How can people not heed a warning?

[MysteryGuest]

hal wrote:
Prime example of these people are lonely self employed people with no one to answer to and no one to consult (not that they'd listen anyway).

Huh, what? Speaking for the self-employed, I dispute that!

[space-time]

so he was living in a van, but was the victim of scam in the early days of the internet? was he on WiFi or Dialup?

[Dennis S]

He wasn't on the internet. I was. That's where I found the Canadian woman who called him. Scams existed before the internet.

[space-time]

so had had a cell phone then?

[Dennis S]

He would park his van in the yards of friends. (He never parked it down by the river that I know of.)

[vision63]

That must've been a lot of work Hal. Don't waste the data. "Somebody" has to need it.

[Jack D.]

Dennis S wrote:
[quote=kap]
[quote=Dennis S]
I talked a man out of sending about $1500 cash to the Canadian Lottery he had "won" and he acted toward me later like I had actually cost him money.

He could have "won" and you "blew" his golden opportunity.
He had already "won". The cash was for "taxes". It was the early days of the internet and I found a Canadian Scambuster site and got a woman there to call him and talk him down. Actually, I wasn't able to convince him, myself. He was living in a van and was going to sell his remaining guitars to raise the $1500.
When has the Government EVER given you all the money in a "Lottery" and let you owe them the taxes???? ..... that's what I thought.

[hal]

MysteryGuest wrote:
[quote=hal]
Prime example of these people are lonely self employed people with no one to answer to and no one to consult (not that they'd listen anyway).

Huh, what? Speaking for the self-employed, I dispute that! I don't mean ALL lonely self employed people with no one to answer to and no one to consult are suckers. Just that many of these suckers happen to be lonely self employed people with no one to answer to and no one to consult.

vision63 wrote:
That must've been a lot of work Hal. Don't waste the data. "Somebody" has to need it.

It was LOTS of work, but it was so interesting I didn't consider it to be work. I followed a yahoo group of people that were scammed by the #1 reigning champ ebay scammer (that we know of - many will never be discovered). It was amazing enlightening. Dozens of people that had a slightly skewed view of the world, but were mostly normal. At least 1/2 of them were small biz owners or solo designers and generally NOT dumb.

[Mactel]

Dennis S wrote:
He would park his van in the yards of friends. (He never parked it down by the river that I know of.)

Was his name Matt Foley? http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=27YLX5US9QM