L.A. Bookstores Getting Punked
While the Nigerian email scam can potentially be quite lucrative, it sucks having to wait so damn long. A good grift is a quick and dirty one, as pranksters in L.A. have started to learn.
The L.A. Times is reporting on a recent spike in bookstore hoaxes, in which the scammer calls the bookstore posing as an author scheduled for a book signing, for instance, whose transportation situation has been complicated, say, by having his or her car impounded and asking for cash to get it all together.
The payoff, of course, is when the real author shows up and everyone has an awkward moment followed by creepy laughter.
AuthorScoop
November 12th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
well stated.