Reason #105 – I use my son as scam bait
Reason #105 – I use my son as scam bait
Nov 01We are all well aware of the Nigerian Prince scam, the Australian Lottery scam and the Russian Bride scam. But have you ever heard of the Costa Rican Baby scam?
It goes like this:
Someone writes a blog about a poor, long-suffering child in the hands of an incompetent mom.
They add hundreds of devastatingly cute baby pictures.
Pictures like this one, for example:
The victim of the scam starts feeling sorry for this beauteous and angelic child who suffers deprivations and malnutrition because of his mother’s cruelty.
The scammer adds all sorts of sob stories: she’s an unemployed single mom, it is the gorgeous child’s first birthday, yadda yadda.
The scam victim finally gives in and starts sending gifts/money/plane tickets.
Woot! Crime pays!
Dear Blog Reader Who Spontaneously Sent A Birthday Present For My Blessed Child: thank you so much! I can’t wait to try the clothes on him! I’m not sure I will replace the batteries in Elmo once they run out, but I assure you C will love it nonetheless. Hugs! And remember: the Blessed Child smiles upon you! ;)
Awwww. Too great.
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ofthesea Reply:
November 9th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
I know!
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Ummm… I’d abandoned my own blog……but I don’t have a kid, so I wonder if this would work for attractive but very ravenously hungry cat. He already writes crap poetry. And needs money.
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ofthesea Reply:
November 3rd, 2010 at 6:52 am
Bahahaha!! I just spent a good 15 minutes laughing at the cat haiku and craigslist ads. Write more!!!!!
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Ryker will be two soon… Just sayin.
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ofthesea Reply:
November 2nd, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Send me your address. You know my email. Us scammers must stand by each other!
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Aww how nice! Where’s my kid I need to run a scam…But I wonder if I can turn this into something for ME like a new bag or something?
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ofthesea Reply:
November 2nd, 2010 at 5:41 pm
I guess you can always sell the toys and spend the proceeds at Ferragamo. Not that I ever even considered doing this… ;)
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Alexandria Reply:
November 2nd, 2010 at 9:35 pm
Brilliant idea
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Let me know how this works out. Will it work if I used a pre-teen and a teen. I mean one is in military school, so somebody should feel for him right?
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ofthesea Reply:
November 2nd, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Oooh, the pity vote! Publish pics of him in uniform and be prepared to field offers from misguided cougars!
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that is incredibly sweet and kind. so nice to see people being wonderful!
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ofthesea Reply:
November 1st, 2010 at 8:00 pm
The timing was impeccable too. We all feel like it’s Christmas today!
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Birthday presents. Christmas cards and presents. You may never have to buy C a toy again lol
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ofthesea Reply:
November 1st, 2010 at 8:00 pm
Toys and clothes! I am sorted till he’s… um… forever!!
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That is too sweet! Where do we send Christmas cards to? C could have the coolest collection of Christmas cards from all over the world!
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ofthesea Reply:
November 1st, 2010 at 7:59 pm
I ought to set up a dedicated PO Box, right? Watch this space!
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