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36 Scammers Who Got Baited And ‘Destroyed’ By The People They Were Trying To Rip Off

Article created by: Justinas Keturka

From text messages to e-mails and annoying calls, we've all received attention from scammers. It is a slimy business that tries to weasel money out from people. It's becoming a real problem as scammers prepare more and more sophisticated shams, going into fields like investment, tech support, foreign money exchange, or bogus debts.

Luckily, not all people get caught up in scammers' lies and sometimes even manage to troll them. We've gathered the funniest new instances when people caught scammers off guard and verbally destroyed them. So check them out below and don't forget to upvote your favorite ones.

#1 I Found This And I Hope It Can Lead To More Shenanigans With Scammers

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#2 The Person Who Had To Let A Scammer Down Easy

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#3 First Time Ever Interacting With A Scammer, Me And My GF Had A Laugh

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#4 Spent 4 Days Talking To A Scammer, Pretending To Make A Payment And Sending Him Fake Screenshots, Getting His Hopes Up But It Ending In Confusion. After The 10th Zelle Account He Send Me To "Try Out", I Told Him I Got A Weird Error. He Asked Me To Screenshot It For Him. I Sent Him This Lol :

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#5 Felt Like Messing With A Spammer

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#6 The Person Who Made Their Demands To A Scammer Very, Very Clear

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#7 I Hit The Video Call Button On Messenger And They Answered

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#8 Someone Pretending To Be The Chair Of My Department Tried To Scam Me. Did I Do This Right?

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#9 Bait Not Taken

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#10 Sorry, First Post. But Had To Share

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#11 Special Item For Ebay Scammers

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#12 A Little Something That I Whipped Up In Photoshop To Leave Them Scratching Their Heads

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#13 Me -1 Scammer -0

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#14 The Person Who Let A Scammer Know Exactly How They Do Business

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#15 My First One, How Did I Do?!

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#16 A Nigerian Grandma

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#17 I Think I Have Come On Too Strong

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#18 The Person Who Hit A Scammer With A Scam Of Their Own

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#19 Learn The Script, Break The Script

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#20 The Person Who Gave A Brutally Honest Update On Their Family To A Scammer

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#21 The Person Who Had To Break The Unfortunate News About Cindy To A Scammer

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#22 Confused Scammer Had To Start The Script Over

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#23 Free Wine

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#24 The Person Who Was Brutally Honest With A Scammer

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#25 The Person Who Was Kind Enough To Sign Up A Scammer For Some Helpful Updates

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#26 Perfect

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#27 The Person Who Met Their Mortal Enemy

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#28 I Am Not Happy

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#29 The Person Who Evoked The Wrath Of God From A Scammer

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#30 Hit Em With The Uno Reverse

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#31 I Gave A Scammer Another Scammers Phone Number. I Just Wish I Could Have Heard The Call

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#32 Fake Id I Used To Bait Out Address And Bank Info

Got an email from “The Illuminati” asking me to buy a membership card. Using the Dwight persona, I managed to bait out a name and address in Massachusetts, as well as one bank account’s information. This has all been forwarded to the authorities. I frustrated the scammers greatly by consistently failing to complete their payment instructions. They gave up in anger after seeing screenshots of me “redeeming” $1,250 worth of Steam gift cards.

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#33 A Small English Lesson

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#34 The Person Who Wrote A New Mission: Impossible Script With An Unknowing Scammer

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#35 The Person Who Requested The Secret Scammer Code

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#36 When The Scammer Adds You To A Group Chat 😮‍💨

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