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Posted By: Cathy Bryant In Response To: The gullibility gene is strong in these sheep (Bill Carton - the Roadie)
Thursday, 16 February 2006, at 12:17 p.m.
> So when HYIPs faded out after the "get paid to read emails" cons
> died off and gifting programs started their decline and Internet malls
> started looking pretty desolate, autosurfs took over the job of fleecing
> the gullible flock.
Reading this reminded me of a subscriber I had once who was permanently infected with the WannaBelieve virus. He was completely mesmerized with the "instant riches" he just knew were around the corner with the HYIP's and would continuously send me links to websites for me to assure him that yes, indeedy do, they were everything they claimed to be. Of course I told him the TRUTH about them, but he just wouldn't accept it. Somehow he managed to get me on my cell phone (I guess in a weak moment I gave it to him, hoping I could talk him out of literally throwing his money away on these schemes) and it just so happened that I was in my hometown on vacation when he decided to call.
I was just leaving a local eatery when his call came through. I don't remember the exact details of the conversation, but I do remember thinking to myself "This guy is just hopeless." I let him ramble on until I arrived at my next destination, where I sat in the parking lot for a few more minutes until he finally took a breath long enough to let me speak. At that point I told him exactly where I was - sitting in the parking lot of the Palace C@sino in Biloxi - and that I was getting ready to go in, sit down at a $3.00 bl@ckjack table, and play my $20 for as long as it would let me sit there - be it 10 minutes or two hours. I might even get lucky and walk out with more than I came in with, but regardless, I was going in there for one purpose and one only - to have a good time.
I suggested that if he insisted on investing his money in these "opportunities" he might just as well come down here and place his hard-earned cash on the r0ulette table or the sl0t machines - at least he'd be having fun and could get free cocktails to boot.
I don't think I changed his mind, but at least he never called me again :-)
Cathy
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