Yet Another Scammer tries to offer me free money

Below is my chat with a fake account on instagram using messenger pretending to be a friend of mine. It’s always the same dance; “Have you heard about the free money?”

I went a different route today, besides just mentioning ridiculous things like dental floss factories and pigeon races, I started looking up the images on google images.

If anyone’s bored please text the cell # they gave something to annoy them Or please go report that FB page as a scam.

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11:10 PM

<Fake account>:Hello

<Fake account>: How are you doing

You sent: Hi. Pretty good , how are things up in VT?

<Fake account>: I’m doing good. Good to hear from you how is work and family doing?

You sent: All good. What’s new with you?

<Fake account>: Well I’m doing pretty great, feeling blessed and just trying to stay safe. Life is good here can’t complain, I’m just wondering if you heard about the good news yet?

You sent: No what good news?

<Fake account>: Oh I thought you aware of the IDA program they announced on TV few weeks ago?

You sent: Nope, what’s IDA?

<Fake account>:It an International Development Assistance program by the government due to the pandemic to give out financial assistance to everyone to pay bills, start businesses, for college students even for old, retired and disabled.

<Fake account>: A friend of mine who works for the government told me about it, which I applied and got some money delivered to me by the UPS. I think you should also apply too. Have you heard of attorney Jennifer L Keller?

You sent: Wow ! Golly we can finally build that dental floss factory you and I talked about!

You sent: No I haven’t heard of her

<Fake account>:She is a family friend and she was the one who helped me get it, I will give you her direct link so you can also apply okay.

<Fake account>:https://www.facebook.com/Attorney-Jennifer-L-Keller-111339188275953

<Fake account>: Click on the link now it will take you direct to her Facebook page. Send her a text and tell her I refer you to her. She is always active and she will help you get your winnings deliver to you.

You sent: Ok I’ll drop her a note. This sounds too good to be true, free money? Surely there’s a catch

<Fake account>: Text her now to confirm if I gave you the right link to text and let her know I refer you to apply for the program.

You sent: how can I txt her, I don’t see a cell phone #

You sent: ?

<Fake account>: Click on the link I sent you above…..it will take you to her direct Facebook page. Text her now and tell her I refer you to her about the IDA PROGRAM.

You sent: but in order to send a text message I need a cell phone number. You know how I still use my old flip phone, I can’t do anything else on it besides send txt messages

<Fake account>:Okay

<Fake account>: Hold let me send you her private text number

You sent: ive looked all over her facebook page and I dont see any phone numbers on there

<Fake account>:(970) 528-0446

<Fake account>:Send her a text now and keep me posted

<Fake account>:

<Fake account>:Can you find anything like this when you click on the link?

<Fake account>: This is her Facebook page

You sent: Wait.. I just looked at her photo and I know her… but the name you said isn’t correct. That’s my friend Jennifer Smith in Chicago. She’s a lawyer but not an attorney general. What is going on?

You sent: Here’s her web page – Look – https://www.tresslerllp.com/…/attorney…/jennifer-smith

You sent: That’s the same photo!!!!

You sent: Hey – What’s going on, are you betting on pigeon races again? I thought we solved that on Star years ago!

<Fake account>: replied to you Oh sorry I made a mistake that’s a typographical error while typing her name.

You sent: I’ve contacted her about this she said something about reporting that page. I dont understand it but it sounds like she’s pretty angry

<Fake account>: Jennifer Smith I mean earlier. I knew she is a lawyer. She was the attorney that help me get the package.

You sent: she doesnt even know you! You’re lyring to me. I’m calling your mom right now

<Fake account>: replied to you Do as I have said….send her a text on the link I sent you or through the text number I gave you.

<Fake account>: replied to you I would not have told you about the philanthropy if I didn’t get the money or if there was some trouble with it. I was given full assurance on it by the person that told me about it, She couldn’t have misled me because she is a very honest and trustworthy person, so is the agent. The philanthropy is one hundred percent real and not a scam.

You sent: Dude now you’re just messing with me. You know I used to be part of the Columbus Ohio Drug Enforcement Agency 6 years ago. I TOOK THAT PHOTO DURING A BUST – Look, here it is in a newspaper article – https://wpde.com/…/more-than-a-ton-of-pot-1-million… WTF dude!

<Fake account>: This is not real from you I don’t believe that anyway. I already share with you about this ongoing program so it is left for you to apply or not

Emily and I have been living together for 29 years. In that time I believe we have owned 11 cars;

1984 Buick LeSabre – 1992 – 1994
1990 Mercury ? (Like a K car) – 1994 – 1998
1998 Saturn SL2 – 1997 – 2006
1990? Chrysler(?) Town & Country Minivan – 1998 – 2001
2002 Subaru Legacy – 2001 – 2009
2003 Honda Odyssey EX-L Minivan – 2006 – 2021
1996 Subaru Outback 2009 – 2012
2002 Toyota RAV4 – 2012 – 2016
2004 Volvo XC70 – 2016 – 2018
2010 Volvo XC70 – 2018 –
2016 Volvo XC70 – 2021 –

So on average we seem to get a new used car every 3 years when the car needed repairs more than it was worth.

However, there’s one car out of all the above that lasted the longest, the 2003 Honda Minivan.

I just finished cleaning all our papers, coins, pens and junk out of it in preparation to sell it. I’m a little sad.

I’ve said ‘goodbye’ to cars before, mostly ones that were damaged enough to exceed their value, but this is a little different, we’ve never had a car this long before, and certainly not one that has been present for so much of our lives. A few numbers. We got it in 2006 with 28,000 miles on it. It has almost 226,000 miles on it now. We’ve been driving it for almost 15 years. Our youngest son, Marshall (14), was born a month after we bought it, we brought him home from the hospital in this car and he’s never known a home without this car in the driveway. Owen (18) probably doesn’t remember a driveway without it either. It drove Owen to school every day for the first several years of school.

It drove all over Hancock County Maine, back and forth from Bar Harbor and It’s driven from Maine to New Jersey numerous times and has even driven as far as Michigan, Tennessee and even to Canada when we drove up to see Niagara Falls. It’s carried kayaks, bikes, and mattresses on it’s roof rack. It’s been filled with up to 5 kids going to water parks, movies etc. It made numerous trips from Ellsworth, Maine to Williamstown, Massachusetts when we were moving in 2011. It made many trips with our 2 extra-large dogs to and from visits to the ocean and lakes. It took Owen to countless Gymnastics practices and meets all over New England. With its rear seat folded down and back seats removed it could carry a large amount of stuff, whether that was appliances, lumber, boxes, furniture purchased at garage sales etc.

It’s on it’s 3rd transmission now, and it’s probably only worth about $250. It needs new rear brakes which the mechanic estimates will cost over $600, and there are few other things that need fixing too. It’s certainly time to let it go, we’ve bought a nice new used car so we don’t need it anymore.

When cleaning out the car I found a receipt from Borders Books in Bangor, Maine from 2/17/2008. There were also dozens of ‘Chuck E Cheese’ tickets in the glove box. I just peeled ‘Pirates of the Caribbean window decals off the side windows by “Marshall’s seat” and a ‘USA Gymnastics’ sticker off the back window. I pinched out sand from Goose Rocks Beach out of the back pockets of the front seats where sandy flip-flops had been stored. The front passenger seat drawer had long forgotten kids CDs and old maps

It’s been a really good car, kept us safe for almost 200,000 miles, been a big part of our lives for a long time… and it will be missed.

Safe travels on your next adventures Minivan.