Nobody is going to believe me but that’s okay.

Do you know those Instagram fake accounts of regular people “flipping” money?

They claim you give them $300 and they turn it into $3000, $400 into $4000, and so on..

Unfortunately many desperate people fall for the scams because they have a feed full of luxuries and cash. To an average person, it’s clearly a scam, but yet people fall prey to these scammers everyday. Today it’s not as prevalent but I still see them out there. Here’s a good link pretty much explaining in a nutshell how they get people.

When I was 18 one of them DM’ed me asking me if I wanted to get some quick cash. I honestly had a good bit of money saved up already so I wasn’t money hungry at that time. I was already wasting my money on stupid things online like fake soccer cleats from aliexpress so I figured, why not? I spent some time reading exactly how they scam people so I decided to try to scam one myself.

I chatted with the scammer for a few days, posing as a skeptic and I told him if he could prove to me that he could flip my $100 into $200 I would send him $800 to flip into the $8000 he promised.

So I sent him $100.

A day went by and in my mind I was thinking, yep, this is what I get. But when I checked my balance on one of the Visa Prepaid cards - voila! $200 something dollars and a couple of cents.

Obviously he was trying to fish me to actually send the larger amount but I knew better. I said thanks :-) and I blocked him.

Riskiest and easiest $100 I’ve ever made. Not that I have never fallen prey for online scammers. I’ve given away my email many times by accident, ordered things that never came, lost some percentage of bitcoins but nothing too major.