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After I got home, I got my wife to call the phone, and they said they would give it back to me if I gave them $300. We were trying to see if we could figure out
by tombert 3y ago
After I got home, I got my wife to call the phone, and they said they would give it back to me if I gave them $300. We were trying to see if we could figure out a way to get them to reveal themselves but it didn’t pan out.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoThat sucks. Although I can't really see someone who went to the trouble of stealing the phone honoring an exchange. I bet if you had arranged to do the exchange anywhere other than outside a police station they would have just walked off with your phone and an extra $300.
- tombert 3y agoYeah, that’s what we figured as well. I had no reason to think that anything positive could come out of giving them $300. Even if they did give me my phone back for $300, I don’t want to reward extorting me. I doubt they got any money for it, so it’s probably resting at the bottom of the Hudson River now. It was especially frustrating for me because I was unemployed at the time, and really didn't want to be spending $700 of dollars on a new phone, so for a brief moment I will admit that I did consider paying the $300 if I had a way to guarantee that they'd actually give it back, but it didn't last long.