r/scams — public pain points

• VR Motion Sickness Due to Default Snap Turn Setting

  Users experience motion sickness due to VR controls defaulting to snap turn settings, affecting user experience.

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• Elderly Scam Victims Refusing Help Leaves Families Helpless

  Elderly individuals can fall prey to sophisticated scams (e.g., impersonating government agencies) that convince them to transfer large sums of money. Even when family members, police, and financial institutions intervene, the victim often refuses to cooperate because they believe the scammers' threats and instructions. Authorities cannot act without the victim's participation, leaving families powerless to stop massive financial losses and fearing for their loved one's safety. This creates intense emotional distress and financial catastrophe, with no existing solution to override the victim's misplaced trust.

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• Fabricated Counterparty Identities and Forged Documents Defeat Every Pre-Payment Check

  Buyers and sellers are being wiped out by counterparties who do not exist: fabricated names, stolen SIMs, burner phone numbers, a fake 'Atty. Mendoza', and a forged Deed of Sale were all enough to move ₱1.25M in cash out of an elderly seller's account in exchange for three boxes of worthless canned goods — handed over with no official receipt and no way to confirm that the 'supplier' entity, its owners, its phone numbers, or its bank details matched any real registry record. The collusion model (a fake buyer and a fake supplier working the same victim from two directions) is deliberately designed to survive the checks people actually have available: meeting in person, seeing a nice mall office, receiving a small sample payment as 'proof of good faith'. There is currently no affordable, fast service that takes a counterparty's name/website/phone/company detail and returns a sourced identity-to-entity verification — cross-referencing business registries, addresses, officers, domains, and contact data — before cash changes hands. Police reports happen after the money is gone, and identity fraud of this kind is structurally unsolved for individuals and SMBs. This maps directly to SupplierProof's promise of a trust score and red flags before you pay or sign.

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• Vulnerability to Scams Exploiting Artists' Work

  Independent artists are increasingly vulnerable to scams that exploit their work and reputation, complicating their ability to navigate legal issues. Many artists lack the knowledge and resources to identify and respond to fraudulent claims, leading to significant emotional and financial distress. This issue highlights the urgent need for educational resources and protective measures to help artists safeguard their intellectual property and navigate potential legal pitfalls.

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• No Way to Tell a Supplier's Legitimate-Looking Website Has Been Silently Compromised to Serve Malware

  Buyers doing pre-payment due diligence on a supplier often visit the supplier's site as a routine, supposedly safe step — only to be hit by a hijacked page serving a fake CAPTCHA that tries to run a PowerShell malware downloader. The site looks entirely legitimate (it belongs to a real, established wholesaler like Fienza), so nothing about the supplier's identity, track record, or 'freshness' signals that the domain is currently dangerous. There is no affordable tool that, when you paste a supplier or partner URL, tells you whether the site is currently compromised, spoofed, or actively serving malicious payloads — and standard due-diligence workflows just assume visiting the supplier's site is a harmless first step. This gap is unsolved and high-stakes: it exposes procurement staff, indie founders, and SMB buyers to malware, credential theft, and ransomware simply as a side effect of trying to vet a counterparty, and it maps directly to SupplierProof's 'paste a supplier website' promise, which today cannot certify that the site itself is safe to interact with.

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