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Man Pays $400,000 For a Croissant He Never Got to Eat
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| Thursday, July 14, 2011
Posted on 07/14/2011 12:42:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Mr. Chiu sounds like a meathead.
Pity.
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posted on
07/14/2011 12:48:08 PM PDT
by
RexBeach
(Mr. Obama can't count.)
To: nickcarraway
At some point you have to wonder if the criminals might make more intelligent use of the money.
To: PetroniusMaximus; RexBeach; Slings and Arrows
What do you think? Should he send one more payment, just to make sure?
To: nickcarraway
So the company called and asked him to repeat the transaction
120,000 times...and he complied?
Somethin' ain't right here.
To: nickcarraway
Yea... but did he ever get is croissant???
To: nickcarraway
It would be nice touch to send him the croissant.
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posted on
07/14/2011 12:52:23 PM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
To: PetroniusMaximus
Yea... but did he ever get is croissant???No...and yet it still made him cry.
To: nickcarraway
To: PetroniusMaximus
Monetary Supervision Commission. I gotta try that sometime.
To: nickcarraway
The man, only identified by his last name, Chiu... Of course, the whole point of the story is...
That a man named "chew" never got to eat his croissant.
-PJ
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posted on
07/14/2011 12:56:39 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day, Mexican on Cinco de Mayo, and American on Election Day.)
To: nickcarraway
He should meet my Nigerian friends - one of them is the son of a General and will be sending me $12 million any day now!
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posted on
07/14/2011 12:57:38 PM PDT
by
PGR88
(I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
To: PBRSTREETGANG
So the company called and asked him to repeat the transaction 120,000 times...and he complied? Somethin' ain't right here.
While I've heard of slow learners before, this goes beyond ridiculous.
How could that number of calls/transactions have possibly been accomplished in any reasonable time frame? Even doing a hundred transfers a day, seven days a week, would have taken over three years.
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posted on
07/14/2011 12:59:21 PM PDT
by
Bob
To: PBRSTREETGANG; Tijeras_Slim
No...and yet it still made him cry.
Wow...
That’s a lot of dough.
Wow...
I'm not worthy.
To: nickcarraway
Hey,Chiu! I got a 300k bottle of Tums I’ll let you have for 200k. That’ll help you out. Just looking out for you, buddy.
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posted on
07/14/2011 1:01:22 PM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: nickcarraway
The US Congress needs to hire him as a budget analyst. He would be an improvement.
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posted on
07/14/2011 1:03:57 PM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
(I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
To: nickcarraway
i’m guessing the $400,000 is in taiwanese dollars (nice reporting)
at the current exchange rate ($1 taiwan == $0.0347 USD), $400,000 taiwan would be about $13,880 USD
of course, it would still mean he complied with 4,000 requests for verification from the scammers
not very bright
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posted on
07/14/2011 1:05:08 PM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: sten
i’d guess the 12 million taiwanese dollar figure to be inaccurate
4,000 transactions seems a bit more likely then 120,000
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posted on
07/14/2011 1:07:21 PM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: nickcarraway
He had transmitted 12 million Taiwan dollars before realising he had been scammed. At 99 dollars a pop....that's a hell of a lot of transactions.
The penultimate moron.
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posted on
07/14/2011 1:08:26 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(If you think it's time to bury your weapons.....it's time to dig them up.)
To: PGR88
But they’re sending them in Taiwanese dollars...
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