What's the worst scam ever pulled on you?

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Scam, sham, flim-flam, double-cross, bait and switch, blindside, etc...The absolute most devastating scam/dishonesty that's ever befallen you. Something you NEVER saw coming and you haven't been the same since. Wiser? More cautious? Or withdrawn?

Comment please!!

Avoid listing being cheated on by a spouse/bf/gf, please as that's happened to virtually everyone and it's not what the poll is asking. Thanks.

It was financial (strictly CASH). 11
Tricked into promoting or using something against your ideals. 4
It involved theft of property (of ANY and ALL type and value). 5
A combination of two or more of the above. 4
Over the internet-It involved one of the many known internet scams. 13
Some other type not listed-please comment. 5
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  • lc1988
    12 years ago

    Paying for insurance and then still having to pay a lot for all the diabetes meds. SCAM! That's why there's never going to be a cure. They make too much money off of all the diabetics. Who would give that up?!

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    • Smartasscookie
      12 years ago

      just like with AIDS/HIV the country that will benefit the most is the poorer countries.

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  • KeyboardSolo
    12 years ago

    Public education.

    Kind of disgusting how they throw you in jail when you catch onto it.

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  • dappled
    12 years ago

    A kid at school taking an interest in me when I was 12 and always asking what I was doing at the weekend. My family used to go away for weekend breaks and the kid was only asking so that he and his elder brother could burgle my house.

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    • wigsplitz
      12 years ago

      Boy that's despicable! Did they end up breaking in or what?

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      • dappled
        12 years ago

        Yeah, four times. The last two times, they crapped in our beds just to really show us the error of our ways. Nice lads! What bothers me most is that my mother grew up in extreme poverty and the first thing she bought for herself was a cheap brass ornament when she was in her twenties. They nicked that the first time. It bothers me in retrospect because I might be the cause of her losing the first thing that made her feel she was getting a foothold on the ladder.

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  • DiscoDuck
    12 years ago

    Getting married...

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  • dookeyondoodoo
    12 years ago

    Gettin trickd into gettin trickd

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  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    Shock gum. Might I say more?

    Oh yeah, and I was six.

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  • sloppy_seconds
    12 years ago

    i was gangraped by a crowd of horny lesbians

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  • instazombiinaboxx
    12 years ago

    When I was 16 my family moved alot. My mother had some of her friends help us since my father wasn't around. We had 2 moving trucks. She drove one and had one of her friends drive the other. Her friend and our truck went missing and we never saw either again. Guess who's stuff was in that truck. (Hint: not my mother's or father's)

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  • la_uva_mojada
    12 years ago

    Somebody stole my birth certificate and stole my identity.. it was terrible.

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  • ThroughRock
    12 years ago

    Tricked into going to Lapland New Forest.

    "WHAT'S LAPLAND NEW FOREST?!" cries the crowd in confusion.

    Look it up on Wikipedia... it has an article. It's the cruellest scam ever.

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    • TotalAspie
      12 years ago

      Wow, that is really sad! I would have been angry if I took my family to something like this, but I don't feel that the workers deserved to be attacked. (I wouldn't blame the employees for their incompetence, but I'd have been chasing the park's management with a pitchfork and a torch for ever allowing something so awful to ever happen!)

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      12 years ago

      Ha I looked that up and wow, that's shitty.

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  • Legion
    12 years ago

    A girl asked me for sex, but two days later, i find out she was teasing. And yes, she was hot.

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