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    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!

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      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.

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    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.

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    9 months ago

    Getting scammed is part of learning to scam

    Signed,

    an Eve online bittervet

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      9 months ago

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

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    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.

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        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.

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    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.