At least I got a $400,000 Wonder Bra...
Posted on 07/14/2011 12:42:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Fell for the 'French bread which is so delicious that it will make you cry' scam
A Taiwanese man reportedly paid about $400,000 for a croissant he never got to eat.
The man, only identified by his last name, Chiu, reportedly fell for an Internet scam that promoted, "French bread which is so delicious that it will make you cry," reported Apple Daily.
Chui reportedly saw the photograph of the alleged croissant and proceeded to transmit 99 Taiwan dollars to the bakery through an ATM. Someone from the company then called him to say there was a mistake and he had to repeat the transaction, which he did.
A second phone call came from a "bank manager," asking him to repeat the transaction, and then a third from someone who posed as a representative "from the Monetary Supervision Commission," asking him to repeat the transaction to avoid charges of money laundering.
He had transmitted 12 million Taiwan dollars before realising he had been scammed.
Hey, Mitch McConnell would advise this guy to give all his account information to the scammer, so the scammer gets all the blame for the theft.
At least I got a $400,000 Wonder Bra...
Which proves the old adage: “A fool and his money were damned lucky to get together in the first place!”, or something like that .................................. FRegards
That was one stupid Asian!
However, I would kill for two slices of Sunbeam bread!
Aren't you in luck! Send me $10 and I will send you those slices!
The numbers aren’t right, but the poor man got taken to the cleaners regardless. Paying 3.44USD for a single croissant was bad enough. Paying for it over and over again was more than stupid; it was insane.
That’s how Obama keeps his calorie intake down.
If you give me two slices of Sunbeam bread today, I will gladly pay you on Tuesday. ;o)
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