Lame attempt at a scam

[Packard]

I got this email message (see below) offering me 2 cents if I provided them with all my banking information. So tempted.

In any case, I read about that format for a scam. I can’t imagine why someone would think that 2 cents would be an enticement.

I used to see a penny on the ground and figured “not worth the effort” to pick it up.

I was in the restroom at Starbucks and there was a nickle on the floor. I thought, “Not worth the effort” to pick it up. Inflation.

In any case, this is the format. Be aware. They may up the enticement to 3 cents. Don’t fall for it.

They did say it was urgent.

 

[Michael Kellough]

So sad that folk Harper’s have fallen on such hard times that they can only budget 2 cents for a bribe.

 

[luvmytoolz]

I used to see a penny on the ground and figured “not worth the effort” to pick it up.

I don't care how much or how little it is, or what company i'm in with at the time but I'm definitely picking it up!

The bane of my childhood was the miserable old guy next door that cemented some 1, 2 and 5 cent coins into his path. I spent countless hours trying to get them out on the sly without smashing it all up!

 

[peter halle]

When superglue first came out I was in middle school. It was common to glue coins down onto the terrazzo floors of the school for amusement. Of course I didn't have any superglue and those coins were too valuable for me to waste.

Peter

 

[Sparktrician]

That story made me laugh. Many years ago, my then-girlfriend and I were in Vancouver BC and went out for dinner. On the way back to the hotel, we passed a restaurant in what had apparently been a department store. She spotted some coins on the pavement and went to pick them up. People sitting by the windows of the restaurant all started laughing loudly. The coins were epoxied to the pavement. It was apparently a local joke on tourists. I thought it was hilarious. Not so funny for my quite-embarrassed girlfriend. Then she got indignant with me because I was laughing. She's gone now, and I still have to laugh...

 

[Packard]

In the late 1960s my buddy, Larry, bought a “dollar bill snatcher”. It had a very light-weight, clear fishing line attached at one end to a clip that would hold paper currency, and at the other end to a spring-loaded retrieval device.

Larry would place a bill on the floor in a bar at a conspicuous location and wait for someone to reach down to pick it up. Then he would press the button that quickly snatched the bill up. He thought it was hilarious. He did not have much of a fan club. And no one in the video thinks it is funny except the guy that made the video.



Then there is the found-it-morality-issue.

I’m in a bar and I see a dollar bill on the floor. I pick it up and call out, “Anyone drop a dollar? No one? It’s mine.”\

Same bar, but this time a $5.00 bill. I’ll still call it out.

Same for a $10.00. But I always wondered if I would for a $20.00.

I was in Starbucks in early evening and there was just one other customer there. I looked down and saw a hundred dollar bill. I said, “Anyone drop any cash? No?”, I asked the barista if anyone said that they dropped a large bill. Nope.

I said to the barista, “If anyone says, ‘I lost a large bill the other day. I don’t suppose anyone turned it in?’ Then let me know.

I carried the hundred in my wallet for about three years as my “lucky-hundred”. I either lost it (meurtre justifié) or I spent it by mistake.

 

[MacBoy]

And no one in the video thinks it is funny

Thanks for the chuckles — the two boys at the last scene were the best at being flabbergasted.