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He lost the shaft, then got the shaft
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A man stole a rotary hammer from a Roswell Road home improvement store. He ran out to his van. He started the vehicle and, alas, the drive shaft fell off.
The loss-prevention guys detained him until police arrived and arrested him for shoplifting.
Car maintenance should never be taken lightly.
Ouch and ouch!
The Roswell Rod victim was scammed when a man who said his name was Bratt Nock (?) said he was a representative of PayPal and due to their site being down needed to verify his account number.
He gave Bratt his Bank of America check card number and his security code. Brett later called back, under another fake name, and wanted to buy an Xbox system. Later the victim found that Brett accessed and took $500 from his PayPal account.
People are strange
A man reported that he let (clue) three strangers stay over at his Marsh Trail Circle apartment. The next day he found them gone, along with his computer game systems and about 40 DVDs.
The reason they call them strangers is because they’re strange and you should never have anyone or anything strange in your house for very long. People are strange when you’re a stranger. See? There’s nothing good about that word.
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By Political Foreskin
July 15, 2006 9:09 AM | Link to this
Are you saying the Home Improvement Store employees nailed the guy who shoplifted the hammer? I wonder if the thief tried to claw his way out?
The three strangers made off with a computer game system? Was the victims name Bratt Nock? I happen to know he just purchased an Xbox. I think this case is solved.
What we have here is a complete lack of respect for the law.
By Linda
July 15, 2006 12:31 PM | Link to this
Why did he call back wanting an xBox system?
By They Try
July 16, 2006 11:21 AM | Link to this
Scammers are everywhere in this day and age of computers. I am deluged daily with letters about millionaires dying and leaving no will (in the poorest countries on earth, mind you!) and they all want ME, a total stranger, to help them to get it, and take 20% of all these millions just for helping. I have also “won” hundreds of lotteries in the millions, especially in the UK, and when they find out that I am on to them (when they want $5,000 +- to get my money) and threaten them with reporting them to authorities, they close down their fraudulent yahoo and hotmail e-mail accts., like that will keep them from being traced.
Anyone who falls for internet scams these days deserves to be drained of all of their assets.
By They Try
July 16, 2006 11:26 AM | Link to this
P.S. Beware of the latest scam on the i-net. Someone who is opening a new branch of their extremely successful business in the U.S. needs a “representative” to take payments from U.S. customers (amazingly in Money Order form only), and you are to cash the m.o. and wire them the money, keeping 10% of it for yourself. (They SAY that American m.o.’s are difficult to cash in their country..balderdash!) Sounds easy, huh? It is…until you find out that the m.o. is counterfeit, and even though the bank had said it was “ok”, they debit your account for the amount of it, and the “company” you are working for never existed, and no one can be found to reimburse you.
Just go by the old saying “If it sounds to good to be true, it is.”
By Scammers beware
July 17, 2006 2:42 PM | Link to this
There is no such thing as a free lunch, a sure thing, or a LEGIT lottery that charges you a fee to collect your winnings. (Once you pay that first fee, they keep asking for more and more…and you never see any of your “winnings”.) They also use your information to sell it to illegal aliens and terrorists. Before you know it, you are hearing a knock on the door by the FBI. NEVER give anyone ANY of your personal information online. True and legit businesses will NEVER ask for this information via e-mail.
Also, if you are scammed by these fraudulent money order businesses, YOU can be held responsible and get locked up for being a part of it. BEWARE!
I have found several sites where these scammers can be reported and investigated, and have made use of it. I will continue to report them as long as they continue to try to scam hard-working people like me.
By Mark in Marietta
July 21, 2006 11:29 AM | Link to this
If you see anything by anyone involving cashing Money Orders and turning around to send them the cash or personal check, STOP, and give the GBI a call. You might even get to help nail the slime. But don’t do anything else with it unless law enforcement asks you to. Oh, there is no get rich quick scheme that works besides the lottery you play at your corner store (and the odds are still stacked against you…)