Creative scamming...

[n2ize]

I just got a letter calling me to jury duty. If I don't respond in 10 days I'll be facing jail time.
Should I just send them my credit card #?

Was the letter registered/certified ? If not do they have proof that you ever got the letter ? Heck, for all they know you throw all your mail unopened in the garbage.

[kc7jty]

Was the letter registered/certified ? If not do they have proof that you ever got the letter ? Heck, for all they know you throw all your mail unopened in the garbage.

I have benefited yet again from having a personal, primary health care physician. I dropped the form off at the doctor's office, asking for validation to be permanently excused from jury duty which was officially performed. Now I'm good for another 10 years.

[n2ize]

I have benefited yet again from having a personal, primary health care physician. I dropped the form off at the doctor's office, asking for validation to be permanently excused from jury duty which was officially performed. Now I'm good for another 10 years.

Yes. medical reasons verified by a health care professional are the most valid (and pretty much the only) ways to be excused. If you are tending college you can also be excused temporarily.

[W3WN]

Phone rings about 6 PM tonight. Caller ID shows it as "Florida" with a number I recognize from a few other attempted calls the last few weeks.

Woman asks for my wife. I ask who's calling. She informs me it's from some "e" diabetes organization I've never heard of before... I inform her that since I'm the diabetic, she wants to talk to me.

Well, guess what! This organization that I've never heard of before, and doesn't know who I am, is giving me a FREE talking glucose meter! It's an upgrade over what I have! (Never mind that there's no possible way that they can know what I have). It's something that they're doing for everyone who's on Medicare! (I don't have Medicare, I don't qualify... too young)

I know where this is going, so I decide to have a little fun with her. Everything she says, another question from me. "What do you mean it's free?" "What's wrong with the one I have?" "Who pays for this, really?" are the three key questions I throw at her in one form or another.

Clearly had her rattled and on the ropes. Sadly, the fun came to an end, I suddenly here a male voice in the background say "F**k it. Just hang up." and she says "Sorry to have bothered you sir" and hangs up.

Don't get mad... get even.


BTW, for those who don't know, a regular glucose meter can be bought in any drug store, the local Rite Aid had them for $19.95 (saw one on Monday when I had to get some supplies). Talking ones? $49.95. Gahd only knows what they would have tried to charge my insurance company if I'd been dumb enough to give them the insurance info...