| You would think that with everything I have been | | | | actually like in America there would be a lot of |
| through in life that I would be better prepared but | | | | former border patrol people looking for new jobs.. |
| You open an envelope, see the money and only skim | | | | If the medical companies only created cures for |
| the letter that accompanies it. This is why even | | | | illnesses then they would eventually be out of |
| today a lot of people still become victims to this. I | | | | business. Have you ever noticed that the medicine |
| have no doubts that somebody is laughing at me | | | | you take for something cures that something but |
| now as I write this. | | | | creates other problems? These drug manufactures |
| My wife and myself were victims to something like | | | | are far from stupid. It's like what HP discovered with |
| this about 4 years ago. We ended up losing | | | | their printers, the money is not in the sale of the |
| everything including 3 years of our lives. Because of | | | | printer but in the cartridges and service. |
| what happened my wife is now a member of a non | | | | 20 years ago I used to sell cars and the intro models |
| profit designed to help victims and educate people. | | | | started at under $10,000. 20 years later the pricing is |
| The organization is Fraudaid. Back then we had done | | | | practically the same. You would think that with |
| everything that a responsible merchant knows to do | | | | inflation you would not be able to buy some basic car |
| and we still lost everything and I spent some time in | | | | for less than maybe $50,000. Look at how cheap |
| jail because of it and then when I finally got out it | | | | computers are priced these days. The money is not |
| was on house arrest. | | | | in the sale of the computers but in the service and |
| This time the cashiers check looked as authentic as a | | | | the sale of accessories for the computers. |
| hundred dollar bill. Scammers will buy check stock | | | | A pack of cigarettes has definitely gone up in price |
| from an employee of a bank and then the work | | | | due to inflation. You could probably buy them a |
| begins. Used to be done on typewriters but now | | | | hundred years ago for a lot less than one dollar but |
| they have laser printers and a lot of professional | | | | look at how much they cost today. Same with a cup |
| equipment.. The letter that came with the check said | | | | of coffee, bottled water, a burger at McDonalds. |
| I was being paid for my research which is something, | | | | Inflation has even affected people like bank robbers. |
| coincidentally, that I do on a regular basis. It's like | | | | 100 years ago they would maybe steal a few |
| those phishing email you get which is addressed to all | | | | thousand dollars and it was a major heist. The days it |
| Chase banking customers. They figure its all a | | | | has to be over lets say $100,000 to even make the |
| numbers game and that some of the recipients will | | | | news. |
| actually be Chase account holders. | | | | The cashiers check that I received was less than |
| Americans are probably the ones that most fall for | | | | $3000 but I had planned on using about $2,000 to |
| these scams I'm sorry to say. We are always looking | | | | pay off some bills that needed to be taken care of. |
| for that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. For | | | | None of this money was planned on being used for |
| something better. A Great many of the problems | | | | me to get out of this country or buy a big TV |
| that America has each year is because of our lack of | | | | entertainment center. I thought that maybe my luck |
| honesty. We pitch out America land of the free and | | | | was starting to change, that the law of attraction |
| we have a lot of immigration problems because of | | | | was finally starting to work for me. Well all bubbles |
| this. If instead we showed everybody what life is | | | | have to burst some day, mine just burst a lot faster. |