Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Scams That Many People Overlook


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about various scams that people don't realize are scams. These might be helpful to have in the back pocket so that you don't fall prey to any of those sneaky scams. 

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Text - deepthought515 • 2d 1 Award That "renting" a modem from your isp is a huge waste of money. They'll tell you "oh you should rent one because tech is always changing and it might go out of date" when I moved out on my own 4 years ago l bought a modem at Best Buy for 70$. If I had been renting from the greedy isp's this whole time I would have close to 500$ on rental fees. And while Tech is always changing a modem is not something that changes very much. So please if you are renting one go o

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Text - peezoki • 2d 1 Award The Verizon $1 scam. Verizon tacked on a $1 fee onto 8% of their customer's bills each month so over the course of the year, they did it to every customer, about 150,000,000. Their rationale was: 50% wouldn't notice and just pay the charge or would notice and wouldn't spend anytime fighting a $1 charge. 50% would notice the charge and call to have it removed. Of those, 35% would get frustrated while on the call and give up. This added approximately $120,000,000 to the

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Text - MediumBeanSprout • 2d In Australia you should check the history of your car's vin before purchase which will detail any insurance work, thefts, crashes or financial encumbrance on the car There's a number of sites and places which charge $20-30 and have purchased domains like "ppsr.com.au". They also go hard on Google advertising and site development so they rank higher in searches (even if you know exactly what you're looking for) and look more genuine than the gov site. The fastest, che

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Text - MooCowGrass • 2d Funerals, people often want to buy more expensive coffins to honor their loved ones and in turn the companies selling them profit Reply 8.0k ...

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Text - sunshine-filters • 2d I posted another reply before, but also i had one more. Carfaxs, the website, almost scammed me and my boyfriend last week. Me and bf have a 2019 Hyundai kona SE edition. Brand new off the lot not accidents or tickets. We checked car facts a weeks ago when shopping new car insurance and carfax told me our car had 5 reports on it! We had to pay $50 if we wanted to see. Well we have a lease and along side new insurance, we wanted to refinance our lease too. When we saw

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Text - philosiraptor • 2d The ads on Facebook that say, "We're sorry to announce that we're closing our store.." It's made to look like a page you might follow (but you've never heard of before) and that they might be suddenly offering huge deals. But it's like my dad always taught me: a lot of "going out of business" sales are really "going out FOR business" sales. Reply 9.9k ...

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Text - BoredForever1 • 2d Basically anything where they keep asking you questions that you're saying 'no' to until finally you feel guilty for saying no too many times so you say 'yes'. This was an actual sales technique taught to me and we were told to use it to boost our VIP membership numbers, but I felt too guilty to use it. E.g. "would you like to sign up to be a member? It's free and cardless." "No thank you, maybe another day." "Are you sure? You're going to get a lot of points from what

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Text - soul-man34• 2d The textbook industry, biggest scam there is. Reply 1 2.4k ...

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Text - aprilized • 2d The "wellness" industry that promotes things like "detox" and other scams. There are many. It's a multi billion dollar industry. Reply 1 722 + ...

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Text - -EDGAR- • 2d Companies like Ticketmaster with their ridiculous service fees for online transactions. Reply 3.1k ...

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Text - Aphasia_nargle • 2d I work in a store. Its a small scam but When people pretend not to have enough money at the checkouts its annoying. I don't mind helping out if you're legit short money but I don't like being taken advantage of. Also how stupid did this one lady think I was one day? She said she didn't have enough but I could see more money in her other hand... which she suddenly 'found' when I suggested putting something back instead. Reply 1 200 ...

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Text - sock-puppet69 · 2d LIFE COACHING! Not only is it a huge scam but also a lot of life coaching schools are structured like cults. Similar to scientology. Please beware!!! Reply 1 1.1k ...

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Text - average_joemama • 2d Facebook surveys. Something like "Which Frozen character are you?" tricks users into giving out answers to common security questions. I'm sure a lot of those could get direct access to the user's account by just clicking on the link as well. Reply 4.8k

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Text - NightsDream130 • 2d That shop with the "Closing Down Sale" that's lasted years. They ain't never closing down! Reply 389 ...

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Text - wehosh • 2d Freemium games, multi level marketing, channel networks, cable tv, and carnival games Reply 2.5k ...

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Text - UYScutiPuffJr • 2d If you have cable tv or internet or anything like that, the promos they offer on that stuff is almost never legit. Like $25-$50 higher than the advertised price sort of wrong. There's local sports fees, equipment fees, broadcast fees, discounts you only get for certain times, etc. Example, my cable company advertises $69.99 a month tv/internet/phone but if you actually price it out it's over $100/month. Reply 2.9k ...

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Text - DareWright • 2d Kohls. They constantly have sales, but their stuff is so overpriced. People get 30% coupons in the mail and Kohl's cash and think they're getting great deals but they're really not. Reply 154 ...

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Text - Vectrus • 2d Sunscreen, lotion, anything in a squeeze bottle. Everyone's instinct is to just toss it after they can't squeeze any more out. But if you cut open the bottles and scrape out the inside, you get around a 1/4 to a 1/3 more of the product. My wife just cut open our various sunscreens that we thought were out, and got an almost full Tupperware container of sunscreen. Edit: To everyone saying it's not a scam, yeah, just something I happened to be dealing with and discussing with m

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Text - Ninja_Lazer • 2d Grass fed beef, cruelty free eggs, etc. If it comes from a factory farm, it is made to be as efficient and cost effective as possible. They meet the bare minimum requirements for the label, which aren't the idealized standards you have in your head. Reply 391 ...

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Text - DanceslikeRickAstley • 2d This one guy approached 20 lads on a stag do on Amsterdam, said he could take us somewhere amazing but we must quiet. OK we were looking for the next bar so we followed.. He ushered us one by one into this bar doorway where a man took our entry fee (10 guilders each I think) before going through another door into the main bar. Turns out it was free to get in and these 2 guys scammed us. We all laughed and hats off was a good scam. Reply 1 249 ...

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Text - x_Y_z3•2d Stealing PPE from states and then selling it back to them. The Mafia would be proud. Reply 395 ...

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Text - b_wald81 • 2d Long-distance charges by the phone company Reply 2.1k ...

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Text - NotJeremyAnymore • 2d Time shares! They are extremely overpriced, and it impossible to get out of the contract. Reply 57 ...

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Text - RandomThrowaway410 • 2d TurboTax is not helping you prepare your taxes, they have lobbyists that prevent the IRS from making a tool that does our taxes for us... And then they sell their own version of that tool back to us Americans. Fuck Intuit/ TurboTax Reply 46 ...

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Text - Amehvafan • 2d 1 Award When the boss says "We're a family" Reply 8.0k ...

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Text - VIC_ 2d Paying full price for tuition for Zoom classes this fall. Reply 122 ...

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Text - balisto2222 2d A radio did some giveaway thing where you had to call them. They just pre-recorded that and played it. Guess how I noticed it? THEY USED THE SAME THING 3+ TIMES. Reply 1.3k ...

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Text - raventheonlyone • 2d 3 1 Award Certain Religion/Cults. No offense but there are a lot out there are trying to brainwash specifically vulnerable with their teachings and they'd just take their money for "donations/tithing" E1: thank you so much strangers for the upvotes! this is my first time getting hundred plus, have a good day! :) E2: that is my first silver, thank you kind stranger that literally made my day! Reply 1 773 ...

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Text - Hermanjnr • 2d Casinos and gambling. I mean it may seem obvious, but l'm still amazed how many people are convinced their "method" will make them rich at some chance based game. It won't make you rich. That's why massive sprawling casinos exist. They're built with your money XD Reply 1 31 ...

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Text - themontanaguy6 • 2d Social media. A psychological scam in the way which people want to think they're all great but in reality it's scamming you by giving you stress, depression, etc. Reply 1 34 ...

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