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Floyd R. Turbo

(26,546 posts) Wed Sep 8, 2021, 08:49 AM Sep 2021

About three weeks ago I ordered a book online titled "How To Scam People On The Internet".

It still hasn’t arrived!

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About three weeks ago I ordered a book online titled "How To Scam People On The Internet". (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2021 OP

LOL! K&R. tblue37 Sep 2021 #1

Send me your credit card info and I'll get right on it... Wounded Bear Sep 2021 #2

Allow six to eight weeks for delivery. ;) Chainfire Sep 2021 #3

Last year, I bought a book on how to defeat procrastination. But, I haven't read it yet. NCjack Sep 2021 #4

Send me $5, and I'll tell you how to get the book Effete Snob Sep 2021 #5

There's a story--I don't know if it's true or an urban legend... First Speaker Sep 2021 #6

In the sixties there was a weekly ad in the L.A. Free Press that read: Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2021 #7

tblue37

(65,357 posts)

1. LOL! K&R.

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Wed Sep 8, 2021, 09:21 AM

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Wounded Bear

(58,656 posts)

2. Send me your credit card info and I'll get right on it...

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Wed Sep 8, 2021, 09:32 AM

Sep 2021

I've settled many cases like this.

Chainfire

(17,538 posts)

3. Allow six to eight weeks for delivery. ;)

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Wed Sep 8, 2021, 09:38 AM

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NCjack

(10,279 posts)

4. Last year, I bought a book on how to defeat procrastination. But, I haven't read it yet.

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Wed Sep 8, 2021, 10:39 AM

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Effete Snob

(8,387 posts)

5. Send me $5, and I'll tell you how to get the book

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Wed Sep 8, 2021, 10:40 AM

Sep 2021

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)

6. There's a story--I don't know if it's true or an urban legend...

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Wed Sep 8, 2021, 11:20 AM

Sep 2021

...about some bright boy in the old pre-internet days who put an ad in the paper saying, "send your dollars to Box XYZ, Los Angeles". That was it. Supposedly, he made a fortune before the Post Office shut him down...

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,546 posts)

7. In the sixties there was a weekly ad in the L.A. Free Press that read:

Reply to First Speaker (Reply #6)

Wed Sep 8, 2021, 11:24 AM

Sep 2021

“Learn how to receive hundreds of dollars in the mail. For instructions send $2.00 to ………”

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