Anyone run into this?

picturetaker's Avatar
Contacted girl on escort site. She is in South side. Told me to buy an EBay gift card for the full amount but pay when I arrive. I told her it sounded too much like a scam/robbery situation and opted out.
berryberry's Avatar
Likely scam. I bet she (or he located who knows where) would ask you for the gift card number over the phone while you are at the door - and then boom, go dark
picturetaker's Avatar
that happened to me once. would not give number over phone...but still sounded bad.
As I now commonly reply, if they want money up front, or much worse a gift card, they are a guy in a hut in Bangladesh.
Easiest scam in the world to run.
picturetaker's Avatar
I fell for a scheme years ago and gave a girl the PIN number over the phone, she gave me the room number and when I got to the motel, the room was being cleaned.


The thing that threw me on this one was she said I would pay after I arrived. I would not have given PIN over the phone.
Still felt odd.
Almost fell for that one a couple of yrs ago. She wanted me to take a pic of the card numbers and text it to her. That told me that something was wrong with this picture. I was in front of her apt. building, and told her to come down to the security door so I could show her the card (she could see it through the glass at the side of the door. She declined, I left.