Based off the following post:
https://squackle.com/22567/screwed-up-chronicles/daves-kingdom/scam-call-from-local-exchange/
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Harry Brown and Mildred Jacklesmith once had a great idea.
“Why don’t we scam people?” Harry Brown said.
Mildred, obviously in agreement, shouted at the top of her lungs. “YESSSS!!!!!”
And so a company was born. It was named Local Exchange and it was in San Dimas, California. Or maybe it was in Villaverde. Is that even a city? To tell you the truth no one really knows what city it actually is in. Not that it matters because absolutely all of their business would be conducted over the phone.
Local Exchange invested in a phone number that provided unlimited calling and texting. Obviously, to scam people you need to call them unlimitedly and text them non-stop. Otherwise, the whole scam thing doesn’t really seem very scammish!
The first order of business was to create the scam. The scam of all scams. A scam that everyone would believe but only the smart people would question and only the smart people would see it was a scam. People who were smarter than them, even. But that’s not the target market, now, is it?
The scam had been planned out in a matter of days. First, they would call a random number and ask to speak to the “owner of the phone” to make it sound official. Once they had the owner of the phone, they would tell them about the grand prize they had won and how everyone knows them locally but to get notoriety in different parts of the country, they were expanding their random 6-day cruise prize to different areas of California.
Once the person had given them their credit card information and social security number, they would hang up and begin to apply for credit cards and home loans with their information and take out cash advances. And then they would invest that money into online payment systems.
Yes, life was grand in the most successful scamming company of all time. Local Exchange posted huge profits and Harry and Mildred bought huge mansions once owned by drug dealers who fell victim to the scams. Poor drug dealers lost their drug dens, but they weren’t the only victims to the grandest scam of all time.
I will now tell you about a lady who was down on her luck. She thought she was the luckiest person in the world and won a free 6-day cruise to New York from California. Oh, what a joyous occasion it was. And all she had to give them was her name, address, social security number, and driver’s license number. Overnight, this wonderful, nice lady had transformed into a blathering hobo asking for change at bus stop benches. The day before she had been a worker at McDonald’s but when it came about that another Emelia Prancasa applied for a job at Burger King across the street with the same information as “Our” Emelia, that’s when McDonald’s fired her. They couldn’t have a worker working at two fast food restaurants at the same time. That would be espionage in the making!
Poor Emelia. She can no longer work at any fast food restaurant because she became the most notorious fast food restaurant quadruple agent ever to be known. Too bad she wasn’t hot cause she was quite ugly and not very attractive to boot. Sometimes ugly people can be attractive, but sometimes they are just stupid. Like Emelia. Because she thought she won a 6-day cruise when in fact she won nothing and lost it all.
The end.
Moral: Don’t give away your private information to random people who call you on the phone telling you you won a 6-day cruise.