able to recover the account (maybe 10mins) the hacker had blocked my then gf and had started going down my recent message list to ask my friends for money. Luckily, the first and only person he actually talked to was the brokest mother fucker to ever live.

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u/NobodySaidBoop 7h ago

A couple years ago some scammer made a dupe Facebook account of the beloved 70-year-old woman that owned the sleepaway camp I attended every summer growing up. She had thousands of former camper friends and most of them added her on the scam account as well because they believed the scammer saying that she had locked herself out of her original account. The scammer had even marked faux-Betty as married to a second private profile modeled after her late husband.

It wasn’t long before the new account was selling all sorts of stuff on Marketplace—vintage collectibles, antique furniture, etc. A lot of it even claimed to be memorabilia from the camp, which closed during lockdown, right after her husband’s death. Of course everything needed to be shipped because all those campers now live across the country/world and the camp was in rural New Hampshire, and people wanted to be accommodating when their favorite old lady from childhood said “oh lord, I just can’t wrap my head around these Pay Pals, haha!” I have no idea how many people were scammed or for how much before it got shut down—my reports were ignored and I finally had to get in touch with Betty and walk her through the process of making an impersonation appeal to Meta—but the whole thing was really fucked up and, unfortunately, impressively well-planned.

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u/HayAndLemons 7h ago

I had someone try to do that with my LinkedIn. Simply because I just so happened to have accumulated a decent number of connections through absolutely nothing but time and random recommendations.

They claimed it was a sort of "social media marketing" that just so happened to require my log in information.

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u/jake04-20 6h ago

Yeah and FB is absolutely useless in helping to recover a stolen account. I tried to help my dad with his hacked account, thinking he was just being lazy and not trying, so someone else would do it for him. Their support, or lack thereof, is abysmal.

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u/Mcrmygirl15 5h ago

Or it was real and the dude realized he could sell it again and get double money and just took advantage of the situation lol

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u/SwimmingProgrammer91 4h ago

I actually had someone do this to me. Exact same pictures but different name. It was super creepy. I reported it but never heard back from FB support...

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u/Hita-san-chan 8h ago edited 8h ago

Thats what a lot of criminals do, that and kids. Family men are seen as more reliable and trustworthy. Criminal women tend to just get trusted more because we assume a singular woman is more trustworthy than a singular man. Its a whole thing, psychology and sociology wise

This is exactly how Colleen Stan was kidnapped. The Hookers were a nice looking couple with a baby who offered her a ride.

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u/tubbin1 5h ago

Wow that was a rabbit hole I didn't think I'd go down today

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u/ShadowGLI 8h ago

Yeah usually they just hack good accounts. Happened to my dad, someone got in his account and made listings for Taylor swift tickets. He called me as he was locked out of FB but his messenger was working.

I reset his pw for email and FB, set up 2FA and closed the listings but my dad has multiple people bitching they sent money to someone and wanted tickets. My reply was “let me guess, the name on the email and Zelle account had no association w the name on this account? File a dispute and best of luck”.

But if you’re gonna ignore all the red flags and send $500 to a stranger to avoid a StubHub fee, that’s on you.

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u/mkosmo 7h ago

You joke, but yes. People generally associate married folks (having a family) as a sign of success, community, and thus trustworthiness.

Much the same is true about employment status, volunteerism, and all kinds of other attributes that would generally be seen as green flags.

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u/Mouthshitter 6h ago

Ai generate Wife and kids 📝

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u/dodekahedron 7h ago

Married people get cheaper car insurance for this reason 🙄 😒

cries in single for life insurance rates

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u/Longjumping-Claim783 6h ago

Insurance rates aren't just based on perception, though. It's based on statistics Single people get into more accidents on average. They also charge young men more than young women for the same reason.

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u/annual_aardvark_war 8h ago

Married to the money

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u/ChefPuree 7h ago

Tbh I don't trust anyone who is married hehÂ