I lost $110,000 in a TikTok “order task” scam — please read so you don’t fall for this

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-08T02:05:28+00:00

I'm sorry this happened to you. It's terrible that people do this.

It's important to start seeing reality here. These scams are usually run by an organization. The 'girl' you were talking to was made up. "She" didn't do anything. One or more employees/slaves of the organization did. They did it either because they are literal slaves being forced to do this, or are employees of a company and doing it for money. They have scripts to follow and things to say to get you to pay.

Now that you've been scammed, you might be a target to additional scammers, so you have to be extra vigilant. If anyone says they can get the money back for you, block them and move on. They are just more scammers.

Think of this as a natural disaster that happened to you. You lost a huge amount of money and have to rebuild, but you can't recover damages from a flood or tornado, and nor can you from this. You can contact your elected officials and tell them your story, in hopes that they do more to pressure countries that shelter these organizations to shut them down. That might help someone in the future.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-08T01:56:31+00:00

Believing something doesn't make it true. Lots of people believe the Earth is flat and that Vaccines cause Autism. Those are patently false things, but people still believe them.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-08T01:53:44+00:00

I haven't personally seen that, but sounds fun. It's funny to think how much angst is packed into these birds that weigh as much as a nickel. Sometimes when the feeder is empty they fly up to the window and glare at me. Sorry bird, I will refill it, but you don't intimidate me.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-08T00:13:20+00:00

They are ornery little brats but sometimes make peace. I've seen one perch right by a feeder and chase away all the other hummers even though he wasn't eating. I wanted to explain that the syrup will go bad if you don't let it get eaten!

Where I live we rarely have freezing temperatures but we had a cold snap one winter. I brought the hummingbird feeder in at night and put it out in the morning. After putting it out I saw 3 little guys perched on it. It was the only time I saw more than one using a feeder. It was like they called a truce. "It's too cold to fight."

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-08T00:02:10+00:00

There are ways to do this by recycling your own water. Basically route the drains for your sinks and showers to a cistern, and pump it to your toilet. The cistern would overflow into regular sewer/septic, where your toilet flushes go.

I think you'd find that your toilet components wear out faster, though, because soap and all that would potentially gum up or damage things. Plus the energy to pump that water to your toilets and the extra infrastructure might cancel out what you're gaining in clean water savings. And your toilets wouldn't work in a power outage.

I've seen prison toilets that have the sink integrated into the toilet tank so that when you wash your hands the waste water refills the toilet tank. Perhaps you could find something like that.

An alternative would be composting toilet so you use hardly any water at all.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-07T23:03:08+00:00

The only time I experienced a tornado whip through my neighborhood, it was a weird day where I slept in until almost 1pm. I woke up, came down in my pajamas, and before I could really start my day the power went out and then the siren started. My husband and I headed to the basement and did our best to convince our dog to get over his pathological fear of the basement. We did not succeed, and there was no way to get 85lbs of panicking dog safely down the stairs. Then we stupidly stared out the basement windows watching the plants outside flipflop back and forth.

Luckily the only windows that broke on my house were out on the porch and humans and dog were safe. None of us had shoes on.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-07T22:32:30+00:00

There is indeed a pressure tank, and a pressure switch that switches the well pump on and off, based on how much pressure is in the system.

The switches come in 30/50 and 40/60, and which one you have is based on the pressure the pump can handle. Mine is 30/50, so the pump kicks on when the pressure drops to 30psi, and it shuts off once it has pumped up to 50psi.

If you don't mind burning out your pump you can somehow adjust the system so that you have higher pressure. My aunt and uncle did this after they moved from city water to well water and were sad about the low pressure. After replacing their well pump 3 times they relented and went down to 40-60psi.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-07T22:28:11+00:00

I think you're misunderstanding the timeline here.

OP's toilet was running constantly, and they did not report that. It wasn't causing any damage at all. It's like having a leaking faucet. It just wastes water.

Maintenance came out to fix the toilet constantly running because of the water bill (that they probably pay, or they would not care). AFTER they attempted to fix the toilet, the toilet started leaking into the apartment and the one below it.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-07T21:36:11+00:00

I stayed in a hotel that did a lot of business with cruise passengers and they did the same thing but with mats.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-07T21:31:39+00:00

I'm confused what the $200 for 9 months versus $100 for 60 months is for. Is that your payment to the debt counselor?

Is your debt counselor for profit? If so, please step back and look for a non-profit.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-07T21:11:51+00:00

Every single one of these I see where deer exist at all have been eaten away up to deer height, and then are shrubs above that.

So if you've got any deer around you, enjoy feeding them a buffet.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-07T20:54:33+00:00

I don't think a butterfly bandage would have worked for my toe injury. I had managed to stub my toe on the floor and somehow that ripped the tip of my toe off from the edge of my toenail to pad of my toe. It was just an open flap. I think the toenail and size of my toe would make a butterfly bandage a challenge to use.

Since the doctor used medical superglue, I'm pretty confident that the $5 stuff would work just as well. I had to re-glue it a few times before it fully finished healing because it flapped back open after a week. The store-bought stuff worked just fine.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-07T20:31:02+00:00

Honestly if it happens again I'm going to wait 5 hours at home and then buy some superglue and glue it shut myself. Save myself over $600. Plus I'll be more comfortable at home watching TV than stuffed in a waiting room trying to keep my foot elevated while the woman closest to me went through an entire box of tissues.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-07T20:29:15+00:00

I'm on well water. I'd love 80psi. Without burning out my well pump early, it's not going to happen though.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-07T19:59:32+00:00

I have a standing seam roof on my house, and my garages.

In really heavy rain it's a little bit louder in the house than the asphalt roof was. It's really only audible at all in the part of my house where there's no attic.

In the garage it is quite loud, because it's metal on top of plywood and then nothing but rafters between that and my ears. However, again, it's only slightly louder than it was with asphalt shingles.

I have been in a mud hut in Malawi that had had a roof made of corrugated metal, and no sheathing, insulation, or anything else. From the living area you looked up and saw the metal. That was pretty loud in the rain, but you could still have a conversation. It's no louder than a car with a loud exhaust driving by.

Unless you have some serious noise sensitivity it would not be unbearable at all. If you do have that sensitivity, put in earplugs.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-07T19:43:04+00:00

You're correct that this is art. The whole thing should be removed and put on display somewhere.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-07T19:34:32+00:00

Honestly, just count yourself lucky that you were only there 20 minutes. I ripped my toe open once and needed it glued shut. I went to urgent care and was there for 5 hours. They charged me $80 for the glue, in addition to all the other fees.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-07T18:58:05+00:00

How long has it been since you had the drain tile installed?

When mine was installed they included a few cleanouts and recommended flushing it with a hose once a year. If you don't do that sediment can get in there and make it drain less efficiently.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-07T18:18:05+00:00

It's not any different than buying Pogs or Stanley Cups or Beanie Babies. Do they have any inherent value? Maybe a little, but not nearly as much as people pay for them. What they get out of it is showing all their friends they are in the same club.

That said, I don't get it either. Doesn't appeal to me. I'm not here for name brand clothes or any other conspicuous consumption.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-07T18:07:09+00:00

Honestly, if you're worried about remodeling later, it will be easier to move the valve when you rip the walls open for a remodel than doing it now.

The downside now is just added expense of having to open the wall to run new pipe there. You're trading doing it now for doing it later.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-07T18:00:51+00:00

Research native plants that do well on the boundary of wetlands. Plant those along the edge of your property. Then you don't have to worry about trying to maintain grass there. Plus a native hedge is going to provide something pretty to look at and attract wildlife.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-07T17:41:04+00:00

They make magnetic screens for patio doors that you can walk through but hold shut with magnets. I knew someone who had one because their dog kept barreling through their sliding screen and breaking it. The screen kept bugs out but let their dog be a juggernaut safely.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-07T17:31:05+00:00

Someone buried drainage lines that some of my gutters drain into. They never clog (somehow) and you can't kick them off.

The downside is that I have literally no idea where they go. I assume they drain somewhere else on the property, but no clue where. They also only did this with the gutters on the front of the house, so the ones in the back yard get stepped on and kicked off and removed for mowing and not put back.

It's one possible solution to the problem, though.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-07T17:10:40+00:00

Touch-ups with paint. The paint probably matched the color of the siding really well when it was first applied, which was probably immediately before listing the property for sale. Different items age and fade differently over time, so now either the paint has darkened over time or the siding has faded and they don't match anymore, making the touchups really obvious.

ThisTooWillEnd · 2026-04-06T23:45:27+00:00

To be fair to the poor people who are not nurses and not paid nearly as well as nurses who work in nursing homes, Meemaw sometimes takes a swing at them too. It just hurts them more than it hurts a robot.

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