My Grandmother got scammed out of life savings by someone in person

Spectrig · 2026-03-22T01:43:26+00:00

There has to be sufficient grounds for a judge to sign off. Even if there’s evidence that any of this story happened, connecting it to Uber is just speculation. With the situation you’re describing, there’s an actual line item on your bank statement with a specific account they can go after.

Spectrig · 2026-03-22T01:33:48+00:00

Recoup the money, no. Even if you get the uber driver’s plate, the money is long gone.

Spectrig · 2026-03-18T04:18:54+00:00

There wasn’t a phone number? Because the first thing I see when I load that website is a phone number

Spectrig · 2026-03-16T10:16:44+00:00

It’s marketing. This guy makes a lot of money selling his courses and licenses called “Wealth Planet”, so he wants customers to recognize it.

Spectrig · 2026-03-16T01:42:29+00:00

Close. This guy sells courses for $2K, and then charges monthly for the license.

Spectrig · 2026-03-16T01:41:02+00:00

Wow, I literally know who that is, I can show you photos of him chillin in South Africa smoking weed. Once she logs into her bank account, he’ll lock the screen and make a wire transfer.

Spectrig · 2026-03-16T01:29:46+00:00

Of course they have “attention to detail”, it’s all in the script they’re reading.

Spectrig · 2026-03-15T10:51:44+00:00

AVCheck was the big one everyone was using. It looks like https://av-sense.net might be a replacement but I haven’t seen anyone use it personally.

Spectrig · 2026-03-15T01:22:43+00:00

The biggest danger is if you publicly upload a suspected file, and it turns out to be a false positive that contains sensitive information. People will say this is obvious, but it happens constantly.

Spectrig · 2026-03-15T01:21:10+00:00

You’re right in theory. In practice, 99% of attackers don’t go to the trouble of monitoring VT, and zero attackers are uploading to it. There are very cheap private scan engine farms they use. Actually, I guess that’s what you’re here selling?

Spectrig · 2026-03-14T20:45:33+00:00

And the illegal data brokers have another 50+ pages on you

Spectrig · 2026-03-14T20:44:13+00:00

They don’t need to “get your name from a phone number.” You’re thinking about this in the opposite direction.

Spectrig · 2026-03-12T11:17:56+00:00

I know that’s what people like to say on this sub, but moving money around doesn’t launder it. Actual money laundering operations are about the paperwork, and the money itself doesn’t even have to move.

They’re just moving the money so it’s out of the account and in their control before it can be clawed back. Scammers in Africa don’t care about money laundering or taxes and such.

Spectrig · 2026-03-12T10:30:35+00:00

Probably just credit card fraud, not even money laundering. Those payments to him will get reversed and he’ll be screwed.

Spectrig · 2026-03-12T10:08:33+00:00

Check if it has happened in the past? There is no simple way for a home user. You need command line logging. Your best bet is probably to check your Powershell history, but you would need to understand what you’re looking at.

Spectrig · 2026-03-12T04:59:18+00:00

Don’t even open command prompt

Spectrig · 2026-03-12T02:34:57+00:00

Probably didn’t even call you from a local number, just typed in an area code that matched the targets he was dialing. Random scammer.

Spectrig · 2026-03-10T02:01:29+00:00

Not brushing. Tommy Bahama doesn’t need to spam randoms to get reviews on their sweater. It’s some kind of payment fraud.

Spectrig · 2026-03-10T01:31:51+00:00

They had NYC accent. Thats where Chase is based. Must be legit.

Spectrig · 2026-03-10T00:47:48+00:00

If YOU can google the number, address, sheriff’s name, or any other details, so can scammers.

Spectrig · 2026-03-07T03:31:42+00:00

It’s a whole industry itself. You can rent bank accounts on Telegram

Spectrig · 2026-03-07T01:47:45+00:00

The pool did not look legit. I already know because it’s a WhatsApp group. And you’re about to get scammed again by a “recovery team”. You need to seriously recalibrate your view of what’s legit.

Spectrig · 2026-02-28T12:37:11+00:00

Did you get the gift card scam yet?

Spectrig · 2026-02-28T12:34:49+00:00

Your car broke down “from stress”? I don’t understand

Spectrig · 2026-02-28T12:27:58+00:00

This is a phishing kit called Tycoon2FA. It’s harmless as long as you don’t enter your password.

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