Are they trying to scam me? If so, how? submitted by /u/the__karanshah

Is this a scam when selling air pods I am trying sell some air pods and when my buyer said he sent the money I got an email in my spam from wisebankcare.inc@gmail.com saying the buyer has to send me 200 pounds addition and then I have to send him the money back and then his 110 pound purchase will come into my bank. It says at the bottom of the email that if I don’t send back then …

Is this hotel trying to scam me? I booked a hotel in Venice recently via Booking.com. I paid in full at time of booking. Today I woke up to these two messages from the hotel via the Booking.com app saying I need to pass a card check which involves clicking on a link, entering details including credit card, paying the cost of the stay in full before they apparently then refund t…

How AI Is Used to Scam You (and What You Can Do About It) This post is part of Lifehacker’s “Living With AI” series: We investigate the current state of AI, walk through how it can be useful (and how it can’t), and evaluate where this revolutionary tech is heading next. Read more here. Read more…

Payment Scam? Occasionally since being on Shopify since March, you’ll get a weird email like the below. Is it somehow a scam? Just seems so weird, not sure if it’s a scam how someone can get anything out of it. Name never matches the email name, but it close via first name: “Please cancel my order. The shipping address is wrong and payment info is incorrect. …

Avoid This Travel Agency Scam Getting scammed is never fun—but falling prey to a travel scam can be especially upsetting. Not only are you out a significant amount of money, but you’ve given away a lot of personal information, and your trip might be ruined. As WIRED explained, travel scammers are out there, so it’s worth knowing everything you can… Read more…

Hotel scam in Italy? I visited a small hotel in Italy. Only a few rooms, more like a house. We’re from Canada. Everything was great until we were about to leave. Mind you, we were there only 2 nights, and the toilet seemed fine until the second night, after the front desk closed down. Since it wasn’t overflowing at that point, we went to bed. The toilet had backed u…

Customer trying to scam us, what options do we have? Any? hi. We have a customer who we believe is being dishonest with us. He’s stating he received a different item inside the package than the one we shipped. We have no image proof on our end but we know with certainty we sent him the right item as we manually inspect all our packages before they go out. What do we do in a situation like this? Because…

How does a PG&E (California) scam work? Hi Folks, I get repeated calls from what they say are PG&E “customer choice program” trying to help me to lower my tier rates. I have spoken to them for 8-10 times and most of the time I get bored and hangup as they take awfully long to say what they need. They start by trying to find my PGE bill and verify a couple of things on it. I have NEVER…

Is Sam Jacobs a Scam? Has anyone taken Uprise e-commerce course with this Sam Jacobs guy? Is it really helpful or a waste of my time and 3k? I am very hesitant but I am curious of anyone experience with him. Thanks! submitted by /u/Agreeable-Sympathy18

This ‘IRS Letter’ Is a Scam Scammers love to prey on taxpayers by pretending to represent the IRS and using their “authority” to acquire sensitive personal information and steal your money. These criminals use any means necessary to contact and bully you into downloading a tax document, sharing your bank account number, or verifying other… Read more…

Shopify Gift card Scam We had a gift card purchased on our webshop, but shopify flagged the transaction it as fraudulent. We will cancel and refund but makes me wonder, other than that the purchase was probably made by a stolen card, what other way can the scammer exploit the giftcard? It’s non refundable and they can’t spend it anywhere other than our site. subm…

Is this website a scam or legit? I got an ad on Instagram saying that Cosrx was having a sale so I went to the link. The link is https://www.cosrxus.com . I noticed it looks different from the other cosrx website but thought nothing of it since it says US but the sale seems too good to be true. Is it a scam? Sorry I tried posting in the skincare subreddit but it kept getting re…