[FRIAM] Idle question

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On 10/16/19 10:26 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> Dear Fellow Friamers,
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> Has anybody ever tried to turn the tables on a Nigerian Prince Scammer?  So,
> I agree that you are going send me a million dollars, and I agree that I
> have to, say, send you $1000 dollars, to facilitate the transfer, but I ask
> you, the scammer, first to send ME a check for $100 dollars to establish the
> validity of your bank account, before I send you my thousand?  Defectors all
> the way down?  In the end, I am offering to send you penny in order to
> receive a dime.  The whole thing collapses when there are no smaller
> denominations.  
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> Did any of you hear that marvelous This American Life episode in which the
> bored homeowner decided to respond to the Carpet Cleaning cold caller, by
> asking, in a tentative, nervous sort of way, if the carpet cleaner could
> clean blood.  Yes. "I mean, human blood?" Uh, yes.  And when assured that it
> could, "Could he clean blood off WALLS?".  And when assured on that point,
> too, could the carpet cleaner come NOW!  
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> The police officer who appeared at his door, after seeing that there was in
> fact no blood, arrested the home owner.  When he asked why, the officer
> said, "I don't know; we'll figure something out in the car."  
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> Yes.  I know.  I need to get a life. 

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