Agnes by Tony Cochran for April 13, 2024

From Not Always Right: Let Me Be Frank With You. Or Am I Earl?

Of the many phone scam calls I get EVERY DAY, this story is how I played one particular call.

Scammer: “Hello. How are you today?”

Me: “Fine, thank you.”

Scammer: “That’s good. My name is Frank, and I am calling in reference to your Social Security number.”

Me: “What are you talking about? Is there something wrong? Has somebody stolen my number?”

Scammer: “It seems that your number is linked to some illegal activities.”

Me: “What activities? I’m not a crook.”

Scammer: “I need you to confirm your Social Security number and name before I can continue to talk about this.”

Me: “My name is Earl [Last Name] and my number is [number].”

Scammer: “That is correct with my files. So, to explain the illegal activity associated with you, it involves—”

I cut him off at that point.

Me: “Well, it can’t be me because that name is a client who died some ten years ago, and the social security number belongs to my dad who died in 1976. So, gee, Frank, that makes you a lying sack of s***.”

Scammer: “A**hole.”

He hung up.

(NOT my story, but lately I have had several calls from the same area code supposedly about medicare.)

Why isn’t he remanded??

Good money.

That is not predicting the future, it’s predicting the past.

Hope that’s a real twenty dollar bill.

Twenty bucks! She and Trout can buy lots of Peanut Butter Cups!!

Now Agnes has received stolen goods.

Don’t rub that bill too much or the ink will come off.

20 bucks to keep her mouth shut.

She sounds more like Karen than Agnes

I don’t think Agnes has ever had $20 at one time.

wHOA. $20. she is swimming in it now. I hope Grandma dont take it to fix her jalopy.