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Scam Artist (lemmy.zip)
submitted 9 months ago by balderdash9@lemmy.zip to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 37 points 9 months ago

I think your book came to me by mistake. It's called How to Scam People, right? If so, it's here. If you just send me a few bucks to cover postage, I'm happy to forward it along to where it's supposed to be!

[-] profoundninja@sh.itjust.works 12 points 9 months ago

Don't listen to this guy, he's just trying to scam you a second time. I have ebook version. Happy to forward to you for free.

Just send me your email address and your mother's maiden name for verification.

[-] Pothetato@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

One time I ordered a shirt and it didn't show up for months. No response from the seller. I had accepted my loss and learned my lesson. But then a couple months later, bam, shirt.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 16 points 9 months ago

I did not see that ending coming.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 points 9 months ago
[-] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Getting scammed is part of learning to scam

Signed,

an Eve online bittervet

[-] cmhickman358@thelemmy.club 13 points 9 months ago

Is it the one by esteemed author Roger DeSalvo?

[-] Death__BySnuSnu@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago
[-] PilferJynx@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

How to become a millionaire: sell book called How to become a millionaire.

[-] statist43@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago

In this book you should write, that people need to aquire skills and write a book about how to get rich.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I subletted a place once. Person who wanted it worked for one of those Herbal medicine scams as a cold call agent. Guess who never paid on time and eventually I had to ask him to leave.

It's taking many many years for me to come to the point where I realized it was my fault. He told me what he was about and I didn't listen.

[-] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago

That reminds me of the lottery ticket scam. I know a person who fell for it.

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago
[-] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

A person, typically poor asks you for help. They present a lottery ticket and they don’t know what to do or say they can’t collect. Normally another person arrives to “help”. You three go check the ticket and it’s a winner, but you don’t notice that it’s not the same week, the ticket is not valid. They want to sell the ticket to you for any kind of money or even jewelry. So, it takes two crooks for the scam to work, they and you.

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Ah, gotcha. Thanks for the explanation!

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

And they couldn't go to the police because everyone knows you can't resell a lottery ticket, correct?

[-] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

That too, but the police can’t exactly help simply because you’ll never find these people again.

[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I love that side quest in RDR2

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago

Little dude learned the lesson already it would seem...

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Does this happen to scammers when they try to buy phishing software packages from black hat hackers?

If so, that'd be a delightful irony.

this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
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