There are a lot of scammers out there and some of the scammers have definitely gotten incredibly sophisticated and it can be hard to determine what is real and what is a scam.  These scammers increasingly take advantage of people who are older or perhaps less knowledgable about how the internet works, but there are also Scams out there that are incredibly obvious that I hope no one falls for.  Here are three Funniest Scams that are too obvious to fall for.

Celebrity Scam Requests

One of the funniest scams I’ve seen out there is people posing as celebrities claiming to need money from you.  People, celebrities have their own money.  They don’t need money from you.  This scam claiming to be Lady Gaga is one of the funniest scams that is too obvious to fall for.

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Incredibly Attractive People

Did you suddenly, out of the blue, get contacted by a very attractive person who just suddenly found you online and wants to get to know you and finds you attractive and perfect for them?  Obviously a scam.  Unfortunately, people do fall for these, but it can be very funny to suddenly find a model reaching out to you to chat and, of course, who needs you to send them some money.  No matter how attractive someone is, don’t send them money if you’ve never met in person.

Ridiculous URLs

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Sometimes, the scammers just make it too obvious.  This scammer sent a link for someone to click that would likely have sent them to a dangerous link making it easy for them to have their information stolen, but in the text of the link, they literally used the word “scam.”  Never click any links that you don’t recognize, but certainly don’t click unknown links with the word scam in them!

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