High maintenance customer

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007, Mike Schwartz wrote:
>> From: Kenneth Brody
>>
>> It's amazing what one could do without those darn scruples getting in
>> the way.
>
>    Some of the places where I lost the most money were where my customer
>and I just didn't see eye-to-eye and we parted ways, usually with me left
>holding the bag.  In other cases, there were business deals for equipment
>and a partnership that just went sour because my partner didn't know much
>about computers and got cold feet. 
>
>    You don't need a computer in order to get ripped off.  The main reason I
>don't complain about the few thousands of dollars I've gotten stiffed on is
>that I had one customer whose husband had taken an early retirement from a
>large corporation.  Unbeknown to her, he pulled all his retirement money out
>of the large corporation's retirement fund and invested it with a con artist
>who promised high returns on his property investments.  He even BORROWED
>money to give to the con man, because the con man kept sending him
>statements showing something like 20% annual returns on his investments!
>The con guy did use the money to buy a lot of property in the area,
>including one of the most expensive houses in the area.  Unfortunately, he
>sold off all the property, including the house, grabbed all the cash and
>skipped town with a few million dollars.  They still haven't caught up with
>him.

Hmmm.  That sounds a lot like the Social Security Scam, the
largest Ponzi Scam in history.

Bill
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