![]() ![]() So this person was surely a good “friend” candidate. She was presented with the medal by then Vice President Dick Cheney, luckily not while out hunting with him! Brown is only the 2nd woman since World War II (and the 1st in the war on Afghanistan) to receive the Silver Star for her actions and bravery after a roadside bomb detonated near her convoy. Who the heck is Monica Lin Brown? Well, being the sceptic I am, and cautious (again influences from those crime shows I love to watch), I googled the name. Monica Lin Brown, stating that she saw my profile on Facebook and wanted to be “friends”. Delete.Īnd recently, I also received an e-mail from, allegedly, Sgt. As if I would consider the undisclosed “proposal” to be discussed. Just recently I received an e-mail whose subject matter stated, “Assalamualaykum” (Arabic greeting for “the peace be upon you”). And then there are the Asian, African and Arabic e-mails. How do some people do this? How can they? What thought process leads people to think this is how to earn a living? How can they live with themselves? I will always remain incredulous about such scams even though I hold no lofty visions of homo sapiens. The group apparently moved unidentified corpses into fake graves and charged the families a “finder’s fee” for locating their dear departed using, – wait for it, – paranormal powers! (Gazette October 17, 2015).Īfter 911, a plethora of scam artists targeted those wishing to lend a hand to victims and their families, asking for monetary contributions by passing as fake charities. For example, in Vietnam, 7 fraudsters were convicted for deceiving families of war soldiers by creating a “business” of finding their dead loved ones. Laughing sadly, I read those snippets in the paper, those tiny “news” stories that describe scams that no regular person could begin to dream up, let alone execute, but yet some element of bottom feeders have managed to conjure up scenarios to bilk certain groups in the population. Never do I cease to be amazed by the sheer audacity of the human race in its creativity for frauding the gullible public. 28982 “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto” ![]()
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