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Ken Dubbin :
This is incomprehensible. You’ve clearly been smart enough to have that money, then a random caller tells you to go buy gift cards and transfer your money to who knows where? I don’t get it. But, it should be a death penalty offence to steal that money.
2026-02-19 17:03:52
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bungry902 :
Amazing that there are people with 300k that can be talked into spending it on gift cards and giving it away.
2026-02-19 17:06:07
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bcliving :
I know someone who got scammed for over 200k he was convinced he was talking to Dwayne the rock Johnston 🤦♀️
2026-02-20 00:59:20
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Zckvps :
That sucks, anyways, millennials and Gen Z are struggling to pay bills soooooo
2026-02-19 18:39:30
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Sage :
This is the same generation telling us to pay for college with a summer job 🤣🤣🤣
2026-02-19 20:24:51
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Swaggergotstagger :
Weird. I get questioned from the bank and only able 3000 a day
2026-02-20 07:10:43
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Littlerose :
And this is why banks ask people what they are using the money for. Tbh I ain’t mad about it.
2026-02-19 16:41:48
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⚓️ AJ :
I do infact not feel bad
2026-02-19 18:01:47
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Zora :
Canada is now scammer number one country
2026-02-20 02:35:16
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LorenZo :
transfered using gift cards? c'mon 😭
2026-02-20 13:25:41
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Marissa: This is my Life♡🇨🇦 :
being poor saved me again
2026-02-19 18:21:34
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West :
300k in gift cards 😂
2026-02-19 16:43:33
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725536 :
300 grand in gift cards who does that
2026-02-19 22:38:10
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PandaGal :
I talk to my grandparents constantly about scams, don't trust anyone, especially anything to do with money.
2026-02-19 16:37:50
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Teresa Beaucamp :
Gift cards? Seriously?
2026-02-19 21:32:43
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Bekk :
I mean.... come on now
2026-02-19 16:39:15
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Jennifer Fortsch 🇨🇦 :
Why aren’t people getting this by now ?
2026-02-20 00:50:46
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CreatewithKat :
Just don’t pick up the phone
2026-02-20 00:03:20
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Mike :
after they hit 300k in withdrawals the bank finally said "hey you better call the police"? my grandfather took out a couple of thousand through the atm at Xmas time and they froze his account until he talked to the fraud department and had to explain it was for Xmas presents
2026-02-19 20:08:16
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adversity :
There needs to be more protection in place for the elderly
2026-02-19 22:43:04
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Sarah m :
I know they’re in their 80s, and I have sympathy, but gift cards!?
2026-02-19 21:27:39
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Laura 🇨🇦 :
Honestly, they could have asked somebody. Sorry that happened but hard to believe they did that.
2026-02-20 00:17:33
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zay-beee :
hundreds of thousands and here I need 3k to pay my bills if anyone cares
2026-02-19 16:46:25
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🖤 Raine 🖤 :
I was in a rexall drugstore once and the cashier was refusing to sell gift cards to an elderly lady who was literally on the phone with someone who had her convinced that she needed to buy them. When the person on the phone heard us telling her it was a scam he asked her to step outside so he could talk to her in private. She was confused and didn’t know who to believe. Made me so angry.
2026-02-20 14:07:01
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Mitch63 :
They wont get that back 😢😢👀
2026-02-19 18:07:09
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