Scams

SCAMS

Has anyone ever tried to scam you? This activity is, I believe just as old as mankind itself, it seems it is true that there is a sucker born every minute. I started out learning about this from chain letters that were sent out randomly and sometimes my Mother would get one, she would just tell me don't even open it and just tear it up and burn it. It usually came along with a one cent coin and a prayer and the added threat of a few years of bad luck if you broke the chain. I know because I read one of them without my mother knowing it and found out what it was about, it didn't bother me at all. What the senders of this crap got out of it beats me, but they did take their time and spent a little money on it. These chain letters are still on email nowadays, the modern curse system.

But the real first time I was targeted as a victim for a scam or timo as it is called here was in 1978, I had just gotten out of 10th grade and there was an international football event in Tegucigalpa the capital so I went just to watch this two week event. Well I went with a friend who lived in a housing development which was and still is the largest in Honduras, over 5,000 houses all of them identical. He had given me certain instructions so I was not completely in the dark, but there is what they call a green area, actually just dust and as I was walking through there a guy, obviously a campesiono (peasant) accosted me, he said if I knew where the Banco de Honduras was, I told him I didn't, but that should have been my first clue, it was a Sunday. Anyway he told me he had sold some land to a Government agency and he wanted to cash the check which was for three thousand and odd Lempiras, i told him I couldn't help him.

Then along came the second guy and asked what was happening, so the campesino repeated his story and also said he was penniless, could hardly read and needed to get back to his town. He was in fact so down that he was willing to take whatever we could come up with and give us the check. So the smart second guy took me apart and said, look I have about two hundred Lempiras, how much do you have? I guess if you have a few hundred we can give it to him and you take the check and tomorrow we meet at the bank change the check and go half and a half with the money. I did have money, about four hundred which back then was a lot, but I had no intention of being parted from them, luckily I saw a policeman coming and I told them why don't you ask the policeman and maybe he can help you. Well the second guy put his arm on the others shoulder and they walked away real fast.

I thought no more of it, went to watch my football game until that night when I told my sister about it, and she told what? Those two guys have swindled dozens of people with that story they are thieves I don't know how you didn't fall for it. I know why, i am kind of miserable with my money when it is in my pocket except if it is to gamble so it is highly unlikely I would lose it in such an infantile way.

But these things happen all the time, time went by and they came up with the Nigerian prince, with the Zimbabwean widow, with the Iraqi widow all of whom would give you a part of millions of dollars if you only sent them a few hundred for paper work. I say just use some of my millions for that paper work and send me my money.

But the last one I was targeted with was on Discord, I got a personal message with a code telling me I had won about half a BTC on some site and just needed to input the code and the money was mine. Curiosity is also something I am a champion of so I went to the site, I had to sign up, no problem I have multiple emails, and then introduced the code, yes I was now the owner of half a BTC ready for withdrawal, but when I tried to withdraw, yes sir, I had to deposit a small amont of BTC to prove I do exist. There is no honesty in this world.