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You know all that spam you get re gold dust from Africa...

CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,125 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Somebody was stupid enough to buy it:

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,122 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Are you saying that it's not smart to buy millions of dollars worth of gold from anonymous sources?image

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have no pity for the scammed traders.

    "Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused" Virgil
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,125 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Are you saying that it's not smart to buy millions of dollars worth of gold from anonymous sources?image >>



    Remember that thread the other day about the guy selling maple leafs for spot, and less if you took quantity, and you could pay for them on credit card?
    Somebody on here wanted to believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Bunny!!!!

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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,122 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Remember that thread the other day about the guy selling maple leafs for spot, and less if you took quantity, and you could pay for them on credit card? >>



    Sounds like a scam to get your credit card info. If it sounds too good to be true...........

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,125 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>Remember that thread the other day about the guy selling maple leafs for spot, and less if you took quantity, and you could pay for them on credit card? >>



    Sounds like a scam to get your credit card info. If it sounds too good to be true........... >>



    Hadn't even thought about that aspect......
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,125 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I have no pity for the scammed traders.

    "Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused" Virgil >>



    "You can't cheat an honest man!"
    W.C. Fields
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • OnlyGoldIsMoneyOnlyGoldIsMoney Posts: 3,362 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I have no pity for the scammed traders.

    "Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused" Virgil >>



    "You can't cheat an honest man!"
    W.C. Fields >>



    The Fields quote reminds me of the scene in The Flim-Flam Man where Mordecai C. Jones (George C. Scott) pulls the Pigeon Drop scam with a local farmer (Slim Pickens). Its a classic.
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