‘What’s a scam that most people still fall for?’ – 21 ways somebody is pulling the wool over your eyes

12.

‘Money hold scams where they claim they have $100 of your dollars and you need to send them $500+ to get it back. Even in like iTunes gift cards and stuff.

I know this because my aunt just got swindled out of like $10,000 a couple weeks ago.’
–TheRaveChef

13.

‘Damn near all of them. If they didn’t work people wouldn’t still be doing them. I’ve been in cyber security for over 10 years. Yes people still fall for the Nigerian price scam. Even worse I work at a very large high end university and people report that they sent money or did whatever they asked all the time.’
–Sirraven201

14.

‘That it is the foreigners living next door to us who are responsible for the increasingly poor standard of living we are experiencing.’
–b-roc

15.

‘Most ‘life coaches’. There are some good ones, but most of them just took a quick online course about how to be a life coach. They’ll give you basic self-help advice about law of attraction and say they can help you become successful in life, while most of them aren’t successful themselves.

I had two friends who did the life coaching thing. Both of them were on food stamps and had no personal success to speak of, meanwhile trying to tell people how to be successful.’
–manykeets

16.

‘Turning Point USA. It’s just soft fascism.’
–palekillerwhale

17.

‘Debt. This is how you keep funnelling money to the wealthy.’
–Mary_Ellen_Katz

18.

‘Pre-ordering a digital product.’
–Idivkemqoxurceke

19.

‘Religion. Ancient stories made up by people who didn’t understand the fundamental processes of how things work so they made up fanciful tales to explain things. Humans are a story telling species and if we don’t understand something we will make up stories so we have some kind of explanation. Voila! Religion.’
–notionocean

20.

‘There are way too many people falling for the ‘cup and balls’/’shell game’ scam in big touristy cities like Paris. You cannot win this game and the people who ‘randomly’ do win are in on the scam.’
–TheBassMeister

21.

‘Tylenol causes autism.’
–milkandcookies21

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