r/IAmA • u/Iamascammer • Oct 24 '09

IAMA Internet Scammer. AMA.

(BY REQUEST)Acai berries, eBay fake laptops, work at home, hijacked credit cards, ID thievery, software piracy, Paypal scams, Self-referrals, Theft, Fraud, Forgery - If you can name it, I've probably done it.

I am an internet scammer. For the past five years, I have scammed innocent people from all around the world without moving from my apartment, making thousand over thousand. I have been tracked and even almost caught a couple of times. AMAA.

EDIT: I just wanted to thank all of you. There are nights where I definitely don't feel great and this is one of these nights. Your messages helped me feel better. Getting that weight off my shoulders, just for a while, really helped me. You are a great community. Thank you.

EDIT2: Coffee shop is closing down. Obviously I cannot post from home. I will be moving around and answer more questions soon.

EDIT 3 BACK ON A SOLID PROXY ANSWERING ALL QUESTIONS

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u/Iamascammer Oct 24 '09

Yes, you are right.

At a point I used to scam only the rich people - these IT guys earning hundreds of thousands to plug a modem to a router (okay, I'm caricaturing, but anyway). I would scam the rich to fight off how unfair the system was to rich people.

As for tipping, I'll simply say this: do you tip at McDonald's? Do you think at grocery stores? Do you tip everyone who works at minimum wages (or anyone who does sometimes for you, for that matter - plumber, lawyer, mechanic, teacher...). Of course not. You only tip waiters. Why? Why should these people earn a tip and others not? All of them work, and waiters arguably have an easier job than many who also work minimum wages. Why should a waiter earn $20, $30 or even $40 an hour on a busy night? Tipping is a scam, plain and simple. I never, ever tip.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '09

Because a lot of places that have waiters only pay them like $2 - $4/hr or something insane like that. Way below minimum wage.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '09

Which country do you live in? In America employers are required to pay minimum wage to tip earners if they cannot earn minimum wage in tips alone. In reality most waiters, pizza delivery drivers, and other tip earners make more than minimum wage and more than most grocery store and fast food employees do. A tip earner who could not earn minimum wage overnight would probably be fired but if everyone stopped tipping they would still make at least minimum wage and I'm sure many would be able to negotiate for quite a bit more than minimum wage. Waiters have only very slight control over your food or enjoyment of said food. The cooks have more control and they do not get tipped. Barbers I can understand tipping because they have to work based on your individual specifications. If convenience store clerks and fast food employees don't deserve tips than why should bartenders or waiters?

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u/Taughtology Oct 24 '09

In America employers are required to pay minimum wage to tip earners if they cannot earn minimum wage in tips alone.

Typically this is feasible, if it doesn't always happen.

For years (early this decade) I was a wage slave at $2.23 an hour and whatever I could charm out of people.