Modern Scammer

[sidney]

My senior citizen mother recently was scammed.

It was an Internet sales scam - she paid money in advance for a puppy and there never was a puppy.

As I was driving to work this morning, I thought about how much I hate this person that scammed her. How I'm certain this person who scammed my mother on the anniversary of her husband's death (my mother disclosed this to them) has a heart of black coal.

I wondered why I feel Face's scams are okay. If Face was scamming in 2024, you *KNOW* he'd be using the Internet. What kind of Internet scams would he do, and would we feel those are acceptable? I'm certain he wouldn't be scamming senior citizen widows out of the little money they have. But what would he be doing? Or maybe he would?

[HoudiniDerek]

I'm sorry about your mother.

I'm not sure what Face would do. Although I definitely think he'd be able to push through a political career now better than in the WHITE BALLOT.

[amyk]

If Face scammed a widowed woman out of money on the anniversary of her husband's death, and if BA found out, BA would punch him for sure. But I don't think Face would even dream of doing that. I think we are okay with Face's scams because they generally seem to be for a greater good. However, there are innocent people that he does scam, and that does kind of rub me the wrong way. Still, it is just a show and usually good for a laugh. In real life, I would not like anyone scamming anyone and especially not scamming an honest bystander who was not even directly involved with the bad guys' evil schemes.

[sidney]

He does scam regular people.
I think about all the girls thinking they're going to be in a movie.
All the airplane or chopper places.
Equipment or real estate or cars or materials - he doesn't pay much, does he?
I admit, it's satisfying when he scams the bad guy. But he often just gets them stuff.

What would he do on the Internet, though? Can you imagine the possibilities for him? A website for hot young model/actress wannabes to send him their photo and measurements? Oh, that sounds awful! I hope he wouldn't do that, but maybe he would!

[amyk]

Sad to say, but I think maybe he would.

[sidney]

Face would love that he wouldn't have to do the leg work and the marks would essentially come to him.


Do you see Face learning computers and Internet? Or do you think he would simply scam a programmer/web developer into doing his bidding?

Do you think he could find a way to scam at online gambling?

[amyk]

I think he would get into the tech stuff. I do think he is really smart and able to do things when he wants to. But maybe we can say that Face just scams the scammers. That would be funny if he did that. Maybe the team, in their older age, would use technology to still help the people being oppressed by bullies. So maybe Face, BA, and Murdock would actually be helping to catch internet scammers. I could see BA really getting into that, especially helping elderly people who have been scammed out of their life savings. The team could go after the scammers and get the money back and return it to the scam victims, and maybe the team could even get the scammers to return extra money so the team could be paid out of that extra money.

[sidney]

I LOVE that storyline!