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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.

   

JW_Halverson:
Eric, maybe you should contact the local sheriff and explain your concerns that your friend is no longer competent to organize his own affairs. The judge may be able to assign someone to manage his financial affairs under court supervision so he doesn't get cleaned out.

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