Up till this point, I haven't told the old man about it. He was busy taking this test, and I knew he would get involved, and I didn't want to distract him - so I decided to wait until it was over.
We were dining at this little dive down the street, and I started filling him in. I didn't want to blurt out it was a scam at the beginning, I was building up to that... you know? I started telling him about this cute little place I found, and our series of conversations, etc. I left out a lot of the really obvious alert signs like the West Africa thing, to keep up the suspense.
When I'm just in the middle of telling him about how they had to move to Maryland, and we have to fill out the application online I see the person at the table over staring at us. When I look over at him, he timidly raises his hand up to his shoulder, "Um, I'm sorry I didn't want to interrupt or eavesdrop - but I just can't let you go through with this!"
"I'm sorry, what?" I ask. My old man looks really confused!
"This is a scam! We had this happen to us, and they just want your money, they don't have a place, they aren't going to send you the keys, and I just couldn't sit here knowing what I know!"
What a great guy! See, it's not just all bums and vagrants! Although I knew this was a scam, what if I didn't? I think that is really stand-up!
So, we decided together to keep this going: Scam the scammer so to speak. In fact if you Google such a phrase, you will be busy for several hours delightfully amused.
When we arrived home, my husband got onto the computer. Marywelch9@gmail.com had something to say:
Mary: hi
me: Howdy!
Mary: have you filled out the rent application form ? so that i can forward a cpoy tomy husband
me: yep
Mary: pleasesend tome ok? are u doing that right now so that i can inform my husband
me: Stop being so pushy!
Mary: ok let me know when you have it done i will like you to mail me when you are done ?
4 years ago
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