u/When-you-get-home

I was uninsured and went into kidney failure. I was in the hospital 3 weeks. During this time a financial counselor came to my room and signed me up for their sponsorship program and she also signed me up for Medicare (stage 5 End Stage Renal) so I qualified for Medicare although I am not old enough for it. She signed me up for SS disability and I was approved for that. Contact the financial counselor's office and see if they can help you. I never saw my 3 week hospital bill and I can imagine how large the bill was. I was terrified of the bill but the FC told me I would likely be approved. Medicare pays and then Sponsorship picks up the difference.

Not to mention you could be "blacklisted" (meaning they dump you) from that bank and all other banks when they get stuck with bad checks. They remove your money from your account to cover the mess...

He "spoofed" a number, He is likely NOT local but in a foreign country. He likely has plenty of information about you but needs your birthdate to commit a scam of some sort. Do NOT give anyone that kind of information.

A REAL Sugar Daddy will want to MEET you in real life, take you out to dinner and see if you are worth spending money on. A REAL sugar daddy would NEVER send money to someone he has not met. You are dealing with a SCAMMER. He is going to have you cash bad checks or do something nefarious regarding money. Why would a stranger send you $800 a week for doing nothing? A real sugar daddy has sex with you and usually gets you an apartment (if he is married) so he can come over to where you are. This is a sugar daddy scammer and there are plenty of girls who believe somebody would send them that kind of money without meeting. ONLY SCAMMERS do this!

She sounds like a MESS!

​

RUN!!!!!

Your brother is a perfect scam victim. If he easily believes everything....

Not trying to be mean but who would buy a used mattress and have it shipped? Or was "he" going to come over and pick it up?

Either way, a mattress is a personal thing. I would not want a used one. Unless it still had the plastic on it.

The person he is talking to is a criminal. She is likely a "HE" with hair on his back and fat rolls between his testicles.

Ask him if he likes talking to a male? Make "her" get on facetime and chat with him. TODAY!

That's pretty scary that they shut down your card. They had enough info about you that the bank believed them. The other poster is correct, now they will get a new card (pretending to be you) and have it mailed to their home. They will spend like crazy until they get shut down. Contact your bank immediately and have them "cut off" any card they may have started.

The "Equipment" you need is part of the scam. You cash a check and either send off part of it for the "vendor" or the check is fake. (both apply)

​

Stop talking to the scammer.

Yeah I saw "George Strait" on my feed wanting to be my friend. He had 400 friends but the REAL George Strait had like millions of friends. I kept warning all the ladies that were talking to him, believing it was him. They kept replying to him. "George" wanted them to private message him. We know why....

100,000 % SCAM Tell him to go on youtube and type in Pig Butchering Scams (PBS) or Romance Scams or Financial Scams. Let him LISTEN to the PBS scams..... let him drink in the dirty way they hold onto his money, make him pay fees and he will NEVER get his money he put on that fake site....Tell him the scammers are the ones who get all the money he put in there....

He will use all that information to scam you (your coworker) and for identity theft. He can use the baby pictures to say that is his child, your drivers license to say he is you. I would freeze your credit reports immediately if you have sent this information.

Put yourself in the employers place. Would "you" hire someone without a drug test, without a degree, without a background check and pay them $30,000 a week? IF it sounds too good to be true, it is!

The reason scammers target older persons is because older folks are more trusting, likely have money saved up, pensions, and access to cash. Elderly persons have a harder time believing someone will steal their money. I would get her on youtube and let her listen to scams, type "scammers" and there are many scam stories. Get her familiar with the scammers voice, let her listen to their "spiel" the brunt of the scam and how she can recognize something/someone is feeding her a bunch of garbage.

This "loan"...Do you have the email address of this supposed loan business? Was it something that was emailed to you and you responded? Plenty of scammers will fake being as loan company. Do NOT give them any personal information!

I read a scam exactly like this. Female employee working the night shift. They convince her to remove all the money out of the cash register and leave the store! I don't remember what they told her but she was new and believed them. So the store was left "unmanned" and the police happened by as I recall. So the girl had given the money to someone and needless to say, safe to assume she had no job anymore.

When someone "overpays" you, tell them you me paid wrong and I am mailing the check back to you and you resend me the check. I would never "send the difference back" to anyone. If they are a scammer, you won't hear from them again.

All they need is one name on a social media site and then do a "people search" which shows everyone's name connected to that person, their ages, etc. Data Breach can also reveal quite a lot. In this day and age, nothing you have is private anymore.

I bet he is doing more than wanting to see your house. I think he is a stalker and wants you to agree to let him inside. I think maybe you can get a restraining order against him and get a RING camera to record anyone slowly driving by your house. He sounds mentally disturbed. Nobody acts that way if they want to see your house except a NUT case!

Do NOT send them 10 cents! Contact Zelle and let them take care of it. Scammers use/steal accounts and that could be what they sent you. Now if you send back real money, you are going to be out that money.

Those "ads" are mostly fake, tell your mother. Next time, help her find a reliable place that sells crab legs. Do some research and teach her not to trust those "great ads that pop up" I can only think of Omaha steaks that might sell crab legs. They seem to sell quite a bit of things lately.

If that was your "real cc number" it could have been a data breach where they bought your banking information. But most likely, just a random scammer trying to get your information. Never click on a link. Call your bank and speak to an employee.

Never trust a text no matter what it says. Go to Venmo on your own and see what you can find out.

I think the scammer found someone in the bank that was new and trusting. It went downhill from there....Glad you were able to catch all this! Imagine if you had not, the next step would have been for the scammer to withdrawl your money and who knows what else!