10 Devious Con Artists Share Their Most Successful, Twisted Scams

Author image for mattstaff
mattstaff
Apr 17, 2017 6:00 PM EDT
Advertisement
  • 01
    Text - TARGET A friend managed to get a target uniform and borrowed a target name tag from his older brother then during Black Friday, he came in and during the chaos of the night/morning he walked off with a TV and Xbox. redundantusername
    via boxboy97
  • 02
    Transport - VIA AVENUE M VIA 60 ST В9 Walking into the bus station "Tare paid" area through the illegal bus bay entrance while holding the fare in my hand pretending to be confused, looking around, wondering where l should pay. If I got caught, I'd just play dumb and pay. Never got caught. -slavior
    via boxboy97
  • 03
    Cartoon - Back in 2002 I pretended I got hacked so somebody would give me a Geb. sold it for 200,000 Neopoints vernelli
    via boxboy97
  • 04
    Text - I watched my friend's dad steal a large, expensive generator from Home Depot. He put it on a flat cart and just walked out cradling a small dog with one armand holding a canceled credit card and an unrelated receipt in his teeth. He nodded at the guy at the door who checks receipts and just left. That was the day I knew what it was to be flabbergasted. -station
    via boxboy97
  • 05
    Text - This guy in college told me how in the 90's he setup a fake tech help hotline and charged the most per minute possible. He would then go downtown dressed in a suit and go to a random office pretending he had an interview and act surprised that he was in the wrong place and beg to use their phone. He would then call his hotline and pretend to have a conversation for just over a minute (so he got paid for two minutes) and thank the receptionist and leave. -althae
    via boxboy97
  • 06
    Roof - Pizza Hut P@েi I had the highest amount of points for my middle school for A.R. Tests. The answers were hidden in the source html on each question. I won a trip to Pizza Hut in a limo at the end of the year, but I was the only one that got enough points to go so it was a little disappointing. ChestBurger
    via boxboy97
  • 07
    Font - verizon wireless Mireless Verizon had a promo where from every phone you traded in, you got a $100 verh on SI giftcard, no limit and no account required. So we bought TONS of crappy $10 phones then opened up new lines with iphones (getting them free with a promo code and 2 year contract) and then cancelled the contracts and paid the early termination fees with the gift cards. I made a couple thousand but supposedly one dude cleared 20K. Pericles69420
    via boxboy97
  • 08
    Font - 04 I worked at a grocery store in high school. We took 12 packs of Coke out of the cases and then took two six packs of beer off the rings. We put the beer in the 12 packs and cokes on the 6 pack rings and put the Cokes on the shelves. We bought the case of Coke with the case of beer inside. It worked for months and I left without ever getting caught. daveed2001
    via boxboy97
  • 09
    Technology - I made fake coupons. Anything within a store with a upc barcode I could generate a upc barcode for. Anything and everything from cigarettes to bagelbites to Xbox 360s. The key was printing them know gloss paper to make them look and feel real no matter how ridiculous the discount was. O even had a cuecat (harcode scanner) at home thatI tested them with. It got to be such a huge thing that it made the local news and then stopped.
    via boxboy97
  • 10
    Text - I made a fake OKcupid profile of this insanely hot girlI went to high school with, just to get a feel for my competition as a guy. Ended up getting 100+ messages per day. Tadded an amazon wish list to the profile and told all the visitors to get me something if they wanted my attention Got a $280 Coach watch and a $400 purse in the maila few days later. Gave them to my mom and sister for Christmas that year. Apparently dudes get pretty thirsty. BoringPersonAMA
    via boxboy97

Want More? Follow Us and Add Us as a Preferred Source on Google.

Tags

scam
Scroll Down For The Next Article