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Scam Examples

There is a myriad of horrific examples of scam examples; a full range of them would take up an entire book. Here are a few.

A scammer gang created a financial scam calling themselves Goldman Sachs Group 51. They offered an "investment" in cryptocurrency (Bitcoin) futures trading transactions that they claim yielded a 100% return on investment daily (!). Now, there are people who actually do trade in these futures, and on good days, when they are able to see patterns in trading, can make up to 10% or 15% on each transaction. And sometimes they lose; they are people for whom a $1000 or $2000 loss is not a big deal. But 100% is what we call Too Good To Be True and an obvious scam. But people fell for it nonetheless. The person reporting this scam almost did himself until he realized they were offering - guaranteed - 10 times the average take of an expert trader. He called Goldman Sachs and their security department told him they had no such group, and that it was a scam.

In an employment scam, a woman was told that in order to be "employed" by the company and get "trained" to make money for "tasks" related to advertising Canadian hotels, she had to "invest" in the company: at first small amounts, and then eventually $25,000. When she realized that she was incapable of performing the tasks, she asked for her money back. They told her that she would have to pay $1000 more in order for them to return the money (!). Of course the entire enterprise was fake, and they just wanted to steal another $1000 from her. The company - which had the websites hotels-canadian.com and hotels-canadian.vip - was actually a thief (or criminal gang) in Malaysia and the domain registrar of the website is in Singapore.

In a relationship scam, a man was fooled into becoming a friend of a fake hapless, underemployed woman living in Minnesota, giving her more than $1000 over a period of months, allegedly for food and for rent when she was "injured" in a traffic accident. The "woman" was actually an immigrant man from Ghana living in Washington, DC. The address she had given was a vacant home in an upscale neighborhood.

There is a current, active funds refund scam, or re-victimization scam Facebook group, probably Nigerian, called Scam Victims Support Group. Its profile page picture says "Scaming Alert - Report Froud/Scam" (they can't even spell) and offers fund return by its Admins and others (none of whom exist in any public records). It is obviously designed (albeit poorly) to attract recently-scammed people into thinking they can get their money back, which is in almost 100% of cases truly impossible without deep involvement of police, FBI, and scammer country agencies. These scammers just take people's money and then tell the victim that they tried their best but did not succeed.

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This website was created by Anti-Scammer Alliance in fall, 2023, We wish to remain anonymous at this time for reasons of personal safety. We are victims of scammers, and we made a commitment to spread this concise information so that others may avoid the emotional trauma that we have endured, and/or to help other victims in their recovery, to understand what has happened to them. We make no claims to know everything about scammers or all aspects of their criminal activity.

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