r/Scams My mom Was Scammed Out of $300,000!
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What is the premise of the r/Scams episode about a $300,000 loss?
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Welcome to r slash scams, where a 72-year-old grandma falls in love with a 32-year-old scammer in Africa. Our next Reddit post is from Chibichubi. What started as my mother using dating sites ended up with her planning to go to the Ivory Coast. First, this scammer used Jose Carlos Gomez de Oliveira's photos. Then, after almost one and a half year of talking, he confessed to her that he's a 32-year-old guy, single dad of two kids from the Ivory Coast. Instead of being angry, she accepted it and will go visit him soon. She's 72. How will this most likely end? I'm worried for her. But no amount of warning, nothing opened her eyes or changed her mind. How can I support her without pushing her away? How will this end, OP?
Well, I for one am looking forward to seeing your mom on 90 Day Fiancé.
How did a younger man become the first victim in the story?
Our next Reddit post is from TravelingTutor. I'm in Cairo and went on a Tinder date with a woman to a club that had shisha and music. We didn't discuss about who would pay for the bill, and I've now worked out that she's in with the club to take Tinder dates there and order expensive drinks. She ordered drinks at a stupid rate of speed and without me even knowing. I'd never said that I would pay for everything. I didn't get a breakdown of the bill when asked, and three men pressured me into paying without being able to have a conversation with the woman about potentially sharing. In hindsight, it was a silly move from me to not have the conversation about paying before or as the bill came. But I'm 99% sure that the bill wasn't $1,000 from memory of looking at the menu.
Pretty girl scams a dumb horny guy. A tale as old as time. The name of the scam, by the way, is the Chinese Tea House Scam. Our next Reddit post is from Foxroar. The purpose of this post is to expose a scam that happened recently to my mother-in-law so that it doesn't happen to you. It all started last September when she received a text from Apple alerting her that she may have been a victim of fraud, that someone tried to purchase an iPhone with her account. She called the number, told them she hadn't authorized that, and they told her she's been the victim of identity theft. So they transferred her to cybersecurity. Cybersecurity thought that her social security number had been exposed, so she was transferred to the FTC because it's now a bigger issue.
It needs a higher-up to take care of things. The FTC says that someone in upper management at her bank has been selling her identity, and that her funds might have been used for human trafficking or the purchase of illegal firearms, and that she could go to jail because she's complicit. She now doesn't trust her bank and becomes fearful that she's broken the law. The scammers convince her not to tell anyone. This is a high priority matter and she can't trust anyone, not even immediate family. She's on the phone for hours upon hours every day, sometimes all day long. She felt like a prisoner in her own house. Sometimes, she would just be listening as the agents on the other line were working and tracking these criminals on the dark web.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the premise of the r/Scams episode about a $300,000 loss?
0:00–2:13
2
How did a younger man become the first victim in the story?
2:13–4:34
3
What role did a Tinder encounter play in the scam?
4:34–6:06
4
How was the victim’s life savings targeted and stolen?
6:06–7:57
5
What happened when the scammer posed as a vendor?
7:57–9:47
6
How did the romance‑scam narrative unfold and escalate?
9:47–12:07
7
What hidden fees were added to the fraudulent transactions?
12:07–13:54
8
Why did the victim finally reply “NO” and what were the consequences?
13:54–15:54