What Is the Most Desperate Scam a Customer Has Tried to Pull on You? (Part 2)

[@evdrexel5192]

The girl on the thumbnail actually made those masks with a window for deaf/hard of hearing people who rely on lip reading to communicate with others. She donated lots of them to hospitals iirc

[@brittl5778]

Someone has that mask in my work but when I see her talking the mask starts fogging up so I can't even see her mouth

[@KrissyMeow]

Yeah I'm really confused why she's on the thumbnail. They need to change it.

[@DirtyPrancing]

You should link her page so people can donate

[@bananade5766]

wait..., that aint anti mask?

[@evdrexel5192]

@@bananade5766 nope. Just the opposite in fact

[@chrissycurtis4152]

Not a retail worker but I had a fun one the last couple of days. Selling my laptop and have a guy message me wanting to buy it. Says he is recovering from cancer surgery and self isolating so someone else will pick it up for him and he will pay via PayPal. All seems legit. We message back and forth confirming price and he says he'll let me know when he's sent the money and then I'll provide my full address. Get a message this morning saying he's paid but he also has to pay for the person to collect it so has sent that to me aswell and asks me to pay it to them (okay, pretty sus). Check PayPal, nothing. Then get an email from that guys email address pretending to be PayPal saying the money has been sent but will be held until I send £200 to an account 😂😂 I must admit he was dedicated to that scam 😂

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

Dedicated, but not smart. It's pretty easy to fake any email "from" address you want, if you know what you're doing, although it's pretty much impossible to fake the email "headers" which will identify the real ISP the email came from, and their location. You can use any free "whois" site on the 'Net to get this information from the headers. Email programs hide the headers by default, but they all have an option to show the headers so you can copy-paste them.

[@billsmith6884]

Not retail, but I lived in Bangkok for years back in the 90s. I had two African guys try to pull the old money with "special security dye" on it. They had a letter from the US treasury backing this (America was spelt Amerika in one place). They wanted $3000 US dollars to buy the chemicals to clean what they claimed was a suitcase with $100 000 in it. I told them that I didn't have the money, but my Thai friend was a business owner and he would. I arranged to introduce them to him the next day. I went to the tourist police and they sent a detective with me the next day. The cops threw their scamming asses into jail until they deported them back to Nirobbery.

[@kaylapounds1359]

Ah, so that was what they did before the internet gained steam and they could catfish people with lottery and IRS scams.

[@snowwhitehair485]

Many years ago a young cashier at the bank I worked at was accosted on his way home just outside the branch by a customer he had cashed a cheque for earlier in the day. She claimed that he had seriously short-changed her. Other staff and management became involved as they were all leaving at the same time. Although the till had been balanced it looked like the bank would have to make reimbursement the next day. That evening, one of the senior clerks happened to meet up in a pub with a mate who worked at the local betting shop and told his mate of this incident. The betting shop employee told him in turn that the same lady had lost heavily while gambling earlier in the day. The young bank cashier was a born-again christian and as honest as the day is long. No refund was made and the subsequent bank interview card relating to the incident made interesting reading.

[@j.munday7913]

Anytime they ask for a discount for church I'm like suuuuuuuure, whats your tax exempt number? Silence all around.

[@payb1077]

Dude, I feel you with the tax exempt number. I worked in a call center for a business that sells product to a lot of teachers, and I’d get call in complaints ALL the time (probably 75% of the calls I took) about how we “over charged them”. The thing is, if they ordered product from our website, the computer automatically charges tax. They are able to call in and place an order, but then there are certain things they cannot purchase (difficult system). What we were able to do was remove/refund the tax AFTER it was charged, but only if their school had sent a copy of their tax exempt certificate. You have no idea how many times I got chewed out because “I’m a TEACHER, it should AUTOMATICALLY be tax exempt! Let me speak to someone higher up!”...Ok! Sometimes I worry I sounded too happy to transfer them to my supervisor lol

[@CSKaras]

@@payb1077 I am a teacher. I will ask for discounts or donations or such all the time. However, I do it BEFORE I am at the register checking out and I am transparent: I have my ID, will send the emails you ask, will get the tax exempt form if/when I can for the purchase, will turn it into my bookkeeper so you can get proof for your tax write-offs, etc. And if you can't give me anything, I shrug and make the purchase as it is or I will do what needs to be done to make it official.

[@skarmex3439]

I could never work in retail, the customers are bad enough, but when your own f*cking company doesn’t have your back and bends over backwards for the customer when they KNOW they are lying or scamming is what I could never deal with.

[@ukaszanioowski9722]

2:20 if you would over-change him, the money would be coming out of YOUR paycheck, meaning that it technically was your money

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

Where I come from, that's illegal. I'm pretty sure it's wage theft in the USA as well, but that doesn't mean that some stores don't illegally do it anyway, as long as they're allowed to get away with it.

[@WASDLeftClick]

This kind of thing happens a lot because people are greedy and the US government pretty much refuses to regulate the economy these days. Hell, there’s multiple monopolies at the moment and not a lot is being done about it. Doesn’t help that Trump took away what little teeth the EPA had so his fat-cat friends in the fossil fuel industry can make more money at the expense of the environment and the common people.

[@igtut1]

That's illegal in the US. Unfortunately, bad employers will exploit the fact that not everyone knows that.

[@hk4124]

Omfg the church thing!!! "This is for church can we have a discount" Or even worse " This is for church, would you like to donate it to us?"

[@JoshTigerheart]

I basically have a joke now where I imitate those types of customers where it's like: "Can I get a discount on this? It's for the homeless people who go to the restaurant in my church's school seven states away."

[@jonathanrogers9039]

Real non-profit organizations, including churches have a state issued form that excuses them from taxes. Our university used these on ALL purchases

[@KrissyMeow]

@@jonathanrogers9039 Yeah, but people will ask for the entire purchase to be for free or donated claiming for it to be "for a church." They aren't just wanting tax exemption.

[@karaoconnoraliasraidra]

Next time someone tries that, bring up II Samuel 24:20-24, in which King David refused to offer a freebie because he felt it wouldn't mean anything.

[@potaterjim]

Man, I've had a few people call about "donations to fundraisers". I always assumed they were just stupid and thought a low level employee had the authority to write off product. I didn't even think it might be a scam till now, but that makes way more sense

[@jacob3988]

21:40 if assisting fraud/identity theft carried the same penalty as doing it yourself, the manager would be arrested for insinuating that the cashier should have let her buy. We need a change for that

[@alienboi2164]

On the story with the homeless girl that said "Its fine I work here" Honestly the Manager could've said "fine your fired than"

[@madderandmadder]

I work at a theme park, and we have a disability service you have to sign up for, then you go to the ride and get a time to come back. We're required to be courteous so oftentimes if someone tries to sign up for a time but didn't realize their service had expired or that they had to register at all, we let them in this one time and tell them they need to go to the front of the park to sign up before they can use it again. Most people are good people or ay least aren't willing to get in trouble and follow the rules. One family kept exploiting this throughout the park, telling a story about how their daughter unexpectedly hurt herself and they didn't realize they needed it. They kept getting let on rides without registering. What they didn't count on was an employee being pulled from one attraction to work at another one that was short staffed, recognizing them, and notifying their manager. Security was notified and was waiting at all the disability entrances in the area. It was very gratifying to know that not only were they caught, but they also got escorted out of the park for it.

[@nathanielturner2577]

These scam artists make me seem like Mother Theresa . When I was at a gas station once I pointed out when somebody gave me a dime instead of a penny with my lose change . I didn’t want to steal from them even if it was only 9 cents.

[@conorflynn1218]

I got a phone call maybe a year ago from someone claiming to be from the irish bureau of health care and he needed my bank details to link to my account. I just laughed and hung up, there is no irish bureau of health care

[@lukehendrix3457]

Was his name Leo V by anychance ??

[@renaysari6631]

This wasn't a scam, but a teaching lesson for my son. He went to the grocery store one night, and came home all excited. He went to the self serve thingy and the machine gave him an extra $20 back. I sat him down and explained to him how the person that loaded that machine would get in trouble for money being missing, explained how they loaded it, signed off on how much money was put in, and how they counted it down to make sure all the cash was there. I was so proud of him, he understood and returned the $20. Who knows what happened if the person he told pocket it, or what, but it did my heart good to see that my child understood why that was wrong.

[@Platysmapus]

When I was working at Target a girl I went to high school with and her boyfriend tried to pull the dumbest scam ever. They had two carts worth of stuff and paid with a refillable gift card. It didn’t cover the entire cost. She asked for the card back and said she had another. I watched her put it in her purse and then pull the same card out and say try this one. I did, it was empty. She asked for it back. We went back and forth doing this at least 4 times before her BF starts screaming that the card isn’t empty. I call over a manager and they end up putting most of their stuff back without a fight. I worked at a laundromat dry cleaners. People would demand refunds for items obviously cleaned elsewhere. We also had a mother and daughter who were constantly pulling scams. They would start off overly sweet, always bringing Jesus into it, but then scream and threaten us when we wouldn’t give in. We would also get people I. From a halfway house. They would come in with checks written out to us. We were to load the money onto laundry cards and they were by no means to be given cash. Well, some guys would come in sweating bullets and screaming when I wouldn’t give them cash. I found out most of my coworkers would just give them the cash because they were afraid of confrontation. I worked with idiot babies.

[@JordanHeil-jp9wu]

the first story is the reason we were taught to count it in our hand and then count it a second time on the counter in front of the customer

[@CSKaras]

I was about to say something like this. All the years I worked retail, I would count out the change on the counter or into the hand one bill and coin at a time. I even count it out on the counter when I am the customer. If I ever had someone still try to challenge it, I pulled out a calculator that I kept on me or at my register, and we did the math on it to check if it was right. It always was. Don't know how many potential scammers these two things stopped, though I am sure a couple were stymied. I don't remember who taught me to do this (it wasn't one of my employers).

[@godzillaxl6359]

I'm a bartender at a hotel. One night a guy that already bought drinks in the night came up and bought more with a Fifty dollar bill. I check it and give him back his correct charge. He leaves and comes back about 20 minutes later. Close to closing time. And he says I didn't give him the rest of his money earlier. Since I was the one that dealt with him before I reasure him that I did give him back his change. He said he gave me a hundred dollar bill and I smiled a little inside knowing I didn't get a single hundred dollar bill that night. I grabbed his room info in which he ended up giving me a wrong room number because I called to check up on him after I counted the money and verified. Never saw him again. I dodged a bullet with that one because he was getting super aggressive and yelling in front of other people but I wouldn't back down.

[@kristinawentz8801]

I used to run register at my old job. A lady said I didn't give her $20 bucks. My drawer was checked and it came out perfect. They still gave her $20 bucks. That still gripes me years later.

[@kaylapounds1359]

I had that happen at 2 jobs. The first was Golden Corral. They didn't check the registers, just have her the money back automatically and yep the drawer was short at the end of the night. The second was at my current job, here the policy is pull the drawer and check the money, if the drawer is correct, then it's on the customer who lost it somewhere, therefore not our fault and we don't give them free money.

[@WeavileLady]

Sometimes the money isn’t worth the fuss, it’s best just move on, keep the business flow going…. To a point however

[@kris_creations1338]

5:28 oh my gosh, you have NO IDEA how common this was at the store I used to work at 😅. Some people don’t understand that when we scan the barcode, it says on our screen what item that barcode belongs to. It’s funny seeing “$2 Ibuprofen” pop up on a $30 jacket 🤣🤣

[@jackhemsworth7515]

i've moved a promotional sleeve from one bottle to another, but never the actual tag.

[@JoshTigerheart]

Couple stories here from a grocery store meat market, among many stories from numerous departments. 1) We had new york strip steaks on sale, but were sold out. A customer came in and insisted I give him ribeye steaks at the sale price because "they are basically the same thing." No, NY strips are just basically boneless t-bone steaks. Either way, I refused and they eventually left when I told them I need a manager to approve any price changes regardless. 2) For whatever reason, ox tails are insanely popular here. A customer asked me if I had any I was marking on "reduced", basically meat on it's last day before we have to toss it. Of course, ox-tails never last that long here. We're lucky if they make it more than a day. She then asked me if we could cut some fresh ox tails and then mark them as reduced. I declined.

[@Little_Sprite95]

I once dropped my phone in a supermarket, I went back to look for it and asked security. They wanted a description so I told them the model, case and the lockscreen. They gave me my phone back and I am forever grateful that they wanted to make sure it went to the owner.

[@kaylapounds1359]

Unfortunately that's only if they or an honest customer finds it. Where I work (a thrift store) a lady once lost her phone. When we checked the cameras, she had left it accidentally in our shoe section. A couple was over that was, they saw the phone, looked around and then the man pocketed it.

[@ARedMagicMarker]

What ding-dong gets his GIRLFRIEND'S ultrasound to prove that HE'S over 18?

[@wolfarcher9972]

Oh this is newer

[@rachelranderson]

Super sucky that the checker that called the b***** out on credit card fraud got in trouble. My dad had his card stolen and they got away with over $400 worth of gift cards before the account was shut down. If only cashiers were allowed to question shady people...

[@jacob3988]

Thats when you sue the company that allowed it, they'll change their tune about fraud practices real quick

[@pembrokelove]

I don’t understand why you used the thumbnail you did. :/ that is an image of a very sweet girl who developed a way to put clear panels in masks to help people who read lips.

[@Dervraka]

Back in my college years I worked at a RadioShack, had this one guy claim in and demand he wanted an $900 TV for $39 because someone had sat a $39 sales placard for a TV Antenna next to it. Swore it was store policy and the law that if something was tagged we had to let him have it for that price (it was neither, in fact in the small legal print on all sales tags it actually said the store was not responsible for mis-tagged items.) We basically laughed at him, he demanded to see the manager, the manager basically laughed at him, he demanded the phone number for the district manager, same result. Spent three hours and worked his way all the way up to corporate in Fort Worth, TX and was told the same thing.) Then a few weeks later we got a notice in the mail from the state Attorney General Consumer Protection Division that he had filed a formal complaint. We responded with exactly what we told him and it was quickly resolved in our favor.

[@otinaj]

2:16 And i took that personally

[@Monte8Carlo]

I was covering the cashiers break and had 2 customers come in and bring every item they were looking at to the front. We have price checkers all over the store. A lot of things they were looking at were clearance items, so they had the before and now prices on them. They bring a $75 clearance item to the front, and are like "Oh, but I want it" and go back to the clearance section. They return a few minutes later with a $0.25 sticker they obviously pulled off another item, and stuck it over top the $75.00 sticker. I notice the sticker is literally peeling off everywhere but in the middle. I scan it and tell them it's $83.25 with tax, and they inform me the item is actually only $0.25. I said "You just brought this up here and I scanned it for you... I think someone accidentally put this sticker over top this sticker" *peels off cheap price to reveal the actual price!* They try fight with me for a little by each saying "The tag says its a quarter". So I tell them, "Sorry, but I can't give it to for that price". Then they leave. TLDR: Customers get me to price check an item that has a $75 price tag on it, return later with a $0.25 tag they peeled off another item and slapped on the $75 item.

[@kaylapounds1359]

I work in a thrift store and in the office we have a "wall of shame" of people who steal outright, switch stickers, etc. One of the people was caught at our sister store switching tags. Our computers are fully refurbished and have a set price, $150 for desktops and $175 for laptops. She brought a computer up with a $6.99 sticker. Do people really think others are that dumb?!

[@zachf748]

3:08 I cannot fathom anyone is stupid enough to take a check that _only he_ could cash… Lol.

[@ryancoulter4797]

Post office. Guy came in with 2 2’x2’x2’ boxes to ship with 3 more in his car. He said he was prepared because he prelabelled them online and handed me the label. It’s standard (like 2+2=4 standard) practice that there’s one bar code per label per box. What this guy had done was print out one barcode label and then copied the same barcode four more times. We said we could use that label for one box only. He put up quite a huff saying he did this all the time but we stood our ground. He walked out shouting and red faced. We never saw him again but we’re pretty sure he tried the same stunt at the next post office down the road. That and people trying to send stuff COD, even a lady who was moving and trying to send her boxes of clothes COD (her stuff through the mail while she caught a bus). COD is no longer ‘free until you pick it up’, there’s postage and a deposit that you get back at the other end. They heard that and they all walked away.

[@jeannebuttons5301]

Years ago at another job I had a guy hand me cash and I counted it out loud in front of him. "Twenty...Fourty...Sixty...Sixty one..." The guy took offense to me doing this, but I assured him it was how I was trained. "Sixty Two..." He then tried to say I counted $67 prior to the interruption. "Oh, my bad, I'll start again. Twenty..." The man was going on about how he was in a hurry and how I was holding exactly $71. "Of course, however I am required to count back the money handed to me. Twenty..." He asked for his money back and would pay with card. "Of Course, I will count it back into your hand. Twenty..." He sat there upset, I counted back his money and when I finished counting the $66 dollars he started to insinuate I had put part of it in the register which I never opened. "Hey, Register Lead who was standing right behind me this whole time would you please confirm my register is balanced?" The man changed his tune, paid with card and left.

[@Feruchadam]

Seeing the first story, that reminded me of my own time working in a cafe. This man ordered 2 blended drinks, and then he returned the drinks when it was almost empty saying he found this long ‘unblended hair’ inside the drinks and asked for a change, and I proceed to apologise and when I tried to take their supposed ‘contaminated’ drinks, they were hesitant and one of the man said he wanted to finish it (and made me hella confused as to why he would do that) and I was still pretty new that day and my supervisor were quickly jumped in and said “There’s practically bollocks for a FULL LENGTH COMPLETE (he really emphasised these words that time) hair to be inside the blended drinks, for one cup- i can understand maybe it got there. But for both of it? Its just nonsense. And sorry, but why you still wanted to take those contaminated drinks anyway? When we will still replace your drinks? Pretty suspicious to me.” And then those two men laughed and involuntarily handed their ‘hairy’ drinks and my SPV handed them only one new drink. Later that day, he explained to me that actually quite a lot of people done that, especially the college kids, and most of them doing that to try leverage free drinks for their friends that were on their way to study at the cafe (since the place where I work is close to a uni) And also my SPV even asked for that hair (the dedication lmao) and he even washed them and dried it to prove if those even the hair from one of us. It was long and curly- just like one of the man had, while I had short pixie cut at that time- and the other working with me was male all with short hair cuts.... so....... yeah lol

[@robinw.8083]

Stops $500 theft. Is given box of chocolates.

[@AdviserMoppet]

Worked in a retail pharmacy and once a month or so we'd have a morbidly obese woman in her early 40's come in 45 minutes to closing, shop as slowly as possible and wait for us to make the closing announcement on the intercom. She would come up to the register with a cart full of stuff and complain about the prices on everything and try to get discounts and use coupons for the wrong shit. This lady is a registered nurse and has been for over 15 years so she makes good money. More than any of us. She does this because she knows we want to go home and she has a better chance of getting what she wants if she keeps us there. Never worked for her though but she kept trying.

[@YoYo-gt5iq]

I wanted to confirm that Amazon sales were being recorded for items they were warehousing for me, so I put up a Craigslist ad asking ppl to place the order (and, of course, not cancel). This 1 guy offered to write a review from all of his 25 Amazon accounts for $10 each. I said, "No, I just need to confirm the orders and shipments." Dude emailed me 5 more times like I was holding out on him from my fake review biz that he was convinced I had.

[@captainobvious9233]

Working at a Pizza Place, I always had people who'd call to complain about a pizza being made wrong, being cold, etc. When I informed them that I'd send a driver out to deliver a new one and take the old one, they ALWAYS said, word for word "But we threw it away. I'm not digging through the trash!" And I'd say, "When you buy a new TV, phone or whatever and it doesn't work, do you throw it away or do you take it back to exchange it?" Then before they could answer I'd say, "If you deliver the bad pizza to my driver when he arrives, I will give you one free pizza a week for the next month." Yet no one has ever handed back their 'bad' pizza.

[@ragingraichu219]

It was close to closing time, maybe an hour away from it, for a Pizza Hut my mom and I ordered from one night. The pizza we got was old, cold, hard, and absolutely disgusting. Oh you bet your bottom she called the next day and complained about it. Got a free pizza out of it, and I bet the employees got a good chewing out. At least I hope they did, that was unacceptable on all levels. Safe to say, we switched to Donatos as our main pizza place after that one.

[@Graycata]

The switching your shoes one reminds me of something my dad did. He found a pair he liked, kept the new pair on, put his old ones in the box and brought the box up to purchase. The cashier, obviously, had a confused expression when she opened the shoe box to see old dirty sneakers. It was explained to her that he was wearing the shoes that were supposed to be in the box

[@justSunny7]

My mom has bought laundry detergent that turned out to be water twice now. I told her to start opening it to check before buy it. It's such a pain in the ass to start a load of clothes only to realize that the "laundry detergent" is just water 🙄

[@salemsrevenge]

seriously!? I have never heard of anyone doing that! wonder what excuse is given when they return laundry soap🧐?

[@mikedawolf95]

10:32 OP is a bro 😎, also honesty is sometimes the best policy

[@amberparks-newlove6378]

Had a woman come in once who was very clearly on drugs and picked up items and came up to me saying she wanted to return them. I asked her if she had a receipt and she says no and just walks out. Definitely the weirder ones

[@swirlingdimension]

At the restaurant I worked at for 15 years (prior to covid) about 10 years ago, when i was a cashier, a guy came up with a togo bag with a Styrofoam box inside and started ranting over how he ordered a sandwich from us the previous night and how he asked for no mustard on it, and how it came with mustard anyhow and could he please get a new sandwich because he hates mustard :( I explained that 1: We didn't have an order for a turkey sandwich the previous night and 2: we don't put mustard on our sandwiches (we put condiments in small containers on the side) Then he legit tries to tell me and the other server who was standing at my counter that he didn't see any of us last night, and we replied that we are the same crew from last night, too. He left mumbling to himself lmao what a loser.

[@randomstuff-qu7sh]

I kind of like that Amazon deliveries now have a photo of where it was left. I'm pretty sure they do it so that they don't have to replace it if the package is stolen after delivery, but it can also be useful to the customer, since it can provide you with photographic evidence the package was left at the wrong address (unless you live somewhere where all the homes look identical).

[@chefz2749]

I used to sell TVs at Sears. A man came up to me reeking of cigarettes and got right up in my face trying to tell me that Walmart sold a TV for half of what we did and shoving the ad in my face. We price-matched our TVs - but only for identical models. He tried to tell us over and over it was the same - but a quick search revealed it wasn’t. He quickly left. I think the manager intervened and explained everything, and that was when he finally gave up.

[@BloodrealmX]

You will very rarely be able to price match things like appliances from Wal-Mart because they specifically commission _slightly_ crappier but otherwise identical versions of products (e.g. some of the metal parts are plastic instead) so that they can claim they sell things for less and not have to price match things even though they offer price matching on identical products. Funny how it worked in _your_ favour that time.

[@UncleMikeDrop]

I once had a customer try to return a Supetstart battery. The problem is that this occurred in a Wal-Mart and Superstart is the O'Reilly Autoparts brand.

[@MissLilianae]

Not sure if it was a scam (probably was in a way): Years ago I worked for my local Subway branch, had a woman and two teenage girls come in and order three six inches (one each). My coworker and I went back to our usual tasks, and after a few minutes I noticed the woman and one of the girls at the counter again. Approaching and asking how I could help, the girl explained that the mayo she got on her sandwich was making her feel sick (Personal thought: Why would you get mayo if it makes you sick?) so they asked if she could get a refund since she "Didn't eat the sandwich" and had it laying on the counter between us. I said sure and rang them up the refund, then once they were out the door and I went to grab the "sandwich" and the bag it was wrapped in immediately crumbled in my hands, turns out they had left the rounded end of her six inch in the bag to act as the "base" and wrapped the bag back around nothing but air to make it look like the six inch was still in the bag. My coworker and I felt extremely dumb after that because we then remembered that they had used a BOGO coupon and the mayo girl's sandwich was the one that rang up for free. I then called my manager and gave him the time and descriptions of the girl and the woman. As far as I know they're still blacklisted from that location (haven't check in that place in over 2 years). TL;DR Woman and teenage girl tricked two subway employees into paying them to eat a six inch sandwich.

[@Fimbulvinter19]

Probably the fairly standard tax time scams for me. Call from a private number, robotic voice saying that my tax number has been suspended due to 'fraudulent activity,' and that if I don't want it to escalate to federal court and have a warrant issued for my arrest, I'd better take the government's generous offer to settle the dispute for a mere $1000. Of course, there's no identifying information that goes with it, such as addressing me by name, quoting my unique associated tax number, or any option to talk to an actual person, not that that last would actually mean anything.

[@BoondockBrony]

About a month or so ago. My manager caught a scammer who tried to charge two seperate but identical orders that were to be charged on the same card. This is a set up for credit card fraud as you then call your credit card company that Taco Bell (for example) charged you twice to get two meals for the price of one. My manager caught on quick and the dude just drove off in a huff.

[@brucea9871]

Years ago when I worked in a pizza restaurant a man came in with the following story. He claimed he was from outside the area and had been here a few months ago, ordered a pizza but it was prepared improperly (perhaps the wrong toppings) and was promised a free pizza the next time he was in the area. So here he was to get his "free" pizza. I was in the kitchen while he was giving this story and the manager came back to ask me about it. The man claimed it was a male employee whom he had dealt with when his pizza was supposedly prepared improperly and promised him a free pizza - but I was the only male employee there at the time. That's why the manager asked me about it, and as I told her I never promised anybody a free pizza for any reason (indeed I didn't have the authority to do so). This guy clearly concocted his cockamamie story in an attempt to get a free pizza. A different attempt by a woman did succeed (but it wouldn't have if I had been the manager). A woman called claiming there was a death in her family and they wanted a pizza but didn't currently have the money to pay for it. She asked if we would deliver one and she would pay us later. I knew immediately it was a sob story in an attempt to get a free pizza but unbelievably the manager approved it. When it was delivered the woman then had the audacity to complain about the trouble she had to go through to get a pizza. Well if you actually PAID for it like a normal person there would have been no trouble at all. Sure enough I was right; the woman never paid for it (in fact she claimed she never ordered it).

[@redsus7569]

Lol when I was in third or fourth grade I found ants inside my bottle after I finished my icee and they must've thought I was complaining cause they gave me another cup.

[@bobbyeustace6706]

This is in Australia The shopping trolleys have a hook to hang shopping bags on under the handle you push. Someone would hang a roast chicken (they come in a bag) on the hook, unload their shopping except the chicken. Pay for the items and the load back up with a not paid for chicken

[@wschnabel1987]

Had a collection company calling me 14 times a day looking for this one lady and would spoof there number every time. They finally said this was a verified number for the person they were looking for and if I didn't put her on they would arrest me. So, I gave them the phone number for the local police department and out of sheer annoyance I pulled a Peter Griffin and farted a nice wet sounding one into the phone. They have not called me since.

[@craigQuixote]

I had someone ask for change for a $20. I gave her a $10 and 2 $5s, she said "oh, wait, I forgot I needed $1's for an event, can you do that?" She made a few confusing statements (I don't remember how it went exactly, this was about 30 years ago) anyway she then says, "lets start start over," pushes the $10 and $5s I gave her, and says "I'll just take the $1s" and had slipped the $20 into her pocket. She was trying to get me to make change for the money I put out and tried to keep the $20.

[@DarkDreamsAndMoonlitNights]

Worked at a KFC in a food court. Guy orders a Zinger Bacon and Cheese meal. He walks to a table, opens the burger and takes out the bacon. Eats the slice, takes a bite of the burger and then brings the burger back. “You didn’t give me bacon on my burger! I want a refund!” I stared at him with a deadpan face. “Sir…you’re aware that there are cameras in the food court, right? Also, I saw you eat it.” He ended up walking off, looking a bit pale. Never saw him again.

[@chrisc6857]

Twenty years ago. Walmart, middle of the night. I'm stocking the paper goods aisle which is directly across the main aisle from furniture. Three women come along and look over a big furniture display. They then look around to see if anyone is watching and somehow didn't see me even though I was in plain sight. One of them climbs on the display and changes the $399 to $79. They look around again and see me this time, approach, point to the sign, 'Excuse me, is that price correct?' I look them straight in the eyes and reply 'No ma'am, the correct price is what I watched you change it from.' They ran pretty fast. Looking back, much older, I know I dodged a bullet of them doubling down. Still glad I did it though.

[@Dionysor]

good video

[@steve_the_springtails]

8:51 heard NCR and my neck snapped to the phone... wasnt a story about terrorizing a government for your own independent vegas :c

[@REDlikeBERRIES]

I was a manager at a liquor store a few years back and had a guy try and use his DUI ticket as his ID.

[@wreckingpress7080]

Had a lady that would grab expensive printer labels off the shelf she'd get the managers first and last name by calling the day before and hide it behind the counter when we weren't looking and leave a hand written note saying to refund with cash "no questions asked, immediately" in a very bubbly handwriting. Right, I can't refund you cash without a receipt, I can set this side for the manager to do when their in. Put it further behind the counter and she'd leave every time. Other fun one was an eastern european guy that would run a scam getting other people to write scam checks so they could start their business account he'd "open" for them. Last time I saw him he hight tailed it out but sent his victim in with a list and it was clear this guy had just gotten out of a long prison sentence as he asked for g b 8 drives. I explained the guys scam to him that'll put him back in prison and he had a surprised look on his face, said thank you and I never saw the scammer again. Who knows what happened after that.

[@rx2powersports]

Best buy seasonally in 08. 2 customers were copying barcodes and reprinting them so they could place stickers on more expensive items. Scanned a Bose play system like $2,000 came up $131 or something I didn't say anything at all I just looked at the screen peeled the sticker on the barcode re-rang it and the customers like oh I thought it was cheaper than that I'm going to have to pass. My coworker wasn't so lucky as her accomplice was that the other register getting the same item. We had to go to the store and check every product there was like 50 different items that had fake barcodes over them for other products.

[@SageofStars]

You know...I worked for 7 years at a Blockbuster and never had anyone try that short change stuff on me. 2 years at a Radioshack it happened all the time, but not Blockbuster.

[@theviewfromher5085]

Lived above a store and had an outside mailbox (Switzerland). Had a package delivered that should have been signed for (happened to me more than once that a signed-for, and later stolen, delivery was delivered without an actual signature, or somehow signed for, though not by me..?!? Frick you DHL), deliveryman took a picture of the parcel then left. Parcel got stolen. Lived above another shop with which we shared the entrance. The shop is closed on monday. (Should-have-been-) Signed-for package was left outside on the doorstep. Deliveryman took a picture. Package got stolen. Frick you DHL. I now screen my online vendors for used shipping company before purchasing...

[@WolfyFancyLads]

"He needed condoms or he wouldn't lose his virginity, so I bought him some" Pro Bro right here.

[@goodnight63]

The manager at McDonald’s claimed I stole from the register and I cried begging her to look at the cameras and she said “no I know you did it” that scam was successful. She claimed I stole and I had to call my mom crying to have her transfer me $100. The woman acted so evil. We were over staffed so she was trying to get me to quit probably I have no idea. Or she lied to mooch $100 from each employee.

[@goodnight63]

I mean if she’s counting it and the film shows her shoving it in her pocket, of course she wouldn’t want corporate to watch it

[@KiraNazena]

Meh. The German Aldi hates its customers. I had quite some items where I had a genuine case, I had recipe, original packaging and everything and they wouldn't refund me and said I had to phone the manufacturer even though they had to take it back by law. A few years back there was quite some outrage and its a bit better now, but still. If you'd try to return food items they'd laugh you out of the store.

[@zypher6373]

I bought a bunch of fidget spinners in middle school for 1 dollar of some Chinese site and sold them for 10 dollars and made tons.

[@zero00044]

I've definitely made jokes with customers where when they hand me more than one bill I will take out the smallest bill and hide the rest, very obviously, behind my back when they arent looking and ask for the rest of their total. I think only 1 or 2 people actually thought I was serious, but everyone still laughs. I dont do that often though. Just with the customers who are in a good mood and seem like they can take a joke, or regulars that know me. Then again there are also the people who think they gave me exact change but handed me an extra 5 or something and I just slip it out of the amount they gave me and put it back on the counter or in their hand. Some look at me, wondering why I'm handing them back money when they thought they gave exact change lol. Would never try and be dishonest about how much money I'm taking or giving. As a cashier or customer. Admittedly I have accidentally closed the register without giving someone any of their change though. Just being distracted or absent minded. I realize almost right away though. Once I handed a customer their coin but not Bill's because I had to answer a phone and do 3 other things at the same time. The customer caught me on this lol. Just checked their receipt and got the correct amount out. Mistakes happen.

[@chefshev6495]

When I get given extra change I don't say anything and just take it. I'm normally able to tell that they are giving me extra before they hand it to me cause I'm paranoid with my money and like to count it out as they grab it but I'll never tell it's like a little gift that happens every now and then. I'm I a bad person for this?

[@user-ml3hl6vr4t]

Sounds like a scam but it wasn’t. Problem ran a few years. I had a state sales tax number so in the early 2000’s got notice about some really good fake $100 bills (pre stripe) that WOULD pass the marker. One seal was slightly turned (you had to put a ruler across the bill to see it.) The watermark, Ben had a black eye and it curled down onto his cheek. That was the only way you could catch one. I would pull cash to pay bills at the start of the month, several $100 bills. They were finding most of them in Vail and Aspen, in waves, every few months for about 18 months. I pull 11 bills, and look at them in front of the teller. I find one and refuse it, showing her the watermark. The bank stops issuing $100 bills and bring in the FBI. They find eight. A month later, they just started issuing $100 bills again, I come in and get eight. I find another one and refuse it. Teller screams at me and markers it saying SEE, it passes. I refused it. They stop issuing $100 bills, FBI comes in, find five more. They pull every time I’ve been in there and single frame- nothing unusual, I didn’t swap anything. A few weeks later, they got the counterfeiters. They were three blocks north of me on the same street. They would run a batch, pass 20-30 or so locally, and if those passed, head for the money-towns and dump a bunch. Just happened I knew about the bogus bills, was looking for them, and my bank was the one that seen a lot of the bogus bills. I wonder how many ended up in circulation and weren’t caught? That era of bills should all be retired by now. Slick ultra-scammers.

[@biglurker7968]

I work at Subway. Many years ago, when I worked late night, I had a very drunk college kid come in and attempt to convince me that he was the son of the guy who owned Subway, and if I gave him a free sub that day, he'd go e me my own store in five years when he ran the company...

[@Lito64]

Had someone try the money scam with me it would've worked if hed waited for me to put the bull he gave me in the register, he counted it out and said he gave me a $50 i showed him my hand with the $20 and he called me an asshole and left.

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

At most larger stores, the routine is to put the money they were given on top of the drawer while they count out the change, then count it back to you, then move the money from the top of the drawer into the drawer. That way, the customer has had several seconds to claim that their change is wrong and it makes it far harder for them to substantiate the claim.

[@fawnNheadlights]

The fidget spinner thief was probably doing a trial run of theft. It may have been his first time trying it, so he started small. And the fact that he got caught that easily could have changed the course of his life fotever as he decided to not ever steal again Lol

[@robertheinrich2994]

4:34 "the movie they have saw..." clearly a scammer who doesn't know proper grammar

[@lgamez7734]

I have very weird memory (can remember things from years back but can’t remember what I did yesterday unless I link a memory with an item) but I can still put a receipt in my wallet and put all them on the counter and the cashier will show me which one relates to the product (don’t know if this relates but I’m sharing it anyways)

[@isabellamorris7902]

what does the thumbnail have to do with the topic of that video?

[@melancholykaleidoscope2859]

Worked as a server in a restaurant and had a RUDE ass party (didn't tip either), in the end they left their phone (android ew) and I took it to the host stand and told her I hope they forget it. They came back and were sooo aggressive, and acted like I wanted to steal their phone. I told them I couldn't give it back until I knew it was theirs. I gave em a hard time for it tho lol

[@Dusti_buns]

I bought a 50 dollar ps4 card but it didn't work. I was mad as heck. (It was my birthday money) So my wonderfull mom (respect for her) goes too the store and talked to this woman about it. (You can't return that 50 dollar card because of things) The worker called the manager and stuff, 15 minutes later sche got another one. Thanks mom. Anyone with similar story? Tell me pls.

[@salemsrevenge]

🤨 so the one cashier turned away a person because there was a tattoo on the customer's face but no tattoo on the face of the person pictured on the identification the customer handed them.....wonder if they know people are not born with tattoos🧐

[@polecat3959]

Fouth

[@Ndb1997]

Hey updoot

[@Ndb1997]

@Hilltop Slim 614 someone woke up grumpy 😂😂😂😂 I literally said hi to one of my favorite youtubers

[@m0n0x]

...you know the picture you used in the thumbnail is about a testmask so people who lipread alot have a better time understanding you? Hell, it isnt even a product xd

[@devtimm]

Next time pls put the Reddit link in the description so people can scroll through it them self

[@overlordkartoffelkopf4108]

Ehh "the woman wasnt the one on the ID bc one had face tattoos and the other didnt" dude u know ppl with tattoos aren't born with them, right? My hair on my ID is a green pixie cut. I now have long blonde hair. Smh

[@trinstonmichaels7062]

Trinston was here ...

[@kendoruslink7017]

Someone stole a fidget spinner. What

[@decent_human_]

oi

[@brabbledawg1499]

Mmmm stev boosh

[@skippy8696]

Plot twist: this channel is actually a scam in and of itself, just with a similar name to another popular Reddit channel and mirrors other channel's videos.

[@Er0R-404-Studios]

5th

[@zgaming8721]

lie

[@drunkenlancer5895]

Most desperate scam I saw was when Trump said the election was fraudulent

[@Husawn]

Last!

[@zgaming8721]

11th

[@adamrogbros1323]

Second

[@wspkai7540]

im :(

[@00y93]

If they have this background music, I usually skip them.

[@krazykeano1222]

First

[@quanmiller9622]

Third

[@williamredfern5504]

This item is to be used at our church,,,,, Sorry I am an atheist,,

[@c0okies_n_cream678]

3rd JK

[@zgaming8721]

LIE

[@c0okies_n_cream678]

@@zgaming8721 it said 2 comments when I said that sadly I am not actually third I guess, I’ll edit that

[@zgaming8721]

@@c0okies_n_cream678 thank you for being so kind about it when i was so mean. you are a great person :D

[@waterhail7755]

kek

[@erinhollow773]

I hate the thumbnail. I take personal offense.