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Last night I stayed up late to crunch on a deadline, so my brain cells are slower than usual...but did anyone else not realize on first read that, according to
by danso 3y ago
Last night I stayed up late to crunch on a deadline, so my brain cells are slower than usual...but did anyone else not realize on first read that, according to the author, happened in a just SIX HOURS?
> That morning — it was October 31 — I dressed my toddler in a pizza costume for Halloween and kissed him good-bye before school. I wrote some work emails. At about 12:30 p.m., my phone buzzed. The caller ID said it was Amazon. I answered...
> I met the SUV at the curb and put the money in the back seat. It was 6:06 p.m. Even if I’d tried to see who was driving, the windows were tinted and it was dusk. He maybe wore a baseball cap. When I turned around, I could see the backlit faces of my husband and son watching from our apartment nine stories above. As I walked back inside, Michael texted me a photo of a Treasury check made out to me for $50,000 and told me a hard copy would be hand-delivered to me in the morning.
The amount of convoluted bullshit that the "CIA" and "FTC" investigators fed her, I automatically assumed that developed over the course of a week at minimum, as do many Nigerian prince/pig-butchering scams in which the scammer ends up geting to know the victim's personal life (and sources of funding) as well as an actual close friend.
Withdrawing $50,000 in cash from your bank in a single day between taking your kid to school and then trick-or-treating is impressive enough under any circumstance. But I can't imagine hearing and processing all that bullshit (nevermind believing it!) in a single day
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoDefinitely a fair point. Although I think that's the only way the story works. That said, the part that caught me was that the bank was happy to hand her 50k... ? With just a paper about scams? IDK, I wrote an 8k cashier's check awhile back and the manager came out to make sure I wasn't sending it to a Nigerian Price. Her bank must do a lot of cash volume to not blink at 50k taken out mid-day with no questions asked.