I pride myself on being generally unscammable. I was born and raised in New York City to Eastern European immigrants, so I am generally savvy with this shit. The old joke is “how do you start to prepare Hungarian chicken? You steal the chicken!”
The only reason I went through with this was because a) grail chips, and more importantly, b) I didn’t know how many other chips he was selling.
THAT BEING SAID… and this might be cope on my part… I think we are going to made whole one way or another. Here’s why:
Nawras answered my text messages yesterday, and while I wasn’t satisfied with many of the answers, he responded with certain details that lead me to believe one of two things: either he is a buffoon who got in way over his head, or he’s the worst scammer in the whole wide world.
The fact that he responded at all to me, one of the potentially aggrieved, is a good sign IMHO. There is absolutely no reason for a scammer of this nature to continue communication after the con has been executed—the confidence has already been gained and abused, the confidence game finished, so there’s no utility or incentive for a con artist to continue communication with victims. If this was a con—he’s doing a piss poor job of it. Him communicating at all, IMHO, is a positive indicator.
He specifically mentioned he included “samples and cards” in my package, and as such feels like a fool for sending it at all. That’s a detail that no scammer would need to add. He knows hes getting no more money from anyone on this site—as such, if it’s a con, there’s no point trying to smooth things over. He’d be disappeared completely.
The fact that hes made even minimal efforts to make himself look good and communicate is a good sign. If he was a pure con artist, the man formerly known as Poppin wouldn’t have been answering anyone, especially with tiny details that make him look good. No way he’d run such a good con just to do it all wrong at the end.
TL;DR after I slept on it, I think there’s a shot we get our chips. Could be cope, but I think there’s a *chance*. He can’t be *that* good to start the con and that bad to end it.
