[rollei_list] Re: Western Union and REA

I don't quite understand who is getting scammed here. The person who sends both telegrams pays for them and gets what? nothing, as far as I can tell. What is the scam? 




At 10:49 AM 7/22/2008, Richard Knoppow wrote:

>
The classic Western Union scam was to send a first telegram to a friend:

MESSAGE TWO FOLLOWS

and, a day later, to send a second telegram:

DISREGARD MESSAGE ONE

I guess you had to be there.



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