Posted on 03/09/2024 9:31:27 PM PST by nickcarraway
I wanted to get a credit card and buy an item at HD. The clerk did all the entering and I got the papers to buy the item then.
About 5 days later I got a text (from HP??) saying they needed my address to deliver an item. It was to come to HD not me and wasn’t due for sometime. I didn’t reply but kept the message to show USPS. She said they never send messages like that.
We had a HD long ago until we closed it because someone called and wanted to know if our CC information was correct. We knew it was someone from HD.
Whether or not, we closed the card, cut it up and sent it back.
When I did get the new HD card, not activated by me, I cut it up and all my CC’s but one. Now, I get cash from my bank and carry only what I am going to spend.
No ATM.
I hope the banks stay.
Why can’t Facebook and Quora get rid of male stalkers? You block them - same names keep reappearing. Usually some ‘veteran’ in Delaware.
I recently found myself needing an apartment after being out of the rental game for a long time. In San Diego, everyone now wants the deposit and 1st month rent Venmoed or e-transferred to them before you get the keys. I know it's a safety precaution for the landlord with so many deadbeat tenants. But it's also an opportunity for scammers.
Desperate to find a place, I almost got scammed out of $3600 before my spidey senses kicked in and I realized there was no apartment.
If I even answer them (I rarely do) I tell them I am a Nigerian Prince who has been unjustly deprived of my office and I will reward them with 100,000 if they will help me regain my rightful position and fortune.
They only have to send a registered bank check to this address in the amount of 4000 dollars.
I don’t usually hear anything back from them.
Yeah; but we have all known for many, many years that was a scam.
My aunt lost everything to a Jamaican Sweepstakes scam. When she tried to pull out, they sent her a picture of her door at the Assisted living place where she lived and threatened to harm her. Inside job.
I get some of these calls also, my responses are usually the same.
Dad/Granpa——I’m in jail!
Standard response: DON’T DO THE CRIME IF YOU CAN’T DO THE TIME!
We would like to purchase your house/property.
Response ——Go F#CK YOURSELF, not for sale at any price.
Sheesh! I’m gussing they still make money no matter what we want.
Of course it is a scam,
they would not be making calls all day except to make money - yours that is.
Mail order brides usually end up supporting the entire village;)
In the spring of 1859, folks were concerned about another kind of hustle: A man who went by the name of A.V. Lamartine drifted from town to town in the Midwest — pretending to attempt suicide.He would walk into a hotel — according to newspaper accounts from Salem, Ore., to Richmond, Va., and other places — and appear depressed as he requested a room. Once settled in, he would ring a bell for assistance, and when someone arrived, Lamartine would point to an empty bottle on the table labeled "2 ounces of laudanum" and call for a clergyman.
People rushing to his bedside to help him would find a suicide note. The Good Samaritans would summon a doctor, administer emetics and nurse him as he recovered.
Somehow Lamartine knew his situation would engender medical and financial assistance from kind strangers in the 19th century. The scenarios ended this way, as one Brooklyn reporter explained: "He is restored with difficulty and sympathetic people raise a purse for him and he departs.
Using this modus operandi, the reporter added, Lamartine was making his way across Ohio — raising $25 in Dayton and $40 in Sandusky and departing "with a free pass on the railroad to commit suicide at some other place."
It seems like a crazy way to make a living. But in earlier America, cheaters concocted the kookiest cons.
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