Posted on 05/21/2013 2:33:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Edited on 05/21/2013 3:32:50 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
EARLIER THIS YEAR, thousands of people checked their e-mail and found a surprise: An American soldier needed help, and there was something in it for them. Their correspondent was a sergeant stationed in Iraq, he explained. He had accumulated millions in hundred-dollar bills
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The current proposed immigration law is a variation of the Spanish prisoner game. If you let just a few million more come in, that’s all, I promise...you know, just like when I almost beat my cocaine addition...just one more hit and it will be my last, I swear.
Answer: Liberal greed.
A company I worked with back in the 1980's received from Nigeria a beautiful gold foil sealed Letter of Credit for some huge supposed order drawn by all appearances on a famous British bank. Reading the small print revealed it was unconfirmed and Revocable. I think we framed it.
It appears there are still folks who fall for this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3022259/posts
This reminds me of the White Van Speaker Scam. Where an intense 20 year old guy would open the back doors of a white van (always a white van), and tell you that he has extra speakers that he MUST get rid of before going back to the warehouse. They are $500 speakers, really big, but he’ll give them to you for $200. If you don’t bite, he’ll eventually go down to something like $75. He’ll even drive you to your ATM (cash only, of course). You figure they’re hot, but you’re helping to rip off THE MAN, so it’s ok.
Then you get home with them and THEY SUCK. They might be worth $25, at best, and that’s mostly the particle board and its covering.
They play on your own greed. I almost fell for it (in California, where else?), but didn’t have the money. I told a friend about it...he had already fallen for it. LOL.
One bit of advice - these are serious con men and they will get angry if you play them, very angry - so DO NOT. Just get away.
My favorite was a variation of the Nigerian scam e-mail I received from Côte d’Ivoire. The e-mail was in French. I have no idea how the sender knew I read and speak French.
Because of me, my friend made money on that scam! He fell for it to the tune of $400. Before he even knew it was a scam, I researched it, told him it was a scam, and gave him the cheat sheet on how to get his money back. They talked to a 6’5, 300 lb biker gang dude, who was threatening to kill his wife with a hammer. Two guys ran out of the back to stop the assault and offered my friend his money back. Since they took all different amounts from people, they didn’t know my friend had paid $400. He knew from my cheat sheet it went up to about $900, so he told them that, and that’s how much they gave him back.
I LOVE IT!!! Thousands of us are thrilled!!! This crap was uncalled for...so it’s great that they ran into the WRONG GUY!!!
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