The 1/21 Incident
This could possibly be my most interesting post yet. Okay, so I was working the morning shift at Starbucks, when at 3.10 I got a call from someone assuming himself as the manager of Starbucks at Gurney, when it was actually a conman, so long story short, I lost my handphone to this guy.
Thats not the funny part though, the funny part is that the conman contacted my friends trying to get another con. This created some funny antics.
The funniest of which is what happened to my dear friend Jayden. So this guy calls up Jayden pretending to be me, telling Jayden to bring along his hands free kit when he came for DotA. So Jayden agrees, and brings it along. Later the person calls again, this time pretending to be my "brother". To all those who don’t know me that well, please note, that I never had a brother. Anyway, he said he was my brother and that I passed my handphone over to him to collect the hands free kit.
As you’d expect, Jayden would probably be confused, since he thought I had no brother, but he actually did think I had this secret brother of which my family had disowned. Anyway, he called my home to ask my whereabouts when my "brother" didn’t appear. My mom picked up the phone (at this point she already knows I lost it), and Jayden thinks its my sister, so he greets my mom differently. My mother, suspicious at the strange greeting from a familiar friend of mine, thought I was the conman and decided to play him at his own game. Or so she thought. So as Jayden weaved the absurd story to my mother which had been fed to him, my mother’s suspicion grew and when Jayden asked my mom whether I actually had a brother, she lied to him and said yes.
If you’re not laughing its probably because it doesn’t sound quite as funny on a blog.
So today shall be remembered as Incident 1/21.
Good hunting for genitilia of con artist.
January 21st, 2007 at 7:34 am
Yea…it’s actually funnier if you were there at the time. So from being sceptical over whether you actually had a bro, your “sis” confirmed for me that you did in fact have one which gave weight to the conman’s story. Bummer
January 21st, 2007 at 3:53 pm
A shame it wasn’t the actual conman calling at the time, else things would heat up and everything turns into some action-packed drama. (:
January 21st, 2007 at 10:26 pm
that asshole. I hope he gets cancer on the balls.
January 22nd, 2007 at 2:09 am
*dramatic trumper sounds*
Ba da bap baaaaaaaaa!!!!!
January 22nd, 2007 at 7:49 am
Nay, not cancer… his balls should be chopped and minced fine… but great brains though… I admire how he broke into our weakness of over-trustfulness between friends… Oh, and now Jeff became the new victim. His story is even better… he told the guy HIS address thru the phone and handed over his headset DIRECTLY into the hands of the conmen claiming to be Wai Yin’s brother who came to pick it up at his doorstep. Really pity him, man…
January 22nd, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Errrrr. I’m speechless. Disembowel da bloody fella!
February 6th, 2007 at 7:59 am
I never really got the whole story even up till now but as wacky as it sounds, I still wish I had something to do with this hoax… like getting called up by the guy or getting scammed a little maybe… I feel so, so left out =P
Sorry.