Total Scam?

[skydiver604 0]

This guy had no clue, obviously not a Star trek or a Back to The Future fan, eventually sold the car to an old dude that was driving an 86 Park Avenue.

"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo

[airtwardo 7]

Krip

Some of The boiler room scammers in the U.S. are very creative, and would borrow some spare change from a dead mans eye's.

Some time your last line of defense is nosy neighbors and a UPS driver.

The seniors older than twardo don, t need the net or a credit card to scammed just a small ad in a magazine is enough to get the ball rolling.

As long as a senior can read a magazine and write a check, or place a order over the phone watch out. If you go home and find mass qtys of mags laying around thats not a good sign.

When you find mass qtys of cheap ass custom jewelry, or other useless junk laying around you better react immediately. My boss just returned from a quick visit home for a medical emergency

My mom passed away a year ago, she was a sharp woman and took care of her affairs well...for the most part.

However upon going through some things, I found that she was donating to several 'charities' on an annual basis. A couple looked rather shady and that was confirmed when their letters went unanswered so they stared to call the house non-stop for a few months.

A couple didn't seemed to exist at all, after a hard search. They weren't pleased with my questions and ended up hanging up.

Not a whole lot of money relatively speaking, but mom would have been both embarrassed & furious to know the truth.

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[BillyVance 35]

skydiver604

A few years ago I was selling 4 snow tires off a Sunfire I scrapped, had some dude email me from Saudi Arabia wanting to buy them.

Just a few years ago we sold our Impala, got an email from Nigeria requesting to buy the car, one of the questions the buyer asked was how well the car ran, I emailed him back saying my mechanic Marty McFly advised me the flux capacitor needed to be replaced and the chief mechanic Mr Scott needed to adjust the warp drive engine, he emailed me back asking if I would deduct the costs of these repairs from the selling price.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[Bignugget 0]

Its not the one looking for the sewing machine you have to worry about.

It's the ones who troll CL for addresses, looking wealthy or not has no bearing.

It's not worth the risk to you, your home, or your family when you aren't there strapped up....

Its like wearing a gopro at 30 jumps. Can you get away with it? Maybe.....Is it really worth it? Not really.

Walmart that shit up from now on!

[JohnMitchell 16]

Bignugget

It's the ones who troll CL for addresses, looking wealthy or not has no bearing.

Don't they just troll dark neighborhoods, seeing if no one's home? Really, I've been burglarized once, had several attempted home breakins, and had car prowl done countless times. All this before CL. I'm not that hard to find. And believe me, no bad guys want to f*&^ with our house if we're home.

[ChrisD 0]

airtwardo

***Some of The boiler room scammers in the U.S. are very creative, and would borrow some spare change from a dead mans eye's.

Some time your last line of defense is nosy neighbors and a UPS driver.

The seniors older than twardo don, t need the net or a credit card to scammed just a small ad in a magazine is enough to get the ball rolling.

As long as a senior can read a magazine and write a check, or place a order over the phone watch out. If you go home and find mass qtys of mags laying around thats not a good sign.

When you find mass qtys of cheap ass custom jewelry, or other useless junk laying around you better react immediately. My boss just returned from a quick visit home for a medical emergency

My mom passed away a year ago, she was a sharp woman and took care of her affairs well...for the most part.

However upon going through some things, I found that she was donating to several 'charities' on an annual basis. A couple looked rather shady and that was confirmed when their letters went unanswered so they stared to call the house non-stop for a few months.

A couple didn't seemed to exist at all, after a hard search. They weren't pleased with my questions and ended up hanging up.

Not a whole lot of money relatively speaking, but mom would have been both embarrassed & furious to know the truth.

We donated to some animal charity:

The next month,...

Save the animals, doris Day
Save the animals hollywood
MSPCAA
American mspca
etc,

Over 30 in all all with the same return address, I get quite the thrill of sending back the empty donation envelopes! Does that make me a bad person???

But what do I know, "I only have one tandem jump."

[oldwomanc6 60]

*** I get quite the thrill of sending back the empty donation envelopes! Does that make me a bad person???

Kinda, sorta. That makes you the anti-charititype.

lisa
WSCR 594
FB 1023
CBDB 9

[flyhi 24]

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Whenever I read one of these things, I wonder: who could possibly fall for this crap? How can the effort be worthwhile? ...and then I think of my mom.

My mom had me sign her up for online banking to make it easier for her. And it is. Now, whenever she wants to do something, all she has to do is call me up, tell me what to do, and consider it done.

If you don't know her, she is the one standing in the checkout line writing a check with her bank's routing number and her account number on it. She doesn't have a debit card because, "they're not safe."

Shit happens. And it usually happens because of physics.

[ChrisD 0]

oldwomanc6

*** I get quite the thrill of sending back the empty donation envelopes! Does that make me a bad person???

Kinda, sorta. That makes you the anti-charititype.

Did you catch the line about 30 or so attempts, all with the same address? I never knew there were so many animal charities that had the same address?

Who the heck ever heard of the "Doris Day Foundation"?

I did a Google search on this "publishing" company and found out in fact they do give to charity! About less than one tenth of one percent, the rest are costs for running the charity!

Friends purchasing a flat screen tv on craigs list,...I warned them to call or at least get the number and speak to a real person on a phone,...they insisted everything by e-mail was fine,...they drove 30 miles to some house, rang the door bell, and were greeted by some irate dick telling them to call the police. Seems the particular address had recived about 10 visitors wanting to pick up whatever, all a big scam at the poor homeowners expense...
C

But what do I know, "I only have one tandem jump."

[futuredivot 0]

It was only a matter of time. Scammers prey on retirees.

You are only as strong as the prey you devour

[JohnMitchell 16]

futuredivot

It was only a matter of time. Scammers prey on retirees.

Thanks for my best laugh of a very funny day.

Can't wait to get my AARP card and wear black socks and wingtips with my shorts at the beach.

[airtwardo 7]

JohnMitchell

***It was only a matter of time. Scammers prey on retirees.

Thanks for my best laugh of a very funny day.

Can't wait to get my AARP card and wear black socks and wingtips with my shorts at the beach.

So you ARE movin' to Florida!


I hear some of those villages have a wednesday nite bingo game that goes to near FIFTY BUCKS!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[JohnMitchell 16]

airtwardo

******It was only a matter of time. Scammers prey on retirees.

Thanks for my best laugh of a very funny day.

Can't wait to get my AARP card and wear black socks and wingtips with my shorts at the beach.

So you ARE movin' to Florida!


I hear some of those villages have a wednesday nite bingo game that goes to near FIFTY BUCKS!

Night time games? Darn it. I gotta hit the Early Bird dinner specials at 4 o'clock, then get home for "Murder, She Wrote" reruns. I'll be turning in long before it gets dark.

[popsjumper 2]

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Night time games? Darn it. I gotta hit the Early Bird dinner specials at 4 o'clock, then get home for "Murder, She Wrote" reruns. I'll be turning in long before it gets dark.

You been peepin' in my windows?

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[Krip 2]

Hi

Know jumper that retied in flodia but doesn't want to jump anymore, doesn't know what to do next

Shuffle board.

$75 for gear. Not $6000 weight 2lbs

Court rental time? Don't care

Gender ratio 10 Single women to ea man

Don't need a sissy AAD, or worry about having a stroke playing your sport unless The women don't remember what that No means No.

Free coaching etc etc

R.

One Jump Wonder

[JohnMitchell 16]

Funny thing, we played shuffle board as kids, painted on the patio. That and croquet. Guess my parents were giving us life skills for the old folks home.

[skydiver30960 0]

skydiver30960

Whenever I read one of these things, I wonder: who could possibly fall for this crap?

Stuck at home today with a nasty cold, I passed some time reading up on 419 scams. One page postulated that the crappy grammar and bad spelling was by design, or at least not worried about. They suggested that by making the scam at least reasonably transparent that only the most gullible of suckers would be drawn into their net, limiting the amount of time spent working on marks who would eventually figure it out. When you send out thousands of emails a day, it pays to have your targets "self-select" so you only have to deal with the REALLY low wattage bulbs.

Elvisio "interesting" Rodriguez

[Krip 2]

JohnMitchell

Funny thing, we played shuffle board as kids, painted on the patio. That and croquet. Guess my parents were giving us life skills for the old folks home.

Hi John

Just turned 66 a couple of days ago.

So i've been trying to come up with a logical plan to enjoy whatever time we have left. There's lot's of confusing terms for old folks home. Assisted living, retirement home, and who knows what else.

Thats just not my thing ,by the time I got to that point I would have to stick bingo.

I was thinking more along lines of a retirement community. I think that would be single family detached homes / trailers with lawn service. Maybe 55 min age, no max age, no children allowed to stay overnight etc.

I think it would be a great place to play shuffleboard and meet my neighbors on the court, give free lessons to nice widow ladies that need a helping hand.






Playing shuffle with some of the

One Jump Wonder