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This sounds like an early spin on the advance-fee scam.”Hi, you know me, I’m Jimmy Page, I have tons of money, but I just don’t have access to it right now. If
by bluejekyll 2y ago
This sounds like an early spin on the advance-fee scam.”Hi, you know me, I’m Jimmy Page, I have tons of money, but I just don’t have access to it right now. If you were to give me some money now, it would help me buy this bookstore that’s only on the market this week. I’ll repay you two fold in a few weeks when my accountant is back from vacation. I’m famous, you know I’m good for it.”
- groby_b 2y agoIs it a scam, though? You'd have to ask Mageek. Sometimes, your friends ask you for money, you know you won't see it again, and you still give it to them. Granted, for most of us that amounts to buying them a drink or three, not a bookstore, but ... it was the 70s. Based on the surrounding stories in the articles, I'd say their frame of understanding was a bit different from the average person today ;) Maybe we shouldn't be so fast to cast aspersions on people we don't know, in circumstances we don't understand.
- bluejekyll 2y agoWe’ll probably never know. It wouldn’t surprise me if they both forgot about it, and then like a year later he’s looking at his bank receipts and like “woh, what’s that big check?” And maybe never even asked for the money back.