/biz/ - Business & Finance

[Anonymous No.10194061]

What's the worst scam you've ever seen/fell for?
If you were involved, how did you cope with it?

[Anonymous No.10194094]

>>10194061
I scammed /biz/ out of $3000 last year by selling fake whitelistings.

I got scammed out of $40 just by being an idiot my freshman year of college when some homeless guy started talking with me and claiming he knew me and everything and said he'd go in and get me beer from this place but never did.

I got scammed out of my Maplestory gear by dropping it and then being sent into a minigame where I couldn't access it.

Take your pick.

[Anonymous No.10194099]

>>10194061

>What's the worst scam you've ever seen/fell for?

Bitcoin

[Anonymous No.10194108]

Ethercraft

[Anonymous No.10194113]

>>10194061
Chainlink

[Anonymous No.10194135]

Kek bought a telephone that got never delivered.

[Anonymous No.10194258]

>>10194061
I fell for biz shilling Verify (CRED) and Dcorp

[Anonymous No.10194269]

>>10194113
kek you aint the only one, fagman

[Anonymous No.10194279]

>>10194061
I fell for the bitmex scam, lost all my money and now I’m out of crypto trading completely.

[Anonymous No.10194287]

Electroneum

[Anonymous No.10194334]

I bought those speakers dudes sell out of the white vans when I was a teenager. Looking back it made me never rush into a purchase ever again, at the time though my rage was off the charts. I spent a couple weeks hanging out in parking lots on the weekend to see if I could spot the people that sold them to me. I had a jug of old rotten piss from my collection I was going to pour on them.

[Anonymous No.10194371]

I honestly think I've never been scammed my whole life

one time some nigger in paris mugged me for 200 euros though

[Anonymous No.10194387]

>>10194371
I would say I was scammed into going to Paris, but I knew the place was a shithole like Trump said. My girlfriend forced me to go

[Anonymous No.10194406]

>>10194387
It would be fair if she gave you the 200 back. It was her idea to go there.

[Anonymous No.10194417]

0xbitcoin.

[Anonymous No.10194426]

Xtrabytes

Scamming founder was shilling it everywhere in December and January. Then he dumped his bags and this piece of shit coin with no tech has dropped 95%

[Anonymous No.10194469]

>>10194061
got rekt in a brothel in china travelling with a friend

we just wanted to go out drinking but got swindled by some mobbed up faggot in a suit to take a taxi that he would pay for to a different location so we could get a 'lapdance' (legit all we actually wanted)

get there and he takes us up 18 floors in an elevator which should have been a redflag but we were young and retarded. he fucks off and some girls come in, legit 10/10 at least by gook standards, I was drunk and horny so I ask to fuck one. They say it's $150AUD so I pay and go fuck her, was pretty awesome. Get back to the room we started in and my friend is still there, I sit down and like 5 guys walk in and close the door behind them.

they are carrying three or four card scanners and just start setting them up on the table not saying anything. they all had these fucked up tatoos on their arms, idk if they were triad but they were intimidating as shit. basically forced us to empty our cards with threats of violence and sign the printed receipts, took photos of our IDs and shit. lost about 5k AUD. whole process took like an hour and we were both shitting ourselves thinking theyd just kill us afterwards.

eventually they agree to let us go, they all leave and the first guy that brought us there comes back in laughing and smiling and saying its all ok and we should take this as a lesson not to get up to shady shit in china. he said he would pay for our taxi home but we just started walking because we were still shitting ourselves. he yelled out that if we called the cops they would know.

my friend and i laugh when we think back on it but man it really was a fucked up experience

[Anonymous No.10194557]

>>10194061
Bounty0x

I was naive

[Anonymous No.10194589]

>>10194469
Holy shit. Never trust a chink

[Anonymous No.10194602]

>>10194061
Blackmoon, lost 90% there, if it wasnt for that I would have made it already.

[Anonymous No.10194613]

>>10194469
can't you just do chargebacks on all this stuff?

[Anonymous No.10194617]

>>10194469
>the first guy that brought us there comes back in laughing and smiling and saying its all ok and we should take this as a lesson not to get up to shady shit in china.
He was right. Too many foreigners come to china thinking they can do whatever they want. Lesson learned.

[Anonymous No.10194619]

>>10194279
>he used 100x leverage

[Anonymous No.10194634]

>>10194387
Fuck. My fiancee has always wanted to go to paris

[Anonymous No.10194635]

>>10194617
Yeah fuck China, never going there or anywhere I can't have a gun and defend myself from that kind of bullshit

[Anonymous No.10194666]

Years ago, I was about 14 and got involved in those stupid "refer 10 friends and get a free ipod" bullshit. I made a website and everything and posted posters all over town.

Anyway, it turned out to be a scam, but after months and months of this shit, some IT guy who also did this shit said to me on a forum: "You should check out this Bitcoin thing"... me being a dumb kid and wanting to get rich did exactly that, and the rest is history bros.

[Anonymous No.10194674]

>>10194469
fucking chinks

[Anonymous No.10194714]

I was never really scammed (expect for low starting salary) but i scammed on online dating sites.

I first took all the pictures from some whore in motherless. She had pictures nude and not nude. Then i would on dating sites and tell them we could fuck for money after larping around a bit as silly girl. Always posted pics and nude pics as proof.

I could cash in on one retard twice. Told him i need to take the pill and its better without condom, but he gotta give me some money for that ;^)

Most of the time i told them to meet somewhere very far and they always went there while i was sitting at home playing vidya. I was very young at the time and needed the league of legends skins. I wish i knew how to get the money by not using Paysafe cards but what ever.
I also waited for the mad messages they gave me, was really fun.

I think i taught them a good lesson on never let hornyness be the greater thing in you.

[reluctant kneepad girl No.10194759]

Once a cutie guy asked me for autograph and the pen ended up having a shocker in it ;_;

But desu certain health insurances
Actually ADD more price to me meds than buying otc

[Anonymous No.10195087]

>>10194094
>I got scammed out of $40 just by being an idiot my freshman year of college when some homeless guy started talking with me and claiming he knew me and everything and said he'd go in and get me beer from this place but never did.
holy shit, how dumb some people are

[Anonymous No.10195096]

>>10194061
bitconnect, honestly.

[Anonymous No.10195111]

>>10194061
NEO

[Anonymous No.10195148]

>>10194469
pussy
and you say the french are cowards?
with a friend we fought 3 colombians in Medellin, in a dark public garden at 2am, they had knives and they wanted my omega seamaster and our phones

Same in Philippines where I one shoted a cab driver who were driving me to narrow and poor af streets

[Anonymous No.10195153]

>>10194714
Hey, I got scammed like that once.
are you from puerto rico by any chance?

[Anonymous No.10195167]

>>10194666
Satan confirmed. Burn him.

[Anonymous No.10195505]

I got scammed by those retarded pump and dumps 6 months ago. I was new and thought "easy money"
oh well

[Anonymous No.10195582]

early days of the silk road, i bought some bitcoin and went onto hiddenwiki for an exchange, and put in an order for 40 bucks worth of acid. the exchange had reviews and it looked trustworthy but the entire site was a clone of a legit exchange. later i found guides for reputable exchanges, and i found the same dealer and in his description he said "i only sell on these exchanges"

[Anonymous No.10195621]

ChainLink is an scam currently happening but apparently no one can see it. You don't make a silly eth token to solve a problem that doesn't even exist lmao

[Anonymous No.10195662]

>>10194469
dude you should've laughed, you can easily get your fucking money back on that shit.

[Anonymous No.10195719]

>>10194113
This

[Anonymous No.10195768]

>>10194094
Maplestory...those were the days

[Anonymous No.10195784]

>>10194061
I scammed people by selling them fake WU transfer. 250$ FOR $3000, 1000$ for $15000, $8000 for 100k etc
And I'm white in case you think I'm a nigger scammer. I talked so nicely and politely with my ''clients''without doing any pressure on them to buy my service. This way, they thought I was totally legit unlike niggers that sacmmed them before.

[Anonymous No.10195792]

>>10194469
Well at least you got to fuck

[Anonymous No.10195813]

whalegate
i did make a lot of money following their calls though

[Anonymous No.10195814]

>>10194613
That’s what I was thinking. Larping fggt

[Anonymous No.10195821]

>>10194334
Same ._.

[Anonymous No.10195822]

I was called a LARP on here and other places, but it is actually true. Lost $45k to someone finding out my wallet's private key.

[Anonymous No.10195842]

>>10195822
hacked or did you leak it?

[Anonymous No.10195843]

>>10194061

[Anonymous No.10195854]

>>10195842
I unintentionally leaked it myself.

[Anonymous No.10195876]

>>10194061
it's biz

[Anonymous No.10195884]

I bought FUN ICX and ETH down about 1.5k my initial investment

[Anonymous No.10195891]

>>10195843
Explain, please.

[Anonymous No.10195914]

>>10195843
Top fucking Kek... I fucking hope that's not real desu.

[Anonymous No.10195926]

>>10195854
how?

[Anonymous No.10195928]

>>10195843
How?

[Anonymous No.10195965]

>>10195926
>/biz/ folder on HDD
>wants to upload a meme pic
>picks wrong file
>uploads pic containing entire wallet details

[Anonymous No.10195971]

>>10195843
BIIIIICCCOOONNNNNEEEEEEECCCC

[Anonymous No.10195982]

>>10195843
LOL

[Anonymous No.10195989]

>>10194061
A guy swapped like 10 rune scimmys for 10 iron ones... Also this dude i bought charcoal from for like 70k because he told me it was a hood that looks like the H.A.M hood, which was a member outfit (i was a f2p scrub).

FeelsBadMan

[Anonymous No.10195997]

>>10194061
i bought an iphone 3gs from ebay 9 years ago which then was never sent to me after having paid

[Anonymous No.10196087]

>>10195989
I never understand how people fell for the swapping shit. They ended up ruining rs after all the scams.

[Anonymous No.10196132]

>>10194094
>I got scammed out of $40 just by being an idiot my freshman year of college when some homeless guy started talking with me and claiming he knew me and everything and said he'd go in and get me beer from this place but never did.
lmao, I was hammered walking back from the bar one night and a nigger asked if I wanted to buy some weed. My drunk ass gives him a $20 and he walks into this apartment behind him. He walks back out and plays dumb like he doesn't have the money. I don't like to fight, even when I drink but once he took a step away I went right in for the tackle. Got some sloppy ass hits and his squirrelly ass managed to slip out, jump up and run. Tried chasing him but was in cowboy boots and he was a nigger.

Still pissed about it desu.

[Anonymous No.10196195]

>>10196132
Oh, the real kicker was that I told him I didn't even want weed, just seeds because I wanted to try to grow some. He didn't even have the agency to go scrounge up some shitty seeds to appease my drunk ass.

[Anonymous No.10196299]

>>10194469
They can beat you up. But when westerners go missing in China. Their embassy usually files a complaint to the city. Most Chinese city governors usually take care of this promptly since lesser city ship governors usually has a spy or two in his admin and could smear shit on him to take his seat.

This would end in death for triad members if they thought they could beat you up. Just laugh and tell them your phone has a GPS and if you die people will come knocking. This wouldn't intimidate the gang members directly. But when a boss ends up losing a branch, people get tortured and fall into trucks.

[Anonymous No.10196321]

>>10195965
You should have moved your assets to another adress right after uploading it

[Anonymous No.10196380]

>>10196299
chinks and aussies are faggots
who would be afraid to travel in China?
Who would be as dumb as an aussie to follow a fucking cab chink driver

[Anonymous No.10196401]

https://initiativeq com/invite/SZMB7JaGm

This scam right here, get in quick lads only a few invites left

[Anonymous No.10196410]

most embarrassing shit ever.
A couple of years back when I was 19 i had 600 euro cash stolen from my wallet cos i was sitting in a bar with a bunch of people drunk and talking. Left to the bathroom, came back they were gone.

[Anonymous No.10196440]

I worked as an undercover journalist for a bit and infiltrated a few of these things. I've seen:

-Selling knife sets as part of a pyramid scheme
-Selling vacations as part of a pyramid scheme
-Selling cosmetics as part of a pyramid scheme
-Work out routines as part of a pyramid scheme

What I've found is that the end product doesn't matter so much as the inherently pyramidal nature of the place. The vacation place was at least somewhat up front about their salesmen about how it hinged on scamming people further down the line, although they called it "business" instead of scamming.

[Anonymous No.10196448]

>>10194666
I lost money on Mt Gox but then a few months later my dad got a job at Nintendo.

[Anonymous No.10196469]

blockchain cryptocurrency

[Anonymous No.10196506]

>>10196380
The problem is. People in China who are triad members are either dumb as a box of bricks or desperate. The minimum sentence for triad affiliation is like 25 years doing who knows what, 70 years or death for pretty much everything else. Most Chinese 'salesmen' think they are above the law in "teaching stupid easy barbarians" are plenty stupid and cling on the idea of ethno superiority.

Traveling in China can be plenty dangerous. Also goes for the food. I've seen chefs in 3-4star restaurants use old ingredients, saying "they're good enough" and someone getting food poisoning.

We Chinese, especially country folks have this machismo about us. When we are sitting high in position, we tend to do stupid shit such as rules don't apply, and we shit diamonds, today will be just another day, etc.

I had to really notice and correct this behavior so not as to let it resurface. I stayed too long with my cousins out in the boondocks.

[Anonymous No.10196525]

>>10196440
How was this embarrassing? That's pretty good material for reports.

[Anonymous No.10196542]

>>10196525
nvm. disregard. checked op post. mbmb. im a fag.

[Anonymous No.10196550]

>>10196506
What about the night markets

[Anonymous No.10196571]

Lost $100 to BITCONNEEEEEEEECCCT

I knew it was a scam, I'm just a degenerate gambler.

[Anonymous No.10196626]

>>10196448
THATSGREAT BT I WASNT LARPING
T. BOUGHT IN 2011, COULD SIGN A MESSAGE TO PROVE IT

MEANWHILE YOU BOUGHT MY BAGS THIS YEAR THANKS

[Anonymous No.10197043]

>>10196550
Never got involved with them. I heard blood curling stories how someone caught AIDS or some other STD. Or roofied and left with the trash in some alley way naked, cleaned out. card swipers which charged them something like 2-3k in yuan for shit they don't remember. Having the pimp threatening a lawsuit because the girl claimed you threatened her and he wants 1000 yuan for silence or else he space his case to your embassy.

I just avoid it all together. Safer to fap than dick yourself irl.

[Anonymous No.10197235]

Buying Fibonacci ltc miners

[Anonymous No.10198001]

>>10196087
They targeted the kids
Lots of people who were new to the internet there

[Anonymous No.10198694]

UFR

[Anonymous No.10199779]

jnt

[Anonymous No.10200053]

>>10194061
When I was a teenager I fell for a ponzi scheme called Cherry Shares, I lost around $2000.

[Anonymous No.10200066]

>>10194061
I fell for YoBit. Straight up stole my 25 dollars in Litecoin. Was researching YoBit stumbled upon some guy who left 660 bitcoin on an exchange and someone with access to his private wallet keys stole his bitcoin kek

[Anonymous No.10200080]

>>10194061
PeepCoin
Tron
SpherePay
Odyssey

[Anonymous No.10200087]

When i first moved to Berkeley CA I bought a CD from a bum selling them on the corner because I felt bad. Couldn't get it to play on my laptop so I took it to a CD store. There the clerk laughed at me and confirmed there was no music on it. Fucking nigger couldn't even make a shitty beat or two for me lel.

[Anonymous No.10200099]

also working on a scam right now

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScs74eihWjgf_yk6fiksWFpbKcypscrFJ28kiUBH0gU26CPHg/viewform

[Anonymous No.10200110]

>>10194113

[Anonymous No.10200155]

>>10194334
I had guys try to sell me speakers out of the back of a pickup on a few occasions too. What's the deal with these? Are they just an empty box/grill and you don't find out til you get home?

[Anonymous No.10201088]

>>10194061
$ 100 on Bitcoin past June
i`m still trying to cope

[Anonymous No.10201324]

>>10194061
bitcoin private

[Anonymous No.10201404]

>>10194061

Paying for college.

It set back my life about 10 years.

[Anonymous No.10201444]

>>10194061
i gave 2000$ to darksydephil

feels bad man

[Anonymous No.10201543]

>>10201404
It's all your fault for choosing a liberal arts degree.

[Anonymous No.10201665]

>>10194061
Well Anon...
Bought into the ICO of Confido, first ICO I ever got into, put in 2 eth, at my ATH I was up to 38 eth within 2-3weeks, got out about 10 but woke up one day and yep Joost had exit scammed. Was sad because I had 25k AUD at ATH ended up with 6.8k. Bought into another shitty low marketcap MN coin called ARTAX off some miners in a discord. Put in 5k woke up 5days later and It had drastically mooned, ended up selling stack for 4.3btc's now worth less than 0.1 btc (Kek). Ath of about 100k during feb from 1k all starting from confido.

Now sitting at 25k. Crypto is one hell of a ride

[Anonymous No.10201703]

>>10200155
this, what was the scam?

[Anonymous No.10201886]

I bought 1K worth of NIMFA

[Anonymous No.10201905]

>>10194061
My friend's dad lost 15 million dollars on a bad investment.

[Anonymous No.10202101]

Bought $20 of "weed" from someone when i was about 13, made a pipe, got a few mates and went somewhere to smoke it. Unwrapped it and it was bark, top kek

[Anonymous No.10202573]

if you tards actually want to scam someone...

[Anonymous No.10202852]

>>10194061
bought a bike for $200 cash completely drunk. was put together with stolen parts and spray painted. didn't realize til my friend pointed it out.

[Anonymous No.10202895]

>>10197043
>>10196550
Kek and you retards gave me shit for getting snu snu from the Philippines

>>10194061
Kidscoin
By selling it @ 10% loss

[Anonymous No.10202899]

>>10194061
Doing business with Canadians

[Anonymous No.10202900]

Got scammed out of 0.05 btc by cryptodealer.io in January.

After I signed up for the "trading course" I noticed all the teaching material was stolen from other places such as crypto blogs and the like, that you could get / read for free.

Seriously and unironically.

[Anonymous No.10202911]

I invested in that Treyvon James erc20 token because people here said he was gonna shill it to normies. Never did, I bought in when the contract when it had 200 eth, think it went up to 300 or 400 but I never gained anything, now it’s at 18 eth and I don’t even wanna pull out because I gotta deposit more eth for gas fees. Was only 60$, but just goes to show u can’t trust coins made by niggers.

[Anonymous No.10203508]

>>10194061
I was probably one of the biggest non dev bag holders for a shitcoin called FLIK. :(

[Anonymous No.10203537]

>>10195965
Sup. You're only the second person I've done this to

[Anonymous No.10203538]

>>10194334
Dude, I did the same thing. After I found out it was a scam, I drove to a mall parking lot and tried to sell them to people coming out of the stores. Zero success, probably didn't help that I didn't have a van or any plausible story. Later I managed to trade them to a guy for a snowboard though.

[Anonymous No.10203549]

>>10200155
They're just very cheaply made and not worth anything near what they try to sell them for. The ones I got did work though. It just wasn't anything impressive.

[Anonymous No.10203552]

>>10194061
>What's the worst scam you've ever seen/fell for?
"You don't need to go to college to be successful"
>If you were involved, how did you cope with it?
We're about to find out

[Anonymous No.10203577]

>>10194061
cryptocurrencies
gained a shitton of money, but lost my mental health, don't know how to fix this yet

any serious help from you anons would be appreciated. already cashed out some time ago, but the addiction is still there and I'm always hoping to see a good entry point on the charts

[Anonymous No.10203582]

Surprised no one has mentioned TELcoin, what a fucking piece of shit that was.

[Anonymous No.10203594]

>>10194061
An old gypsy sold me a fake video camera back in 2008.

[Anonymous No.10203603]

>>10203552
>You don't need to go to college to be successful
You don't need to go to college to know the definition of a scam.

[Anonymous No.10203644]

I fall for the post on /biz/ claiming a pump and dump group is going to pump AMB.

[Anonymous No.10203718]

I've never been scammed, but then again, I rarely visit /biz/

[Anonymous No.10203731]

>>10194061
i didnt fall for it but that pyramid scheme with the food pills... i forget the name
was a huge scandal years back

[Anonymous No.10203754]

>>10194061
Some assholes ripped me off $300 for an ounce when I was 14. I handed over the money, they acted as if they were going into a house to get it and then I guess they jumped the back fence and ran.
It took me like a year to save that. I was going to start dealing to other 14 year olds. Could have been my big break.
Oh well.

[Anonymous No.10203769]

>>10203718

[Anonymous No.10203779]

>>10194061
I used to sell weed to middle school kids, the weed was actually garden herbs.

[Anonymous No.10203797]

>>10196440
why the fuck would you need to be undercover to join a multi-level marketing scheme. You could tell them you're a member of ISIS and they'd still try and recruit you.

[Anonymous No.10203824]

When I was 10 or so I was on vacation in Italy. My mom gave me 5 euro to get some bread. So I went to get some bread. I gave the cashier 5 euro and waited for my money back.

She just put the money in her cash register, turned around, started talking to other people and gave nothing back. When she was done she turned around and asked me for money again for the bread.
I wanted to object, but then the guy behind me pushed me why I was taking so long. I didnt know the language so I just gave them some of my own money.

I was too young to speak up I guess.

[Anonymous No.10203877]

I created an useless token and people here bough it and still holding kek

[Anonymous No.10203988]

>>10194061
Paid 400 bucks for a constellation in Star Citizen, back when they said game would be finished and released by 2016 lmao

[Anonymous No.10203999]

>>10194113
same here

[Anonymous No.10204031]

>>10203988
also same her paid 400€ for a carrack

[Anonymous No.10204073]

Got scammed on runescape once. Worked my ass of to get dark armour. One dude said he was a member and could gold trim it for me for free. I believed him and gave him my armour. 12 year old me was raging.

[Anonymous No.10204153]

>>10203582
It came late, so I guess few people fell for that shit and fewer still went balls deep.

[Anonymous No.10204220]

>>10203508
The TI coin? You win the thread, dummy.

[Anonymous No.10204222]

>>10194387
>>10194371
Use money belts when travelling with lots of cash you brainlet.

[Anonymous No.10204243]

I got scammed for some decent cs:go items worth about 50 dollars combined. It is not much but the worst thing is shame, knowing I fell for it.

[Anonymous No.10204261]

When I was 9, some older kids threw rocks at me and broke my nose. I didn't lose money, but I got scammed out of my ability to breathe from my nose.

[Anonymous No.10204277]

>>10194061
bitpetite

[Anonymous No.10204282]

>>10194061
My family got conned by Madoff Jr. Sold shares of oil rigs in Texas. One aunt and uncle lost their retirements, the others took a mortgage on their house and lost that money and still owed.

[Anonymous No.10204283]

>>10204261
>Literal mouth breather
Holy fuck, how is your chin development?

[Anonymous No.10204284]

BitBoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooost
$800 down the shitter, fucking PnD, fucking scamming devs.

[Anonymous No.10204286]

>>10194061

USD.

[Anonymous No.10204287]

>>10204283
Very bad, I got an underbite.

[Anonymous No.10204293]

>>10204287
Damn, I hope you make it so you can get surgery to have the chin that was stolen from you.

[Anonymous No.10204358]

bitcoin

[Anonymous No.10204370]

>>10194061
Verge XVG.

Also CounterParty XCP.

[Anonymous No.10204588]

>>10194061
Bought 100$ of hearthstone cards.

[Anonymous No.10204627]

I tried to trade some RuneScape gold to a dude in exchange for Wow gold. I traded him it in RuneScape and he logged out on both accounts.

[Anonymous No.10205304]

>>10194061
>Gf and I go on a 40-day trip to the Philippines
>Get a stomach virus on week 3
>Illness took us by surprise when we were in the poorest shittiest shadiest town in our schedule
>Go to the local hospital with explosive diarrea and vomiting
>Get a small room with two beds and a restroom
>Bed sheets still had dried up blood in them, gf found a needle under her pillow
>Spend the next 48 hours caught in an endless cycle of shitting yellow liquid shit, then getting disgusted by the smell of my own shit and turning around to throw up, then smelling the shit up close and throwing up even harder, then the contractions from throwing up forcing more shit down and then having to start all over again
>Each cycle has some form of collateral damage, with either diarrhea fallout running down my legs, on the floor or on my clothes
>Gf cant make it to the restroom in time and shits herself at least twice
>All of it done with an iv needle pumping fluids down my arm, making sure i'd have plenty of diarrhea left to appease the diarrhea gods
>48h later we're feeling slightly better and want to leave so the bill doesnt further ravages our already sore assholes
>Shady hospital people want to charge us 1k usd each
>At this point I was angry beyond human limits, because this whole trip was my gf's idea and I did not want to shell out the money for it. We had already had some flight schedule changes and a couple of unforeseen expenses and this was gonna bump the necessary budget to twice the original
>Gf goes in tears to the nearby bank atm in order to withdraw the money
>A local mother sees her crying and asks whats wrong
>She explains the situation
>Local says we're definitely getting ripped off
>Tags along with my gf back to the hospital, calls the staff out on ripping us tourists off
>They slash the price by about a third
>Alright fuck it, good enough, just wanna get out of this shithole asap
>Abuse my gf so much for it she cries every day for the rest of the trip

[Anonymous No.10205331]

>>10194061
bought posw. Was up 4x, ended up losing 15% cause I fell for the $1 meme. Stopped being a retard after that.

[Anonymous No.10205577]

>>10194061
college degree

[Anonymous No.10205600]

>>10202899
>indians
never do business with pajeets. scamming is their national pastime.

[Anonymous No.10205627]

>>10194094
I used that scam on people, must be me who scammed you in maplestory
did you download a tool that sends packages to drop all your gear then DCs you or move your minigame?
haha I used to do it so many times to people

[Anonymous No.10205823]

>>10203577
Can you elaborate?

[Anonymous No.10205838]

Buying COLX on coinsmarkets.

I knew from the beginning that it looked like a shitty website since I'm a web developer. It looked like it was put together by a 13 year old.

I figured the devs just weren't designers.

and then bam, I lost a few thousand.

[Anonymous No.10206026]

Lost over 250k from miners made by butterfly labs in, 13 don't really care as I got you the point in mining 1.3btc daily but still made me wanna kms

[Anonymous No.10206279]

>>10194061
US president elect

[Anonymous No.10206402]

>>10194061
Ponzi time few months ago. Clones all over the place. One clone takes 99% of your "investment" and gives it out as divs to everybody else.

The way I figure out, if Im one of the first, it might pay off.

Went in with 1 eth, but not early enough even tho I was there at launch and was spamming metamask. Got back 0.5 eth.

Dont know why but I knew it was a scam, I knew I would lose it all and was fine with it. Still, the fact that I played it kinda hurt me inside.

[Anonymous No.10206430]

I fell for a really intricate Runescape scam once that involved 3 people trading with each other

lost 1m

But later I discovered that you can make money shitposting in the GE and high level players will just throw millions of gold at you for being funny, made about 10m total that way

[Anonymous No.10206432]

>>10194061
I put £200 into UAHPAY. Ukraine scammers that staged photographs of them selves with cheesy logo backdrops and lanyards. Very unprofessional but I fell for it because there was an error that got the shitcoin mixed up with the price of real life UAH (Ukraine FIAT). Thought I was getting a steal but I held too long and they exited kek.

[Anonymous No.10206437]

>>10194617
They should be abel to do whatever they want.

[Anonymous No.10206444]

>>10205304
I'm by no means a white knight when it comes to women
but I've noticed some of you guys are pricks to your girlfriends

[Anonymous No.10206457]

I scammed this one guy in runescape. Runescape in early days had no auction house so everybody was outside the bank screaming trades. So one guy wanted to buy 1000 Iron and when we opened trade window, I gave him 1000 copper (because it looked similar) and then ran away after trade completed.

I was shakeing for like 1 hour after that. I cant handle the fucking andrenalin lol :) Never scammed anybody after that.

[Anonymous No.10206487]

i got scammed trading leet aim usernames back in the day

[Anonymous No.10206514]

>>10194287
I bought in at ico and sold at .07. Made some profit.

[Anonymous No.10206516]

>>10194061
crypto

[Anonymous No.10206523]

>>10194469
>Chinks
>intimidating

No

[Anonymous No.10206526]

>>10194334
>rotten piss out of my collection

you collect piss?

[Anonymous No.10206554]

>>10206444
Wouldnt you give someone shit for coercing you into a bad idea you knew was bad to begin with

[Anonymous No.10206617]

>>10194061

>What's the worst scam you've ever seen?

The Holocaust. "Worst" in many ways.

https://youtu.be/nxbV3RsyQwI

https://youtu.be/CvI4zvMSWlY

https://youtu.be/KJN40-npDR4

https://youtu.be/Vwku0UFB8_s

https://youtu.be/Bfk08ww3mfE?t=10s

https://archive.is/V9SMM

https://youtu.be/ViHnSZ2sWZE?t=2m24s

[Anonymous No.10206669]

>>10194334
Fell for this shit when I was 19 too. Felt like such a dumbass.

[Anonymous No.10206670]

>>10206457
I got scammed once by a guy who did something similar once

had adamant armor I was so proud of but just hit level 40 defense, traded some guy all my armor and most of what I had to get some rune, he swapped the rune for mithril a second before I hit accept trade and ran off

13 years old had no idea these things happened

[Anonymous No.10206674]

HASH OCEAN

[Anonymous No.10206714]

>>10206526
When I was younger I used to piss jug, my parents did not like me staying up later than x playing Vidya , but the only way they would know is if I went to the bathroom and made noise.
If there are any other jug users here they can tell you just how bad old piss from a sealed container smells.

[Anonymous No.10206791]

shit roommate didn't pay rent, bought stuff with my credit card, emptied my debit account, owed debt to old business partners and had goons looking for him but they threatened me with knives instead and took pics of my drivers license.
lost 19k total cuz of this guy

bald fatass downtown telling me he can get me all the greens he listed but I wanted hash, he said "yeah I just said that", ignored red flag. Brought him into a staircase and he kept bitching, told him to show me the goods, he bitched and said he wants to do this somewhere else, pulled out 50 to show I had cash, he tried to nab it, we got into a fight and he desperately grabbed the 50 and disappeared into an alleyway.

thought I'd be liberally accepting and let a black person a chance to be part of my clientele; bought a lot of acid from me, planned a meetup for a sheet, ended up bringing a friend without telling me, said it was for his friend, his friend feels for no wallet and heads back to car, nigger says "he better not be smoking my weed", I'm like wtf is this 5$ blunt more important than this 800$ deal, he borrows my phone to call and calls his own number, he gives the phone back and nabs the sheet and runs, his gf tries to ram me with the car, I get out of the way, she breaks her headlights and floors it down the blvd.

4 custies in a car didn't want to admit my passcode locked iphone 4 slid out of my pocket.

one broke ass raver wanted to buy tabs, we meet in at Subway. He's like "ok put the tabs in here(his altoid box). He closes it and says "when can I pay you?". I'm like wtf. He pulls out a huge bag of weed and is like "you need weed?" prolly shit quality, I said "fuck off dude. Stop baiting us out. Where's the cash?". He goes shoplift in a grocery store and jets

arab custie buys a lot from me usually. One day he just texts me in french and speaks to me in french in person. I'm like wtf we normally speak English. He grabs the goods and pulls his 20 out of my hands. Says "ciao" and jets.

[Anonymous No.10206797]

>>10206714
Same I used to piss in empty cans and empty them out of the window

[Anonymous No.10206838]

Some faggot in Diablo 2 tricked me ino giving him my Heart of Tarrasque for a random magical armor by taking advantage of a trade glitch. Originally he put an Enigma in the trade window but managed to swap it out for his shitty armor as I accepted. I'll never forget how pissed off I was, literally quit D2 for good after that event.

[Anonymous No.10206921]

>>10194334
the number of retards here saying they fell for this scam is really telling. so many retards on /biz/

[Anonymous No.10206934]

>>10206791
notice how the people who steal never have any money, lmfao

They consistently get robbed as much as they rob because of the energy they draw in

[Anonymous No.10206950]

Clicked a URL once and lost about 4k USD in crypto in the blink of an eye.

[Anonymous No.10206965]

one funny scam I remember my friend falling for in an old MMORPG (flyff)
someone was using a cashshop item allowing for global shouting and used it to spam "BUY> X item for 40m", and with other of his characters he was trying to sell it for 30m, my friend fell for it, the item was worth like 10m

[Anonymous No.10206978]

>>10206965
pretty good scam idea tho

[Anonymous No.10206981]

Hydro pump n dump

[Anonymous No.10206988]

>>10206444
>dates 20 year old literal female
>acts like a female baby
>hurr durr you know she's a literal female right?

[Anonymous No.10207047]

>>10206791
Your druggie clientele is literally the type of people that should be sent to gulags or straight to the wall and shot. How did it feel working with that cesspool?

[Anonymous No.10207071]

>>10194061
I bought Bitcoin Diamond and immediately realized it was a scam and sold almost instantly.

I was in Paris and had the gypsy ring scam pulled on me, still can’t believe I fell for that but I was just a student studying abroad and didn’t have a strong enough grasp on the language to realize what just happened.

[Anonymous No.10207078]

>>10195153
Sorry for the late reply but no i am not.

[Anonymous No.10207185]

I bought into the Bankera ICO and got exit scammed on. I completely forgot about it until recently, went to check the price and realized that my $700 investment is now $16.
They haven't even paid me any dividends because their exchange has no volume.

[Anonymous No.10207206]

>>10206950
You're the "where's my link?" guy?

[Anonymous No.10207235]

>>10206934
even better one:

met some chick I wanted to fuck, turns out bf is apparently a medical grade weed dealer. He ends up messaging me. I'm like "ok.. another time". I'm like I need to know you first. I show up at his place; typical duplex bungalow, gf is 17 and preggo, just moved in, he's like "see you can trust me-you know where I live". Keeps harassing me over fb to front him, I told him to fuck off. He decides he wants to buy acid and molly from me, but at a bulk discount price. Says he'll pay me the rest later and that "that's what I understood". Turns out 2 of the nicest college kids I know are running for him. Soon after, a friend of mine messages me asking if this guy has brought up a 400$ deal. I'm like "wtf, 400 for what?" so I knew this guy just robbed a friend of mine. I start calling this mofo up and asking when he's gonna pay up the rest and he's making up excuses like "he just got robbed by the 2 kids". I called the 2 college kids. They told me a consistent story. He threatened to call the cops on them for housesitting for him, then they flushed my stuff down his toilet and that he was undercutting me and he was talking shit about me in a demeaning way behind my back. He told them to not tell me where he was getting his stuff from even though I was sending people their way. And he was always desperate to undercut me to make a sale to these kids. I snooped around and it turns out this guy scammed a DJ, threatened to kill a girl's unborn baby, has committed homicide in 2008 and went to jail for it, raped 1 of the college kids' bestie, robbed 1 of my best friends, on welfare, and he just robbed my friend of 400??
I was fed up so I showed up to his place with a 50lb fully loaded fire extinguisher and it turns out he moved.

also, my older sister just scammed me of 6000$. Said she'd pay me by next year for her court case in the Cali, which she never went. I asked for it back and she said there was little less than 1k.

[Anonymous No.10207319]

>>10206617
ooooooo

[Anonymous No.10207335]

>>10206444
Most of these lonely fags, can't grasp why they're fucking lonely fags. Especially when they post shit like that. A true dude can get over shit like this and have fun even with illness and financial obstacles.
Fucking lol at ruining a trip you're on over money.

[Anonymous No.10207337]

>>10207047
Not gonna lie, it felt like the lowest fucking time of my life. Met the grossest people ever. Liars, scums, frauds, losers(K sniffers), niggers, faggots, hypocrites.

Some things I saw in these people that I saw in myself when I was desperate.

never made me hate humanity more than anything else.

Beyond that, I made a lot of female friends to fuck and connections out of this.
I shut myself in with a girl doing her masters degree and took a lot of time to be there for eachother and just decided I'm better off using my savings to go in the real business world and finish my engineering degree.
Looking past the shitty times takes will and the only thing that kept me sane was doing a lot of reading and research and absorbing knowledge and seeking out good vibes. Just learned to keep away from scum or trust your intuition when it comes to red flag. "don't take unnecessary risks, just say no and look past and lesson learned."

[Anonymous No.10207686]

I went to university

[Anonymous No.10207719]

>>10207686
kek

[Anonymous No.10207848]

>>10207206
I am.

[Anonymous No.10207856]

>>10203538
didnt think there were any other snowboarders on /biz/. we should shred together once we make it

[Anonymous No.10208363]

>>10207337
Thanks for the perspective

[Anonymous No.10208501]

>>10207335
this

show some compassion sometimes faggots. It will go a long way with your girl in the future.

[Anonymous No.10208692]

Bought an empty wallet for 100$ thinking it was a trading bot

[Anonymous No.10208755]

>>10194108
>i

[Anonymous No.10208849]

>>10194061
Every investment is a good investment at this point
Just diversify and invest without taking too many financial risks

[Anonymous No.10208859]

>>10194334
i need a quick rundown on how this scam works

[Anonymous No.10208867]

>>10208849
>Was told to do opposite of what biz says
I'm all in Link

[Anonymous No.10209190]

Zclassic lost 1k-2k in seconds lol

[Anonymous No.10209292]

>>10194061
I got scammed out of my runescape gear when I was 11 by a dude who helped me do a few quests, brought me out into the wilderness and killed me

[Anonymous No.10209308]

>>10194061
Butterflylabs 2 BTC.

FUCK THOSE PIECES OF SHIT.

[Anonymous No.10209333]

>>10194061
>worst scam
Moirai
>how did you cope?
Forgot about it and moved on proceeding to make sick gains.

[Anonymous No.10209333,1]

>>10208867
>told to do the opposite of the opposite
gr8 job, brainlet