Be prepared to be offended.
Take the handcuffs off me, Jim.
Let me go to work for you.
Financial investment pitch
“We have a coin that was minted in 1860.
Its a $2.50 gold piece.
This coin is currently tradingat $3,135.
Oil-and-gas investment pitchListen, why dont you pick up the phone.
I know you are there.
Pick up the phone and stop playing games.
Want me to come over there and set your home on fire?
Scammer talking to a victim who had lost $75,000 to fraud and had stopped sending moneyAre you stupid?
Im not trying to in- sult you, but are you mentally ill?
Do you understand this?
This is the law President Bush passed himself, maam.
You cannot hang up.
We have to go through with this.
We have your information.
We just have to verify it, OK?
Im an FBI agent.
Scammer talking to an undercover agent
This is officially a final notice from IRS, Internal Revenue Service.
The reason of this call is to inform you that IRS is filing lawsuit against you.
I believe that 100 percent.
Cause you know, Zora, ever since Vietnam, I learned to take nothing for granted.
Each day is a blessing….
Thank you and God bless you.
Scammer pitching bogus products, ostensibly for disabled veteransYoure going to your grave a loser.
I think you are terrible.
Ben Franklin was one of the smartest Americans we ever had.
So lets get a piece of paper and lets put down all the reasons why to do this.
Classic Ben Franklin close to a financial scam pitchThis treatment will prevent you from getting cancer.
Because heres what it does.
It is a process that has actually been proven to kill cancer cells, okay?
Scammer selling a bogus Human Growth Hormone treatmentMy name is Betty Owens.
I am an inspector at U.S. Customs in Platts- burg, New York.
We have a package here containing $850,000.
The rea- son why Customs held the package is there is an unpaid balance of tax- es.
Until they can be paid to the Canadian govern- ment, we cant release the package for delivery.
Its a tax of $2,000.
They will threaten, praise, act like the consummate expert, or speak like your best palwhatever works.
The one correct reaction when you get anunsolicited phone pitch: Simply hang up.
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