Oh well, back to using the phone!

As Dowbrigade’s mother and #2 son’s Grandma, I gotta step in here.It so happens that Michael has a soft spot for that young fella as big as Brittany’s belly. But the best part is They both know it!!
p.s. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. And, Michael, why not a print of that movie star print you gave me instead of the raw recruit?

Micheal: One part is easy to understand. Your son is in the category of the second most easily conned i.e. the financially desparate. [According to "The Rockford Files" the most easily conned are other con artists.] But I agree that the numbers don’t make sense. A scam like this could work if the ‘pitch’ were cheap enough. At $0.01/piece a return of 1 in 1000 would yield. $95 – $10 = $85. But @ $0.10/piece the same rate of return loses $5. So it is curious. Unless of course the person who send this thing to your son is desparate and bought a ‘how to make money through the mail/internet’ package from some con artist who actually knows what he is doing. A marginally related query. I ‘m a lonely old bachelor, so I don’t know nothin’ ’bout raisin’ no kids, but does publically humiliating your progeny in front of the world wide blogosphere qualify as ‘tough love’? -r

Michael

How were the bad guys going to make money on this scam? Were they depending on the counterfeit not getting detected long enough for your son to send them the money he’d cashed (90% of it)? How in hell were they hoping to get away with this, giving a mailing address that can be traced, watched, etc.? It seems very brazen and easily foiled…