Have you or someone you know ever fallen for the....

Give my your SSN and I'll tell you.

$2 million! WTF??? I was scammed, I only got $1 million.

Not that one, but my friend's mom fell for a guy who told her he was from Texas & working in Nigeria. Asked her to cash some money orders & wire him the cash, since banks over there are unreliable. We told her not to do it, but she did. And was out $1500 when the money orders came back as fake.

My grandfather who was 90+ at the time used to fall for this when they did this by snail mail. The bank said he was conned out of at least 100K over the years. The ole you send me 10K and we'll send you 20 million when we get the funds gig. People would say they were WWII vets and needed to bury a soldier, (5K) etc, etc. We were pissed that the bank didn't tell us what was going on and I don't think they caught it until tons of money had been exchanged. He finally tipped us off one day when he made the comment that the whole family was inheriting a few hundred million dollars and not to worry about college tuitions and so forth. He was a proud old man and extremely embarrassed when we told him what had happened.

The best one is the Nigerian astronaut who's been stuck at the space station since the 90s and his family can't collect his back pay until he returns.

way back in the day, like 2001 or so, my parents and bunch of people they went to church with did....some company name "IGT" or something..... i always made fun of them saying it stood for I Got Took

My grandmother was scared that the IRS was after her, based on scammer phone calls. I'm not sure she's convinced it's not legit.

Those people are scum.

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ve you or someone you know ever fallen for the....
Email scam about the African prince that will give you millions of dollars but he needs you to send him 200, for whatever reason

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I have... thrice