r/ScamSupport

I recently purchased 190$ worth of items from someone online - someone who I’ve also sold items to before so I have her full name, phone number, college, and address. I purchased January 31st through zelle, on Feb 7th she says she’s sick but will send out by the end of the week. After that she ghosted me till March 28th, and because it’s instagram I could see the whole time she was active and liking reels and some mutual friends said she was even purchasing more things from people through dms.

I reached out to another person who bought 174$ worth of stuff from her (I knew cause I saw their comment on her post) and she said she also had been ghosted. It took us threatening to call the police for her to respond saying she’d bought the labels for our packages, but the pictures of the label she sent say tracking not available when we put it in usps. On April 6th she said she’d send the packages out the next day, but it is now April 10th and the tracking still says unavailable and she is once again not responding.

I am wondering if since I have her address and all her info if filing a police report will be useful or just a waste? Or if there is something else I can do?

I am a person who has large knowledge with security and privacy. I have tons of layers of security both my personal and professional life both on paper trails and digital trails. But nothing protects you with a company that is neglecting youre own security. I even rotate my password and refresh it every 6-12 months, sometimes more often than my most job request their employees to refresh their passwords.

Today, I learned that IHG allowed a stranger to log in to my account and book with my points without giving me any kind of notification or alert. Instead, the scammer tried to send me and spam my inbox to confuse me from seeing the "confirmation" email that they booked 3 nights under my name.

What should have been a very relaxing night for me, end up me figuring out whats happening, changing password on ALL of my accounts, because IHG cant tell me how those scammers were able to get my account information. And lastly, dealing with IHG to claim back all my points.

This is unbelievable and very time consuming. The only good thing is that they told me that they are working on a 2FA system to be put live around 2nd/3rd quarter of this year. I cant believe that even with all of my precautions, it only took one flaw of a company to get my account comprimise.

So anyone who starts having spams all over the email inbox, check your IHG first.

Thanks for letting me vent.

I know im sol but I’m desperate! I live in Syracuse ny, title is from PA. We purchased a suv, Where it saids sellers and purchaser we all accidentally filled out wrong (switched spots) I’m like no biggie probably going to need a new title. Well the title doesn’t match the sellers name (bill of sale is under sellers name to). Well we message the seller and it’s a case of title jumping and he contacted the original owner and she’s not responding. We know the car is not stolen because a sheriff ran the vin. The title is notarized. This is what the seller is willing to do: he said he will register under his name and get it insured while we hold on to the plates the dmv gives us (we stay with him at dmv) and when the title comes in he transfers it to us (we have to pay the taxes) or he can give us 2,000 of the money back and when he gets paid he’ll pay us back (we paid 4,500). Honestly I’m at a lost not only was it all the money we had but we drove 1.5 hours for a suv that’s useless to us because of this whole title jumping mess. We have the vehicle, title (filled out wrong) and bill of sell. I genuinely don’t think he did it on purpose but who knows, Please any advice? What would you do? What are my next steps?

Back in 2022, I signed up to SnackPilot (I would’ve been around 13 at the time). I don’t remember clearly agreeing to any 12 month contract, and I definitely didn’t understand that I was committing to anything long-term I was signing up for any bs

At some point, I tried to cancel the subscription (around 1 or 2 years ago), and I even contacted their customer service. From what I remember, they told me it had been cancelled. Despite that, there were still attempts to charge me, but the payments were failing anyway.

The account was linked to PayPal, and I’ve since deleted that PayPal account and removed my card, so they can’t take any money from me. Now, out of nowhere, they’ve sent me an invoice for around €213, claiming it’s “damages” for breach of contract for the remaining months of a supposed subscription. They’ve said that even though I didn’t receive any boxes, I still owe them because I didn’t continue payments.

They’re also mentioning debt collection agencies if I don’t pay. I’ve looked at their reviews on trustpilot honestly half of them looked paid but many of the 1 star reviews are so similar to my experience except they managed to take money off them but not me and they have had similar threatening emails too.

They’re based in Germany while I’m based in the UK

A few things that seem off to me:

- I was under 18 when I signed up

- I don’t remember the 12-month term being clear at all

- I tried to cancel and was told it was cancelled

- I didn’t receive any goods

- The address on the invoice isn’t even correct

- I’ve seen multiple reviews from people describing almost identical situations

I’ve already sent them an email disputing the invoice and asking for proof of the contract and how they calculated the “damages.”

My questions are:

- Can they actually enforce this, especially given my age at the time?

- Can a debt collection agency do anything beyond sending letters/emails?

- Is this something I should be worried about legally, or is it more of a pressure tactic?

Any advice would be really appreciated.