What's your best scam story?

[gnmwilliams]

A co-worker of mine is moving to D.C. and was about to rent a house from an American couple who said they were living in Nigeria and were looking for a semi-permanent house sitter. Yeah, I know what you're thinking. I was too and told her the same. Run! :panic:These folks were pretty good though cause they never said the word "wire" or anything and even had a local phone number which she actually talked to someone on. Fortunately, she called the realtor for that area and found out the house was for sale, not rent, and has no previous owner. I'm just wondering if anyone else has any good scam stories?

[molonlabetn]

Well, there was some healthcare bill before congress once upon a time...

[Guest Sgt. Joe]

Back in my drinking days I had a friend (RIP Lil Buddy) that would go into a bar and bet anyone any amount on the flip of a coin.

He would say "I'll bet you I can tell you which side the coin will land on every time"

Folks would take his bet and at times for 20 bucks a few times for 50. Lots of 5's and 10's over the years.

Lil' Buddy would always pick heads.....So then if heads was up he would collect as is the norm on a coin flip.....

However if tails was up he would then say "NO I told you I would bet on what side it landed "ON", it actually landed "on" the heads side"....again he would collect.

Of course he never bet the same person twice;)

I watched him over the years run this scam many many times and have always been surprised that he did not ever get his butt kicked......but he never did. Dude was about 5'3" and 80-90 lbs, it would have been easy to for anyone to squash him.....yet no one ever did.

I still find that it amazing that he had the nads to do such things and mostly never have the money to pay in his pocket if things went south, and also that he never got his butt whooped over it.

All in all pretty a stupid thing to do but I did watch him do it many times:rolleyes:

As I said RIP to him....he did not eventually get killed over that or any of the other crazy bar room stuff he did......he just finally killed his liver by drinking, for a little dude there was a time when he sure could hold a few gallons.

I also get a kick out of the emails I get informing me of my winning this or that lottery for this or that country, at last count I was nearly a billionaire!

It is amazing and sometimes very sad what people will fall for, no matter how much they are warned.

[Guest Sgt. Joe]

Well, there was some healthcare bill before congress once upon a time...

Yea now that you mention it, the current administration and their tactics against we the people really does have to be the greatest SCAM ever!

[Guest db99wj]

There are good ones out there. The email, or even letter from the nigerian princess whos family has been killed, kidnapped,etc, and she has their country's fortune and needs to wire it out to be safe, and for your agreement, you can keep a percentage, all for the low cost of whatever amount. Funny thing is that people, obviously still fall for them.

other ones, some random person calls from the "bank", and asks you what your account number, ss number etc.

Email Phishing, here's an email, follow our link and put in your account and personal info.

The best ones we would see when I worked at the bank.

Send you a check, because you won the Canadian, Austrialian, German, whatever foreign country lottery you didn't enter. You go to bank, put in and send them their "processing fee". Hopefully you send your check, before you go to the bank, they get your check and cash it before your bank figures it is crap. Then your account gets frozen, overdrawn etc.

Actually had people get pissed, one guy wanted to "smash my face", when we won't deposit the check.

[Mike.357]

greed is usually why people get suckered.

[Guest Gene83]

Well, there was this fellow from Tennessee who moved up north and bought a farm. As he was driving down the road one day, he saw a sign "Mule for Sale..$200"

He thought a mule would come in handy on the farm, so he stopped and paid the fellow $200. "I'll be back with my trailer tomorrow and pick the mule up."

Well, he came back the next day only to hear bad news. The mule had died the night before.

"Well, just give me my $200 back then."

"Can't do that. I already spent the money."

"Just load the mule up then."

"What are you going to do with a dead mule?"

"I'm going to raffle him off."

"You can't raffle a dead mule!!"

"Sure I can. I just won't tell folks that it's dead."

A couple of months later, the two meet at the co-op.

"I've just got to ask. How did the raffle go?"

"It went great. I sold 300 tickets at a buck each and made $99 profit."

"Well, didn't anybody complain about the mule being dead?"

"Just the guy who won..and I gave him his dollar back."