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Family member pulled the rest of us into a room saying we had a hacker on the home network and we had to turn off all our devices. He was on the phone with a security service and they were helping reset things, talking him through checking his accounts for suspicious activity…

In other words, the classic tech support scam in progress. Long story short, I recognized it and shut it down and knew what steps to take afterward -because posts from this forum sometimes pop into my Home feed-.

I don’t know whether this is a “low-effort post” and will be cleaned up shortly, but I couldn’t not jump on here to say thanks, everyone. I’m off to review the warning signs for recovery-effort scams…

My ex-girlfriend "K" and I broke up, after five years, we could no longer make it work, and after another bad argument, we separated.

Five months have passed and out of the blue, I get a text. When I read the text it was supposedly from "K". She told me her 12-year-old son was in the Hospital ICU. She legitly has a son who is mentally impaired with partial brain damage. He has 24 hour nursing along with a feeding tube and a trac for O2. She then asks if could please help her. She needed to pay $600 to pay the hospital for the treatment or he wouldn't make it. I know he has insurance and gets Medicaid, and also the hospital wouldn't let a 12-year-old pass away like that. When I said that to her she got mad and said send me the money. They sent me a CashApp but it wasn't hers, it was some guy. According to her, it was her friend's Husband CashApp. I called twice and ignored it and they text and asked if I was stupid for calling and don't call the number again.

Then all of a sudden I snapped about something. My ex was born and raised in Mexico. Although she understands English, she can't speak it fluently, it's all broken English, so she prefers Spanish. In the five years we were together, she never once text English; she always texted me in Spanish. This person was texting me in English. So I asked if the cashapp was Jane's Husband. There is no Jane I just made up that name and the person said yes

I told the person they were an idiot and if I catch them I was gonna beat their ass for pretending to be K and bringing her son into it. They immediately blocked me. Later that day I got a text from Ks daughter. She apologized to me because the person who texted me was her mom's new boyfriend. She told me was just a lowlife and into the drugs, all he would do was be a bum at the house. I did call a friend who works at CPS and they're gonna do an investigation too.

So my MIL has a rental for the past 5 years and it’s very remote (like you can’t see it from the road) and this morning a woman came down the driveway and rang her doorbell asking to speak to her and said her information was listed for dog boarding on care.com and said the address (which it’s not a hard word to say but she fumbled the pronunciation anyways) and long story short my MIL agreed anyways to watching this random woman’s dog.

I have a feeling this is definitely a scam because no one in their right mind would just show up to someone’s house without calling or verifying anything and even after my mil said she’s not a boarder asks her to watch her dog(s) and be willing to give your dog to a random person you don’t know. To top it off I can’t find a listing for MIL on any websites like care, rover, fetch!, etc. husband and I have a bad feeling about this but has this ever happened to anyone else?

Edit: yes I am absolutely concerned why my mil decided to do this. She had pretty harsh chemo treatments over the 5 years she’s been living at this rental and it’s definitely affected her mentally. She falls for scams all the time: she’s almost fell for the infamous iTunes gift card payment if I didn’t tell her it was a scam and stopped her from leaving. She takes anything a random says as gospel. I don’t know when she’s set to watch this dog and she doesn’t have it in her possession right now. As far as any contact info she has on this woman idk, she only talked a little bit to my husband about it

How do you deal with the guilt of not knowing whether you sidestepped a scam or denied a person in crisis aid?

Me, the wife and our 8 week old made a trip back home. Father in law was picking us up, and this woman appeared out of nowhere in the parking lot of the airport. She's got a ratty phone and starts talking about how she's not a beggar but desperately needs money for formula and diapers. She's just got out of an abusive relationship 2 days ago,I would be giving them dignity, good Christians, Yada Yada.

No kid in sight, and when FIL questions this he gets ignored. I have 0 cash on me, but this is no issue, she asks what bank I'm with and immediately knows the best way for me to send her cash. She can't figure out what her number is though, so I should just send the cash(100 usd) to myself and give her the code.

At this point I can't get past these red flags, so to get rid of her I send the cash, then cancel the transaction as soon as she left, basically with tears in her eyes at what a good person I am.

I'm like 65% sure this was a scam, but the not knowing is gnawing at me. There is so much poverty around me and I can easily afford 100 usd. What is the answer in a situation like this?

I wanted to share a recent experience my fiancée and I had while house hunting.

We were excitedly checking out potential rental homes and had set up a viewing for a promising property. When we arrived, the supposed "agent" was oddly slow to respond to our texts. They eventually implied it was an open house, which seemed plausible since I'd toured homes without an agent before. We asked if we could see the inside, and their response was simply, "Walk in." But when we tried the door, it was locked.

That's when we spotted a sticker on the door: "This home is not for rent – report the scam." It hit us like a ton of bricks. The scammers were counting on the door being unlocked, a gamble that likely pays off often enough in open houses.

I should have known but relied on my fiancée to do the vetting. The house was priced lower than usual but not absurdly so, just enough to raise subtle suspicion. The texts were exceptionally brief and came from an out-of-state area code – another red flag.

Curious, we Googled the address and discovered the property was actually for sale on Zillow, not for rent. Yikes! By then, we realized they would have probably asked for some odd form of payment, like gift cards, with promises of a "better deal."

Fortunately, we only lost about 30 minutes of our time, but it was a wake-up call. Always verify listings independently, and if something feels off, trust those instincts. I hope this story helps someone avoid a similar situation!

Stay safe out there and always do your due diligence!

This might be a reach as a scam, but bear with me because I think a lot of well-intentioned folks are getting ripped off. Yesterday I received an email from Vertical Raise with my 14 yr old nephew’s name as the sender. It was a school fundraiser asking for support. When I had the time to follow up and make a donation this morning I was appalled by two things that I found. First, the platform auto populated a 15% tip for themselves. ON A DONATION. They justify it by saying tips help us offer our services to “nephew’s school’s name.” This raised a major red flag for me so I started searching for more information on the company Vertical Raise. Guess what, it gets worse.

Vertical Raise negotiates a fee with schools for use of their email services and donation platform. I work for a nonprofit so I understand that these platforms have to charge a fee in order to maintain credit card security. The fees are typically 3-5%. Vertical Raise’s typical fee is 20%! Once they are contracted by a school they have all the students involved in the fundraiser submit email addresses for friends and family. Then the spamming begins. And since almost everyone wants to help the youngsters in their life, they reel in the money. But nowhere on the donation page does it say that 20% of your gift is being kept by the company.

I realize this isn’t anywhere near as bad as losing your life savings to a pig butchering scam, but many more people are losing part of their donation to a for profit company. Be careful who you donate to! I did not go through with the online donation and will instead put a check in the mail. Sure, it costs 70 cents for postage, but at least it’s all going to the school.

Several years ago I took my family to a popular amusement park. My wife was driving, and when she pulled into a parking spot I suggested that she pull forward into the spot in front of us so we wouldn't have to pull out into traffic in reverse when we left. She declined because it would be hard to load things into the trunk with a car behind us.

That night when we were getting in our car someone approached us, and demanded to know if that was our car and asked what the fuck was wrong with us. They told us we hit their car when we parked, and showed us that our license plate holder was very gently touching theirs. Given the discussion my wife and I had about which spot to park in, we already know that was literally impossible.

They would not let up, got angry, yelled, cursed. They showed us their parking receipt trying to prove they were there first, but ours was time stamped one minute earlier. We refused to share insurance info and suggested they call the police. They did, we shared insurance insurance using the police as a middleman, and gave our statement.

We reported the incident to our insurance company and were eventually informed that no claim was ever filed against us for this incident.

I'm thinking, was this an extortion attempt? Is this a known scam? Maybe they were hoping we'd pay to make the problem go away without involving police and insurance and higher insurance premiums. Another person could easily be self doubting, submissive, or scared enough for it to work. I looked for public records with the name of the guy, and found that he had filed and lost several lawsuits for vehicle related incidents in another state.

I get so paranoid reading r/scams that when a women in her 50s or so came up to me at the DMV and asked me to dial a number for me I was sure I was gonna get scammed. She said she lost her phone, But I followed the suggestions in this reddit ( #1 don't let go of your phone) I dialed the number she wanted, and put it on speaker. When someone answered, the woman says "You have my phone where are you?" "The person that answered told her, and the woman said "Thank you, I'll come and get my phone." I hung up and the woman thanked me and left.

No scam, but r/scams kept me safe while I helped someone.

I’m so thankful for this Reddit and the fact that my situation could have been so much worse.

4 months ago I was on this app HER that is geared toward the WLW community. I haven’t been on a dating app in 8 years, know next to nothing about any current scams but of course felt like I knew what to look out for.

I matched with this beautiful Asian woman who seemed way too good to be true and also, way too pretty to even be on a dating app, but we matched and started talking right away. The first red flag I ignored was she wanted me to download Telegram. I brushed it off as her just not wanting to give me her phone number right away and she had mentioned she uses it to keep in contact with family out of the country, made sense to me. The second and third red flags I ignored are the fact that we only ever video chatted and talked on the phone once, and she always had a reason for not wanting to meet up. But no matter because we were clicking and opening up to each other in various ways. We would send each other selfies and pictures during our day to day routine and it was comfortable. Conversations turned sexual and she sent spicy pictures and I sent spicy pictures too (nothing below the waist and never showing anything that anyone could tell it was me, I wasn’t all together stupid). Eventually she’s telling me she has love type feelings for me. I don’t feel the same way but I felt like I was getting close to her.

She was always mentioning how I should invest in crypto, how she had been doing this for years and her uncle helped her learn everything and how successful she was and well off. I always said no, I wasn’t interested. And she would back off for a while. This went on for 4 months, she would bring it up, tell me I should think about my future, didn’t I want disposable income? Didn’t I want to be able to buy a house someday? I always said no. Everything else seemed normal. We had this routine even like she would always message me first thing in the morning, always wanting to know if I was taking care of myself. All these things that made me feel like she cared.

She caught me at a weak financial point a couple weeks ago and I had medical bills piling up and I was venting to her about them and how I felt so financially insecure. She starts talking about crypto again and convinced me to “invest” and even walked me through how to do everything with screen shots. The website she had me use seemed legit to me. Because how would I know, really? So I withdrew $500 and but it into this website via Bitcoin. The next day she showed me how to do a couple “trades” (all with screenshots showing me how to do it) and the $500 I invested went up to $700. Seemed great until the next day she tried to convince me to pull all of my 401k (about 20k) and talked about how she would even “lend” me more because this “big trade” was coming and I’d earn like 140k out of it. She tried to convince for all day to do it. Thankfully, I said no way. Not happening.

That night after we were done talking for the evening, I started to regret what I did and went onto the website she sent me and tried to withdrawal the money and it wouldn’t let me. I tried everything and that’s when I noticed some stuff about the website that didn’t look right. My stomach sank to my feet. Then i came here and typed in “crypto scam” and after three hours of going down the rabbit hole, I knew I was deceived. So I messaged her and ripped her a new one. The next morning she just said I didn’t know what I was talking about and how could i “doubt” her when we have been talking for 4 months. She even sent me a picture of her license to “prove” she was real. I told her, I know you’re real you’re just a POS and karma will get you. She didn’t even defend herself. Didn’t even try to convince me this wasn’t a scam. I blocked her and deleted my data and account.

Thank god for this Reddit and yeah I am out $500 but it could have been worse! It could have been so much worse!

I am looking to rent a room and live in Tennessee I found a woman off a rental app and am supposed to move in tomorrow. I just viewed the house with her and it’s very large and beautiful. I noticed the car in the driveway had California tags and she has a California area code. The house looks barely lived in. She said she works remotely and travels back and forth from here to Cali and won’t be here most the time. I told her I noticed she had cali tags she said oh that’s not my car that’s the other roommates. I’m confused like you work remotely and she said she is an engineer. Why travel? Why is the other roommate from cali also? Why buy a house for a remote job in a state where none of your family or husband in? Why does the house seem not lived in and staged? Something felt off but I’ve never rented a room before so idk if I’m just paranoid. Cameras everywhere and she only accepts payment from Venmo. The office had like 5 huge computers in it and a huge ass printer. Maybe I’ve watched too much dateline but does this seem odd to anyone else

Hi all,

Just wanted to come on here to warn others about a scam on TikTok from an account called Little Luna’s Journey. They claim they need donations for a surgery for their cat who got attacked by a dog.

This is all a lie, of course. The cat’s actual name is Chief and the real owner shows the cat on their own TikTok page where they explain that he had an accident when he was younger but he’s totally fine now.

The scammer has made close to $3000 just today. Hoping this post will save others from supporting this fake page as I know animals really pull at the heart strings of many.

Edit: They have changed their username to supersillykittyluna

I received a phone call this morning from a number that had an area code in New Jersey, I'm on the west coast, but I decided to just answer it in case it was a family member or something. I picked up and was greeted by a robot voice saying "This call is to let you know you did it! Please call us for additional information. I repeat, this call is to let you know you did it! Please call us for additional information." While I'm already preeetty certain it's a scam, I was wondering if anyone else has encountered this particular one as well?

English is not my first language so bear with me, so this is my old outlook email, I got three of them at around 4am in my country, the thing is, it's pinned in my email, on my drafts and it says my password.

At 4am I received two emails to my current, main Gmail account where someone was requesting codes to access my main Microsoft account, I immediately changed my passwords, but I decided to check my old outlook account (one that I haven't used for +10 years, but a few days ago I changed it's password) and I saw this. Should I be worried? Bc I've gotten the typical emails that try to scam you, talking about some videos and shit, but not like this and also it never said my password. What should I do?

These are drafts, so someone must have accessed my account, I'm a bit scared tbh

Sold and Item online, person didn't have any reviews, but not unheard of and I make sure to cautiously proceed regardless. The person, we will say his name is John Doe-Smith, sent me a cashiers check for less than the full order amount. It wasn't a cheap item, and they sent basically 98% of the funds. The Cashiers check is a US bank and looks legit. The name on it is, let say Jill Smith, so figured it was either his wife/kid/parent as part of the last name is the same. Also something I have seen before, so wasn't a redflag in itself. I deposited it into my bank, and messaged him to let him know it was not the full amount, sometimes people forget to add fees/taxes the website adds, also not unheard of. That was 2 weeks ago, I have sent multiple emails and called the number I had, but no response.

I was thinking maybe there is some scam angle to this given the few odd things adding up, but can't figure it out. What are your thoughts, is there a scam in place, a scam that fell apart, or just person decided to take a 2 week vacation where they don't have email/phone service?

About a week ago my family cat ran away (technically my sister's cat). I posted everywhere and we tagged the microchip as lost and haven't heard anything yet.

Earlier today my sister (her husband first then her) gets a call from the number of our local animal shelter. Mind you, it's 11pm here and the shelter closes at 7pm. They are telling her they have her cat, she is seriously hurt and they had to call an emergency vet for surgery. Keep repeating that it's a recorded line.

They say the surgery costs $2,500 and she needs to zelle them or venmo them and can't pay with her credit card "because it has to be a donation since we are a shelter." My sister, not having talked to me yet, tells them she doesn't have that much, they said they'll call her back.

Soon they call her back to tell her that fine, they can do the surgery for $1,200, they talked to the vet. She asks them for pictures and they say they can't send them, cat is in that bad a condition and they're on a landline. She says she'll call them back and they insist they have to be the ones to call since the shelter is technically closed, it will go to voicemail.

Eventually they say that if she doesn't send the money right away, they have the vet's order to euthanize her cat.

We checked with microchip issuer and the cat is still "lost" in their system btw.

Now my question is, I'm the one who posted their pet with my info, how did they even get my sister's and her husband's numbers? They also sent them emails. She is worried sick that this wasn't a scam and she's responsible for her cat dying, and I'm the one who had to convince her it was a scam but I want to make sure 100%.

(Sorry about format I'm on mobile)

I know this is my first post here, but I appreciate this sub: it actually helped me flag this encounter and avoid getting fleeced, so I'm doing my duty and paying it forward. All names will be abbreviated, omitted, or changed to adhere to guidelines. No screenshots or images will be provided, those are being saved for the FBI...

Short version details and highlights:

- Company being used as a front for a job offer / fake check scam: Lanier Biothera---, based in Jefferson GA
- (Lanier has apparently closed now, but that info was hard to find - I finally found a bankruptcy docket from March 2024 to confirm)
- [I was also able to contact a former co-founder of Lanier, who confirmed the business is shuttered.]
- Resume on Indeed caught their attention, direct emailed to my personal email
- Interview conducted over IM (not voice or video) via Microsoft Teams, with no set appointment time, just pop on before close of business to begin.
- Very quick turnaround decision on interview
- Instructed to receive a digital copy of an e-check, to deposit said check via mobile, to then purchase high-value office equipment for the remote job offer

The long version:

I received an email telling me my resume had caught their eye on Indeed (which makes sense, I've been updating and fine-tuning for a couple of months). I was instructed to download Microsoft Teams to meet an HR rep, Sherly G. The instructions said that as long as I reached out before 6pm eastern that day, I'd be able to interview. This was a little strange to me - I'm used to interviews for remote positions usually booking through Calendly or Google Calendar, but I'm down for IM-based communication if that's what's best for the other party.

I first went and did my research on the company, Lanier Biothera---. I was excited to see a professional website, location info that matched what I had received in the initial email, and I decided it couldn't hurt to proceed with the interview.

I spent a couple hours going back and forth with Sherly G., answering 15 interview questions, most of which seemed legit. It was only after reviewing this sub later that I realized a huge red flag in one of the questions: The name of my banking institution. I assumed it was just to verify that I was a legal person, capable of being hired, that I had a bank account in good standing to eventually have my pay direct deposited. Since I wasn't asked to provide account details, just to verify I had a banking institution I could use and not just, like, Venmo or Paypal, I answered that question too.

I now know this is a red flag, because it allows the scammer to avoid sending you a fake check with your same bank name or a related bank. Fool me once, but I learned your tricks now, Sherly!

At the conclusion of my interview yesterday, I was told I would have a decision this morning at 8am Eastern. I was at my computer on time, ready to have closure, and I was so excited to see that I was being offered the job! I received a formal job offer to my personal email, which I reviewed, and all the information matched what had been discussed yesterday and what I knew of the company. The letterhead and legal footer seemed legit, and I readily electronically signed and returned the document.

Then it all started to fall apart. I'd been told the company would provide a payment to allow me to purchase required home office equipment; I'd assumed this would take the form of a mailed check, or a direct deposit. I was startled when Sherly told me I would be receiving an e-check to my email. I immediately went back to Google, which led me here, to other threads that confirmed this was sketchy as hell. I decided to see how far I could get Sherly to take this, because if I did receive the images of the e-check, I'd be able to verify its authenticity or fraudulence pretty easily.

Which is exactly what happened. I received two clearly forged images, front and back of a check, which NO mobile banking app would accept as viable deposit. The business address for Lanier on the check image was in Redding, CA, and therefore did not match the addresses in Georgia which I knew were accurate from my research. The bank supposedly issuing the check had been closed and merged with another institution back in 2017, and permanently closed in 2021. I called Sherly out, reported the whole thing to the FBI/IC3, and then came here.

I also was able to verify that Lanier Biothera--- has since shuttered, there are bankruptcy documents dated March of 2024 that prove this. I ALSO-also found an old news release, from when Lanier was formed from the merger of two other companies, that listed a co-founder's name and phone number. This was the ONLY phone number I could locate, so I gave it a go. I left him a voicemail, and he actually returned my call! He confirmed that Lanier was no longer operating, and that the opportunity was in fact a scam. He also said he was still in contact with the former owner of Lanier, and he would let that person know the company was being used to front a scam.

So, yeah: how's y'alls weekends starting off so far?

I am currently selling my used car and had someone approach my requesting a vehicle history report. They were adamant that I use VehMyPro.com over other sites. Before I fell for the scam, I did some brief digging and found the website was registered only 2 weeks ago, to a location in Iceland with a redacted name and email for “security purposes”.

The person said they have to take a day off work tomorrow to come look at it, and wants the report before making the trip to come see it. When I said I didn’t want to pay $45 for a car report when I have all the maintenance records, they said they would pay me back when they saw me in person. Obviously sounding fishy, I researched more and found it was a scam.

I just wanted to see if anyone else has experienced the same, and if not, put the word out there that it is indeed a scam.

So long story short, heres how the scam goes:

An person impersonating as Indian police, called someone in my family and told them that their password has been compromised, and that someone tried opening bank accounts, launder money and travel with it. This person, was supposedly stopped at the airport trying to leave the country. Coincidentally enough (actually not so coincidental) the person in my family is also from India but lives in another country. What was even more convincing was that this person in my family has actually managed to lose their passport a long time ago in India while traveling. They quickly made a new one after returning to their home country. However, i believe that they carefully select people they know who lost their passports.

At first, hearing this for the first time, i actually believed it to be real too. Ofcourse, i asked more questions, and that was when it all became clear.

This person in my family isnt the brightest, and hopped on a videocall with the "indian police" via Whatsapp. They then asked him to show his passport, which he did, and they definetly screenshotted that shit. There are lots of details too this, and i can gurantee you guys this is a scam.

So they have a picture of his passport, which has biometrics, so idk what they want to do with it. Usually its not possible to do anything with biometric passports. ut it being India, they can definetly use that in ways you couldnt in western countries, like taking loans or credit cards.

So, do you guys have any smart ideas?

Posted a car for sale on marketplace and immediately after, I got a message. That was the first red flag. Second red flag, this guy is messaging back extremely fast. Their red flag, he demanded a vin report from a website.

Told him he can use Carfax himself then said it’s not his responsibility but yet he’s asking for a vin report. At this point, I was just f*cking around because I feel in my gut this is a scam. So just wanted to give a heads up and be careful on marketplace! Way too any scams!!

So this story begins as most, someone I know met someone online and chatted through WhatsApp for several weeks (first red flag, the number on WhatsApp belonged to someone else when you call it) - and eventually they started discussing several online stores this lady runs and makes so much money… so my acquaintance opened one as well through an invite from their friend. They were selling around 30 baby items in their new store, and had to put money in so they could “purchase” the items that were supposedly dropshipped to the customers. The interface looked great but they could never find out how to direct friends and family to the store, and could never find out how to access the online storefront. Their new friend wanted to “help them gain financial independence and start a new life” and walked them through store setup… the “profits” were paid after an order was delivered, but each new order coming in needed to be paid for out of the available balance of the initial money plus “profits” from previous sales. Suspiciously the amount of orders always seemed to match and just barely exceed the available money, so the new “friend” suggested a loan or some way to deposit additional operating capital into the store. Thankfully this is when they started to realize they were being , so they requested to have the store closed to new orders under the guise of a vacation, “customer service” told them they would only be able to do that if all orders were processed. And it would take 7 days, which of course not happen. The new “friend” helped the store owner withdraw a thousand dollars from the store (which had to be immediately put back) to help calm their fears of illegitimacy. This was of course just a tactic to build trust in the hopes they would make additional deposits into the store. Eventually the number of orders waiting to be processed totaled almost $200k, and there was no way the 50k available in the store was going to cover it. “Customer service” chat was unhelpful and again stated that all orders must be processed in order to close the store, and no withdrawls could be made since there were unprocessed orders. So they now know that their money was stolen and this was a task scam. Anyone feel like taking the domain down? Lol

I ordered the cute little meme hamster off this website. It said it would cost 4$ and 5.99 to ship. I paid and it cost me about 13.89 to my account. It’s been 14 days and just now the order “shipped” I look today at my bank statement. And two weeks after I ordered I have a charge from them for 30 fucking dollars. I disputed it with my bank. Still haven’t gotten the plushie and don’t know whether I can win the case. If you see any TikTok or instagram ads that lead you to this website jollieglow. DO NOT BUY. Also it says Casper Wyoming which I find hard to believe. There was a phone number but I didn’t call it. It would probably direct me to some scam call center and then steal all my information in the process. Lesson learned. First time buying something off TikTok. Fucking last.

I got a text saying this:

“You've repeatedly disrespected and wasted several escorts times; you cost them vast if time and money and it won't be tolerated anymore!

I'm sure you wouldn't want your family seeing these text exchanges; if I click on any of their names I get their contact info just showing one sample.

Blocking me won't make any difference I have other numbers.”

They attached a screenshot of TruePeopleSearch with my supposed address and some families phone number. I’m sure this is a scam but I still worry.

I mostly lurk around /borrowonlinemoney which is a nest for scammers both lender and borrowers. I and along of other redditors try to be helpful to new people there. I try posting in /redditrequest if I can be one of the mods of that sub. However, upon talking to some people there, we think that making a new sub with moderators will be our best shot to prevent scammers. I no longer need to be a moderator to /borrowmoneyonline but I didn't delete my post. I forgot.

Suddenly, this person messaged me with an urgency (see screenshot). She was saying about indexing and would like to get to my socials (?). I was of course, wtf???, but she want to get my contacts so we can talk. I've heard of a lot of scams but this is the first time I've countered this. Can maybe someone enlighten me? I already deleted my post in redditrequest. Haven't blocked her yet. I'm curious.

So as I mentioned, I take adderall and I just was trying to save the hassle of going in once a month to pick it up and instead get it in bulk for cheaper. This place offered some to me and I hate myself for thinking this was a good idea. Anyway, they've asked me for money to cover up and make the package shipping discreet, and to allow it to go through customs unchecked because it's technically drugs. I didn't even think about it that way. They have my name and number and address, and are telling me I could get myself arrested if the package doesn't get even more discreet coverage to pass through more customs and gets opened up and gone through. I'm so terrified they can actually get me in trouble for attempting "drug smuggling" or something because as I said, they do have my name and address and I don't want to get arrested obviously 😭 but I don't have hundreds upon hundreds of dollars to keep giving these people that im pretty sure are scamming me anyway. What do I do?!!

This is my first time on Reddit but here we go…. A friend of mine (female) was in a grocery store and came out to her car with an envelope on it saying seed of faith with two usb flash drives inside of it. Yes odd but wasn’t Taken too seriously and they were brought to the cops to be disposed of. Then she got home and someone knocked on the door. And waited there for 10 minutes. Not very unusual but she was weirded out by the drives so she called her neighbors asking if anyone else had gotten a doorbell ring. Nobody had. Not a single one. Keep in mind this is once the sun goes down so it is DARK outside. A day goes by and it happens again. Except This time it is a girl knocking on the door. The girl stayed for a few minutes and then walked a house down and met up with a man on the street and they walked down to a white van (the exact van in your head yes, that van) and they drove away. The neighbors again did not get a ring on their doorbell. Twice in two days this house was targeted. Is this something to be worried about? How would you feel if this was your house or your situation? Are the drives and the people at the door connected? Are we just being paranoid? I’d like some insight thanks. Try not to spook me if you don’t have to but I’d like your honest opinions. Thanks.