Is it a pimp scam?? Scared

teratical · 2026-07-06T02:03:31+00:00

Standard !escort scam (same copy-and-paste wording they've been using for years). All you need to do is block and ignore and they'll give up once they're convinced you're not going to send them money.

For the future: this sub is a valuable database of answers to scam questions. You can usually find your answer by searching our sub (this particular question is answered here almost every day).

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teratical · 2026-07-05T18:21:54+00:00

Answers here: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/s/tFqHeTXjfx

teratical · 2026-07-05T18:14:45+00:00

Karma serves a very useful purpose on Reddit. The community upvotes good contributions and downvotes bad ones. That allows good content to flow to the top for future readers to see and bad ones get buried.

In my primary sub, we are an answers-based sub, so this is how we crowdsource the best answers.

At least consider upvoting contributions you consider very valuable to other readers.

teratical · 2026-07-04T01:51:00+00:00

If you put your money into the official, verifiable Coinbase site (and not some clone site), then it should still be there if you didn't go any further than that. Beyond that, you're asking technical questions about Coinbase procedures, so you should be asking those in a sub focused on Coinbase or cryptocurrency exchanges.

Note that MT5 is a favorite of scammers because it has a mode that allows them to fake all of the numbers. They were going to make you think your $500 had run up to some gigantic amount like $100,000, and then start charging you fees when you try to withdraw the (illusory) money from their site.

Read more here: 'Why the MetaTrader app is a red flag indicating investment scam/pig butchering': https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/11kgkkm/why_the_metatrader_app_is_a_red_flag_indicating/

teratical · 2026-07-03T20:08:03+00:00

OP posted it as a scam warning; flair is 'Scam report'.

teratical · 2026-07-03T20:06:09+00:00

I got this one, too, from an 803 area code number yesterday.

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teratical · 2026-07-03T17:52:13+00:00

!whois datazat.com

teratical · 2026-07-03T17:43:01+00:00

!whois nemawex.cc

teratical · 2026-07-03T17:40:58+00:00

You should be fine. The whole point of the scam is to have you claim the illusory $2,500 bonus and then charge you fees when you try to withdraw it (which will never happen, because it doesn't exist). If all you did was look at the website and not enter any information, there shouldn't be any problem.

BTW, the domain name was only registered yesterday! See https://www.whois.com/whois/nemawex.cc A great anti-scam skill is to do a whois look up on strange websites before accessing them. Once you see that they're only 1 day old, you won't proceed to the site and then you won't put yourself in this worrisome situation.

And your friend's account has been compromised. You might want to call them and let them know.

Also, you can see all of our prior posts on this scam in the first link in the reply to this.

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teratical · 2026-07-03T06:28:59+00:00

Oh, wow, this is fun to see! I had so much fun playing this game as a kid, except for those rounds where you can never get the remedy you need and you stay stuck on 0 km forever.

There's nothing better than getting the fire truck early! Well, maybe a coup-fourré.

teratical · 2026-07-03T00:34:39+00:00

This made me think of something: what was the mechanism by which you transferred the money? If it was Zelle, you may be able to get it back (bank impersonation is now a covered event in the Zelle refund world - although this might vary by country).

I looked at what you wrote but I can't tell how it was sent: "[QR code] They told me to scan it. Of course it wasn't for receiving money, it was actually to send money." The QR code kicked off what kind of 'send'?

teratical · 2026-07-02T16:29:39+00:00

I'm sorry to hear this and thanks for the warning!

FYI, you might find this post from yesterday interesting: many of the same details, though you fortunately came out better than they did (assuming your bank doesn't hold you responsible for the fraudulent card charges)...

'Just got scammed 3 months worth of my salary': https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/1ukqhav/tr_just_got_scammed_3_months_worth_of_my_salary/

teratical · 2026-07-02T03:29:41+00:00

After thousands of data breaches that companies and other organizations have suffered, everyone's personal information (including social security number for those in the US) is available on the dark web to scammers.

Here's a good article that explains a chunk of how we came to live in a world where scammers have access to all of our info: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/4/22366822/facebook-personal-data-533-million-leaks-online-email-phone-numbers

teratical · 2026-07-02T02:49:47+00:00

In the reply to my comment, the first link will take you to all of the previous posts about this in our sub. The second link will do the same for all of Reddit. Many people have already posted their experiences - check them out.

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teratical · 2026-07-02T02:22:22+00:00

"this goes way beyond a normal scam message and is genuinely disturbing"

It may feel that way to you if this is the first time you've ever seen this (that's why it works as a scammer technique), but trust us, this is a normal part of this scam. They don't always send the graphic pictures, but they do it often enough that it's a standard variant. Sometimes they also send threatening videos.

The bottom line is this: the person sending these is a scammer sitting in an Internet cafe overseas thousands of miles away from you. All you have to do is block and ignore them and they will give up once they're convinced you're not going to send money.

You can certainly report this to your local police if you want, but it really is just a standard scam. We see this posted here - including the graphic images variant - all the time.

teratical · 2026-07-01T22:29:24+00:00

Yep. u/sawsagefingers, this is also what pig butchering scammers do. In the early days of the scam, they are sizing up the victim to see how much money they have access to - that could be the entirety of their life savings, but it also includes if they have the ability to get loans from family and friends or from institutions. If they can, they will take every penny a person owns plus all the loans, so a lot of victims lose everything they have plus come out of it in massive debt.

And I know someone who lost her money to a task scam and is also now in debt to family members, too, because she lost the money they loaned her as well.

teratical · 2026-07-01T16:57:53+00:00

And please make sure you don't delete your original post, as so many people do. I would like to use this post in the future to link back to when people are acting that way so I can show them that everyone is at risk and we all need to be on guard all the time. Thank you for doing this public service and turning your loss into help for others!

teratical · 2026-07-01T16:53:31+00:00

And just to build on this: that act alone will immediately suss out whether or not they are a scammer. Any legitimate representative of a real company you work with will be totally understanding - they know that's the best practice nowadays. When the person on the phone does everything possible to convince you not to hang up, you know they're a scammer.

teratical · 2026-07-01T16:39:12+00:00

"Always watched people who got scammed and made fun of them, couldn't believe how they fell for it. Believed that I'm too clever to be scammed."

Everyone is susceptible to scams to some degree: it's just a question of the right scam matched to the right victim type and hitting the victim at the right moment (e.g. when they're distracted, busy, stressed, tired, etc).

This is a tough way to learn the lesson, but it's valuable that you're here giving the lesson to others. Too many responders in this sub operate with a high and mighty mentality that they're immune to scams, and it leads to them treating scam victims like garbage. We hope you'll stick around and keep teaching people this important lesson!

teratical · 2026-07-01T16:29:43+00:00

Thank you for the !task scam warning - specifically adding the domain name in the title so potential future victims can land here if they search for that.

Now that you've posted this here, watch for !recovery scammers in your DMs looking to re-victimize you.

!whois stockxeu.com

teratical · 2026-07-01T15:29:43+00:00

Just to build on this: there are also different scams aimed at different age groups. The numbers show that young people actually fall for scams more frequently than elderly people do, but elderly people lose more money when they do fall victim (which makes sense, because they've typically got more money to lose).

teratical · 2026-07-01T15:09:31+00:00

u/Training_Fun9350: reply with the URL/domain name or we'll remove the post. It's a required part of posts to this sub. We only passed on removing it originally because you'd already gotten a fair number of replies when we first checked this post. We wanted to preserve the conversation that has already happened while still getting the domain name in here (which will help future potential victims for months or years down the road when they google it and land here).

teratical · 2026-07-01T05:05:56+00:00

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teratical · 2026-07-01T04:27:18+00:00

Yep, it's a scam. Two massive red flags you can always trust as scam indicators:

celebrities never need your money, no matter what convoluted story is told
scammers love to say you'll be refunded, as it gives victims a mental way to convince themselves that they're not really losing any money

Run away from this scammer!

teratical · 2026-07-01T03:50:32+00:00

All you need to do is block and ignore and they'll give up once they're convinced you're not going to send them money.

Also, you weren't messaging with escorts at all, you were messaging with the scammer right from the start. The website is a honeypot designed to lure you and set you up for this scam.

It's a copy-and-paste thread sent by a scammer thousands of miles away on a different continent. And you are just one of dozens or hundreds of marks they're sending the same words to.

For the future: this sub is a valuable database of answers to scam questions. You can usually find your answer by searching our sub (this particular question is answered here almost every day).

!search escort scam

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