More Diabolical Cons is this week’s Mystery Question. When I started out with this series, I had no idea there were so many cons out there!
But first, the photo and scripture. I love this photo taken by Barbar Diggs on Cherokee Lake! And the scripture just seemed to fit.
Now for last week’s Perfectly Crazy Cons. Three of these cons are true. Can you guess which one I made up?
- A moderately successful pianist died young and her husband/agent decided to release one last album of very challenging classical pieces. The CD brought much acclaim, but unfortunately, her husband had invented an album that his late wife had never actually produced. He’d spliced together her recordings with those of well-known pianists.
- When a man found nine-ton beams of iron used in constructing buildings, he created forged documents and pretended that the iron belonged to him, and sold them to a dealer. But it’s hard to hide such large iron beams and police eventually caught up with him.
- An advertisement requested participants for a brand-new reality show where the winner could walk away with over $100,000 netted a thousand emails. After choosing 30 contestants, the producer divided them into three teams. One hitch–they had to find their own place to live and the show had to make a million dollars. Two teams quit the first day, but a third team stuck it out for a week before they pulled the plug. Turned out the guy wasn’t a TV producer, and he didn’t have any networks interested in his show.
- A talented young man started out forging his dad’s signature on his report card, then moved on to forging it on a loan application for a pickup. A psychology major in college, he flunked out of medical school, but he didn’t let that stop him. Forging medical degrees was a piece of cake and he was hired by a large clinic as a psychologist. Everything was fine until a reporter did a story on him and she discovered his degrees were fake.
And the answer is…#4. And Edward, I had no idea what you were talking about in your comment until just now when I copied and pasted last week’s Mystery Question into this post. That’s why I have to have more than one copy editor! I see what I thought I wrote. lol
Now for this week’s More Diabolical Cons–this week’s Mystery Question. Three of these cons are true. Can you guess which one I made up?
- This isn’t exactly a con, but if it’s too good to be true…you can bet it is, especially in the case of a warehouse selling items for a tenth of what the items cost elsewhere, things like a case of toilet paper for $15. The owners were recently arrested for selling items stolen by shoplifters to the tune of over six million dollars.
- The letter came in an email, promising the receiver, not millions, but a thousand dollars. Since it was written in perfect English and came from what looked like a legitimate bank email address, the recipient bit and provided his banking information…unfortunately three days later his checks started bouncing because his bank account was empty. As stated earlier, if it sounds too good to be true…
- He fell in love with the beautiful heiress who seemed so perfect. He asked her to marry him and then helped her gain access to over a million and a half dollars from a loan to start a restaurant. She put up her ‘trust’ as collateral, but the trust turned out to be as fraudulent as she was and she skipped out with most of the million and a half. he did finally catch up with her–she’d blown through the money and was living in her car.
- The musician was acclaimed the world over as a new Beethoven for composing great works, even though he was deaf. But it it turns out he was not deaf and he never wrote much of the music accreted to him.
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#2, but they all sounds so feasible.
THANK YOU!!!
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You’re welcome, Mary! I’ll email you later to day. We see if it’s #2 next week.
This week’s con choices are really hard! They all seem like something someone would have tried. I’ll guess 3.
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I’m glad you think so, Priscilla! We’ll see next week.
Nice picture and matching verse. Congratulations Pat on the release of “Crosshairs”! My Nook copy just dropped down from the cloud, so I’m good to go.
You have stumped me completely this week. These all seem legitimate cons. There’s an oxymoron for you. I’m guessing #4 this week. It just seems too easy to check, and did anyone actually lose any money?
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Wow! That’s great about stumping you. We’ll see next week if it’s #4.
Congratulations on Crosshairs. Love the verse and photo. I’ll say #3 Blessings
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Thanks, Lucy! We’ll see if it’s #3 next week!
Yes, congratulations on Crosshairs’ birth. It’s impossible to be sure, but I’ll go with #3 as the one you made up this week 🙂
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Thanks, Delores, and we’ll see what the answer is next week!
Congratulations on the release of Crosshairs! It’s always an exciting day with the release of a new book! I’m going with #3, but they are all believable.
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Thanks, Barbara! And we’ll see if it’s number 3 next week! And thanks for allowing me to use your photo!
Congratulations on the release of Crosshairs! I’ll go with #4.
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Thanks, Jackie! We’ll see next week!
Crosshairs is great. Congrats! I am going with #3.
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I’m so glad you enjoyed Crosshairs! And we’ll see next week about the answer.
4. thanks for the chance.
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We’ll see, Lynn. So glad you stopped by.
#3
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We’ll see, Patricia. Good to ‘see’ you!
#3. Congratulations! Have a great week and stay safe.
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Thanks, Alicia! And we’ll see if it’s #3 next week.
I’m going with #3.
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My, #3 is very popular, Megan. We’ll see next week. (I’ll have to go look and see which one it is. By the time the blog posts, I’ve forgotten which number is the one I made up. lol
Congratulations on the release of Crosshairs, looking forward to reading it! I’m going to guess #4.
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Thank you, Angela! I hope you enjoy it…and we’ll see next week if it’s #4.
#4
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We’ll see, MS Barb! Thanks for stopping by.
I’m guessing #3 this week. An heiress con seems like you might make it up.
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We’ll see, Paula…So glad you stopped by!
Love the picture and Scripture verse. It makes me want to visit that spot just to sit and read my Bible and spend time with God. It’s been too long since we simply got away for a while.
I’m choosing #1. It boggles my brain just thinking of the logistics of setting up a scheme like this. To make a profit of six million dollars, they would have had to have a large ring of shoplifters scattered over a large area. The expense of the warehouse, stocking it with stolen goods, and so many other details would surely have raised suspicions long before they could have made that kind of profit. The more people involved in shoplifting, the greater the risk of someone getting caught and rolling over on the others in an effort to save their own hide.
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Wow! I love your logic, Edward…we’ll see how it works. And I’m so glad you enjoyed the photo and scripture.
Love the scripture and photo! Congrats on your release!
#2
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Thanks Caryl. We’ll see next week! Good to ‘see’ you!
Beautiful photo. Congratulations on your new book. I guess I’m going with #4.
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I love the photo, Diana. And thanks for the congrats on Crosshairs! We’ll see next week if it’s #4.
beautiful picture and scripture! Congrats Mary on your win! I will choose #1 this week
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Hi Shelia! I think you’re the first to choose #1. 🙂 Glad you liked the photo and scripture. Have a blessed rest of the week!
#4
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We’ll see if it’s #4 next week. Thanks for stopping by.
Beautiful picture and verse. Congratulations on the release of Crosshairs – I loved it!! All good cons – I’ll go with #4.
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Thank you, Betti! So glad you enjoyed Crosshairs and my cons. lol. Thanks for stopping in!
Congratulations!!! #3?
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Thanks, Natalya! And I love how sure you are of #3. 😉 We’ll see next week.
They all sound feasible to me 🙂 #3 this week because I have no idea, lol!
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I’m glad I made it hard for you, Trixi! Thanks for stopping by and we’ll see next week if it’s #3.