Posted on 02/20/2024 12:12:39 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Whenever elite media folks act as if they are smarter than the yahoos in the sticks, please keep the sad yet hilarious story of Charlotte Cowles in mind. She is the financial advice columnist of the New York magazine The Cut section and previously a weekly columnist in the Business section of the New York Times. She revealed on Thursday how, with a incredible level of gullibility, she handed a box containing $50,000 of most of her savings to a scammer in "The Day I Put $50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger."
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I didn’t read the story. A version of the Bank Examiner scam?
I believe that some psychopathic robbers have the thought process that — “If you are dumb enough to fall for my con, then you deserve to lose your money to me. In fact, I’m doing you a favor. I’m showing you how not to be stupid so that, in the future, you don’t fall for this sort of scam a second time. You should say thank you to me.”
That’s a sick way of looking at the world. But with stupid people like this financial advice bimbo, I almost understand the thought process.
I’m calling BS.
DEI strikes again. This hair-brained fool shouldn’t be employed to give financial advice to anyone, in any capacity/forum.
This is the threat of identity theft but if you hand over $50,000 in cash to a complete stranger, the CIA can make it all better scam.
I'm still amazed that anybody could be scammed because they think the CIA is so involved in domestic business crime that they they even micromanage unusual activity in Amazon accounts.
She should’ve sent it to me
At least then it would’ve been put to good use
I read the whole sordid story——its amazing she did not know the cia does not call people nor does the irs, or banks.
The scammers knew they had a “live one,” they raked her over the coals. they musta been toasting their luck having found her to scam.
There are very few who could be as naive and cooperative as she was.
she actually responded as if she was the guilty party......
there’s no other explanation.
If you think she is making it up, then why would she tell a fake story that would not only make her the laughingstock of the world but also destroy her credibility as a financial advice columnist?
The popular scam is the IRS calling you up to tell you that because of a tax debt you will be arrested and imprisoned unless you pay the money owed. My wife got a call like that and I told her not to worry because the IRS NEVER calls you. They send you a letter.
One well-used scam is calling grandparents telling them their grandchild is under arrest and they need to send money.
Some people actually fall for it.
I think she’s LYING! Or else she’s the DUMBEST BROAD IN THE WORLD!
Someone calling from the IRS with an Indian accent is also a big tell for a scam.
Why would she tell a lie that makes her out to be a beyond belief IDIOT? I'm trying to figure out the upside to that.
A few years back a woman sent $90,000 to a person she did not even know, who called her with a sob story......said she sent the money “to help out.”
Did not end well.....minus the money....her husband left her.
Navajo or Pottawatomi?
Oh yeah.....anybody with an accent is a dead giveaway.
Stupid should hurt.
>Navajo or Pottawatomi?
Feather or Dot?
BLACKMAIL....GAMBLING DEBT.......STUPID SPENDING.
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