how do people fall for things that are obviously too good to be true I learned
very quickly at the age of fourteen that there are scammers out there that make a
living on our stupidity hi my name is Scott faeo and today I'm going to share
with you how I got scammed out of three thousand dollars in high school and also
how I contributed to helping a scammer scam others let's get into it
so have you never been in my channel I talk about money tips and kind of side
hustles and how you can make money and y'all I have always been a little
hustler when I was 14 or 15 I had my own eBay business and I sold wedding stuff
on eBay for brides and bridesmaids and grooms and stuff like that
and I've always just kind of been very money orientated so I was like a real OG
drop shipper and this was like way before people were like oh become a
dropship or oh courses and he's all oversaturated like I for real was like
always hustling so guys I saw this freaking ad on Craigslist yeah
Craigslist that was probably not the best place to look for some a job like
this but I did and yeah it was on Craigslist and the listing was copy and
paste Craigslist specialist three and a half dollars a post I was calculating
and I was like oh wow if I do like five posts a day five days a week
oh that's like $340 am I like oh my goodness that's a lot of money I can get
all the cookies I wanted at school oh this is great
so I look at the description and I was like okay knows how to download check I
know how to do that knows how to copy and paste yep I can do that too
that's PayPal yes check thank you how's aus number yes I do thank you so for the
benefit it was like flexible schedule work when you want work from home
part-time work and I was like oh my god this is great this is perfect it's
exactly what I need and I was like okay this is perfect so cool so I applied and
I just wrote him an email and I was just like hey like the plug position blah
blah the weird thing is this just been in the first red flag it's the guy
replied to me immediately and he was like okay can you hop on a call so I can
interview you I'm really looking to get somebody soon I've been interviewing and
I haven't found the right person blah blah and I was like so excited I was
like yes yes yes let's do it so he calls me he had a foreign accent okay not
necessarily a scam but this could have been like a red flag in general because
he did not sound American but I don't know
what smile of my experience with foreigners coming to the US a lot of
them have a lot of money and they acquire property to start businesses so
my whole thing was like he's probably this rich guy that has an accent you
know so he was like I'm his business man I don't have time to be posting these
posts and he was like I have all this merchandise ready waiting to be sold and
he was like he's a really good merchant in China that gets stuff really really
cheap and whatever like he doesn't have the story and it seems fine to me I'm
like okay cool like awesome great you're this businessman you need someone to do
the work for you like everything sounds fine to me so he was like so what kind
of experience do you have and I was like experienced with what
what experience and he was like copy and paste Craigslist specialist and I was
like oh yes of course of course uh-huh well I copy and paste all day
long especially for my exams I'm just kidding guys but on MySpace I'm always
uploading and downloading pictures so I have a lot of experience with downlod
and I have a lot of experience with uploading I have a lot of experience
with copy and paste so I think I'm an expert it was just such a joke guy like
but I took it so seriously and I was like God like yes and anyways and then
he made me do like this stupid at typing test and I was like so nervous and I was
hyping this thing and I sent him the score and he's like okay cool you pass
and I was like oh my god I thank God and it was like oh what's your level of
English and I was like well you know I got an A in English class I think
Michael is just pretty good like yeah you're gonna have to reply to customers
and whatever he was just like so extra so dramatic it seemed like it was almost
real like I would seem like a real interview and that 14 you know like it
just was just so ridiculous it just felt really real to me so after that he hired
me yeah I think you'd be great for the position in blah Lavoie okay I'm gonna
walk you through how to set up an email and connect it to a Craig's account so
we can create the credits account did you know you can create a craigslist
account there's actually someone that manages these craigslist accounts like i
would like people actually manage craigslist but yeah he showed
how to do that he walked me through it he set it up so with email to be
forwarded to him as well so after that I asked him like ok how many posts do I
need us post a month and he's got a thousand what a thousand and I calculate
like that's like $3,500 and he was like oh yeah sorry it's actually capped off
for me thousand is that ok with you Oh like yes yes that's ok with me yes oh
my god yes and I was like oh my god about to buy all my friends like car or
about to be going to the skating rink every day we're not about to be smuggled
in our own popcorn up the movie theater anymore like we have made it oh my god
so I was like super excited I was like oh my god $3,000 that's like a lot of
money you sent me all these links and all these files and then I downloaded
them so this is when the red flag should became like big big red flag so the guy
he sent me it wasn't just one brand or one niche of like beauty products or gym
or garden stuff it was just random random stuff like cars shoes clothes
home-and-garden Beauty just tons of stuff and they were
so cheap like these nice cars he was stalling for like something crazy like
$5,000 cash like crazy stuff that but you know I was just like oh well he
lives in China so it probably is cheaper there you know just being just dumb and
not knowing that just not knowing honestly I just had no idea so I was
posting all of these things and it took a lot longer than I was expecting like
it was a lot harder than I was expecting because you have to like download
everything and then you got away you gotta upload it you got to find a
picture you got a copy and paste it there's like different steps on
Craigslist on when you have an account you have to go to your email and
approving come back so it took a lot longer than I was expecting I think I
posted like maybe I don't know like 20 a day or something I don't know I made it
to a thousand a month so yeah it was just a lot of stuff my inbox were like
flooded by people like oh my god is it still available and I was like yeah it's
available I'm gonna send it over to my boss
you can like figure it out with him or whatever so I didn't like directly
receive any money from these people it was just I was telling them like yeah
it's available and then I would just like sport it to them him and then he
would like close the sale so I pretty much was helping him scam all these
other people which is horrible yeah so then I finished the thousand posts a
month he was like oh you get paid monthly at the end just let me know when
you finish like message him I said hey I'm finished whatever he doesn't respond
for like three days and I was like I was like damn I think I got scammed randomly
the third day he replies he's like hey sorry I was on a business trip I'll send
over to your PayPal right now and I was like oh my god like it's real like oh my
god I was so excited this is great P he had my PayPal some of my PayPal and he
sends me five thousand dollars and I see it pending and I was like oh my god like
five thousand dollars so that's the most I've ever seen in my life and I used to
make it I was used to making pennies doing surveys online it's all like oh my
god like this is for real like what it's like to be rich like $5,000 ah yeah so I
was waiting for it to like come through so I just left home and I was I think I
don't know maybe I had class or something and my inbox started flooding
with messages like a hundred messages oh my god I sent you too much money you
need to send me that to a thousand dollars back like I can't believe I'm
saying all this money like oh my god oh my god like he's just freaking the f out
hundreds of messages hundreds and they just keep coming in like every second
like another message oh my god so you back the money seem back the money like
it's urgent oh my god and like I was trying to reply
to him and more and more messages coming in like emails I call my guy can you
send it back whatever and like he's calling me and calling me and calling me
and like I'm answering the phone and it's like he's not there on the phone it
was just weird and it was just really weird so this was when the a red flag
hit me finally I was like this is weird like this is really weird cuz I'm just
like if you make so much money like $2,000 a lot of money but if you make as
much money as you do $2,000 should not break the bank for you and why freaking
out like I was just like you're like for real just really like
having a hernia right now so I messaged him and I was like hey I'll send you the
money when I get home I'm not home right now
I'll do it soon as I get home don't worry about it you're gonna get your
money back like I'm happy with $3,000 and another thing I'll like that doesn't
make any sense for me to try to chip him out of 2000 when I'm about to get 3,000
every month for the next like however many time I can make a lot more money
being an honest employee than trying to steal from you so I'm like I'm not gonna
steal from you like that's stupid so he's just like still like sending so
many emails like I need that money now send it now and then he goes into this
like I thought I trusted you you seem so honest what like what I
think I hired the wrong person like oh my god and he was like my daughter is
dying and I need this money and he's just going to all these freaking crazy
horrible scenarios that he never mentioned before and I was just like now
look I'm gonna send you the money I'm gonna send you the money like can you
just wait until I get home and you say you know it's urgent whatever so I just
start ignoring him because it was just ridiculous and I was just like I'm gonna
send you the money I'm an honest person like two minutes is not gonna or like an
hour a few hours it's not gonna kill you or whatever if I think I was that class
or something in school I was 14 at the time so probably with that school I
should have been okay so I get home that night I go into my PayPal to send him
the money to send him the two thousand dollars but like if I think like it
still says pending and for whatever reason with like the only common sense
that was in my head unless I was like I haven't actually received the money yet
so when it processes I'll send it back now with like the only like everything
else I did it was stupid and totally got scammed but that was the only thing
where I was like maybe I should wait so the guys still emailing me emailing me
email me email me what are you doing and he's just send that money like I thought
you're honest he's like my wife's gonna die
my business is gonna go under like just being so extra and I was just like over
$2,000 when you're selling each of these things for like five like all your cars
like $5,000 like I was just like this guy like what the hell but I still
didn't think it was a scam I just thought he was just being dramatic
yeah anyway it's fast forward fast forward fast forward eventually like
three days later the money just disappeared like the $5,000 wasn't
pending anymore and he just disappeared like it was just
like day and night the email stopped immediately and he just disappeared
and I was like emailing him messaging like hey like I didn't get the money
what happened whatever like hey you want me to start like the next mod like
something that stuff like hey what's going on no reply no reply and I was
like dang I just got scammed let me tell you what a low-life this person is he
scammed me into working for him working his scam and then he scammed other
people into getting his stuff that doesn't exist
and then he tried to double scam you by getting more money out of you getting
money out of you so you pay him like what kind of low light like that is all
whole another level of scamming right there oh-ho I got a level escapee I was
just like wow you really just tried to get me to pay you because that's what
would've happened I would have signed the money and then it wouldn't have been
there then whatever like I didn't have $2,000 in my account
anyways but I almost got scammed out of five thousand dollars almost almost just
three thousand thousand entire month that I dedicated to his freakin scan I
didn't see a penny yeah guys that was it that's how I got scammed on Craigslist
and how I contributed to other people gain scammed but I know I did once I
found it it was a scam I did message people on the everyone that message mean
I was like this is a scam don't don't send him any money don't buy anything
it's all a scam like whatever so hopeful that did something and hopefully they
got the messages I don't know just be careful up there but one thing you will
not find on my channel is any scams so do a like comment and subscribe and I
will see you the next video bye guys
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