In Michael Malone’s brand new novel The Four Corners of the Sky
The Four Corners of the Sky
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One time on a trip to the city, I got asked to play 3 card monte – 3 card monte! I didn’t even think people did that outside of movies.
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I was conned into buying a reading table from a popular catalog. When it came it was a piece of junk,not like the sturdy table in the picture. They got me. jelly15301@gmail.com
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Please accept this as my entry for May 14, 2009… Thank you!
this is my repeat entry
Have a Terrific Thursday, one more day and it’s a long weekend!
My son was on the computer one day and kept saying he was winning stuff. I was believing him and getting excited! He’d say he won candy bars, then a gift certificate from WalMart, then a gift certificate fom McDonalds, and so on. I can never tell if he’s telling the truth or not, he is so good at it. I went and told my husband he was winning all kinds of stuff and we were thrilled! Later my son said he was kidding! He thought it was so funny!
The biggest cons I ever encounter are from my own children! Staying up late, staying out playing, having snacks…all those promises of cleaning or doing laundry for me…and I fall for it almost every time!
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Please accept this as my entry for May 15, 2009… Thank you!
P.S. I’m always getting those phishing scams in my email box.
Please accept this as my entry for May 15
Have a Fantastic Friday!
We had a contractor come to our house for other work. He ‘spotted’ more concrete work that needed to be done at the side of the house right away to prevent disaster and despair. Insisted on coming over when the ‘man of the house’ was in to give an estimate. No address for his business, only a phone number. None of the building institutes or BBB had ever heard of him!
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My niece gave my dad some lottery tickets for Christmas one year. My dad scratched one of them off and had won $30,000.00 or something like that. My niece was having a fit when he was telling everyone. She was showing her true colors, not even happy he had won. Later, my dad told everyone he had a fake lottery ticket that looked like a real one. He sure conned my niece. I’ll never forget that one!
I was told at one time that I had won a lottery for a few million, at the time I had just got home from a state that has lottery and had entered. So when I first got the call and the mail to fallow I just wondered, just for a sec. if I really did but I am one of those people who check everything out so I took it to the bank and they called the bank the account was drawen on for me turns out it was a con and if I would have done it I would have ended up owing thm BIG money. It came out in the news a few days latter.
I blogged it:
http://cerebralgirl.blogspot.com/2009/05/book-giveaways-in-blogworld-05-15-09.html
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Well I have never been conned, but my elderly mother was taken for about $500.00. It was one of those things were they called her and she had won $3000.00 they would send her a cashiers check all she had to do was cash it and send them so much money to cover taxes, which was about $500.00. She did it and then got a call from the bank telling her the cashiers check was fake. I felt so bad for her. Please inlcude me in your giveaway.
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Telemarketers… Need I say more?! I hate them!!!! Please accept this as my entry for May 16, 2009… Thank you!
I just about got conned when the person who serviced my van said I needed a lot of stuff fixed and then I took it to another mechanic and he said everything was fine on it. I’m glad I got another person to look at it first!
I did receive an opportunity to buy land on the moon. Looking at the website, I honestly think these people think they have the rights to sell property on the moon. I wonder how many people have fallen for their scam. This looks like a great book. Thank you for the chance to win.
entered a contest, and had a call to say I won, just send them $150.00. So much for my cruise!
I still have a check I wrote to a pyramid scammer in the early 80′s. I was going to hand deliver it the following day however he was featured on the evening news. I keep it to remind myself of my greed and gullibility.
I just got an envelope in the mail yesterday that I won 2 free tickets to a cruise in the Bahamas! Yipee! Yea, right!
Wow, there are a lot of really bad people out there… Please accept this as my entry for May 17, 2009. Thank you!
Another entry, thank you again!
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I must admit that I fell for the “overseas lottery winner.” Fortunately, my joy was short-lived when I googled it and found out it was a scam. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Two words: Time share…need I say more?
A con I recieve at least twice a week is that I won a million dollars or more. I get these emails that even say that I need to pay $250.00 to get the money. What a terrible thaing to do to people.
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just listening to a radio show all about multi level marketing
One I heard about – sign up for an account which will allow you to process credit cards at a customer’s home or place of business. What they didn’t say was that it is a contract for 4 years at about $30 a month whether you have any transactions or not.
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One of my children tried to conn me along time ago by signing my name to excuses for missed school but it did not work. We can now laugh about it.
I would love the chance to win, thanks.
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Holiday Monday entry!
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How about those people advirtizing cash for your unwanted gold. First, like their going to pay you what is actually worth on the market, and second who in the world had “unwanted gold”?
Ah, Have you seen Slumdog Millionare?
I watched it the other night, I was amazing by all the cons
these little kids had to come up with just to survive.
Please accept this as my entry for May 18, 2009… Thank you!
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Oh man…Ive read all the cons ahead of me and I don’t know if I can think of an original!!! Hmmmm,
How about the old…”If you show me yours/I’ll show you mine!!!” LOL Then they show you and you decline…that’s a con right! (Im waiting for my son to say that to someone…sheeesh! Yikes. hee)
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Lisa Rinna’s lips are natural. Seriously.
My boyfriend was conned at his last job. He was working as a clerk in a hotel and him and the rest of the staff were told by the owner that he had bought a newer bigger hotel that had been for sale across town. He told them they were going to close down the smaller one and he was going to have the entire staff move to the bigger one. The staff helped pack everything up and they were all ready for the move when the owner and his wife suddenly disappeared. They took almost everything that had been packed and it turns out he had never purchased any new hotel. His wife and him had also been using fake names the entire time! And stealing money! The last couple of weeks they were charging triple the amount to customer’s credit cards and putting fake charges on their hotel bills. The staff also never got paid for their last two weeks of work. All this happened this past August, and as of now the guy still hasn’t been caught. Unfortunately, there’s con men aplenty where I live. I live in a teeny tourist town consisting of mostly transplants from large cities (including me). Luckily most of the cons are a bit more harmless, wealthy people posing as starving artists and hippies at arts and crafts festivals to sell more, “authentic” restaurants selling dressed up pre-made dinners, etc. A larger con like this guy only occurs every few years or so.
Hope it’s been a marvelous monday!