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Scam: Father Passed Away, Need Money For Plane Ticket Entire Setup For Sale


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He was signed in last september 4th. Feeling like we were all taken advantage of as a caring community over here. Live and learn I suppose.

 

 

Wow - Read through this thread for the first time and I'm glad so many of you are real, down to earth, caring human beings. However..After I saw him stop posting after a while I kinda got the feeling you did. When I first saw the thread I remember seeing that he was a new member from July 1st of this year. Me being me - Skeptical red flag.

 

Hopefully that's not the case... 100 forums x 400 = 40k...

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Wow - Read this thread for the first time and I'm glad so many of you are real, down to earth, caring human beings. However..After I saw him stop posting after a while I kinda got the feeling you did.

 

Hopefully that's not the case... 100 forums x 400 = 40k...

He got more than 400 plus a free flight ticket.

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He never asked for donations, they were offered by kind N-R members. He just wanted to sell his hardware for cash. Did anyone buy any of it?

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If he took $10 from me he needed it more than I did. Karma is a #####. Haha.

 

Lets hope no one actually died and he actually just stole a few bucks from people. This kind of reminds me of that kid that started to scam everyone here in the classifieds! What a rotten kid that was. No backbone.

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If he took $10 from me he needed it more than I did. Karma is a #####. Haha.

 

 

I try this as a general rule but a scam is a scam and robbery is robbery. Granted, if an unfortunate event happened to me at that age...I'm not sure I'd make it to update a forum. Quite a bit on the kid's plate if his story is true.

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God bless him and his family if something did happen. I'm just a little skeptical now. I ony gave a few bucks as that is all I could afford at the time, but I believe atleast one person gave over 100 bucks. Whether he was offered or forced to take the money, a follow up on how he is doing and a thank you would be nice.

 

Not trying to sound insensitive, but his school and work life gave him 5 days bereavement at tops. I think that's enough time to just log on and say thanks and the tank is doing fine.

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Lets not forget that he didn't ask for the donations. You guys offered. It was your choice. Hopefully he actually needed it but if he didn't, than so be it.

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My momma always told me it's only a good deed if you don't tell anyone about it. I'd also add that it's only a good deed if you don't expect anything in return. If you sent him $, you had it to spare. To me, asking for an update is expecting something in return. Why don't all you wanna-be mystery solvers go find out where Jimmy Hoffa is?

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Lets hope no one actually died and he actually just stole a few bucks from people. This kind of reminds me of that kid that started to scam everyone here in the classifieds! What a rotten kid that was. No backbone.

 

Not sure what kid you speak of. hahaha.

 

Either way I hope he used the money as we intended. If he didn't and it was a scam then oh well. I know I tried to do something right even if I was taken advantage of.

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The problem if it was some type of scam (I'm hoping it wasn't). Is that in the future there may be someone that may have a legit crisis and people will be hesitant to help.

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My momma always told me it's only a good deed if you don't tell anyone about it. I'd also add that it's only a good deed if you don't expect anything in return. If you sent him $, you had it to spare. To me, asking for an update is expecting something in return. Why don't all you wanna-be mystery solvers go find out where Jimmy Hoffa is?

This, 100%

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yeah, would love a little extra but who wouldn't.

 

 

 

I have a million of dollars sitting in my bank account .

 

please provide me your bank account, name and address and a phone # so I could wire you some money to help out with the family situation.

 

please also provide a picture ID with your real address as well

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I have a million of dollars sitting in my bank account .

 

please provide me your bank account, name and address and a phone # so I could wire you some money to help out with the family situation.

 

please also provide a picture ID with your real address as well

LOL yeah like that's going to happen. Want his social security number and mother's maiden name while he's at it?

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