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This iPhone scam bothers me because, not only does it prey on the poor, but no one seems to give a crap that it is happening.
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Hey, Apple's getting their money apparently not a big deal of course until it's on the news and people start complaining.
Are people really this dumb? You can just cancel your contract?
The homeless dude not withstanding because well what good does his credit do to him. He even was smart enough to admit he is surprised that he even had *good enough* credit to get 10 cellphones.
Honestly the kids who do it and hurt personal credit are stupid. The homeless guys are smart because his credit isn't doing him any good anyways and the dude who was selling his plasma for cash is an unknown.
I don't think this is worth getting that upset over, guy pays people to ruin credit, he profits. Okay, maybe a little upset but people shouldn't be so stupid, and if they are stupid should hurt (credit), maybe then they will learn not to trust some guys standing in front of the Apple store and the blood bank.
The video is misleading because it's a scam that benefits both parties. In the end, the indigent will claim incompetent and will get the contract and credit ding dismissed while keeping the cash for the deal.
This is not an Apple issue but rather a retail store issue.
It does not matter if it is a Apple phone or not it can be done with any phone.
You do realize if you cancel the contract you have to return the phone / pay for the phone in which case it will be more that the $200 they were offered.
Wait so the "victims" are paid $100 to sign the contracts but the "scammer" keeps the phone? I'm sorry, hard to feel sorry for that level of stupidity.
Hey I'll give you $500 to sign this contract for car payments, don't worry man you can cancel the contract at any time. Thanks, Bye! *Varroooom*
Do you think the homeless guy cares that much?
As shown in the video Apple is allowing this scam to operate from within their stores because they need the sales number to pump their AAPL stock,.
You're thinking really high level but it may be something a bit more simple, it could just be that hes giving the manager of that store a slice of the profit.
Right, so the homeless don't care about being homeless, because they desire to live the rest of their lives on the street. Misrepresentation is absolutely a part of contract law, and that is what we're seeing here. It's pretty amazing the lack of empathy here.
Further, the police don't even care. Their level of blatant disregard for financial crime is staggering. Working in banking and fraud/money laundering, I've called a local police department with a full report and breakdown of 8+ people in a credit fraud ring, who had stolen 10s of thousands from our institution's customers and circumstantially at least that much more from other institutions. They wouldn't even take the report - I had driver's licenses, addresses, names of these fraudsters and they couldn't be bothered to get off their ass.
But call them with a tip on some poor guy smoking a joint and they'll send a SWAT team and tear up his house.
Wait so the "victims" are paid $100 to sign the contracts but the "scammer" keeps the phone? I'm sorry, hard to feel sorry for that level of stupidity.
Hey I'll give you $500 to sign this contract for car payments, don't worry man you can cancel the contract at any time. Thanks, Bye! *Varroooom*
Must be tough to not know what it means to be poor.
Pretty typical of Denver police to refuse to get involved. There are many reasons I moved from Denver to Parker, and that's one. At least they aren't as corrupt as Chicago area police. Denver police may be lazy bullies, but Chicago area police may as well be considered organized crime as bad as any criminal mob.