Quoted from Mrtattooz:About 1 month after he bought my LW3 he textex me at around 2:30 am and asked if I could send him some money via paypal and he would knock it off of the machine. He said he was at the casino and didn't want to stop playing just yet. I told him to give me a minute to see if I could and before I could check my paypal he messages me and says " I sent you $600.00 . Send it back to me through friends and family." I then asked him how that works and he said he was using his company credit card and getting an advance on it and that his debut card would only allow a $400.0p a day limit. I sent him the money back and all was well. He then 2 hours later asked if we could do this again and we did it for another $600.00. Over the next week we did this totaling nearly $4600.00 and paypal hadn'tv flagged the transactions. I figured if it was a scam paypal would catch it and stop it before this money could be sent seeing it was being sent from his business Fullhouse Arcades.
Uh, big, giant red flag right there. Honestly, what made you think that this was ok to do once, let alone a half dozen times?
Quoted from Mrtattooz:I truly at this point thought it was an honest mistake, because he is very cunning and you'd never believe by meeting and hanging with him that he would be like that.
That's what con men do. They gain your trust in some way, and exploit that.
Quoted from pezpunk:i'm not normally one to blame the victim, but you gotta be smarter than that.
Indeed. He saw an easy mark, and you got taken advantage of big time. You're not a bank...don't loan people money, especially to someone who says he's out gambling.
You can't think "we're buddies, he would never do xyz to me". Well, people can do that, as you've found out. If at any point that you have a small nagging thought "is this a scam?", then it probably is. Not enough people listen to that gut reaction and allow their emotions to override that or try to justify it in some way in their mind.
