CAUTION - Active Scam Attempt on W&W Classifieds

On Friday, September 18, 2020 at 1:49:06 PM UTC-5, Dan Marotta wrote:
Why not have them incur some travel costs? To a place in, say, East
Armpit Oklahoma?

East Armpit, Oklahoma has a name. It's Picher.

These people don't travel. If they can't scam you from their computer desk chair they won't bother you any further.
My son's boss SCREAMS at scammers that call his office phone (daily, as we are all to familar with). He puts them on speakerphone so everyone can hear.
One of them, in his foreign accent, told him that he just has to keep doing this because "you wouldn't believe how many STUPID Americans fall for this".
Based on our current epidemiological crisis in this country (40,000 more infected daily because they don't like masks), I believe him.

On Saturday, September 19, 2020 at 10:02:06 AM UTC-4, Soartech wrote:
These people don't travel. If they can't scam you from their computer desk chair they won't bother you any further.
My son's boss SCREAMS at scammers that call his office phone (daily, as we are all to familar with). He puts them on speakerphone so everyone can hear.
One of them, in his foreign accent, told him that he just has to keep doing this because "you wouldn't believe how many STUPID Americans fall for this".
Based on our current epidemiological crisis in this country (40,000 more infected daily because they don't like masks), I believe him.

I keep a referee whistle and a small air-horn by the phone. Once I get a human voice on the line which typically tells me that law enforcement is on their way to arrest me because I didn't pay my taxes, I reply with the phone receiver far away from my mouth, which causes them to turn up their volume on their end. What comes next should be self-explanatory based on the afore-mentioned equipment .... :-)
I wonder if their health care covers blown ear-drums.

Uli
'AS'