Con Man Gets A Conscience
The fake IRS agent had a change of heart.
A con man was in the middle of threatening a woman in Colorado that she would go to jail unless she paid him money, when his sobbing victim mentioned she was 9-months pregnant.
That piece of information made the criminal change his ways and immediately back down from his extortion attempt.
Sarah Carr, of Broomfield, told TV Station KUSA she received a voicemail Tuesday morning from a man who claimed to be with the IRS. He told her there was a lien on her property and she was being charged with tax fraud.
The woman said she believed the scam artist, because he knew a lot of information about her finances – including that she owned three businesses.
“You hear about scams all the time, and you think that you’re smart enough and you would recognize (it),” Carr said. “It was all just so real.”
But he didn’t know everything about her.
“I just start crying,” Carr told the station. “I said, ‘I’m nine months pregnant. I’m supposed to have a baby in three weeks. I don’t know what I’m going to do.'”
That changed the whole situation as the con man decided he couldn’t go through with his ploy any longer.
“And then he says, ‘wait, wait, wait, wait, you’re pregnant?’ And I said, ‘yes!’ And he goes ‘I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry, this is a scam. You’re OK. We’re scamming you. We were just trying to get money out of you. Please stop crying,'” Carr told the station.
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Copyright 2015 Liberaland
By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
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nola878 March 19th, 2015 at 11:33
Now if the RW scammers…survival seeds, gold line, Charles Payne, etc., would find a conscience. Naw, the marks are too easy…
Larry Schmitt March 19th, 2015 at 17:59
Don’t count on it, real life doesn’t work like a Dr. Seuss story.
nola878 March 19th, 2015 at 19:57
You mean Ted Cruz never tried the Green Eggs and Ham? Man, what a let down!
Larry Schmitt March 19th, 2015 at 17:58
And then he got back on the phone, called his next victim, and got back to his life.