Speaking of con-artists
Aug. 15th, 2004 12:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusOh. I forgot to mention.
I just found out this week that my stepmother has cancer.
My dad would like to read more of my fanfic, but all I have is slash to send him. NC-17 slash.
And I'm exhausted.
As for that LJ Crush Meme: don't use your real passwords when you sign up for that thing. It will accept any password - I know this because I made one up.
Muse-wanted.com still hasn't taken down my site and hasn't responded to my requests that they do so. Bloody con-artists, trying to take people for money with fake "tech issues" that can't be caused by either an overload of MP3s or a double trojan. Yeah, and 24 hours after the "desperation" for money, suddenly they have enough for four months. Sure.
The little fuckers. I recommend you take your site down if you have it there.
If you can.
ETA: Unsurprisingly, http://www.muse-wanted.com has been taken down. Scam's over it appears. I wonder how much she made in donations?
We'll never know.
ETA2: Hey Sabbie, I like your new journal name![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anka. But you need a layout and some friends and maybe a post or two to make your comment from your "friend" convincing. *shakes head* *deletes*
Cops say that criminals are stupid.
ETA3: Comments, emails from people I don't know are being deleted unread. For those of you singing the praises ofand_love: yes. Con artists are very charming people, aren't they? I have a tune for you: "Oh there's a suck-er, born every min-ute..." If and_love were legit, she'd be emailing everyone their passwords and giving people the chance to download their sites.
I just found out this week that my stepmother has cancer.
My dad would like to read more of my fanfic, but all I have is slash to send him. NC-17 slash.
And I'm exhausted.
As for that LJ Crush Meme: don't use your real passwords when you sign up for that thing. It will accept any password - I know this because I made one up.
Muse-wanted.com still hasn't taken down my site and hasn't responded to my requests that they do so. Bloody con-artists, trying to take people for money with fake "tech issues" that can't be caused by either an overload of MP3s or a double trojan. Yeah, and 24 hours after the "desperation" for money, suddenly they have enough for four months. Sure.
The little fuckers. I recommend you take your site down if you have it there.
If you can.
ETA: Unsurprisingly, http://www.muse-wanted.com has been taken down. Scam's over it appears. I wonder how much she made in donations?
We'll never know.
ETA2: Hey Sabbie, I like your new journal name
anka. But you need a layout and some friends and maybe a post or two to make your comment from your "friend" convincing. *shakes head* *deletes* Cops say that criminals are stupid.
ETA3: Comments, emails from people I don't know are being deleted unread. For those of you singing the praises of
and_love: yes. Con artists are very charming people, aren't they? I have a tune for you: "Oh there's a suck-er, born every min-ute..." If and_love were legit, she'd be emailing everyone their passwords and giving people the chance to download their sites.
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Date: 2004-08-15 02:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-15 02:32 pm (UTC)Icarus
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Date: 2004-08-15 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-15 02:48 pm (UTC)Why not check your email?
Icarus
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Date: 2004-08-15 02:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-15 03:27 pm (UTC)A friend of mine lived her early years as a drug dealer and petty thief, with a few con-games thrown in. She went straight and can't believe now the paranoid stress levels she used to live at. Anyway, she channeled all that competitive energy into biathalons and applied for a job selling memberships at a health club. The owner asked, "What makes you think you can sell?"
She said, "I just know."
He pressed her, and finally she realised that the job was sunk anyway if she didn't tell him the truth, so she said, "Okay. I used to deal drugs -- and I was very successful at it! But I'm clean now, I didn't like what it was doing to my body and not knowing who to trust, etc. I want to live, thanks."
She got the job, and made $50,000 a year at it, no kidding. She said it was much easier. And she didn't have to worry about the cops.
Icarus