I did look at the charts. That's why I thought that the price had "further to go". No loss if it hadn't -- I can chuck it out at a small loss or let it run.
The scam would involve relieving me of some sum of money to get a cab to an urgent meeting, or back to Queen's Park where he had a spare set of keys. Or whatever. The guy would give me some kind of promise to pay and a false name and address. I guess that the actual sum would be between ten quid and twenty quid, depending on how well-off he thought I was.
Their skill is in the fast establishment of a relationship or, rather, an imagined relationship on the part of the sucker. Once you spot this, these scams are relatively easy to resist and deflect. You simply say "I do not have any relationship with you". This mantra never fails.
Interestingly, I once had a guy try something on me at the Stratosphere. Cunningly, he pulled open the door for me where there is a long corridor to the main part of the casino (and a longer walk after that to where the poker room was), so I had to suffer him walking next to me for a good five minutes while he established this "relationship" between us (well, he thought he did). Only at the end after the build-up that it was his 21st birthday and he had just broken up with his girlfriend and he was down from Chicago to celebrate (he wasn't, I caught him out on Chicago...) did he deliver the punchline on how he just needed $15. He didn't get it.
Note also how Craig Grant used this technique at a final table. He talked to a player (who went on to win the tournament) for much of the time, sitting close to him, establishing "friendship". Then, when the potential mark collected his winnings, it was "you couldn't spare me a nifty until Monday, could you?" To the unwary, you can be drawn in, not realizing that you have done nothing towards the creation of this non-existent friendshuip. And, not wishing to be rude to a "friend", you lend the money. Just remember the mantra "Craig (or whatever), there is no relationship between us apart from the one you have created in your own mind".
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Re: Scams
Date: 2005-08-24 01:44 pm (UTC)The scam would involve relieving me of some sum of money to get a cab to an urgent meeting, or back to Queen's Park where he had a spare set of keys. Or whatever. The guy would give me some kind of promise to pay and a false name and address. I guess that the actual sum would be between ten quid and twenty quid, depending on how well-off he thought I was.
Their skill is in the fast establishment of a relationship or, rather, an imagined relationship on the part of the sucker. Once you spot this, these scams are relatively easy to resist and deflect. You simply say "I do not have any relationship with you". This mantra never fails.
Interestingly, I once had a guy try something on me at the Stratosphere. Cunningly, he pulled open the door for me where there is a long corridor to the main part of the casino (and a longer walk after that to where the poker room was), so I had to suffer him walking next to me for a good five minutes while he established this "relationship" between us (well, he thought he did). Only at the end after the build-up that it was his 21st birthday and he had just broken up with his girlfriend and he was down from Chicago to celebrate (he wasn't, I caught him out on Chicago...) did he deliver the punchline on how he just needed $15. He didn't get it.
Note also how Craig Grant used this technique at a final table. He talked to a player (who went on to win the tournament) for much of the time, sitting close to him, establishing "friendship". Then, when the potential mark collected his winnings, it was "you couldn't spare me a nifty until Monday, could you?" To the unwary, you can be drawn in, not realizing that you have done nothing towards the creation of this non-existent friendshuip. And, not wishing to be rude to a "friend", you lend the money. Just remember the mantra "Craig (or whatever), there is no relationship between us apart from the one you have created in your own mind".