What's the worst scam you've fallen for (or gotten close to falling for)?

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So one summer while me and my cousin were broke and bored, we decided to pimp out her feet as she has crazy long toes and apparently some foot fetish dudes enjoy that niche.

I set up an Instagram, we decided that I would be the manager and media representative (AKA answer the messages on the account for her) and she would provide the goods (long toes)

One dude started messaging the account praising her toes and I would of course be as courteous as possible. Soon enough we got him to place an order. Only problem was, he only used cashapp to send money, something not available in our country, which should have stopped us initially but we tried finding a workaround.

Where we (or I) fucked up? He said he wanted to see the video before sending any money.

I, a dumbass, sent the video.

Never heard back from him.

Thankfully the video wasn't even of significant production value (very clearly an amateur job) and the only thing sacrificed was the dignity of my cousin's toes.

Safe to say that discouraged us and we haven't attempted to do that again since.

Elsewhere in this thread....

"My cousin pimped it my toes online and I never saw a cent!"

And also “man, those toes weren’t even that long. Im glad I didn’t waste a cent on that tug.”

How dare you. Her toes are so long I've mistaken them for fingers in some weirdly posed pictures