As was foretold, we've added advertisements to the forums! If you have questions, or if you encounter any bugs, please visit this thread: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/240191/forum-advertisement-faq-and-reports-thread/
Options

Scam Artists

trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
edited April 2010 in Social Entropy++
My friend, Tom comes into the city because he's meeting his friend's new wife for coffee. She's going to talk about this tax thing they've all been going on about. Something about getting everything you've paid in the last four years back all at once. Which, for my friend Tom, would be about $120,000 from his job as a rig push.

So he wants me to come to this meeting because he knew I had to learn how to read/make legal documents for our film and plus I have played Magic: the Gathering.

So we meet this chick. She had glasses and great BOOBS all hangin' out. She starts into her spiel and the whole time she keeps pinching and touching Tom any time her speech had the word "pinch" or "flesh and blood" in it.

It was something about how there is a public "you" and a private, flesh-and-blood "you" and that "Tom Kenning" was a corporate entity and only a SIN number; it was not the "real" "Tom Kenning".

THEREFORE

One can get the last four years of paid taxes back all at once by getting them to fill out these forms claiming that the "private Tom Kenning" was unfairly taxed/not subjective to tax laws. The only catch is that whenever the government phones he must NEVER answer, "Yes, I am Tom Kenning" or admit that he is Tom in any way, he must say, "All requests of the entity, "Tom Kenning" must be submitted in writing." Also this chick and her boss would become Representatives of the corporate entity, "Tom Kenning" in all correspondence.

They get 40% of the money he gets back and that's the deal, she says, thrusting her boobs ever closer to his arm.

So my friend says, "I'm IN!"

Then she tries to get him to sign this document and he lets me look it over first.

I wish I knew an accountant or lawyer because I am certain they would laugh so hard they would frame the thing on their wall. It might as well have been written in crayon. Among the other numerous flaws that stood out:

1. 600.00 "processing fee" OF COURSE
2. The person signing is "completely accountable and liable for all possible consequences of the decision".
3. This chick and her boss, "are entitled to 40% of all monetary gain earned by the applicant" (this "monetary gain" is NOWHERE defined in the document and when I asked her why there was no definition of what that meant she just kept answering, "Oh, that just means whatever he gets out of this awesome deal...It doesn't need to be on the paper"
4. They wanted everything from his SIN number to his birth-certificate.


And to top it all off, at the bottom of where you sign it says: "This is not a legal document, nor is it subject to any public court of laws."


So I step on his foot REALLY HARD

http://www.botsnthings.com/
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!

trentsteel on
«13456718

Posts

  • Options
    trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    tl:dr version:

    My friend almost got roped in by some boobs and a crazy story and several of his friends have already dumped their money into this thing and I think he should tell his buddy to start hitting his wife more

    trentsteel on
    http://www.botsnthings.com/
    I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!

  • Options
    SwillSwill Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    goddamn, you have to have no common sense to get duped by these things

    Swill on
  • Options
    AirAir Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    boobs huh
    sign me up

    Air on
    darjeelingshortsig95.jpg
  • Options
    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Whole thing's run by the corporate entity of a Nigerian prince

    Poorochondriac on
  • Options
    Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    So I step on his foot REALLY HARD

    Hahahaha trent you are awesome, don't ever change.

    Tweaked_Bat_ on
  • Options
    trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    It was so hard to be all polite, fake like I was interested etc. so we could leave. Tom made an excuse about not bringing his info and he'd have to e-mail it to her later. I was shaking her hand and saying "nice to meet you," and I just wanted to yell YOU FUCKING LYING ____ HOW DO YOU GET UP IN THE MORNING AND SMILE AND GREET PEOPLE AND LIE THROUGH THOSE TEETH

    trentsteel on
    http://www.botsnthings.com/
    I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!

  • Options
    trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    you guys woulda liked her she was like Tina Fey with double-d's and a bitching Tattoo of Shiva the Godess of Death

    trentsteel on
    http://www.botsnthings.com/
    I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!

  • Options
    Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    You should've tried to chat her up.

    Tweaked_Bat_ on
  • Options
    Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Wait a minute.

    Was it Elizabeth Hurley?

    Penguin Incarnate on
  • Options
    trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    No it was not; chubbier, bigger boobs

    Also I noticed when I asked if I could have a copy of the form she said, "Oh, sorry I only brought one." Like her damn bag wasn't FULL of them

    trentsteel on
    http://www.botsnthings.com/
    I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!

  • Options
    Agent VesagoAgent Vesago Half Iago. Half Fu Manchu. All Bastard. Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Go for the boobs.

    Stay for the identity theft.

    Agent Vesago on
    Clowns.jpg
  • Options
    Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Well, I hope she gets breast cancer.

    The only scam I can think of that I fell for was a Facebook group offering free stuff for basically no reason. It was obviously too good to be true, but, in my defense, I was pretty liquored up and didn't give them any information that isn't already readily available (and inaccurate). Then the group got deleted by Facebook because it was phony.

    So there's that. If anything ever looks too good to be true, it is, because if life wasn't that way, everyone would be rich by now. And then where would all our poor people live? In houses? Fat chance. Not in my America.

    Penguin Incarnate on
  • Options
    Grey_AreaGrey_Area Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Yeah, you didn't mention if they would own his soul. As long as he has that he should be sweet. Eventually.

    The old rule remains: If it is too good to be true, then it damn well is - even with big tits.

    Grey_Area on
  • Options
    Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    You should have run a counter-scam on her, where you bang her to sign the contract, then you just give her some phony handle like "Rusty Shackleford" and move on with your life.

    Penguin Incarnate on
  • Options
    AirAir Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    but what about the big tits themselves

    dont tell me they are fake too

    Air on
    darjeelingshortsig95.jpg
  • Options
    FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    COUNTERSCAM!

    Framling on
    you're = you are
    your = belonging to you

    their = belonging to them
    there = not here
    they're = they are
  • Options
    Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    block

    Tweaked_Bat_ on
  • Options
    trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Yeah if I would have got my hands on another one of those "legal forms" I was going to call the police. She wouldn't even let Tom take one with him.

    trentsteel on
    http://www.botsnthings.com/
    I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!

  • Options
    Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    You should have run a counter-scam on her, where you bang her to sign the contract, then you just give her some phony handle like "Rusty Shackleford" and move on with your life.

    Yeah this is what I was trying to suggest.

    Tweaked_Bat_ on
  • Options
    Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I like to call that one the "Long Con" for a variety of reasons.

    Penguin Incarnate on
  • Options
    trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I told him that, actually. Might as well call her up, meet and say, "Look, I know this is a straight-up scam and you are basically going around collecting as many $600.00 deposits as you can. I'll give you that 600 but you have to let me fuck your tits."

    trentsteel on
    http://www.botsnthings.com/
    I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!

  • Options
    JoonJoon Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    In this economy, you have to grift. Either that or... work.

    Joon on
    bartsig.png
  • Options
    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I like to call that one the "Long Con" for a variety of reasons.

    More like The Sting

    Poorochondriac on
  • Options
    Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    A weakness of mine is calling my junk "Robert Shaw" and vice versa.

    Penguin Incarnate on
  • Options
    bsjezzbsjezz Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    who wants to buy my lifetime supply of power balance bracelets

    bsjezz on
    sC4Q4nq.jpg
  • Options
    Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
  • Options
    SoaLSoaL fantastic Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    trentsteel wrote: »
    I told him that, actually. Might as well call her up, meet and say, "Look, I know this is a straight-up scam and you are basically going around collecting as many $600.00 deposits as you can. I'll give you that 600 but you have to let me fuck your tits."

    so that's what the processing fee entails

    SoaL on
    DKFA7.gif
  • Options
    STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Oh nice! I just win the Spanish lottery!

    STATE OF THE ART ROBOT on
  • Options
    SoaLSoaL fantastic Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    when i was a cashier

    the first thing I noticed was that there are a lot of people who wear Q-Rays

    SoaL on
    DKFA7.gif
  • Options
    CalebrosCalebros a k a TimesNewPwnin Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I worked in Walmart for 3 years in the electronics department, so I got to deal with all manner of folk. Over a few years I build a customer base, and even give my name and number to some customers that say they had some computers they need looked at, and don't want to pay for Geek Squad or whatever. Most never call back. One guy did though. Older man, smelled of cigarettes and dogs. I give him my info too, because he was nice enough and appreciated my knowledge on computers and seemed like a stand up gent. A few weeks later, he calls me and says he'd like me to come to his house to look at his computer. So I say yes of course, and I head down the next day. On the way there, I get to the road he tells me to go to and ask him what next, and he says head all the way down until you get to the trailer park. Oh boy. So I make my way down to a circle of mobile homes by the tip of the bay up here, and go in. This guy is pretty nice, but his friend.... oh man, his friend Richard. He, it turns out, is quite the oddball.

    The whole time I am there, they're both very courteous to me, offering me drinks (Arizona green tea, in sealed bottles, thank god), introduce me to the 2 dogs he has that are very cute and playful, and watch fishing shows while I take a look at their computer. After a while it seems like it's bogged down with viruses (turns out it was a bunch of piece of shit rootkits and stuff, all very nasty. Ended up just reformatting it, putting on Windows 7 as requested and charging him $100). I take it home to reformat it and get it up and running.

    The next day I run it back to his house, and the guy who is paying me leaves in his truck for whatever reason, leaving me with Richard. Now Richard is about 50, mostly bald, missing a few teeth, but is very well spoken and seems quite intelligent. I plug the computer in, show him how Win7 works, some things they should do every few weeks to keep it running well, and so on. After about 30 mins Richard asks me what I would think if he told me everything I knew was a lie. I said I wasn't sure. He said I seem like an intelligent man, and he's only telling me this because he thinks I deserve to know, that I would do good things with this knowledge. Oh, man.

    He proceeds to tell me all manner of 'secret' knowledge. America means No Mercy for the Sheep, he says. A means No, Meri means Mercy, Ca means Sheep. Cursive language is also bad, and it's called cursive because it means to curse something. He says on Canadian currency, the 'nad' is in cursive, rendering it unreal, which leaves just 'Ca' and 'a', which means The Sheep. What language this means this in he did not say.

    Language written in all capitals is 'writing of the dead,' because on tombstones and death certificates they use all capital letters. This, he says, means that your birth certificate is actually a death certificate because it is in all capitals too. You are not legally alive. There is also a rule of boxes, where anything in a box doesn't count. US Dollars used have boxes as borders around their edges, and thus were not actual legal tender, until several years ago when they changed it because a man named David Wynn Miller sued the United Nations for $68 billion and won. This man, David Winn Miller, is very important he says.

    David Wynn Miller is the man who wrote the information on all of this. This is the man that discovered all of this. He discovered the way we speak isn't 'real,' as he called it. It's false because it's adverb-verb in structure. He sums it up as anything that doesn't have 'Of The' in front of it, doesn't count as legally stated. It would have to be stated as Of the United States of the Americas. Flags in court rooms have borders around them, rendering them unofficial, leaving the property they reside on unlcaimed. Richard tells me David-Wynn Miller has claimed these territories for himself. He owns them now, this Miller fellow. All courts are now his.


    Richard tells me he wants to write himself a Certificate of Life, since legally right now all he has is a 'death certificate.' He needs 3 people to sign the document, and has so far only found 2. He wants me to be the 3rd. Documents aren't legal until they're signed by 3 parties he says.

    David has a website, he tells me (and shows me), so that I believe him. He says his friend showed him clips of the videos, that's how he heard, but he's not allowed to see them without buying him so he baught himself copies from David. They're only $300 he says. He says he's watched them over and over, and now has 1200 hours devoted to their study, memorising and writing notes about them. If I want, he can copy one for me and show me and then I buy them for myself.

    He has been talking to me for 3 hours. When I realise this, I tell him I have to get going, that I don't know where I stand on this. I take his number, say I will call him if I consider it. The whole thing was very surreal. I wondered if I were dreaming it. I leave the trailer, it is now night time, and I speed the fuck home, greatful he does not know my full name or could see my license plate number as I bolted out.

    You can visit DWMs website here and see this nonsense for yourselves.

    Calebros on
  • Options
    trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited April 2010

    Wasn't there something recently about all the bomb detectors they use there are basically just witching sticks but they think they work?

    trentsteel on
    http://www.botsnthings.com/
    I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!

  • Options
    Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Yes. It is that device.

    Penguin Incarnate on
  • Options
    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Oh nice! I just win the Spanish lottery!

    Veretas post

    Poorochondriac on
  • Options
    Volucrisus AedriusVolucrisus Aedrius Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    That is terrifying.

    Volucrisus Aedrius on
  • Options
    HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Man, when are people gonna learn that things that sound too good to be true ARE too good to be true?

    Good story Trent.

    Henroid on
  • Options
    trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Calebros wrote: »

    He proceeds to tell me all manner of 'secret' knowledge. America means No Mercy for the Sheep, he says. A means No, Meri means Mercy, Ca means Sheep. Cursive language is also bad, and it's called cursive because it means to curse something. He says on Canadian currency, the 'nad' is in cursive, rendering it unreal, which leaves just 'Ca' and 'a', which means The Sheep. What language this means this in he did not say.

    You can visit DWMs website here and see this nonsense for yourselves.

    AHAHAHAHA YES

    trentsteel on
    http://www.botsnthings.com/
    I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!

  • Options
    STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Oh nice! I just win the Spanish lottery!

    Veretas post

    GODDAMN!

    STATE OF THE ART ROBOT on
  • Options
    Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Calebros, I'd like to have a chat with you about a little thing called "Timecube."

    Penguin Incarnate on
  • Options
    trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    oH, shit, calebros, I've heard about these dudes. They got kicked out of a courtroom for something once because they would only talk like that gibberish there and said it was "technically far more accurate than the english language as it is used now."

    trentsteel on
    http://www.botsnthings.com/
    I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!

  • Options
    CalebrosCalebros a k a TimesNewPwnin Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Yes he said that all judges know this secret language and they know that if you know it, you will get out of whatever it is you're in the for so they will have you removed before you can embarrass them.

    Really they throw you out for misconduct for being an idiot, but that only fans the flames.

    This is all part of something called the sovereign citizen movement, according to the internetubes.

    Calebros on
Sign In or Register to comment.