One woman learned the hard way about the dangers of sugar daddy scammers, which are people who try to get your bank information and, in turn, scam you out of funds.
TikToker Kylie, who goes by the username @BillyJoelsLeftNut, revealed she was “being an idiot” by entertaining a scammer “for funsies.”
“This guy emails me a $3,000 check,” she begins her tale in a clip with 1.2 million views, adding that she “stupidly” gave the swindler her email and even went so far as to deposit the check. “I know this money doesn’t actually exist.”
The scammer asked for a photo of her account balance — to which she said no. Then the grifter requested $1,000 via Venmo, a popular payment app, “for orphanages.”
“I was like, ‘orphanages don’t even exist in the United States,’ ” she continued. “He couldn’t provide me with any details of the name of the orphanage, where it was located, nothing.”
But despite blocking him on everything, he created new numbers to harass Kylie, even “threatening” her life.
“I’m really scared now,” she said shakily, adding that he claimed he’d report her to the FBI. “Now he’s made two different numbers saying that he’s gonna end my life.”
The Post has reached out to Kylie for comment.
While she provided her full name, email and phone number to the scammer, she said she doesn’t think law enforcement has any way to track him.
Meanwhile, viewers in the comments begged for updates, but others questioned why Kylie would even entertain the man in the first place.
“And what did we learn,” asking one user, to which Kylie replied: “Stranger danger.”
“Why would you mess with him and give him your real information?” queried another.
“He can’t do anything to you he’s just trying to scare you,” comforted someone else. “This exact thing happened to me.”
But other users weren’t as helpful, with some even claiming people they knew were arrested for depositing fake checks.
“My friend was arrested for depositing one of those fraudulent checks,” someone chimed in. “Spent months in jail. They never caught the guy. Careful with those scams.”
In a follow-up clip, Kylie assured followers she was alright.
After explaining her situation to her bank, the check was put on hold, she said, adding that the bank had seen this kind of situation before. She said she was also informed that orphanages do, in fact, still exist.
“It wasn’t like the other scams that I had seen where you needed to pay with a card — a prepaid gift card — or give any bank information, and he told me I didn’t need to,” she said, explaining her thought process in a video with more than 44,000 views. “I did not know the check was fraudulent when I cashed it. It wasn’t until after, when he started asking for money, that I realized, yep, it was a scam.”
She promised she wasn’t going to send money and actually researched similar scams online, realizing that the check would likely bounce. In a successful scam scenario, the victim would send $1,000 to the scammer, giving them money while the $3,000 the scammer had forked over vanishes as a bounced check.
“I’ve also gotten mixed reactions, like some people will be like, ‘Girl, you’re fine, don’t even worry about [it], he can’t reach you,’ and other people are like, ‘I went to jail for this,’ ” she said in the video. “So, that’s a little scary, but so far I think I’m OK.”