So there’s been a recent gas scam that I first noticed last year when a Hispanic guy pretended to be a representative of a gas company and showed up at my door. I went through the spiel with him, realized it was a scam then closed the door on him. However the same gas scam showed up at Sam’s club a few month later, where they were doing the exact same thing but now in an actual store with barrier to entry. They disappeared after a few months (probably because Sam’s got complained at enough/ blamed for letting them in) and then they popped up at multiple other stores and disappeared. Now the exact same scam showed up with a chick pitching a tent outside a store complex with a sign saying “Free Gifts” and a smaller sign “if you bring your gas bill”.
This has been the most prescient for just an in person scam, but we have been bombarded post Covid with scam phone calls, scam texts from India pretending to be a toll road, on and on. Am I going crazy or have we officially gone full India in this country where scams don’t get cracked down on anymore?
When I moved to Florida, every single house I was going to look at turned out to be a scam. I was lucky if the house existed in the first place. Some had the audacity to send bill collectors after me. I have gone to houses that were rubble and the pictures were from Google maps 10 years ago. I've been to houses that weren't even owned or run by the people. That's if the house existed.
On every street corner is an offering for some deal that is too good to be true. Most of these aren't even coming from the USA.
Where the hell did you search for houses, Craigslist?
Even worse, Florida.
(I'm just kidding, put the crack pipe down guys)
Fake sites based on real sites, posts on legit sites. Imagine seeing the same house in five different posts. They buy legit sounding website names, and copy of info from other sites. Then they post that info to every rental thing you can imagine. You say you're interested in anything, you get sent to their 'official' site.
The level of the con was often staggering.
Seriously. You sound retarded,
I moved 3,000+ miles to place where y'all gators are cute and people order special cakes to celebrate a hurricane. I had no real idea what to check or how to do things. So, yeah, I had to do the dumb stuff to figure things out. The amount of scams is still impressive.