#46

A woman at work this week has fallen for one of those photoshoot things.
Where someone comes up to you on the street and offers you a photoshoot and she paid £40 for the shoot and £100 deposit!
as if that photoshoot is gonna happen and if it does, she’ll be paying loads extra for prints/make up etc

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#47

Yeah a particularly vain classmate fell for that one - he paid way over the odds, but got the shots and everything. It cost a bomb and he was not model material :grimacing: Just ended up with a load of cringey professional pictures of himself to do little with. (I think he tried to go to an agency but they were having none of it)

#48

Yeah it’s exactly like this! She’s pretending she wants to get some professional head shots done for LinkedIn but she’s saying they’ll do full make up, give you drinks, outfits…all for £40? Yeah right.

#49

Reminds me of some friends who got (semi?) scammed when they were teenagers

They were in a band - had a demo tape etc. A “management company” got in touch, can’t remember if they contacted them or vice versa.

They told them they were going to make them a video, get them noticed, start a buzz etc - but they had to pay several hundred pounds for the video. (this was in the pre internet age)

I remember telling them I thought it was dodgy, a real management co would not ask for up front money. They paid (think their parents ended up stumping up actually)

The video shoot was just a production line of bands going onto a stage in an empty room, miming to their demos and then going home. They got the video back but it was rubbish - and they never heard from the management co again

#50

There were teams of people by Stratford station the other week doing this, they stopped us and were like “Are you a family?” (No, this woman is a stranger and I have stolen this baby) and said they were offering free photoshoots for families… BULLLLLLLSHIT.

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#51

Probably upgraded you to the bank account cleaning service too, that’ll be why

#52

Not me but this guy was a maths teacher at my school

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#53

You all clubbed together to buy it, so it was a joint effort?

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#54

Love how he just walks off at the end :smile:

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#55

As a teenager I got done by that old scam where you swap two 50ps for a £1, two £1s for a £2 and so on and the scammer always ends up better off. I think I got done to the tune of £2.

That’s about it I think

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#56

Son…I need about tree fiddy

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#58

how does that work?

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#59

trigger happy was so brilliant

#60

You say that but the point of scams to the public is that, by and large, they want to get non-savvy people in at the first try. That’s why most Email scams are so poor quality - spelling mistakes and stuff all over the shop - because they don’t want to deal with a load of savvy people who’ll bail out at the next stage, they want to get people who’ll fall for it in the first place because they’ll have a much greater chance of success.

#61

I can’t remember. I was trying to google it…

EDIT: it’s something like this but not exactly:

#62

oh this is what John Cusack gets his guts messed up for in the Grifters?

#63

Grifting is definitely the No. 1 form of scam. Hands down.

#64

remember The Hustle?

that was FUCKING SHIT.

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#65

I’d forgotten that it had happened to me, but yeah, I was a naive 18-year-old student.

There was also a beggar in Cardiff called Shakey Hand Man, who used to go up to people, shake their hand and then ask for money. I think I gave him money once. Not so much a scam as such, more an eccentric method of begging.