03-24-2026, 07:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-24-2026, 07:45 PM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
As a boomer (see movie thread) I don’t even like banks putting a three day hold on my checks. Especially electronic transfers.
There have always been scammers, expensive toner for xerox machines, dry oil wells in Texas, Nigerian Princes, lawyers for a long lost relative you’ve never heard of who named you as beneficiary for their incredibly immense estate…
Question: If laws are passed to address one type of monetary scam, will scammers apply for a job at McDonald’s? Or find a new target, a new technique, and keep plying their trade elsewhere? They only need a telephone and one person to fall for their spiel and they can vacation for months, even years.
There have always been scammers, expensive toner for xerox machines, dry oil wells in Texas, Nigerian Princes, lawyers for a long lost relative you’ve never heard of who named you as beneficiary for their incredibly immense estate…
Question: If laws are passed to address one type of monetary scam, will scammers apply for a job at McDonald’s? Or find a new target, a new technique, and keep plying their trade elsewhere? They only need a telephone and one person to fall for their spiel and they can vacation for months, even years.