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View submission: Scammers have sunk even lower. How absolutely disgusting.
The worst of these I ever got was one that got ahold of my mom’s name. About 2 weeks after she died. “Please son, I need money send if through this site I found, blah blah blah.” There is no limit to how low these losers will sink.
Comment by FindTheCultInCulture at 25/02/2022 at 14:21 UTC
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Get ready for years of junk mail with her name on it. My mom passed almost 20 years ago after losing a fight with cancer, I get retirement and AARP stuff all the time. Got a pamphlet from a retirement home last week. Pisses me off every time. :/
Comment by slvrcofe21 at 25/02/2022 at 13:36 UTC
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That’s horrible. Sorry for your loss.
Comment by n1ghtl1t3 at 25/02/2022 at 14:55 UTC
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A roofing company called my grandma a few weeks after my grandpa's funeral and were asking to speak with him, insisting that they had spoken with him the other day. My grandma told her "if you can talk to him, it must be a miracle because we just cremated him" lmao
Comment by redditonlyforporn69 at 25/02/2022 at 15:14 UTC
44 upvotes, 3 direct replies
They should be banned to a isolated version of the internet that they can only contact other scammers. Let them all enjoy a digital purgatory of trying to scam each other.
Comment by DraftLevel28 at 25/02/2022 at 14:40 UTC
40 upvotes, 3 direct replies
This happened to me when I was younger only the said they were my grandfather. I didn’t have any left.
Comment by Pepu_Du_Pig at 25/02/2022 at 14:13 UTC
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I am so sorry for your loss
Comment by [deleted] at 25/02/2022 at 15:38 UTC
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Comment by Dynamo_Ham at 25/02/2022 at 15:18 UTC
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There's never been a tragedy without assholes ready to exploit it.
Comment by MissMayhem55 at 25/02/2022 at 15:01 UTC
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I no thy would do anything thy don't care what they're doing till people aslong as they line there pockets..lowest of the low..
Comment by wei-whoopsimgay-xian at 25/02/2022 at 17:44 UTC
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Ah shit im sorry man. Cant imagine how that must feel. My deepest condolences.
Comment by [deleted] at 25/02/2022 at 18:03 UTC
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people are terrible.
Comment by OddballDave at 25/02/2022 at 18:36 UTC
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My dad has been dead for 15 years and I still get cold callers/scammers ringing up asking for him.
Comment by RedShirtBrowncoat at 25/02/2022 at 19:39 UTC
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A year after mine died, I still got calls from scammers saying she signed up for a medical plan. I'd say I made decisions for her and ask when she applied for it. They'd always say within the past month. I'd tell them that she died a year ago, and they'd get real awkward.
Comment by yoginurse26 at 25/02/2022 at 19:59 UTC
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There is a special place in hell for those scumbags
Comment by SnooSquirrels9064 at 26/02/2022 at 06:14 UTC
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Someone cloned my grandmother's Facebook account and sent my wife a message. Can't remember what it was about, only remember that she died a few months prior.
Comment by Weird-Weakness-1735 at 26/02/2022 at 11:39 UTC
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Dude, that’s horrible! People can be complete garbage sometimes
Comment by [deleted] at 25/02/2022 at 15:05 UTC
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My father passed away last year ; his email account was compromised and to this day I still get emails from his address asking me to 'Check out this story/link'...
I hope these scammers all burn in hell and die an excruciatingly painful death.
Hope you're coping well with your loss, just remember, it could always be worse :) Life is life and no one is immortal.
Comment by alphawavesbetty at 25/02/2022 at 15:35 UTC
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I bet this scammer lives in Russia too.
Comment by YagamiIsGodonImgur at 25/02/2022 at 15:55 UTC
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I'm a "the third", and I got mail sent to me thinking I was my grandpa for years after his death. Mostly junk mail, but aarp was super pissed that "I" stopped payments for a while.
Comment by Probablynotspiders at 25/02/2022 at 16:02 UTC
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A few months after my dad died, I got a FB friend request from someone using his name and picture.
Maybe it was an old account of his, he was infamous for losing passwords and just opening new accounts. Maybe it was some sort of scammer.
Idk, but it did make me feel sad all over again
Comment by Freakychee at 25/02/2022 at 16:24 UTC
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Can we agree we say if anyone deserves torture it would be those people?
Comment by vendetta2115 at 25/02/2022 at 16:24 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Last year, my indoor-only cat got out of the house and was missing for several weeks. I made a post on Craigslist in the “lost & found pets” section asking for help in finding him. Someone messaged me saying “I found your cat, and I can return him, but first you need to send me the verification code you just received from Google Voice so I can confirm you are real.” They tried to use my desperation to get my cat back to scam me.
(btw, I did eventually find my cat, he was alive and unharmed).
Comment by goldanred at 25/02/2022 at 16:32 UTC
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My dad had just passed away when my mum got a scam from the CRA purporting that he owed a bunch of money to the government, so please pay in Steam gift cards before the RCMP comes and arrests her. She's in her 60s, doesn't know what Steam is! She bought the gift cards, but her cashier thought that something was suspicious, so helped my mum get her money back.
The reason the scam was believable is because my dad did owe tax money. But my bereaved mum thought that was legit.
Comment by LogMeOutScotty at 25/02/2022 at 16:33 UTC
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I’ve gotten letters for my grandpa within the last 2-3 years asking for donations to charities. The man died when I was 11, I’m now in my mid-30s and we never lived together.
Comment by [deleted] at 25/02/2022 at 19:10 UTC
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Reddit hates Dr. Phil (for good reason), but he's done several shows on internet scams. If an elderly person in your life respects him, try to sit them down and get them to watch one. If they hear it from him they might let loved ones install safeguards and be more vigilant with email.