scotty Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 Not at all. Seems totally legit to me. 6 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/368423-no-this-does-not-reek-of-fraud/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 Definitely fraud since they only show one PS5 in the photo. ..Al Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/368423-no-this-does-not-reek-of-fraud/#findComment-5490998 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSchoolRetroGamer Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 (edited) Yeah, the "I'm giving away a PS5" on various social media are as unlikely as it sounds, they plague Facebook groups for example, and usually they will post in an easy to bait place like a video game group with stories like "I am punishing my son by giving away this PS5" or "My boyfriend passed away, and I don't need this" or like your example an unwanted prize etc. Other tell-tale give always is they will LIKE their own post, LOCK further replies etc. The scam is when the foolish contact the person they are told to send them a payment just to cover "shipping", obviously they take payment, ship nothing and soon disappear, consider if they manage to bait several people, dozens, hundreds, they can scam a lot of money. I often wonder who could possibly fall for it, but I see it appear so often that clearly people are, a fool and his money as they say. OF COURSE TO ANYONE WITH COMMON SENSE first and foremost the biggest giveaway that it's a scam should be "I'M GIVING AWAY A PS5" 🙄 Edited June 24 by OldSchoolRetroGamer 3 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/368423-no-this-does-not-reek-of-fraud/#findComment-5491014 Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted June 24 Share Posted June 24 They used that exact same verbiage when they infiltrated my class reunion facebook group chat. 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/368423-no-this-does-not-reek-of-fraud/#findComment-5491291 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClassicGMR Posted July 22 Share Posted July 22 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/368423-no-this-does-not-reek-of-fraud/#findComment-5504166 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havok69 Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 Well the joke's on all of you! I have been responding to all these posts and now have 917 PS5's. For free! I am building a fort out of them in my basement with duct tape. 7 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/368423-no-this-does-not-reek-of-fraud/#findComment-5506145 Share on other sites More sharing options...
masschamber Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 52 minutes ago, Havok69 said: Well the joke's on all of you! I have been responding to all these posts and now have 917 PS5's. For free! I am building a fort out of them in my basement with duct tape. we know you're lying because 917 ps5s is roughly twice the size of the moon and ain't nobody got a basement that big 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/368423-no-this-does-not-reek-of-fraud/#findComment-5506166 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havok69 Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 Well I do! There was this Nigerian prince that sent me an email once - he needed some help with some funds. After that, I could afford a basement roughly twice the size of the moon. I built it in secret. Underground. Below everyone else's basement. 3 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/368423-no-this-does-not-reek-of-fraud/#findComment-5506182 Share on other sites More sharing options...
masschamber Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 1 hour ago, Havok69 said: Well I do! There was this Nigerian prince that sent me an email once - he needed some help with some funds. After that, I could afford a basement roughly twice the size of the moon. I built it in secret. Underground. Below everyone else's basement. wow, can you use your secret hacker skills to help me get back my missing funds, I can pay an advance fee right away Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/368423-no-this-does-not-reek-of-fraud/#findComment-5506204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havok69 Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 Just pick up this educational piece of software and you get whatever you want online: 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/368423-no-this-does-not-reek-of-fraud/#findComment-5506484 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda Dafoe Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 Anyone else here imagine these scammers gettting slowly toothpasted by a steamroller? 😃 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/368423-no-this-does-not-reek-of-fraud/#findComment-5530519 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Zeptari Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 On 9/9/2024 at 5:58 AM, Yoda Dafoe said: Anyone else here imagine these scammers gettting slowly toothpasted by a steamroller? 😃 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/368423-no-this-does-not-reek-of-fraud/#findComment-5531471 Share on other sites More sharing options...
youxia Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 So what's the actual hook in these "free" ads? They ask you to pay shipping up front, or something like that? Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/368423-no-this-does-not-reek-of-fraud/#findComment-5531558 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSchoolRetroGamer Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 8 hours ago, youxia said: So what's the actual hook in these "free" ads? They ask you to pay shipping up front, or something like that? Exactly, I posted those details around 10 posts back. They make the deal in messages with a lot of people, arrange payment to cover shipping, they may even provide a fake shipping # to temporarily distract, once suspension strikes they may communicate long enough with excuses as delay tactics and likely have convinced his targets to pay through a method that is hard to change or reverse/refund. At some point communications vanish with nothing to show for the payment, occasionally one or more of the victims will post in the same space a warning of the scammer usually with details or profile link that again, would have had red flags or obvious signs for all but the most greedy or just gullible. 1 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/368423-no-this-does-not-reek-of-fraud/#findComment-5531693 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoda Dafoe Posted September 23 Share Posted September 23 (edited) Hahaha! I had forgotten about that scene in Austin Powers. I need to watch those movies again. Edited September 23 by Yoda Dafoe typo 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/368423-no-this-does-not-reek-of-fraud/#findComment-5537644 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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