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Title: fraud is alive and well
Post by: jchuzi on April 18, 2020, 10:50:44 AM

Scammers are coming out of the woodwork. As the quip goes, "The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they already are."

  Doctor Charged With Fraud After U.S. Says He Sold Treatment as ‘100 Percent’ Cure for Covid-19 (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/us/coronavirus-treatment-pack-jennings-ryan-staley.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage) 

I would characterize this as snake oil, except that this type of chicanery is beneath the dignity of my pet black rat snake.

Title: Re: fraud is alive and well
Post by: Xairbusdriver on April 18, 2020, 12:50:13 PM

And they are still using the Post Office! I assume because the target is often the elderly who aways seem to assume anything coming in the mail is valid... because it has their name and address on it! :wallbash: