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- State College, PA, USA • Apr 01, 2025
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An email address extremely close to one of my friends, sent a request, about needing money. I saw the email address, thought it was my friends address. I sent her four $100 gift cards from Amazon. The email address that "received" the gift cards was [email protected]. I tried to insert that above, and the email address is invalid.

After the scammer received my gift cards, they thanked me, wanted to know how to reimburse me, and that they wanted more money, unfortunately. $200. At this point, I knew it was a scam, and I told them they had my email address, they could send me $400 back in gift cards. I rechecked my friend's email address, and saw that her address had been adjusted with the addition of a few letters, but the scammer used my friend's name. The transfer was Feb 27.

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- Edgecomb, ME, USA • Mar 27, 2025
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Scammer contacted me by email by my friend’s name and asked for Amazon email gift card for friend.

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- Durham, NC, USA • Feb 18, 2025
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The opportunistic and corrupt individual tried to get me to send pictures of myself to them under the guise that they were friendless and lonely. Individuals use photos (particularly questionable ones) for purposes of blackmail and evading accountability for illegal online activity by using others images. Please bring her to justice before someone gets taken advantage of. The content of “her” request: Thanks,I'm from Canada and now live in LA. i've been living in the US for 1 year and don't have a lot of friends

Can you send me a picture of you? I'd like to know what kind of gentleman I'm talking to

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- La Place, LA, USA • Feb 04, 2025
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Asked for a deposit on a car on a hacked Facebook account.

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• Dec 02, 2024
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I got a phone call tonight from a person (showing unknown number) saying he was RCMP and that they had someone in custody using my name.

Suspicious as I am, I asked for a number to call him back and he said he didn’t have one. I then told him he’d have to come to where I live with ID before I’d provide any information. He then hung up. Not surprising! Scammer!!

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• Nov 04, 2024
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Just received emails from several friends with this same sentence: Sorry for bothering, do you shop from Amazo n?. When I decided to answer one, I said yup and then got this: Good to hear from you, I need to get an Uber eats E-gift card for my friend. It's her birthday today. I tried purchasing them myself but my card got declined. Could you get them on Amazon and have them sent to her email address? Let me know so I can provide you with her email address. So I said oh who is it I want to send her a card, I got this: She's not someone you know, Could you get them on Amazon and have them sent to her email address? Let me know so I can provide you with her email address. So I sent an email back saying sure, what is her email address and this is what I got back: Here's her emaiI: [email protected] i'm looking to spend $300 in $100 denomination, you can sign it with my name she will know it's coming from me also include in the note: Happy Birthday .

I am happy to keep emailing him, obviously I am not going to send money to the email address!

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- Richmond, IN, USA • Oct 17, 2024
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Despite the ups and downs, I'm grateful to be alive. Have you heard anything about TCF yet? It's the Trust Community Foundation. They're offering grants to help people maintain their standard of living in 2024, including workers, students, widows, government employees, the unemployed, and people with disabilities. Are you sure you haven't heard about this until now? You should contact them because I received $150,000 from them, delivered by FedEx just 24 hours after I applied. The money is a grant, so we don't have to pay it back. Did you know how to apply for it?? Just click on the link i send to you and send them a text message that you're ready to apply for the TCF program okay. Text them right now so that they can get back to you in time because the claiming agent is online now and keep me posted here so that I can guide you as I did mine ok

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- Buford, GA, USA • Oct 01, 2024
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Online, Facebook, Instagram story to collect Hurricane Helene Relief funds collected directly through her personal Venmo account. Taylor Roberts @*****************

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- Opelousas, LA, USA • Aug 17, 2024
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Through messenger posing as a friend this person whose name was Jerry Jones attempted to have me get 400.00 dollars on Apple Card’s from CVS, walgreen or Walmart

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- Hewitt, TX, USA
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They said they would check my information and I would receive a large sum of money due to a covid act

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- Oceanside, CA, USA
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Scammer used my sister's name, though I don't think they knew the relationship. Said they needed a gift card for a nephew whose birthday was coming up and was suffering with cancer (we only have one nephew and he doesn't have cancer and his birthday had already passed, a scammer wouldn't know that) . They said they were diagnosed with covid and couldn't go out, could I go get a gift card. At first, I was going to do it, but the more I thought about it, the more unlikely it seemed that my sister would make such a request of me, knowing how tight funds are for me. We exchanged emails 3 times, the second time I asked whoever it was to tell me something only we would know cuz this might be a scam. They wrote back and literally only said, "I'm not a scammer." The last time I said, "I don't know who you are and I'm not doing this." After the last time, I never heard from them again. I contacted my sister to make sure it wasn't her, and she said it was a scam, it wasn't her. So, happily, I didn't lose anything in the end. She also told me her computer had been hacked and her son was fixing it all.

My email account seems to have been infiltrated, too, though I'm not certain to what degree as it seems to be okay for the most part. I do get these emails from "Norton" or "McAfee" or "Geeks" or similar company sometimes telling me that my account is automatically being charged hundreds of dollars to keep the program going. I ignore them as I don't have any of those programs/services, and report spam every time. Have been saving them to send to you sometime. Is there a way I can do that easily? Thanks.

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- Yuma, AZ, USA
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A friend of mine on Facebook Messenger asked me if I had a cash app I said yes she asked me what my tag was for it and I told her what it was I got a picture sent to me and asked was this you I said yes what's going on she said hold on and then I got this long prefab letter about God granted me the the ability to blah blah blah then she tells me that I need to deposit $199 into my account so that the $7,200 that she sent me could be completed so I'll now need to change my cash app name I guess I told her I reported her and they had some of that so nice words for me but I asked my friend it was her and she swears up and down it wasn't her and I know it wasn't her as soon as I got that God thing

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- Indianapolis, IN, USA
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Posed as Dexter ****** a friend of mine, but was not . suggested me to an agent David Collins government organization with FedEx texpress to get me grant money, but asked for money to receive the grant money

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- Humboldt, TN, USA
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The guy had been claiming for us to possibly began a relationship. After a month or 2 he stated that he had this business and since he was not in the states, he needed for me to deposit a check. He had the check mailed and i made the deposit so after the bank held it they had the money released without really checking for scam. My money that i had in my account was deducted due to the process with western union. The scammer even had someone act as if he was hospitalized was he knew that i possibly figured that he had scammed.

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- Hazelwood, MO, USA
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I'm a care taker and the person I take care of received a scam call from someone claiming to be her grandson. He said he was in an accident and he needed money, that he had ben drinking and the police was taking him to jail. He told her she needed her to contact the attorney John Parker. She called the number given for the attorney and it was the same person. I then took over the phone and I called him out saying it was a scam and he said he had to go. She also called her grandson and confirmed it was not him who had called.

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Received a phone call asking for Thomas, claiming to be Bruce Bayless. He was in accident and needed bail money. I immediately hung up knowing this was a scam.

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my mother got a message from my uncles facebook stating he needed money to make a payment. so my mom sent me the money through zelle and she made me send the money to the person that scammed her. she then got another message from my uncle again and said if she can send because he forgot it was more and so she sent me more money and i sent it to the scammer. she later called my uncle and asked him how much more he needed and he said his facebook account got hacked and so i couldn’t cancel my zelle payment and my mother lost $900

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He approached my using facebook and asked me to buy bit coin and invest, promised me $10K.

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- Woodbridge, VA, USA
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He used my friend (*******) phone and social media profile to contact me on Saturday 20/Apr/23 ($100) and Sunday 21/Apr/23 ($25), and unbeknownst to me until Sunday evening when I talked to the real *******, he was posing as my handicap friend ******* ***** on Facebook (FB) and CashApp.

On Saturday, he (posing as *******) asked me for money for dinner, bills, and such. When Cameron (the imposter) requested $100 on Facebook using my friend's FB profile, he gave me his (Cameron's) CashApp handle. I replied and said that I wasn't comfortable and asked how he knew Cameron and what he was going to use the money for. Cameron the imposter used my friend's FB profile to reply that he helped ******* and had a "good heart...and was VERY helpful" and to say that he would take the $100 out and give ******* the $100 for dinner ("pizza"), bills, and to replenish his bank account.. In good faith, I sent ******* the $100 through Cameron's Cash App handle. I recommended to ******* (actually Cameron the imposter) that he get his own CashApp handle, and I said that I want to give money directly to ******* and indirectly through a friend.

On Sunday afternoon, he (posing as *******) asked for more money. I asked how much, asked how much the Saturday pizza wash, and what he used the money for. I initially told him "Sorry I am not able to help in this case" since I gave him money the day before and was considering it odd since $100 should be enough for *******'s (who temporarily lived in a Rehab facility at the time under good insurance). He replied that $25 Saturday was used for pizza and the rest going to bills and account replenishment (*******'s account) and that the bank account was still deficient. He then asked for $50 and sent "*******" CashApp handle. Since $25 wasn't that much and ******* supposedly had a CashApp handle of his own, I sent $25 (half of the $50 requested).

I did not realize that Cameron was using my friend *******'s phone, FB profile, and bank account information (and making a fake CashApp profile posing as *******) until Sunday night when I spoke to the real *******, my handicap friend. According to the real *******, the imposter Cameron has scammed *******'s mom and one of *******'s other friends.

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- Morristown, TN, USA
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Pretended to be my friend that I have on Facebook and told me they saw my name on FFA (Facebook financial assistance)

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