Back in 2021, my husband was scammed out of 2 billion won. Long story short, he purchased a large plot of land (South Korea). However, the land was located in a mountainous area designated as unfit for development, except for military or public use. Under the Forest Conservation Act, the area was virtually undevelopable, as it was meant to be preserved. Police believe that the real estate group subdivided the mountainous land into smaller lots and sold them to over 3,000 individuals, deceiving them by claiming to have insider information about upcoming redevelopment in the area.
It’s not technically a scam, but I did let Hilton once convince me to book one of their Vegas hotels at a discount, since I was traveling there anyway. I had to give them 45 minutes of my vacation time to sit through a sales pitch in exchange for the discount, and it was worth it, though in hindsight I wish I hadn’t done it as I ran into some visibly poor people in the waiting room and it felt scummy as hell to be there.
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