Vacation and scamming, liars

Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), Jun 13, 2008 at 14:26

It's actually a brilliant idea for a scammer of any sort to prey on people who are on vacation because:

1) You are relaxing and your guard is down and

2) You are bound to have lots of money with and saved up

3) You are a guest that will be treated well and gives them the opportunity to make you feel like you have to give something back.

That's really the whole idea, to get you to offer money, sex or whatever.

It's really the same principle that vacation companies use on some of their tours in you are Hawaii, Nevada, Florida or Mexico.

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