# What fiendishly clever scam would you pull on an unsuspecting public? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 29, 2003, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fiendishly-clever-scam-would-you-pull-on-an-unsuspecting-public/191618 "2003-07-29T10:59:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fiendishly-clever-scam-would-you-pull-on-an-unsuspecting-public/191618/21 "2003-07-31T14:55:48Z")
If I had fewer scruples, I’d become a “born-again” Republican – “Come see the former bleedin’ heart liberal atheist who found Jesus and George W. Bush!” The book rights alone would be worth a few million, and if I could leverage it into a media position, I’d kick Limbaugh, O’Reiley, and Coulter where it hurts. …of course, that’s akin to selling your soul to the Devil, ainnit? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Janx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Janx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janx)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fiendishly-clever-scam-would-you-pull-on-an-unsuspecting-public/191618/22 "2003-07-31T16:48:43Z")
Well, I’m just to nice of a guy, I could never think of something a s sleazy As [this bit from news of the weird…](http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html) > [@](#): > > Tyrone Henry, 30, appeared here in 2000 when arrested in Tucson, Ariz., for running a scheme in which female college students were paid $10 to “test” facial cream but which cream turned out to be Henry’s sperm. He was convicted of fraud and sentenced to seven years in prison, but is still (according to a June 2003 Tucson Weekly story) aggressively proclaiming that he violated no law. Argues Henry: The women were adults; there was no sexual contact; they were paid; Henry did not “expose” himself because the girls were blindfolded. Henry said he was just pursuing “the American dream” with his Web site selling men photos of women’s sperm-adorned faces. [Tucson Weekly, 6-5-03] EEWWwwwwww! ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fiendishly-clever-scam-would-you-pull-on-an-unsuspecting-public/191618/23 "2003-08-01T22:23:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Knowed Out \* > \*\*Back in the days when I worked in the printing industry, I saw _To Live and Die in L.A._ and freaked when I saw the scenes where the counterfeiter was making bogus money. “OMIGOD, He’s using a Multilith 1250 just like what I have at work!” > > I was thinking I could print up a bunch of 20s, go down to the Grand Strand at Myrtle Beach during July 4th weekend, and go to each shop when they’re busy and buy the cheapest knick knack they got with a bogus 20, then pocket the change and come home with about a hundred grand. > > But, according to the trade magazines I read, 80% of all counterfeiters are caught before they get their stuff into circulation. That made me too paranoid to persue my dream. \*\* Ya know, I saw a thing like that on this show about real crimes on the History Channel once that had a guy who did that. He spent a lot of his time making realistic _looking_ -and more or less feeling- 20 dollar bills, then drive around Illinois (Indiana?) and buy little items. He got to this convenience store, bought a pack of gum from this early 20-something blonde, figured she wouldn’t suspect anything (being an early 20-something blonde), and left. The blonde looked out the window to see his license plate, took out an indicator highlighter and marked the twenty, then called the cops who arrested him before he even got out of town. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fiendishly-clever-scam-would-you-pull-on-an-unsuspecting-public/191618/24 "2003-08-02T00:16:03Z")
I saw that one too. The guy tried to get rid of the evidence by stuffing it in between the seats in the cop car. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fiendishly-clever-scam-would-you-pull-on-an-unsuspecting-public/191618.md?page=1)