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dameatball

(7,393 posts)
Tue Dec 3, 2019, 08:04 PM Dec 2019

Scams are like zombies. Some just never seem to die.

Today. Central Florida, at a gas/convenience store, on hwy 46, Lake County, west of I-4. I am pumping gas and some guy in a big black suv walks over to me with the old speakers scam. In the old days it seemed like it was always a couple guys in a van. This guy was 40ish, goatee, black t-shirt.
Wanted to sell me speakers for my media room(?)...lol. Said the "idiot" at the warehouse shipped an extra set and he couldn't return them.
I just laughed and said no thanks but after I drove I off I had to ask myself "Who is still falling for this crap?" He approached another vehicle before I left, with no luck. I thought this particular scam died out back in the 90's or maybe early 2000's. Shows what I know.
I will just leave the obvious Trump equivalency laying there, but wow...what a world we live in.

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Scams are like zombies. Some just never seem to die. (Original Post) dameatball Dec 2019 OP
Everything old is new again? Karadeniz Dec 2019 #1
Happened to my son 35 years ago. virgogal Dec 2019 #2
Yeah, right. Maybe a generation has to pass before they start up again. I dunno. dameatball Dec 2019 #3
 

virgogal

(10,178 posts)
2. Happened to my son 35 years ago.
Tue Dec 3, 2019, 08:18 PM
Dec 2019

He bought a really nice radio.....that never worked. An old scam,and also at a convenience store.

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