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Eric Krewson:
I emailed him, told him how much he meant to me and sent him a detailed description of just how a Nigerian scam worked and how he had been taken by the scammers. I didn't hear anything from him for a week or so, then he emailed me back with a "thank-you", he didn't elaborate whether he believed me or not.
The scammers had him brainwashed, sometimes a person like this is hard to get to.
I was scammed out of 30K one time in the 80s on what was called a pump and dump scheme. Several analysts were really talking up a particular stock, promising it would double or triple in value in a year. I bought 30K worth of the stock on their advice. Turns out they bought the stock at $4 a share, pumped it up with praise to get people to invest in it which boosted the value to $70 a share. The analysts dumped their shares at $70, took a huge profit and caused the stock to drop back to $4 a share and leaving us gullible holding the bag with huge losses. My $70 a share stock dropped to $4 in hours, the stock became a penny stock a few weeks later, lesson learned. I got off light at $30K, others lost hundreds of thousands.
Ever since that hard-earned lesson I can spot a scam from a mile away.
GlisGlis:
Pump and dump is the scheme of many recent crypto currencies. Some are worst than others.
soy:
You'll have that especially with the new stuff...dang crypto any who
Eric Krewson:
I tried dehydrating and vacuum sealing squash this year; I didn't expect it to taste very good because when I opened the jar the squash smelled funky strong.
I tried it in my steamed vegetable mix and it was actually very good.
Yesterday I decided to fry some to see how it would turn out, I rehydrated it in a bowl of water first.
I rolled the rehydrated squash in mix Zatarain's of fish fry, flower and corn meal and fried it in olive oil with thinly sliced onion, I didn't bread the onion.
The finished fried squash was about the best I ever ate, I wish I had put up 10 jars instead of just 2, no more freezing squash for me, drying will be my go-to method of squash storage for me in the future.
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