# Fucking scammer motherfuckers **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 28, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240 "2022-12-28T21:57:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 41
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/801 "2026-04-21T19:38:25Z")
Many years ago when I was working at an RV sales place, waiting for my resume to attract an employer, I had a guy come on the lot who was interested in the big Class A buses. Especially the Newmar coaches we had, which was our top of the line bus. As I was talking to him, it came out that his wife had called him from Las Vegas and told him that she had “won the Irish lottery” and that he should go and buy the most expensive RV he could find. I didn’t have the heart to tell him. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/802 "2026-04-21T20:39:33Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I didn’t have the heart to tell him. So instead you sold him the most expensive RV on the lot? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/803 "2026-04-21T20:45:09Z")
“That’s the only way they’ll learn.” (Riffle a stack of hundred dollar bills.) ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/804 "2026-04-21T20:51:18Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > > [@Chefguy](#): > > > > I didn’t have the heart to tell him. > > So instead you sold him the most expensive RV on the lot? Hey, a sale is a sale. Gotta make the monthly quota, you know. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/805 "2026-04-21T23:15:10Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > So instead you sold him the most expensive RV on the lot? He didn’t buy anything, at least not from our dealership. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/806 "2026-04-22T00:02:35Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I had the lovely and not at all embarrassing experience of having my card rejected after we ate at a restaurant. It had been locked down and the bank didn’t tell me. I didn’t have my other card with me, so had to ask the owner if I could go home and call them with the number. They were very nice about it, but it was still humiliating. I was on my way home from a weekend trip and my Discover card was rejected at a restaurant. Fortunately I had another card I could use. When I got home there was a message on my answering machine from Discover Security; my card had been flagged because it had been used multiple times “away from my usual location”. I confirmed that I had been out of town and that all the charges were legitimate, and the hold was lifted. I was also told that the restaurant should have called Discover Security and let me talk to them while I was there, but apparently they couldn’t be bothered. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/807 "2026-04-22T00:35:54Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > My cell phone number may have once been owned by Thomas and/or Lesley Rodgers (Rogers?) based on the ENORMOUS volume of spam texts I get. I used to have a cell phone number that had been previously used by Gretchen, a committee chairwoman of the Republican Party in the next county. Oh, I had great fun with that. “Is this Gretchen?” “Yes, Gretchen speaking.” “About the next meeting…” “There is no next meeting! It’s canceled!” Then I would get calls from other Republicans: “Gretchen, what’s this about the meeting being canceled?” I would keep them going as long as I could. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/808 "2026-04-22T17:38:31Z")
I love it!! ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/809 "2026-04-22T17:40:50Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > my card had been flagged because it had been used multiple times “away from my usual location” That’s a somewhat reasonable response to unusual purchasing patterns, but I’d never heard of a place letting the business call with you there to straighten it out. We were doing back-to-school shopping one year and my card got flagged after the 4th stop or so. No unusual amounts, these were all within 15 miles or so of home. The bank made no effort to notify me. Now, the time I bought 10 pairs of shoes in a shop 200 miles from home - a HIGHLY unusual purchasing pattern - I don’t blame them for flagging the account. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/810 "2026-04-22T17:48:59Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > I would keep them going as long as I could. In all honesty, if Gretchen didn’t update everyone with her new number, she deserved all the anger she received. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/811 "2026-04-22T18:23:55Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > I’d never heard of a place letting the business call with you there to straighten it out. When I was working for a credit card processor – the link between the merchant and the card association – I got calls all of the time from merchants,\* “The card is being declined. What’s wrong?” I would tell them we do not know and have no way of fixing it even if the card holder’s bank told us, then tell them to tell the card holder to call the number on the back of the card. \*Once I got a call from the card holder. The merchant had given him our number and told him to call. Since he had no clue what the merchant’s account number was I couldn’t even see the transaction in question. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/812 "2026-04-22T19:10:49Z")
You should have “had the heart to tell him”. You did him no favor, as he probably spent the money he couldn’t afford to lose elsewhere, while his poor uninformed wife was probably spending like crazy also. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/813 "2026-04-22T19:38:38Z")
Perhaps. However, like any automotive dealer, RV lots also run credit checks. Nobody is going to sell a vehicle on a promise of winning a sweepstakes. The rig he was looking at was at least $350K. Hell, for all I know, perhaps HE was trying to scam ME. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2026, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/814 "2026-04-23T15:17:30Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > That’s a somewhat reasonable response to unusual purchasing patterns, but I’d never heard of a place letting the business call with you there to straighten it out. This was back in the time before cellphones (when dinosaurs walked the Earth) so I had no way to call Discover myself to straighten it out until I got home. I do remember that at some point credit cards started offering you an option to notify them if you were planning to travel, presumably to prevent this sort of problem. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2026, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/815 "2026-04-23T20:19:56Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > or star registries I always figured the scam there was they used _one_ star, & if I compared the location on your star certificate with the location on my (theoretical) star certificate they would be exactly the same. It costs time/money to change the coordinates on that certificate yanno. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2026, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/816 "2026-04-23T20:29:08Z")
I just got one (in my Junk mail); 1. the name & the email don’t match Subject - “I would like it if I matched with a guy like you on the website. 😍”. - Ummm, what website? I’m not on any dating websites, or apps. It doesn’t make the SO happy. Body - I am Gigi. 💕 You’re welcome to be the man I am starting a relationship with. I want a romantic date if you’ll join me. {Hyperlink} I have pictures of myself here 💓 {/Hyperlink} So what say you Dopers, is that a virus or the start of a romance scam? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2026, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/817 "2026-04-23T20:30:30Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > I always figured the scam there was they used _one_ star, & if I compared the location on your star certificate with the location on my (theoretical) star certificate they would be exactly the same. Well, that certainly makes the scam worse. I forgot there was also the “Scottish Laird” scam. Here is an example of one such company: > **[Established Titles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Established_Titles)** > > Established Titles is a company which sells souvenir plots of Scottish land from 1 sq ft (0.09 m2) to 20 sq ft (1.86 m2). The company retains legal ownership of the land. While the company claims that those who buy the 'plots' can choose to be titled Lord, Laird or Lady, as part of a supposed "traditional Scottish custom", souvenir plots are too small to be legally registered for ownership and owners of souvenir plots do not have the right to officially title themselves. It owns land in Ardall You own a piece of land as small as 1’ square, and they claim that due to that you can legally be considered a “Laird, Lord, or Lady” (depending on the pitch) and they’ll even send a certificate you can hang on the wall that supposedly proves your title. But it’s BS because that’s not how the law works in Scotland (and “Laird” isn’t even a title; it just means “landowner”, and it doesn’t grant nobility in Scotland any more than owning a piece of land in the US does). Even if it was, the company doesn’t actually put any land in your name; that’s a fiction. The company claims that it’s a “gag gift” and everyone is in on the joke, including customers, but that’s clearly a lie. And there are other companies who have done something similar. You can even [own a piece of the moon](https://lunarregistry.com/). ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2026, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/818 "2026-04-25T00:45:39Z")
You are evil and I love you for it. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/819 "2026-04-27T17:30:29Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > So what say you Dopers, is that a virus or the start of a romance scam? Why not both? If it is real, you may well end up with a virus of the biological kind. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-scammer-motherfuckers/977240/820 "2026-04-27T20:15:13Z")
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