To wonder why people keep falling for scams

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I know some are really sophisticated and clever and I don’t mean those. I know anybody can be unlucky.

It is more the really obvious ones. A few of my friends on Facebook keep being taken in by those stupid photos of injured dogs with the caption ‘I found this sweet boy …’ and sharing them. People are commenting underneath saying it’s a scam, it’s a scam, but they go ignored and then the next time someone shares a photo of an injured dog, they click share.

And MLMs. Not quite in the same category I know, but I’m part of a group of people considering leaving our chosen profession and the Scentsy and Usborne sharks circle sniffing blood. Same with local mums groups. Tell me about tumbletots on a Friday or a nice class at the library, not trying to recruit me to some knock off perfume thing.

Is it just me finding it really irritating? I know you can ignore but these local groups can actually be helpful. But they are overrun by scams despite people pointing out THEY ARE SCAMS!

I've never seen the Facebook one

What's the purpose of an injured dog photo?

Money gets given to help? But there’s no charity. It’s a scam.

We just do not belong to this sort of group. Just private WhatsApp groups.

I also think people are mugs. Cheap skates buy dupe perfumes. So come off Facebook and just get your info another way.

They get loads of people liking sharing commenting then after a while they ch age the post to some other scam to sell fake stuff or get you to click on dodgy links.

It's the same with fake or stolen pictures of abused animals, disabled people, elderly people (some of the examples I can remember) with words similar to "I bet no one likes or shared my post". Everyone does and they switch it for something completely different.

I had a text message saying I hadn't paid my mobile bill and to follow a link to do so.

It actually took me a few minutes to remember I was on a different network than the one trying (and on closer inspection it was obviously a fake link)

It just seemed plausible. I could see how a person with money difficulties on that network would worry their direct debit hadn't gone through.

It is just like people falling for the wind up threads on here - people are trusting and usually want to help.

It’s the ones who look outraged in the paper and complain that the “bank won’t give my money back” that wind me up. Errrr it was obviously a scam, you get asked so many times to check if you’re not sure, you made a stupid decision. And the money you get back doesn’t come from thin air (or indeed bank profits) it gets passed on as a cost to the rest of us as shit interest rates.

SomeFB ones are so obviously scams it’s ridiculous. If I ever think ‘Is this real?’ Ie an email or text, I’ll use another device to check that particular account. I v rarely think it is though.

Facebook is the worst. I have a relative who constantly posts the 'competitions'
SHARE this to win a luxury range rover £75 aldi voucher etc all from pages that look plausible but are not verified. Also constantly responds to " Bet you cant name a fruit containing the letter A type quizzes. I have told her time and time again that they are Like farmers, who then sell on the page to scammers because they now have a list of gullible people to target with scams.
She also falls for every fake. 'sadly we are going out of stock and are selling this KitchenAid for £49 quid type ones and has repeatedly lost money for items that never turn up or look nothing like what was being sold (because they steal designers images to use then send a cheap Chinese knock off made of shit material)
She just responds with. You never know I might get lucky and win.

Someone I know started chatting to a guy on Facebook. Local, but never met him. Spoke to him for a couple of weeks. She's a single mum, on benefits. She 'lent' him £100 and hasn't got the money back.
It's bad and I feel for her but ffs come on, how can a grown woman be so gullible!?

I recently listed an old iPad for sale. So far every bloody response has been that the are "too busy working to collect it but they will send a DHL/similar to come and collect and pay for it." Really pissing me off.

"We have this luxury camper worth £80k, unfortunately it's got a couple of scratches so can't be sold! Just comment and share to be in with a chance of winning it!"

Why are my supposedly intelligent friends sharing this crap saying "I'd love this to take my kids away!" Behave yourselves.

A professionally qualified friend of mine fell for one of the MLM scams. For some time her FB posts were full of how wonderful this stuff was. A few people tried to warn her tactfully but she wouldn't listen. Unfortunately she damaged her legitimate business, because she shoehorned an MLM speaker and stall into a reputable event she had been arranging professionally for some time, after which none of her professional colleagues would agree to support the event. Eventually it all tailed off because inevitably she discovered she wasn't making anything like the sort of money they promised, but she wouldn't ever really admit it had been a mistake.

@Rosula i used to take my children to a tots group but I’m really put off it by the Body Shop consultant who keeps turning up trying to flog stuff. It’s such a pain. Really impacts on your enjoyment of ‘ordinary’ things.

Some people are gullible. I agree about the comments about people trying to flog things at places such as toddler groups.

Not scammers but on a similar note, any ‘comments here’ competition will always be filled with people trying to out do each others sob stories.

“oh I’d love to win this BBQ as my granny just died and she loved a sausage”

if I ran these I’d absolutely chose the person who just liked and commented as asked.

So the injured dog one looks like this - there are loads of variants but it’s often a dog that has been hit by a car and has been taken to the vet but no registered owner. Usually described as a ‘sweet boy.’ People share it. Then a few hours / days later the photo is changed to a scam site.

That isn’t something I would give money to. It’s just a mock up. Dog not even cleaned up. Honestly, why even respond?

I heard some lady moaning on the radio that she fell for a scam and her bank took a couple of weeks to pay her back. I don't know where the sense of entitlement comes from.

I don't understand this one. Body shop is an actual store where you can just go in and buy products. How/why is this an MLM? I have a friend that got sucked into it too, though it's died down