Do you have a story about a scam? Have you been scammed? Are you a scammer? Have you seen a scam?
Your first tag must be "scammers"
First prize:
25 steem dollars
Runner-up prizes are possible
Can you write about a scam, a scammer, or a scam victim?
It can be any kind of scam. It could be a romance scam, a high return scam, a sex scam, a front-end-fee scam, an inheritance scam, a marriage scam, a tourist scam, or anything which involves scamming individuals by lies, trickery or deceit..
Have been scammed as a tourist? Tell us about it.
Do you know a scammer? How does he operate? Is he on his own or part of a larger organisation?
Did you see a friend get scammed? Why did they fall for it?
Did you ever scam a scammer? How did you get your revenge?
You can write about yourself or about someone else, of about scammers in general.
Every country has its scams and scammers. Write about the scams in your country. How does your country scam tourists?
I am looking for scams involving lying, trickery or deceit.
Rules:
No fiction. (No made-up stories. It must be true and factual.)
You can write anything you like about scamming, for example:
- You can write about scammers and how they operate.
- You can write about yourself.
- You can write about someone you know.
- You can write about the most common scams in your country
- Only write about scams against individuals, not society. In other words, don't write about the great fiat currency scam or about the government raising your taxes.
No plagiarism, no copying from the internet. Original ideas only.
No stories about being ripped off by shoddy goods or paying too high a price.
No Bitconnect sob-stories - unless you are Mr Bitconnect himself.
The first tag should be "scammers" #scammers
To get things going I have written the first scam here:
https://steemit.com/scammers/@swissclive/how-i-was-scammed-for-the-first-time-find-the-lady-scam
It's about how I was scammed 45 years ago in London with the "Find the lady" trick.
Don't forget to use the first tag "scammers" #scammers.
I will choose the winner of the best #scammers blog in 8 days time on Monday 5th March . The winner will be awarded 25 steem by me.
Haha... You should have plenty of entries in regards to that Zeartul character. I'd like to hear a witness or whales version of the story.
Still, this is a nice thing you are doing really! Letting a bad experience at least get something good in return!
Peace
I’m Not sure who Zeartful is?
What surprises me is that noone has published a steemit scam. Maybe everyone is honest here?
Oh Zeartul was big news 3 or 4 months ago. He stole thousands, maybe 10s of thousands. Here are a couple posts about him: 1 and 2
And a scam being run against the whole steemit platform is by Haejln and Ranch0Relax0 see here No, there are many dishonest people on Steemit....sadly! :-(
Wow, your comment kept me busy for hours. I have been active here for six months but never heard of bellyrubbank!
I can believe it. Steemit is an awesome and complex place.
Peace
Sounds like a good job that I never heard of bellyrubbank. 45% guaranteed return is very high. In crypto world this is almost plausible as this is a parrallel world which has nothing to do with the real world.
In crypto I have done the equivalent of handing my bitcoin to complete strangers for returns even higher than this, but none used the word “guaranteed”. Luckily I always got my bitcoin principal back.
Until the bank runs off woth your money you are just a smart investor. After the bank closes, and keeps your money, everyone says “the high return made it an obvious scam”.
thanks for this... will send in my entry
@swissclive, thanks for this competition. I just drop one of my scam stories that happened exactly like yours as comment on your post about how you were scammed 45 years ago in London with the "Find the lady" trick.
I will still write a full post about it to participate in the contest
I read your comment and it is a good story to write about. Please now use some of the details to describe how it happened and how you felt. I will look forward to your story. You will have a chance to win the 25 steem first prize.
Ok. I will do that
Thanks for organising this writing competition . Hardly will you see a Nigerian that has been scammed before. Personally, I've experienced it like 4 time.
Can I share the 4 experiences in a single post?
Owk I already told a story of how I was scammed when I was younger in the comment section of your own story before you posted this...so I guess I won't be writing about myself again but about a friend who is an online scammer and how he operates.
I am very interested to learn about online scammers. this could be the most interesting kind of scam because you never meet the scammer in person. But you have met him and that could make an extremely interesting story, especially seeing his point of view.
Wow, this is a great competition and it will be very interesting to read different scam stories. Thanks @swissclive for this
thanks for this...
I will certainly write, there was in my life the situation with consequences even for today...
Writing mine now. Do I need to leave the link here as a comment?.
No need to leave a link as I will find all the stories thanks to the #scammers first tag
I surely will win this, I was just discussing with my brother some days ago about my scam experience. I give you the full details on my entry
I would love to participate in this contest, I have a truck load of scam experiences I wud love to share... Thanks for the opportunity nd Plz expect my entry anytime soon. Will drop a link.
Hello dear. I'd love to share my scam story with you. Please read!
https://steemit.com/scammers/@apiprincz/my-hoist-money-the-day-i-was-scammed
Good my friend
Time to tell the world about the awful moment.
When I initially began, I felt that any individual who fell for these tricks were simply morons. After the majority of that, I understood some of them simply needed to assist of the graciousness of their souls. What's more, some others were simply forlorn and searching for somebody to mind. This makes me extremely upset
Thanks for this opportunity I'll surely send in my entry.
I think its time I share my scam experience to world
Which one will I write about self??
Oh yes! I have been scammed
Oh yes! I have close relatives that have been scammed
#ScammersAreEverywhere
Definitely you get a story from me i was even called this that my mine was trending over a scam issue... after reading @rok-sivante post on
A Personal Invitation To $20,500,000 From President Donald J. Trump...Well I've written my own experience of scam in your comment section in your first post, I will probably edit it and we'll detailed.
In Nigeria, we get scammed almost everyday, so i have more than dozens of scam experiences and stories...
Thanks for this opportunity, lemme check which story to shared
Okay, I will write my entry today, I mean right now, as I have just checked the scam/scammers and the scammed person who is myself and even though I won't win the prize, I am happy because I know I got your support many times and I have to thank you a lot for that. I'll come back with my entry :D
You never know, you might win the prize because you write so well.
The winner will have these features:
Definitely you get a story from me i was even called this that my mine was trending over a scam issue... after reading @rok-sivante post on a scammed email he received
A Personal Invitation To $20,500,000 From President Donald J. Trump...@moneyinfant has added your contest to the list Steemit Writing Contests: Issue #30. The list is updated on a daily basis and your contest will remain on the list until its expiration - there's nothing you need to do.
The list was created to save writers the excessive amount of time spent searching through the #contest tag for writing contests. Now they can just come to the list each day, see new contests and use their time doing what they love - writing.
If you'd like to help spread the word about the Steemit Writing Contest List I'd really appreciate a resteem, but it certainly isn't necessary. The project is simply meant to help writers save time and contest creators attract more contestants.
P.S. If you know of any contests I've missed I'd love to hear about them. Thanks!
Wow the online and Cryptocurrency world has tons will submit mine.
entry coming soon
Well I'm a fiction writer but I actually do have a couple of good stories about being scammed. They aren't fiction either. Probably
Here is my life experience on scam. Check the link https://steemit.com/scammers/@petoz/i-almost-turned-a-yahoo-boy-a3b10f9ba6141
Thank you @swissclive, I will share my story too.
@swissclive
I need you emergency.
very important
please
That's the beauty of Steemit. What a great initiative to have people open up and express their minds. "Are you a scammer?" that part got me laughing... i have lot of such stories. I can only post once, right?
“Are you a scammer?” I asked that question because I really hope to hear from some scammers too. I want to hear how clever they are, and how they learned to deceive, and why they do it. I want to know how they feel about their victims. I wonder if they go to church.
Hahahahaha it's easy to love you. Expect my story. I have lot of them. I can only send one, right?
Send as many as you like.
God bless your heart.
Wow! Im so much in this. ThankGod its not only one entry per person.. Awesome
This is an opportunity to say out my mind on the scam experiences I've had. Can it be about how I was scammed by someone who claimed to sell bitcoin @swissclive because you talked about not writing about the great fiat currency scam.
If someone used trickery with a bad intention to steal your bitcoin or your money, as a scammer would do, then it will be a good story. If you were deceived because the scammer told lies, then it’s good.
If it was just bad advice, or a mistake, then it is not a scam, it’s just bad luck.
Okay.. I get the picture now. Thanks
Hi, this is my entry...
https://steemit.com/scammers/@dayanaromer/writing-competition-write-about-scammers-a-scam-you-saw-or-a-scam-suffered
Wow... Thank you @swissclive for this. I've actually been scammed a few times. I will drop my post on one of the experiences as soon as possible.
Here is a post that I have just made and I want to ask you if it meets the criteria to enter into the competition of scammers. If not, I am still grateful that I was able to share this :D
I read your post. It was really interesting what happened. It looks like the account was set up to trick people, but there was no actual deception of you. You just made a simple mistake and sent money to an account that sounds like blocktrades. Whilst I like your story, I feel it falls into the category of mistakes or carelessness rather than scams.
Yes, this is what I thought too, even though that guys have earned a lot of money pretty easy
This is a nice contest! I am a great fan of the tv show Scam City by Conor Woodman, where he goes undercover in various cities trying to get ‘scammed’ and documenting them down in the show.
Especially targeted at tourists, we learnt a few tips from it to protect ourselves from being a victim.
Looking forward to reading all the submissions for #scammers. :)
sir, Please give your fb link
very important
@swissclive
This has just reminded me of a long time experience, if you haven't been a victim before, you will never know exactly how it feels, it's an experience you wouldn't want to ever encounter again.
Thanks @swissclive for this opportunity, am making my post right away using the first tag as scammers.
Being scammed these days especially in African countries such as Nigeria has become the order of the day...
No one even sees it as a big deal again... Others use it as a means of earning a living...
Sadly, even as the awareness on scam is so high... We have people who would still fall victim of this wickedness....
I read your story @swissclive, funny one but painful....
I just wrote about my own experience too....
Beyond the competition, people should also be aware of the different gimmicks these scammers device in cheating innocent people...
Here's the link to my own experience :
https://steemit.com/scammers/@kingernie/my-computer-village-experience
I'll write about how my friend was scammed and his shoulders was collected. I've also been scammed but I think his own story will teach a lot of people, especially Nigerian students, a lot of lessons than my own.
I was once scammed by group of young men who came to my town selling soap. They said they were promoting a new brand and because of that they are giving out a lot of lives to anyone who would buy from them. They brought out a list containing all the potential items to be won. I was particularly interested because I saw laptop on the list and that was the year I'm about to enter the university. Considering that I needed the laptop and I also have blind faith that God will make me win, I went to borrow money to buy the soap.
They did a raffle after I bought the soap and I selected one paper. I only won a boiling ring. I later got to know that the only thing written in their raffle papers was boiling ring. So there was no way you could win another thing. They were caught in town and driven out.
Their soap was fake. Their booking ring didn't work for a month. I also learned my lesson.
We call these kind of people "Snake-oil salesmen" . In the old days, travellers would visit the town sell ing so called "snake-oil". They promised it could cure every illness known to man.
By the time you discovered it didn't work, they had already left town.
It was never "Real" snake-oil, but you had to believe them because that is what it said on the bottle.
My entry:
https://steemit.com/scammers/@samueloption/how-i-witnessed-a-scammer-beaten-to-comatose
No bitconnect stories? I bet some of those would have been really funny and tragic at the same time :)
Well I am a bit worried that we would be overwhelmed by people who lost money on bitconnect. In my view almost everyone who went into bitconnect were able to read everywhere that it was a scam, and a Ponzi scheme before they went into it. Yet despite knowing it was only going to last for a while, many people dived in. If you go into a scam after being told it is a scam, it is hard to say you were scammed. Having saids that, if someone has a really good an unusual story about bitconnect, then why not post it here?
I'm in swiss, i'm not sure if my story will be really amazing but well, it's a scam and i think it's all that matters.
Have a good day lady :)
PS: "No stories of bitconnect hahaha.. you made me laught on there!"
Updated: Here is my scam post @swissclive:
https://steemit.com/scammers/@selected/my-scam-story-and-how-i-was-scammed-for-the-first-time-write-competition-by-swissclive
I have lots of stories to write about, I have been scammed before, this scamming of a thing stopped the day I learnt to outsmart my scammars. Let me reorganize myself and come out with the stories...
Please,how many entry or entries per person?
You can write as many stories as you like. To win your story must be good.
I have read loads and they are all sooooooooo interesting.
You need a good topic about scams and you must write well.
I liked a story about yahoo boys. I did not know such a thing exists.
It does, in fanct,it is rampant here in Nigeria. I have never fall victim of their whiles, but I have seen people suffer from them. Thanks a lot
Here is my entry in being scammed.
https://steemit.com/scammers/@maverickinvictus/online-paluwagan-mlm-and-the-lure-of-easy-money
Thank you very much @swissclive for this contest. If there's anything we all have shared a common story it's the issue of scam. It's almost everywhere now, hence the need to sensitive and educate non suspecting people on the modus operandi of these hoodlums.
Here's my entry :
https://steemit.com/scammers/@etypearl/university-admission-gone-bad
Thanks for this privilege, here is my entry
Hello, This is my Entry.
https://steemit.com/scammers/@sonofgod87/scammers-i-was-a-scam-victim
I hope that this experience I lived will serve as a testimony to alert people not to fall into this type of scams.
I don't think this is what you are looking for, but her goes anyway https://steemit.com/scammers/@nicktravers/our-lone-computer