30+ People Are Calling Out Scammers and It’s So Satisfying

There are plenty of chances to buy concert tickets on social media. After all, not everyone can make it to every event they plan on going to.

Then again, there are plenty of scammers out there who want to take advantage of fans, so you’ll want to be vigilant while you’re shopping online. In this case, there was a problem. If you didn’t notice, that’s the artist himself pointing out that they aren’t even on sale yet.

If you get arrested, you don’t really expect the threat to get to you via a text. Especially from someone who can’t even spell the word “arrest.”

Sure, there are certain cases in which you might pay a fine for a crime instead of going to jail. Then again, it’s not like the government only accepts iTunes gift cards. In fact, we’re willing to bet that they won’t accept that as a form of payment for a legal fine.

Scammers often reach out in the hopes of getting confidential information or money from you through means of deception. What if you turned the tables, though?

That was the approach that this Reddit user took when they received a message from a scammer. It seems like they were pretty convincing because it didn’t take long for this scammer to panic a bit. You know what they say — don’t dish out what you can’t take.

There are a lot of scammers that don’t have any problem lying to relate to you. In fact, it’s often a part of the script to do so.

As for this person, they weren’t afraid to lie back. Apparently, the script didn’t include bothering to double-check what the would-be victim said. After all, as this person points out, you’d have to have a crazy address to live 15 minutes away from Cassiopeia.

Once you’ve been online long enough, you can start to see a scam coming a mile away. As for this person, they weren’t going to wait around for more messages to pour in.

They weren’t even here for revenge — they just called the scammer out and asked them to get on with it. Believe it or not, these scammers weren’t afraid to drop the act and work a bit more efficiently when asked.

As we’ve seen, sometimes turning the table on scammers is the best way to get them to just leave you alone. Plus, it’s a bit of payback.

This person really gave this scammer a subscription to a service that sounds like it could be a lot of fun. But, it’s enough just to see this scam blow up in their face, even if it’s a non-combative response.

One scam that we have to wonder if it’s ever worked is scammers impersonating celebrities. It must have some success rate if they keep doing it. In this case, it was a text from none other than “Dwayne Johnson.”

Then again, we also remember The Rock having a few followers, at the very least. However, he did say “Trust me,” so maybe he really is actor and WWE superstar Dwayne Johnson, desperately trying to steal your card information.

There’s always someone who falls for a scam, unfortunately. They really depend on things like manipulation and an unfamiliarity with technology to trick people.

However, you usually only get people who don’t know that what they’re looking at is a scam. Maybe this was a lazy attempt to try and drum up attention on the post — but it looks like the only person this scammer caught was himself.

Like we said, scammers do a lot to try and fish for your personal information. We can only guess this was an attempt to start a conversation or fishing for this person’s address.

This person said they get these texts all the time, too, and they aren’t really sure what the end goal is here. So, they had to make it fun somehow. This little creative writing exercise surely stopped Melissa from trying this one again today.

Do you remember how we said those scams where the scammer is pretending to be a celebrity can get pretty weird? This is the perfect example of that.

There’s a lot to take in right away — not only does “Michael Jackson” need this person’s help, but it seems like the singer was resurrected for a bit two years ago. If you didn’t believe him before, how can you not change your mind after he signed off with his classic catchphrase?!

If you had a diplomatic agent, for some reason, don’t you think you’d hear about it before you got a text from a random number asking if you could come pick up cash?

This person wasn’t buying it for a second. However, they were particularly caught by the fact that their “diplomatic agent” in question didn’t know their name. You know, if she was real and did lose their information, it wouldn’t be super professional.

There’s already something unsettling about someone you don’t know messaging you that “you look beautiful” with a picture of themselves because, again, you’ve never met.

This one really fell apart when he tried to actually introduce himself, though, and this person wasn’t afraid to let him know that they noticed. At one point, they just asked them to drop the act and tell them the scam. Shockingly, they complied without any hesitation.

There are a few things that scammers often ask for. For instance, they tend to really like to ask for money in the form of gift cards.

This person wasn’t going to deny them. In fact, they were going to comply in the most malicious way they could, filling the rest of the package with messy food waste. We have to say — we do feel bad for the mailman that has to smell this package along the way.

Well, would you look at that! We have another famous celebrity in need. As a matter of fact, there are two in this conversation.

For one, we’re not sure that Kelly would need our help if she lost a credit card. Plus, if Beyoncé is right there, surely there’s someone nearby that definitely has the money to help her out. Is “Kelly” sending this out to every fan in the city to see who will answer?

Even if this was a regular conversation, Jelly started out here in a way most of us wouldn’t. It boils down to, “I found your number, you did not make an impression on me, who are you?”

Instead of just saying no or ignoring it, this was once again a chance to test out this person’s creative writing might. We have to give them points for really throwing this scammer off their game. We don’t think Jelly will be texting this person anymore.

To start off, we’ll say that this email was marked as spam. We can see why the email host would notice with ease and sort it out of your way.

There are a few key clues here, including a misspelling of the word “account.” The funniest part of this, though, is the warning that comes with this is that the customer recently has passwords. Yeah, that’s one of the most basic rules of cybersecurity.

We’ve talked a lot about scammers here like they’re another person. Some of them are, but some of the messages you get are preprogrammed, and you may not be talking to a real person in real-time.

We’re guessing whoever programmed this conversation didn’t expect this person to answer so aggressively. Yet, it does make it pretty hilarious to see the response thanking them for being so kind and brushing off the insult like nothing ever happened.

There are plenty of services that can help you get your finances in order when you need some professional help. You’ll want to watch out for fake or predatory institutions, though.

This person wasn’t too convinced by this person, but they gave them a date and time to meet anyway. Apparently, though, putting this in his calendar didn’t show “Chris” here that there’s no such date as “February 30th.” Plus, where did he get a calendar for 2099?

Internet Safety 101 says that you shouldn’t hand out personal information like your full legal name and address to strangers online. The same principle goes for texts from random numbers.

Also, you usually don’t mail a check if someone’s made a post to sell something online. It’s a callback to some of our favorite movies and a great way to dodge the situation. They were never going to get that check, so they just need to hold onto their laptop!

If you want to pretend to have money, there are a few ways to do it. This is about the last way that any scammer is going to find success.

Without even bothering to crop the photo, this oh-so-convincing picture left the search bar for money in view. You know, after receiving something like this, we might just call off whatever deal was being negotiated here. We have to wonder whether this method has ever worked for this person.

When Amazon contacts you about your account, there are a few things here that stand out that this scammer did that they wouldn’t do.

For one, you’d probably be notified about this via email if something actually happened. Not to mention, we’re confident that if Amazon was contacting you in any manner, they’d make sure to spell the company name right. Nothing good comes from clicking that link!

There are a few things in life that you can pretty much always expect to happen in person. For one, getting arrested seems like a face-to-face sort of situation.

As for this scenario, we can see why the red flags were clear. Most people don’t introduce themselves like this before arresting you, either. Plus, what “Derrick” describes here doesn’t actually sound like a crime. All in all, we can’t blame them for just calling him out at this point.

There are a few dead giveaways when you receive a text to know that it’s just spam and you should ignore it or delete it.

To start here, the link alone is suspicious enough. Then, if you add all the grammatical errors, it’s pretty easy to tell that there’s nothing official about this. From not being able to spell “please” correctly to weird asterisks around the word “visit,” we’d be suspicious too.

If this list has shown us one thing, it’s that more scams start out than we thought with an inquiry about whether you’re selling your home or not.

This person decided they’d see if they could entice this scammer with a home, even if the picture of the house was a little alarming. It seems like it completely stopped this scammer in their tracks, too — so we’ll say it was a pretty successful response!

This scam is clearly set up on a script. One that, seemingly, doesn’t account much for unexpected responses like someone playing along.

No matter how much this person insisted that this scammer had the right number, “Stephanie” wasn’t about to entertain it. In fact, she might have broken the script when he kept insisting. He got shockingly hostile there at the end about the whole joke. Well, we guess she managed to throw him off his game.

When someone’s trying to build a convincing scam, the end game is to try and trick the person you’re talking to into giving you the information you want.

Not that we want to hand out tips, but even the person who was getting scammed here couldn’t help but give them some feedback. After all, they aren’t going to find much success asking people to go to “scam-chargeback.com” because, well, it gives the game away.

There are some scams that draw you in with an open-ended question. On the other side of that, though, it does leave the scammer open to whatever the person says back. This person saw that opportunity and ran with it immediately.

It’s kind of impressive they came up with such a wild story in just two minutes. It definitely worked to get the scammer to leave — most don’t leave with such a polite final message, either!

There are a few pieces of information that you should never give out to anyone who just randomly contacts you. Your bank information is pretty high up on that list.

The story here changes so fast, too. After all, your bank information and your card information are two different things. We can’t really blame this person for skipping out on all the games and just telling the scammer to find something else to do with their time.

This exchange of messages already doesn’t look too convincing. After all, who would ask for help like this from a total stranger? Well, the scammer wasn’t posing as a total stranger. The person that they were posing as was an old friend’s father.

However, it would have been a lot more convincing if they’d checked to make sure they were disguising themselves as a living person rather than someone who passed years and years before.

A lot of scams that really get people are scams where the scammer pretends to be from a large, recognizable business to gain some trust upfront.

Then again, this doesn’t always work. At the end of the day, not everyone is going to fall for it, and — as is demonstrated here — not everyone uses the same businesses. It’s hard to trick someone about a PayPal account that they never had.

As we’ve already covered, posing as someone the potential victim in a scam already knows can build up trust right away. It seems like, for a second, this person even went along with the conversation.

However, the scammer immediately decided to drop the ruse in an abrupt manner that left us — and the person they were talking to — a little confused and shocked. Yeah, sure, this seems like how most conversations between friends go.

There are definitely some things that are better done in a group chat. Making plans with the whole family? Working on a group project? Those are great times to use a chat.

Then again, other things aren’t quite as efficient as a part of a group chat. Sure, this scammer only had to text once to contact 20 people. Then again, it pretty much told all 20 people right away that this was a complete scam.

Sometimes, it’s funny to play along with a scam just to see how far along the other party will go in following your lead in hopes of a successful scam. As for this person, they made a rather hilarious decision.

They told the scammer that they needed codenames while they talked for the sake of their security, of course. Judging from this email, it looks like they successfully convinced them to keep up the ruse which looks like it led to some of the best emails we’ve ever seen.

If there’s one emotion that scammers have gotten rather shameless in manipulating, it’s fear. After all, people will do a lot to get out of a dangerous or scary situation.

Then again, if the story isn’t believable in the first place, you’re going to have a hard time convincing anyone. Maybe this scammer would have had more luck if they hadn’t gone for an action movie plot. For most people, this is a story you’d see in a movie theater, not real life.

Writing a convincing script isn’t always easy. If you miss little details about how a conversation would go, it can give off that someone here isn’t real. These scammers forgot to account for a few things in writing this conversation.

One problem regarding the names was something that this person just couldn’t let go. Not to mention, this scammer didn’t exactly catch the recipient’s name correctly, either. What happens if they say “yes” to the last question?

There’s plenty of information that you know about yourself. We’re talking about the type of information someone might ask you if you were to get concussed.

For instance, knowing where you are is pretty important. When this bot said they were from the United States, which state is a natural next question? So, you might expect an actual state to be programmed into a conversation rather than a random city instead. At least they named a city that’s actually in the country.

There are some things that you can’t get twice. For instance, if you get the chickenpox as a kid, you aren’t likely to get it again. Last we checked, though, the same isn’t true for scams.

If you get scammed, nothing is stopping you from scamming someone else in the future. Unfortunately, we can’t really trust this guy based on that fact alone — but we guess it was a solid attempt at a scam.

Sometimes, it really seems like scammers get angry as soon as the person they’re attempting to scam ventures off-script. In this case, however, Andy was simply going along with the conversation that the scammer had just started.

This person didn’t even say anything to call the scammer out. By all means, they were just playing along with the conversation that the scammer started. We’re really not sure what made them so hostile. Wait until Diana hears about this!

This is a scam that commonly gets older family members by preying on fear the scammer stirs up. While we don’t see it firsthand here, the story this person tells is familiar.

As for the way this person reacted, it clearly wasn’t what the scammer expected. In the end, it’s nearly impossible to manipulate indifference, as compared to fear. It seems like they eventually just gave up and let it go.

There are some things that you want out of someone. Asking a lot of questions about you is a great sign someone wants to get to know you.

Of course, some questions are a bit more suspicious than others. We’d love to think this person was just trying to find love, but we’re pretty sure that these “get to know you” questions look a lot more like a list of security questions.

The messages in this conversation are enough to raise red flags. Most people don’t text each other like this. It’s all so stiff.

Not to mention, this is another situation that’s unethical for more reasons than one. While it’s already wrong to scam someone, posing as their grandmother — who has since passed away — is unethical all in its own right. We’d go off on them as well for doing this!

As a pet owner, there’s nothing quite as nerve-wracking and concerning as coming home only to realize that your pet is missing. The next step is to start the search.

A lot of people expand the search by putting up flyers and social media posts to see if anyone else in the area has seen them. We’re glad to see that this person was going to tell this scammer the truth about how horrible what they were doing was.

This is a scam as old as time. While technology has changed in recent years, the idea of blackmail is one scam humans have done for centuries.

For that to work, though, the person you’re trying to blackmail has to actually care about what you say you have. When this person called the scammer’s bluff on this one, they didn’t have much to fall back on but to begrudgingly admit defeat.

Anyone can get tricked and fall for a scam. After all, they’re working hard to try and trick you and get what they want from you.

Still, there are times that you have to wonder what happened that made someone fall for a scam. Here, we really have to wonder how an international bank managed to make this mistake. We’re almost impressed by how this scammer managed to pull this off.

There are some things that you probably often wish you could tell scammers, all at once, to leave you alone for the rest of time.

At this point, this person just wanted to sell their dress and stop handling incoming messages that just turned out to be scams. The question here was probably rhetorical, but this helpful scammer was willing to talk to the team and tell them to back off for a while. Wow, that’s so thoughtful.