More fun ways to waste time...

[onager]

http://verydemotivational.memebase.com/

And...while wasting time recently watching true-crime TV...I've noticed a fairly common theme:

American Greed, "Fool's Gold" episode - the story of Nigerian con man "Dr." Henry Jones and the $32 million Tri-Energy scam.

This one made my head spin. Jones claimed to be running a secret deal to exchange 20 tons of gold between Israel and Dubai. The world's largest gold reserve is in Fort Knox, and that's only 8 tons.

Dupes invested in the gold scheme to finance yet another downline scam, to mine clean-burning coal (!!!).

According to the FBI agent on the case, Jones was most successful pitching to "Mormons and born-again Xians." One of his accomplices was a Los Angeles preacher who roped in his flock.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/40535823/

American Greed, Troy Aurelius Titus: this scumbag ripped off, among others, cancer victims and the elderly. During the recent Great Real Estate Bubble, he pontificated at seminars and harvested names from the sign-up sheets.

Titus snookered some very savvy investors who were far from clueless get-rich-quick wanna-bes. He claimed the usual 20% or better yield on a short-term investment in his "secret real-estate investment strategies."

So secret they didn't exist - the whole thing was a classic Ponzi scheme.

But according to one of his victims, Titus was "a God-fearing Christian conservative businessman." So what could possibly go wrong?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/40535812/

[charlie]

1. Ay caramba!

Again and again and again the same old cons work. It's too easy. It's embarrassing.

Reality TV is as much a part of the American diet as fried potatoes, we see more scams on TV in a week than anyone saw in a lifetime 20 years ago. And still, we get chumped.

There should be a new TV show targetting dolts. Maybe shame will work where education won't.

Sir! A minute of your time, sir!

Sir, is it true you let you recently let your pastor minister to your wife?

Overnight?

In a boat?

In the Florida Keys?

Sir! Please come back, sir. I think our viewers deserve to know what the FUCK you were thinking!