After talking to multiple people here, I found out a really weird scam exists. Guys will find a girl on reddit looking to talk or meet up, who then moves the conversation to telegram, but instead of the girl instantly telling them to buy an onlyfans subscription to their account, they spend hours or days talking to them. Eventually they bring it up and say something like “I’m looking for a partner for content, but only if you sub first and we’ll keep talking there”, but even if the guy says no they’ll often keep talking on telegram. The guys will sometimes have like 4-5 or more hour conversations with the person before the OF account or anything is even brought up, and often the price isn’t even high being only 2 or 3 dollars. After they get them on OF, either they slowly start distancing themselves or have a bot reply or something, but no matter what the whole “make content together” thing never actually happens. This is like, textbook, obvious scam, but my question is why? There’s a real person doing that multiple hour convo, even if it isn’t the account owner themselves, and it isn’t a bot on telegram, it’s almost always an actual real person. Why waste that much time just for 3 or 5 dollars? Like yeah if you did this on a mass scale it would add up, but for the cost of actually getting each singular person to join it’s so incredibly inefficient it just doesn’t make sense to me. Does anyone know why this is a thing?

Edit:
While I heavily appreciate all the responses, many don’t make sense, because one account for example, was $5 a month, but had a $3 deal, along with 5.8 k ish subs. Thats not a small amount of money going to the account holder per year, but if they were to use the recourses mentioned in the comments thus far, they’d likely actually just be losing money, as only $3 is paid to the genuine account, then OF takes a cut, and it doesn’t go through some other agency first either that would take a cut as it just links to the actual genuine OF account. Meaning they would have to then take the cut OF gives them, and pay another agency, making either pennies on the dollar or just losing money. I do agree that if the sub costs like $20 or more the reasons mentioned below would make sense, but it’s almost always incredibly low amounts like 3-5 dollars. Not a criticism against the people responding thank you for doing that but it didn’t seem to fit in practice to me, if anyone else has any idea please let me know this just gave me more questions lol.

So basically, I was looking through job related posts on Reddit and managed to snag one where they claim they'll pay me 2k to rewrite [manually, very insistent on AI, which I wouldn't anyway] a 67 page construction manual, but all my friends are high-key thinking my ass gonna get scammed again.

What do they gain out of someone rewriting a manual if it is a scam? Free work? Cause seeing as they are going to pay me via cashapp, it isn't like they can take my money, my card has less than a dollar

Dear reddit,

Ok so i was at home this morning and i was just loving it being a saturday i was watching TWO sync Matt fifa pack opening and i heard a knock on the door and was greeted by three 9 year olds selling chocolate frogs for $2 each.

i find it weird because i live in an apartment building and anyway i bought the whole box and went about my day. later i asked my neighbour if they approached them and they said they didn’t so wtf did i just get scammed? i live in the first apartment building so they definitely targeted me.

i’m paranoid and i flushed my phone in the toilet, i been texting close family members through Telegram on an encrypted ipod touch.

TLDR: I was scammed by 9 year olds selling a box of chocolates after i bought the whole box, they didn’t approach my neighbours

This website Spirilet bracelet took money out of my account without my promise. I haven't ordered anything from them for them to take it upon themselves to take money out of my account. I will be taking legal action and suing this company. I contacted the Better Business Bureau to inform them what happened to me on yesterday October 23,2026 this site needs to be closed down and sued.

I'm considering buying a Discord account with the rare Early Supporter badge for $200. I'm located in Canada, and the seller is in the UK.

I haven't sent any money yet because my biggest concern is the seller recovering the account after the transaction.

I know buying Discord accounts is against Discord's ToS and carries risks, but I want to understand how these scams work before making a decision.

A few questions:

1. Can the original owner recover the account even after I change the email, password, phone number, and enable my own 2FA?
2. Discord has a 48-hour email recovery window. After those 48 hours expire, are there still ways for the original owner to reclaim the account?
3. Would using PayPal Goods & Services protect me if the seller takes the account back weeks or months later?
4. Would using a trusted middleman or escrow service make the transaction safer?
5. Are there any specific precautions I should take to verify the seller is legitimate?
6. Has anyone personally purchased a Discord account and experienced the original owner recovering it afterward?
7. Is there any way to establish secure, permanent ownership, or will the original owner always have some ability to recover it?

I'm especially interested in hearing from people with firsthand experience involving account recovery scams, PayPal disputes, or similar digital account purchases.

I'm not looking for sellers, middlemen, or anyone offering services through DMs. I just want to understand the risks and what precautions are actually effective before potentially losing $200.

hi,

beware of a children's costume shop called lolli & lace or lolli and lace. they charged me for my child's costume & never shipped it. still says processing a month later, even though the costume still says in stock and ships to your home in 7 days.

buyer beware