Favorite Scams

[Mzo]

Valet parking
1-900 sex lines
Psychics
Street beggars
Strategy guides
EverQuest

[Wildkat]

There is this one thats been around for a while..

These guys will drive around in un-marked vans and stop people at random, and offer then a "great deal" They have these "really high-end" speakers that they were given an extra set off by mistake, and will let you have them for really cheap since no-one will know.

They will often even have a classified ad selling the same speakers for like thousands of dollars, and they will let you have it for a few hundred.

Well, the box looks pretty, but the speakers are major pieces of crap. Worth $50 tops. The ad selling them for thousands? they placed it themseleves


They have updated it now, selling a "Home-theather package" my uncle got suckered into it for $200, when its worth about $50 tops, it doesnt even have a dolby digital decoder, just a 6 channel input.

[Cheebs]

There is this one thats been around for a while..

These guys will drive around in un-marked vans and stop people at random, and offer then a "great deal" They have these "really high-end" speakers that they were given an extra set off by mistake, and will let you have them for really cheap since no-one will know.

They will often even have a classified ad selling the same speakers for like thousands of dollars, and they will let you have it for a few hundred.

Well, the box looks pretty, but the speakers are major pieces of crap. Worth $50 tops. The ad selling them for thousands? they placed it themseleves

I fell for that once.... They had the white van and everything.

[Mzo]

Strippers
Selling phone cards off the street downtown
Subscriptions to video game sites
Paying for pornography

[Tracer]

Ahh.. good old grifts. I'll have some later today.

[Calliander]

Wildkat - you're in CT, right? I think that's really just a New England thing. I had people pull up with that stuff all of the time. You know when you see those things on the telephone poles? "Work from home! Earn blah blah blah!" That's the stuff they have you do. You buy those crappy stereos for cheap and then give people a line, confuse them, and then they pay an absurd amount of money for them.

Assembling things at your house
Stuffing envelopes at home
War in Iraq (ooh, time to catch some flak!)

Hehe. Let it begin!!!

[Mzo]

Assembling things at your house

AHAHAHHA

One of my friends got caught up in a make-a-bead-necklace pyramid scam. What a fucking idiot. He had to make like a billion of the fucking things.

[cka]

Three card monty is still top of the scam food chain in my eyes...

[Jeremy]

Getting people to bet on the results of a taped wrestling show. Easy fucking money.

[K3V]

Those people that walk around with bags full of old crap and try to sell it to you. You know, stuff like cologne, those little remote control cars, etc.