Real or Replica?

[anotherbob]

The natural prey for scammers are people who are wannabe scammers themselves, as my boss at the jewelry store used to describe them, people "with larceny in their hearts".

That so true. Many of the people I've known who've been scammed have thought they had a chance to pull one over on someone.
One of the common two person cons is to have your business partner yell at you for selling the thing too low of a cost and that you're screwing over the operation just because the guy seems nice.

More often than not, the victim thought that he was pulling a fast one on a clueless seller.

So true.

 

[Briar Lee]

The natural prey for scammers are people who are wannabe scammers themselves, as my boss at the jewelry store used to describe them, people "with larceny in their hearts".

More often than not, the victim thought that he was pulling a fast one on a clueless seller.

I don’t recall ever being able to talk a client out of a scam except one particular kind.

A middle aged man would happen on a lonely beautiful teenaged girl who’d only agree to meet him if she saw his manhood first.

And once “she” did see it, it would turn out it was an undercover federal FBI agent who would demand a thousand dollars administrative fee to discretely be placed on probation.

And when that man handed me his phone I would call the FBI agent and say my real name and the real name of our local prosecuting attorney.

And say you can chose to live in two different worlds.

Look outside your door. You can go on living in that world and leave my client alone.

The other world is I hand this phone over to my next door neighbor the prosecutor and you can visit us here in Missouri for a few years.

This is one of those days you’ve discovered somebody you really should not have ***** with, you know?

It always worked.

 

[anotherbob]

I don’t recall ever being able to talk a client out of a scam except one particular kind.

A middle aged man would happen on a lonely beautiful teenaged girl who’d only agree to meet him if she saw his manhood first.

And once “she” did see it, it would turn out it was an undercover federal FBI agent who would demand a thousand dollars administrative fee to discretely be placed on probation.

And when that man handed me his phone I would call the FBI agent and say my real name and the real name of our local prosecuting attorney.

And say you can chose to live in two different worlds.

Look outside your door. You can go on living in that world and leave my client alone.

The other world is I hand this phone over to my next door neighbor the prosecutor and you can visit us here in Missouri for a few years.

This is one of those days you’ve discovered somebody you really should not have ***** with, you know?

It always worked.

Would it violate your professional stuff to turn in your client?

 

[Briar Lee]

Would it violate your professional stuff to turn in your client?

The scammer really didn’t know that.

And it was all I could do to convince the mark that real FBI agents never give second chances and never request fees, and never say they are 18. They’d always want to pay.

And the dead giveaway was a real FBI agent always offers to meet the mark in person.

Minnesota state senator resigns after he was charged with soliciting a minor for prostitution - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna197327

Sing one, Rhonda Vincent!

A scammer impersonating a real FBI agent never wants any contact whatsoever with law enforcement, you know?

As a further service I always made sure there was no trace whatsoever the mark had talked to me.

Not one ever wanted to pursue the scammer for obvious reasons.

How many marks got a new phone, I have no idea.