Commenters were delighted after one man revealed how he flipped the script on a careless Cash App scammer.
In a viral Reddit post published on r/pettyrevenge, Redditor u/Duke_Devlin_Official (otherwise referred to as the original poster, or OP) said he was contacted by a stranger demanding money before a bit of quick thinking left the would-be scammer down $159.
“I was contacted by an obvious scammer the other day,” OP began. “They asked for $160 and I went along with it.”
Explaining that the scammer sent along their Cash App username, to which he was supposed to send $160, the original poster said he sent only $1 to lull the thief into believing he was incompetent. Then, his counterplan was in play.
“They were all like, ‘lolol wrong amount but I got the dollar you sent, you can send me $159 and it will still be fine,'” OP wrote. “So I typed in $159 on Cashapp then pressed ‘Request’ instead of ‘Send.'”
“[I’m] pretty sure they didn’t read it,” OP continued. “They definitely just clicked ‘accept’ instead of ‘decline’ and I proceeded to block the lowlife scammer $159 richer.”
Titled, “I scammed a Scammer,” the viral post has received more than 11,500 upvotes in the last day.
Cash App, a peer-to-peer payment service owned by Block, Inc., boasts more than 44 million monthly active users, according to Business of Apps. Cash App is nearly as large as Venmo, PayPal’s equivalent peer-to-peer service, despite being launched four years later, in 2013, investing advice company The Motley…
