There's another hustle goin around Sac & the Bay of cats selling laptops. All boxed up and labled like brand new.
If you ask them to pop open the box, it's a new laptop with manuals n shit like from out the store.
But when you get it home you find out it's just a "shell" and nothing in the laptop! hahahaha!
A guy hit me up this week with this scam, so I called one of my partners and asked if he's heard about it and he told me the story of how a buddy of
his got took and found out it was a shell after he had gotten home and tried to fire it up!!!
I know of a good dozen or so great scams that operate like this. I used to know a cat that did one where he pretended he was from another country in africa and had all this U.S. cash he inherited. He got tens of thousands of dollars running that one.
The thing to remember about these scams is this: They all run off of the greed of the mark. The mark thinks he will miss a tremendous opportunity to "come up" by taking advantage of someone else's unfortunate situation. You would be surprised at how easily people bite into scams like these
Or so I've heard
