In Michael Malone’s brand new novel The Four Corners of the Sky
The Four Corners of the Sky
Want to win your own hardcover copy? The book debuted this week, so enter to win while you’re still the first in your book club to hear about it! ($24.99 retail)
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1.) Just give me a con! Try and sell me a watch, snow me, or tell me about a con you experienced or heard about. Ever buy some land in Florida? Get creative! (You may enter once a day.) Remember, leave an interesting comment. If I cannot contact the winner, you might be chosen instead based on your comment.
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I would love to say I am proud of not being conned, but if I analyze that it demonstrates my lack of trust in people. Guess that comes from being a counselor for years, I think I have heard every lie in the book, people lying to themselves, to each other and to their counselor. I always wonder how people can get conned so easily, don’t they watch TV or read the news?
(Here’s a con for ya lol)
What you and everyone else needs is a good luck stone which looks suspiciously like gravel from my driveway but probably isn’t. Hard to tell. You can get the first POUND of lucky stones for just 4 easy payments of 19.99, shipping and handling extra. For a limited time we’ll DOUBLE your order and also throw in The Amazing Luck Plant (which coincidentally looks like an ordinary dandelion) for free, not counting additional shipping and handling and whatever other charge we can think of. Hurry, this offer is limited to the first 10,0000 suckers … I mean savy shoppers with a valid credit card and no common sense!
I often wonder how many people fall for those emails saying you have won millions of dollars in a lottery in a foreign country. Or that there is a big check waiting for you somewhere; just send your personal information to the sender. Hope people are not getting coned in this way. BTW I am a subscriber.
You know what you need? You need some of me all new perfection cream. Does your husband have irritating facial hair? Just dab on some of my perfection cream on his face and he will never grow hair again. Do you have an ugly birthmark that you’d like to remove? Oh and here’s the best part, you know that barbie looking soccer mom that you hate? Slip some perfection cream in her drink and she will become a 400 pound moose! During this special offer you can receive 2, count them 2, tubes of perfection cream for 2 easy payments of a million dollars each. But call now to order because this cheap as dirt deal won’t last. The number is 1-800-sucker.
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I have a small piece of land for sell at North Myrtle Beach, SC. It has a beautiful view of the Intercoastal Waterway. Perfect for small families and campers. I’m only asking $250K. Serious inquiries only!!!
Will trade for a mountain chalet.
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Car for sale: Driven by a little old lady to church every week. Doesn’t bother to mention the grandson who has been racing with it. Gently used has “some rust, some dints” ( great whopping holes in the floor and the fender is about to fall off from rust).
Well, there was this couple who had a 17 year old gas
guzzling van that they needed to get rid of. Advertised
it,put for sale signs in the window & parked it on the
street. No takers. The insurance was due in 2 weeks &
they didn’t want to have to pay that. Being retired with
a low income, they didn’t have to pay income taxes & so
could not take a charity deduction if they gave it to a
charity. With no one interested, that’s what they had
decided to do when someone called about it. He went out
and looked at it, drove it & seemed satisfied because it
was what his sister with a houseful of kids needed. But,
he wanted to swap something instead of paying a small amount
for it. He worked for a company that repaired driveways, so
he would do that (& gee, did it need reparing). & he would
power wash the house. The deal was done,transfer of title,
van went to his place & he was only heard from once. He said he had a sick father in Florida & would do the work when dad got better. Months later-nothing done. He really had the talk down well. Seemed totally believable & since we couldn’t do anything else with the van,we took a chance &
trusted him. Lesson learned.
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You choose us by your votes and who you vote in will be there for you, by the people, for the people and all that. None of the the people you elect to office will be puppets, dancing for the highest bidder. We will protect you, and in your old age, take care of you. We would never start a plague like AIDS accidentally for the purpose of BioWarfare, and you will always always be innocent tlll proven guilty – never mind all that stuff you hear to the contrary about Homeland Security. We are your Country, and you are our top priority.
(Don’t worry I love my country, just playing on theories for fun. Were all the theories true though, it be the ultimate con)
I’m confused by Renee’s – the first comment – ” would love to say I am proud of not being conned, but if I analyze that it demonstrates my lack of trust in people” I wondering first about the but if, it makes me feel as if the sentence is incomplete. Second – you say that being conned demonstrates your lack of trust, wouldn’t it follow that being conned would demonstrate being too trusting? Its all a little confusing.
I’m a subscriber and OOPS my mistake I didn’t read the NOT in Renee’s comment. And if I take out her that and add an it and a comma that sentence makes sense! Sorry Renee!
Hi, I am a subscriber and would absolutely love to win this book, reading is
a passion of mine, soooo please consider me. Thank you.
I still hear about the con of emails arriving from Ebay, PayPal, etc. and saying that they need you to log in and update your information as your account as been compromised. Of course, theyre not really from ebay or PayPal at all.
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I would not like to win this book.
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just listening to a radio show all about multi level marketing – eek!
Being hired for a job and getting there and being told that the job isn’t available and being stuck in a horrible job.
Some years ago while I was still living at home with my parents, a young girl came to talk with me in the back yard. She was selling magazines and told me that if she sold the most magazine subscriptions, she could win a fabulous trip. I actually ended up purchasing three magazines and paid her in advance! The magazines never arrived and she had my money! I will never forget how silly I felt, but I did learn a lesson.
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Beware of “Free’ offers. they never are.
I can’t think of any cons, so how about a pick up line that was used on me instead? Once a guy came up to me and told me that he needed my help. He had a bet going with his buddies at another table that he could get me to dance. I told him, “You lose.”
(Although looking back it seems sort of mean now, in my defense I hate “lines”. I like sincerity and honesty and “forthrightness”. That’s a word, right?)
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My brother got conned into adopting a rescue puppy. After sending the money to pay for the costs involved in sending the puppy to him, he found out it was a scam.
Many, many years ago when I was too young to really remember, our Polish community in a small northern town (in Ontario, Canada) was swindled by a con who offered to teach the young children the Polish language. He did teach all ages from 3 years of age up but not for long because he hightailed it out of town with everyone’s money and wasvnever to be heard from again! It was shocking for the Polish community – one of their own to boot!
This particularly irritating scam/con was actually highlighted on Good Morning America today. Automatic calling machines who call random numbers and start telling your your warranty is about to expire, last chance to do something about your high credit card interest rate, etc. I don’t have caller ID, so I do answer calls, but at least I knew to hang up immediately. But I get them quite often, and they are very irritating.
The biggest con I can think of was how the pastor of a church we used to attend took up lots of offerings “for the church” only to find out he was sqwandering the money and paying his own bills and building his very extravagant home and buying his very expensive automobiles. Sad thing is, he’s still at it. I just don’t trust people anymore.
Here is an explanation of Investment Banking (considering all the poop North America has been placed in of late)… Young Chuck moved to Texas and bought a donkey from a farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day. The next day the farmer drove up and said, “Sorry Chuck, but I have some bad news. The donkey died.” Chuck replied, “Well then, just give me my money back.” The farmer said, “Can’t do that. I went and spent it already.” Chuck said, “OK, then, just bring me the dead donkey.” The farmer asked, “What ya gonna do with a dead donkey?” Chuck said, “I’m going to raffle him off.” The farmer said, “You can’t raffle off a dead donkey!” Chuck said, “Sure I can. Watch me. I just won’t tell anybody he’s dead.” A month later, the farmer met up with Chuck and asked, “What happened with that dead donkey?” Chuck said, “I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars a piece and made a profit of $898.00.” The farmer said, “Didn’t anyone complain?” Chuck said, “Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back.” Chuck now works for AIG.
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My brother-in-law got scammed. They had a guy come to the shop and tell them they could sell them cheap electronics that their store was going out of business. So my brother wanted a TV — he followed the guy to a back of a shopping mall, gave him the money and he told him he was just going into the storehouse to get the item and just to wait there with his car. Of course the door locked after him and he never came back:( Thanks for the giveaway
My husband got conned into buying his first computer from someone his family new. The guy sold him a computer that was crappy and charged him a lot for it at the time. It didn’t even have windows program with it so every time something happened he would have to bring it to the guy to restore it. My husband made payments on it and the guy told us if we have a problem to bring it to him and he would fix it. So we would bring it back to be fixed or get upgrades and watch him take parts off other peoples computer he was fixing. After awhile my husband realized the guy was over charging us and decided to eventually purchase our own. Now we know a lot more about computers.
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Years ago a friend of my mom’s purchased a VCR from a guy who walked into her place of business offering this great deal to anyone who would listen. He had a “demo” unit to show her and a sealed box with a brand new unit inside, which is what she’d be purchasing. It was too hard to pass up, so she gave the guy her cash. After he left she opened the box, only to discover it contained several bricks and no VCR.
People who have nothing to lose can be wonderful cons. For the rest of us, we have to make a decision if want to run the occasional risk or want to spend our lives being suspicious of everything. I don’t live my life being stupid, but I also don’t look for cheats under every bush
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I really want to read this. Been waiting for this one
Well, do email scams count? I get those by the dozens and they usually start with declarations of money being released to my bank as soon as I give them my personal information (and the money is always a HUGE amount). I worry some people might take them seriously.
Love Michael Malone books. My con I got caught in was in Egypt being told the market was closed and instead being taken to a fancy perfume store by the ‘helpful’ person on the street. Of course the market was not closed. After buying something, I had such buyer’s remorse and realizing we were conned, I was crying – so we went back and they actually gave us our money back……
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how about house guests from out of state….people we hadn’t seen for years….told a lot of hard luck-down and out stories…..just getting back on their feet……we treated them royally….showed them a good time….wouldn’t let them pay for a thing…….wined and dined them for a solid week….right before they were to leave for the airport to return home, Mr. Long-lost friend mentioned that before they had come to see us, he had told Mrs. Long-lost friend that every nickel they managed to save while on vacation would be used for NEW FURNITURE when the trip was over…….
The Nigerian government has some of my money, but I need you toclaim it for me. Just send me $5000 in a money order and as soon as my money is released, you will get back millions.
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I received a number of emails saying that I had WON A MILLION DOLLARS in some such lottery. All I had to do was reply. I did reply by telling them that I had printed out all the pages – taken them to the bank & that the bank then passed them along to consumer affairs & the Federal Police.
this was taken off a forum and I found it funny that people fall for this
Hello, I wish to make reservation for guests who will be coming to your country for a conference. I want
to book meals for the group from 15th June-
18th June 2009. They would come for breakfast,launch and dinner in your place for the four days by
8:00amm – 9:00pm each day.The guests are 10
in number, we do not know what the guests would choose for their meals so we would deposit you
EUR2000 in advance as initial deposit via credit
card, i hope you have POS machine? All checks and balances will be made with you on 30th May 2009 which is the final day of the
dinner.
Contact me back with your response…. Dennis Wems..