Man Tricks Scammer Into Sending Him Money & Donates Cash To Charity
SCAMMER – As technology has developed, the number of scammers trying to manipulate people online has also increased.
Right now, all a scammer needs to attempt to swindle your money is an email account or a mobile phone. And oftentimes, these scams are obvious, but some people aren’t that techy and fall for the scam.
There have been several YouTubers that have actually made a series about out replying to scammers online. However, their attempt was just to annoy these scammers.
Recently, there has been a man in Ireland that has managed to out-scam some of these scammers. While replying to obvious scams in his email, he tricked three con artists into sending him money instead.
Ross Walsh, the 22-year-old anti-scam artist then donated the funds he got from the scammers to a charity. In the emails exchanged, he claimed to have already sent money and sends an attachment showing a fake money transfer.
According to Inquirer, Walsh told the scammers that the bank refused to process the transfer because it doesn’t look legitimate. He then told the scammers to send a small amount to his account for it to be approved.
After he receives the money, Walsh sent the scammers an invoice that showed their transferred money has been donated to charity. This definitely got scammers surprised.
His biggest success was a £25 or P1,600 transaction back in September. Walsh received an email from a certain Solomon Gundi who asked for £1,000 or P63,800 for a stock trading business.
Gundi then promised Walsh half of the business once the transfer was completed. Walsh pretended that he was a businessman himself.
He even went as far as acting insulted that Gundi only wanted £1,000. Afterward, he sent Gundi a doctored photo of a transfer worth £50,000 (P3.1 million).
Walsh told Gundi that the bank needs a small sum of money transferred from his account to prove the transaction isn’t a scam. The scammer then wired £25 without realizing he was the one scammed.
Walsh then sent Gundi an email forwarded from the Irish Cancer Society thanking him for the donation. Since then, the Solomon Gundi account was taken down.
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