Tag: scam

This meme uses the widely circulated 'Trade Offer' format. It features a real man wearing ancient Greco-Roman warrior armor and a red cape, standing in front of a glass window, steepling his fingers with a scheming, smug expression. Text overlaid at the top reads '! Trade offer !', split into two columns below: the left column states 'I recieve: Nothing haha, dont worry about it', while the right column states 'You recieve: A big wooden horse'. The joke references the famous Trojan Horse story from Greek mythology: during the Trojan War, Greek soldiers gifted the city of Troy a giant wooden horse as a fake peace offering, hiding soldiers inside that later opened the city gates to the Greek army, leading to Troy's destruction. The humor comes from the fact that the 'gift' of the wooden horse is actually a malicious scam, even though the offering party pretends they are getting nothing out of the trade.

Trade Offer: You Get a Big Wooden Horse, I Get Nothing

This meme uses the widely cir…

This split comparison meme shows the lookalike imposter on the left, who catfished multiple people by pretending to be famous professional footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, with the real Cristiano Ronaldo pictured on the right in his Manchester United football kit. The text at the bottom states that the young imposter 'pretended to be Cristiano Ronaldo and slept with over 40 men', referencing a viral real-life catfishing incident. The meme is nicknamed 'Gehnaldo', a pun on Ronaldo's name to refer to the imposter.

Gehnaldo: The Ronaldo Imposter Catfishing Scam

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This is a screenshot of a social media conversation between two users. Verified user Tom opens by asking the question 'Name a scam that is totally legal.' User James replies with a joke and criticism of modern taxation systems, stating that paying taxes multiple times on the same money is a legal scam: you pay income tax when you earn money, sales tax when you spend that already-taxed money, then pay additional taxes (like property tax) on assets you bought with that already-taxed money. This is a common observation presented as a joke about widely disliked multiple-layer taxation.

The only scam everyone agrees on

This is a screenshot of a soc…