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How much have you been scammed?
So I'm curious as to who has been scammed? What were you scammed for? How much have you been scammed? And why did you fall for it? (This can also include personal information or data, etc.)
The purpose of this thread is I'm just curious as to who here has been scammed and to make this a little notification thread for other members so they don't suffer the same fate too.
So I'll start,
I was scammed in HYIPs (High Yield Investment Plans) or ponzi scams in other words. I was scammed roughly only $100, it was more of a trial and yes I got burned. I fell for a lot of these because I'm a guy who likes to save, and invest a lot of his money, especially when it compounds.
Usually a HYIP starts off when you:
Send money to a trader to get you a specific type of currency such as "Perfect Money" or "Liberty Reserve"
After that it's usually just a click away from sending the funds and no chance of recovering them.
So here is an example account:
So this is probable all that is left of my $100 that is currently locked in for another 8 days (Actually it's more I just blurred somethings out)
You can see they promise interest(compounded daily) on the left and it varies everyday. Once the time is up you get your principal back and you can withdraw your money. Another kicker to this is "HYIP Monitors" where they invest their own money into a program and say if they got paid or not. The problem is most of them are in the whole scam loop too and are even selectively paid sometimes to keep fresh meat coming in.
Also greed will kick in, sometimes you will get paid once. You will reinvest and that's what they want you to do, and then the whole scam is kept afloat and can go on forever. A lot of people fall for these, I hope no one else here does after reading this. Stick to some high interest savings account instead ;)
Originally Posted by toady
