posted on June 8, 2002 01:48:28 AM newThe WHOLE COUNTRY is being scammed.
Aside that, no, unless you count the insurance scam, the property tax scams, the court scams, the car trade-in scam, any lease scam, and so many other scams that I'd never be able to remember them all scams, but plenty have tried.
posted on June 8, 2002 06:00:20 AM new
If they can prosecute her for taking money to help her seek happiness then they should be able to prosecute the priests and preachers for selling tickets to heaven. The proof of performance level is the same.
posted on June 8, 2002 10:46:41 AM new
I have to agree krs. The whole world is a scam of varying degrees.
Don't be silly Helen! I don't mind if you go off topic on ANY of my threads. Sometimes the 'off-topic' topic is more interesting than the original post!
posted on June 8, 2002 03:14:13 PM new
A couple of years ago, when my son was a freshman at Georgia State in Atlanta, some guy tried to pull something on him. At the time, he didn't know it was a scam. When he told me about it, I was sure it was because, coincidentally, I had recently read a friend of a friend's website, where a very similar experience was related.
Some black guy with a foreign accent had approached my son on some street in Atlanta, told my son that he was a sailor on shore leave, orginally from.. some country I can't remember. Right away, you'd think that was peculiar, Atlanta's not close to any port.
This guy pulled out a wallet full of cash and showed my son a piece of paper with an address, said it was for some brothel he was trying to find and could my son help him find it? My son got very concerned for the guy, advised him he shouldn't be waving around a large wad of cash like that, and said he couldn't help him with the address, he was new to Atlanta himself. I can't remember if another person entered into the discussion or not... Anyway, my son just told him to be careful and, sorry, couldn't help him, and that was the end of my son's involvement.
What the intended result of this was, besides somehow getting money out of my son (lots of luck), I've never been able to figure. Since the angle here wasn't readily apparent, I might have thought, as my son did, that it was just one of those weird things that happen, except that I had read Babu's story of "The South African Sailor at the Circle K."
Copy. Paste. You can probably use the excercise, and I've forgotten how to link.
posted on June 8, 2002 06:14:01 PM new
yeah without mentioning names I put thingas at a site that said it was free and when enough of us had done that we got bills.
posted on June 8, 2002 06:54:23 PM new
I can't recall ever having been scammed. If so it would have been a long time ago and a pretty insignificant loss.
Pretty bizarre. Sounds like the same guy in both instances, though it wouldn't have to be. Though if there were several of them, you would think that news about it would have circulated more, especially with such weird behavior. Could be a terrorist.
posted on June 8, 2002 07:48:40 PM new
Thanks Antiquary.
Yeah, it was bizarre, and these guys need to find a new line of work if they can't do better than to pick these victims. Not that I think my son is any more honest or less gullible than anyone else around, just that if it was a bait and switch, nothing my son has would be worth switching for, if he ended up with a bandana wrapped around a wad of cut-up newspaper strips, he'd have a bandana and come out ahead in the deal.
posted on June 9, 2002 07:55:58 AM new
Both myself and my former boss have been approuched by people from Nigeria asking for help to move large sums of money out of the country.
The scam is they ask for account numbers and priviledges saying they will leave behind 5% for helping them move the funds and then strip the funds out of the account and they close out their account and disappear.
They put funds in and then take everything out - theirs and yours.
I tried to counter scam them by giving them an account in the Turks and Caicos islands that has money deposited in it automatically forwarded to another account in another country, but they did not fall for it.
posted on June 9, 2002 12:17:04 PM new
Okay okay. I'll admit I was scammed. It's another one of those confessions I feel compelled to make from time to time. It was a hundred years ago when I was still in college and to this day I still want one of these.
Boy/Girl have dinner, then go for a walk. We run into a guy who is selling a brand-new-in-sealed-box video camera that fell off a truck. Passing a thorough interview the guy gets in a cab with us so I can get cash from my machine across town. The exchange is made.
What we opened in my apartment was a brick wrapped in a lot of newspapers, covered in black plastic, with some magazine sheets placed dead center, all of which was shrink-wrapped. Very well done.
I was instantly grateful because I felt like a slimeball already for having done it--stealing. I did not regret the loss of that $80 one bit.
posted on June 13, 2002 09:30:50 PM new
send in your printer for repair
how much you want to bet that its always happens to be the most expensive part,
send in your (fill in the blank)
it always is the most expensive part.
take your car in to a transmission shop bet
everyone there needed a torque converter,
take a diamond in to get cleaned can bet the theives replaced your stone with a lesser stone.
there is one guy here tells us about a new bar where you go and if you sit on the right seat you get laid, I asked, you ever win ?
he say no but his old lady has won four times now.
posted on June 14, 2002 01:06:18 PM new
An ebay seller named zip! tried. About three years ago, he was selling Mavica digital cameras for around $400. This was when they were over $500 at WalMart. He had 11 dutch autions of 10 items each and attempted to abscond with 44k. His wonderful FB started hitting the toilet. He lived in a Los Angeles Suburb, and my parole agent husband worked there at the time, so I told him my husband would come pick it up. I got an email with a tracking number and the item finally arrived from a Chicago address. Zip! was zapped from ebay and only a few of us got our items.
