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Duncan
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 3667
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 7:05 pm: |     |
Send this warning to everyone on your e-mail list!
If someone comes to your front door saying they are conducting a survey on deer ticks and asks you to take your clothes off and dance around, do not do it!
IT IS A SCAM! They only want to see you naked!
I wish I'd gotten this yesterday. I feel so stupid.
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mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 4375
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 7:46 pm: | |
Duncan!
Ooooops. I have been falling for this for years. I feel so used! |
monster
Citizen
Username: Monster
Post Number: 436
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 7:52 pm: | |
I've been conducting that survey for years.... |
shh
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 1952
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 7:59 pm: | |
Ahhhhh.
But he found one, he showed me! |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 4376
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, December 20, 2004 - 8:02 pm: | |
Yikes! So that lotion isn't really for ticks? |
flugermongers
Citizen
Username: Flugermongers
Post Number: 313
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 12:31 am: | |
Aw, shucks, a scam? And I tipped that guy... |
Cato Nova
Citizen
Username: Cato_nova
Post Number: 466
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 1:49 pm: | |
NOW I UNDERSTAND!
Alas, I am slightly hard of hearing, so I was very offended when, after checking me, the scammer pronounced that he had found me to have a very small tick. At least that is what I now realize he must have said. |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 3544
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 2:22 pm: | |
Weird.....
I answered my door naked and a pollster told me that I should put my clothes on.... |
Michael Janay
Citizen
Username: Childprotect
Post Number: 1407
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 2:51 pm: | |
Jeez,
How can anyone be so stupid to fall for the old deer tick scam??
I mean its so obvious.
I hope all of these scammers don't threaten the truly good work done by so many volunteers going door to door, why just yesterday I got a free colon cancer screening.
Deer ticks, thats a laugh. |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 4382
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 2:58 pm: | |
Well, I did figure out that guy who came by on Halloween dressed as a mammogram machine, because as soon as he was finished, he asked for candy. A REAL man dressed as a mammogram machine would have asked for a cup of coffee or a beer or something. |
Dego Diva
Citizen
Username: Fmingione
Post Number: 179
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 6:59 pm: | |
Oh my gosh, I'm SO embarrassed - I feel like such a fool!
Not only did I fall for the scam for the first time 12 years ago, but that SCAM artist actually convinced me that I needed to be checked for ticks several times a week for the rest of my life! So I MARRIED him!
Gotta admit, though, I HAVE been tick-free ever since, and the whole process feels pretty nice, especially when he checks for internal ticks. ;-) |
stefano
Citizen
Username: Stefano
Post Number: 426
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 7:01 pm: | |
I'm in the book, by the way.
dr stefano |
Dego Diva
Citizen
Username: Fmingione
Post Number: 180
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 7:31 pm: | |
Under "Tick Removal"??? |
vor
Citizen
Username: Vor
Post Number: 352
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 10:40 pm: | |
blush |
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