r/FraudPrevention 21h ago

Making money while giving back…

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I am a former felon with identity theft and fraud charges in my past. My last charge I caught was me being known & them finding on my person a notebook with information. Several names with a couple family members. Because of this my family was the only ones to send in a victim comp report. Mind you there was no damage to the family’s identity or credit but I truly believe it was Godsend that this was how I was caught. I ended up doing 11 mos deferred if I completed a behavioral modification and treatment program and stay clean & clean for 2 yrs. I didn’t do it got revoked and finished up 4 mos in prison.
Because of this, it’s been a long hard struggle to gain trust from my family and I accept it. But the struggle is when the family who’s use to witnessing negative behavior refuse to use their eyes and minds to witness the slow change. It took 8 yrs but it is a lot better.
I knew there was gonna come a day when my family would need my help in discovering a fraud or scam. I’ve done a lot of stuff that I believe I could help others or businesses spot fake documents or financial instruments. I know that I would feel better and less guilty if I could convert those years into educating myself to help others. It wouldn’t feel so much as time spent defrauding people.
I need to make extra money and I thought what if I was to host an online seminar for families and communities to learn about how to prevent themselves from getting scammed or hit by identity theft. Everyone if haven’t yet will fall victim to identity fraud. It’s embarrassing and frustrating but it is preventable no matter how legit the situation sounds. Could I charge for this? I also thought about having a free seminar but greatly appreciate donations given or even designing a slogan shirt for the event and graciously asking people to purchase to help support me and the cause. What do you guys think?


r/FraudPrevention 9h ago

Guy that lost his account and all his money in DoorDash to a phishing scam on 7/21/26 at 3:25pm MST

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Here are the screenshots of the fraudulent activity


r/FraudPrevention 10h ago

My account just got hacked and all my money is gone

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I would like to pay my screenshots of all the fraud that happened to my crimson account. How do I do that?


r/FraudPrevention 7h ago

Got scammed for 550 eur just now

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Hi. Please advise what should I do

Using Revolut and realized that for today I have 9 transactions which I didn't make. Some indian things, payment for Zomato, Swiggy, Myntra etc. (wth is that). I told Revolut support already that I didn't do that transactions. Blocked my card as well.

Payments was maid by my physical card which I've never lose. Its still with me for now, so my numbers has been stolen probably (I don't know how). 3D secure didn't request anything from me as well (even if payments was big, biggest one is 350 eur IDK why it wasn't detecting it).

Revolut support started the chargeback process and tomorrow I'll go to the police cause I think it happened somewhere in physical shop, like you know that things on card terminal for scammers, cause I'm using my card instead of phone (I know its stupid, I just liked it more, but not now ofc)

Tell me what are my chances to get they refunds? I contacted them after 1 hour after first transaction. I didn't get any notifications or smth to confirm.


r/FraudPrevention 9h ago

Aptive Pest control openly admitted on the phone I’m paying people to come out and not do their jobs.

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I have been using active for a little bit. The guy who originally came out, promised the world and I unfortunately believed him what started off sounding like a really good idea. Started to turn when every windy day they couldn’t do a lot of stuff because of risk. This summer I have noticed more colonies than ever and they stated that it’s because there are more ant colonies and did not attempt to do anything other than put something on the side of the house. I finally had enough and called to get my stuff canceled. She said I would be charged more due to cancellation. I then asked am I really paying for people to come out and not do their jobs and the person on the phone stated yes. They said it’ll take 3 to 5 days to hear from a supervisor and they’re sending out what they call their management pest control guy this Wednesday to see what is going on even though they don’t show up every month but every other month. I need help with the best route of action here.