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Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: Dennis S
Date: July 28, 2015 12:30PM
I tried to ask him a personal question to verify him but it didn't work. I don't have his number anymore and I'm supposed to keep this secret.
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: C(-)ris
Date: July 28, 2015 12:31PM
Scam.


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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: freeradical
Date: July 28, 2015 12:32PM
Yes
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: RE:up
Date: July 28, 2015 12:33PM
Call the Houston PD?
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: wave rider
Date: July 28, 2015 12:33PM
Call jail directly to find if he is there? Not sure they will give out the info though...

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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: Pam
Date: July 28, 2015 12:34PM
Scam
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: July 28, 2015 12:35PM
scam.....bam......thank you ma'am.....?????


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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: mikebw
Date: July 28, 2015 12:35PM
Yeah I need $1000 too, please?
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: Black
Date: July 28, 2015 12:35PM
Search suggets this is a pretty likely amount to need to pay after DUI.
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: clay
Date: July 28, 2015 12:39PM
scammy scammy mc scamster.
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: cbelt3
Date: July 28, 2015 12:42PM
99.99% probability this is a scam. BUT.. if you're worried and you know the guy well and think this is likely....

call his HOUSE and see if he's there. Do some due diligence. Is he likely to call you for stuff like this ? Then call the jail and see if he's in jail.

when 'the lawyer' calls, get a name, office address, office phone, call back number. And then check it out too.

Odds are if you start asking difficult questions they will pressure you to immediately send $$ and not answer them.- or- hang up. If they answer clearly and easily the probability of it being legit just went up to 0.02 %.
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: Rick-o
Date: July 28, 2015 12:47PM
> call his HOUSE and see if he's there.

He said he doesn't have his number anymore.

It could be a scam, but if he's close to you and you want to help him out, as suggested above, you probably need more info to show he is actually in jail.

If he has an attorney that's about to call you, it should be fairly easy to expose a scam. Be cautious.


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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: 3d
Date: July 28, 2015 12:47PM
What's the $1000 for?
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: ztirffritz
Date: July 28, 2015 12:48PM
Most likely a SCAM. If he was arrested for a DUI then he needs the 'come to Jesus' moment. Let him stew in his juices for a bit.


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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: mrbigstuff
Date: July 28, 2015 12:50PM
how close to your cousin are you (relationship, not physically)?


Hurts like a bastid...
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: p8712
Date: July 28, 2015 12:55PM
Search Houston mugshots online for his face. But yeah, SCAM.
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: billb
Date: July 28, 2015 12:57PM
His body parts are being donate to further scientific discovery.


You should send him an extra $1,000 so he can move far away. Someplace like Dodge City, Kansas.
So he can call again asking for money to get out of dodge.


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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: Dennis S
Date: July 28, 2015 01:01PM
The problem is that it sounded 90% like him. I haven't talked to him is 4 years. Everything else sounds scammy when you look at it from that angle. The "public defender" is supposed to call me back "after court" for some other case.

I just remembered that my cousin's closest friend back here in Arkansas (he's in California) is our lawyer cousin. If they call back I'll ask for their number so our lawyer cousin can call them. Also I played back his accent in my head and I can hear the difference. This will be funny to bring up the next time I see him.
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: Dennis S
Date: July 28, 2015 01:05PM
It's funny. I took my daily insulin shot a few minutes ago and everything became clear in my mind. I guess I need to watch myself in the mornings before my shot.
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: p8712
Date: July 28, 2015 01:17PM
You could've asked your 'cousin' something only he'd know, or told outright lies about yourself, to see if he'd pick up on them.
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: Dennis S
Date: July 28, 2015 01:23PM
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p8712
You could've asked your 'cousin' something only he'd know, or told outright lies about yourself, to see if he'd pick up on them.

I tried a couple of times but couldn't pull it off.
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: p8712
Date: July 28, 2015 01:27PM
Quote

I tried a couple of times but couldn't pull it off.

"Dude, you know I'm a quadriplegic that's been on disability for 20 years, right?"
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: vision63
Date: July 28, 2015 01:27PM
FIRST OF ALL. Nothing is URGENT here. If he got caught, and he got bonded, then it's a matter of gathering your facts. If he spends a night in jail so what. It's just Tuesday. You can call the jail or you can call a Houston Bail Bonds company and find out what's what. The Bail Bonds people want your money so they should have an incentive to check it out.
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: July 28, 2015 01:33PM
is it a kissin'....cousin.....????


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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: Paul F.
Date: July 28, 2015 01:48PM
Most of my cousins know I'd let 'em rot in jail for a DUI...

But yeah, that's 99% a scam.


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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: freeradical
Date: July 28, 2015 01:52PM
Are bitcoins being requested? winking smiley
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: graylocks
Date: July 28, 2015 01:54PM
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Dennis S
The problem is that it sounded 90% like him. I haven't talked to him is 4 years. Everything else sounds scammy when you look at it from that angle. The "public defender" is supposed to call me back "after court" for some other case.

I just remembered that my cousin's closest friend back here in Arkansas (he's in California) is our lawyer cousin. If they call back I'll ask for their number so our lawyer cousin can call them. Also I played back his accent in my head and I can hear the difference. This will be funny to bring up the next time I see him.

why would he call you if you've had not contact? poll your other family members to check on his well being.


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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: Jack D.
Date: July 28, 2015 01:56PM
You haven't talked to your cousin in FOUR years and you're the guy he uses his dime on to ask for bail??? IF it really is your cousin, it sounds like he's burned through 4 years of closer acquaintances to get to you. Either way this sounds like a bad risk. I vote SCAM!


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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: pRICE cUBE
Date: July 28, 2015 02:01PM
If I had a cousin that was arrested for DUI, they would know I would slam the phone on them. OK, I wouldn't slam by iPhone but the expression still has a nice old fashioned visual statement to it.


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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: billb
Date: July 28, 2015 02:06PM
You tapped that sleep button on me ?


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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: davester
Date: July 28, 2015 02:22PM
If he needs the money he will call again. This is his problem, not yours. As to keeping it a secret, forget about it...these are the kinds of things that shouldn't be kept under wraps.


"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion." (1987) -- Carl Sagan
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: pRICE cUBE
Date: July 28, 2015 02:31PM
Are you the least bit tempted in blackmailing him for $1,000 to keep this secret?


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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: davester
Date: July 28, 2015 02:49PM
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pRICE cUBE
Are you the least bit tempted in blackmailing him for $1,000 to keep this secret?

Might not be too successful since the guy doesn't have $1,000 to pay his own bail. Better to blackmail someone who's flush.


"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion." (1987) -- Carl Sagan



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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: $tevie
Date: July 28, 2015 03:11PM
Things that go on in a courtroom are public record. Being told it has to be kept a secret is absolutely the tip off that this is a bucket of scam.


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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: Mike Johnson
Date: July 28, 2015 04:20PM
Scam. Note too that you may still get a call from a so-called Public Defender. All part of the scam.

And hey, sorry to point this out, but it may be your cousin, and still be a scam.
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: IronMac
Date: July 28, 2015 04:53PM
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pRICE cUBE
If I had a cousin that was arrested for DUI, they would know I would slam the phone on them.

Laugh long and loud...
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: josntme
Date: July 28, 2015 04:53PM
I have a friend that was scammed this way. It was his grandson in jail in Mexico. Told him not to tell his mother. My friend sent the $1000 thru Western Union.

My friend told me about this later in the day and I said "scam". He called his daughter and found that the grandson had not left CO in 2 years.
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: Steve G.
Date: July 28, 2015 05:49PM
We should immediately take up a collection for this unfortunate lunk. I'm now accepting $25 denominated subscriptions on Paypal.



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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: Onamuji
Date: July 28, 2015 06:34PM
When the "attorney" calls, get his/her name, law firm name, email address and phone number.

Google it all and check [www.martindale.com] for the attorney's name and firm.

Every practicing attorney in this country will have their name on a registry. It's unlikely that they would not appear in Martindale Hubbell's directory, but they certainly would appear in bar rolls and such in Google results.

If they're masquerading under a real attorney's name, they nevertheless won't have a working email address from the domain of a real law firm or a phone number that you can trace to a real law firm with a Google search.

This is how I exposed the scammer collection agents who were trying to use me to find my brother to collect on an expired debt. They had a script with outright lies and jargon designed to make it look like they were attorneys, but had nothing to back it up. (And I reported them to the FTC.)


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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: Dennis S
Date: July 28, 2015 06:40PM
No attorney is going to call back.
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: GGD
Date: July 28, 2015 07:15PM
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Dennis S
No attorney is going to call back.

Then how can the scam work? Isn't the "attorney" the one who collects the $1000?

Does this cousin even live anywhere near Houston? Have you checked on his whereabouts with other relatives closer to him and try to contact him directly?
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: Dennis S
Date: July 28, 2015 07:22PM
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GGD
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Dennis S
No attorney is going to call back.

Then how can the scam work? Isn't the "attorney" the one who collects the $1000?

Does this cousin even live anywhere near Houston? Have you checked on his whereabouts with other relatives closer to him and try to contact him directly?

Sorry. The attorney did call back after about 10 minutes right on schedule. I asked enough questions and made enough accusations that he won't waste his time calling back a second time.
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: richorlin
Date: July 28, 2015 08:07PM
Well, at least you didn't fall for it. However, why did it take all your friends here on MR to convince you it was a scam? Don't be an easy mark next time, or at least don't answer the phone until AFTER you take your shot LOL.
The fact that you haven't spoken to him for four years should have tipped you off. If somebody, friend or relative, calls me up after four years of no contact, there's no way I'm going to send them money.


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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: Janit
Date: July 28, 2015 10:53PM
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richorlin
Well, at least you didn't fall for it. However, why did it take all your friends here on MR to convince you it was a scam? Don't be an easy mark next time, or at least don't answer the phone until AFTER you take your shot LOL.
The fact that you haven't spoken to him for four years should have tipped you off. If somebody, friend or relative, calls me up after four years of no contact, there's no way I'm going to send them money.

Events like this can be so startling that it helps to get your friends to confirm what you already know. After all, who wants to make the wrong choice? The easy marks are the ones who DON'T stop to think.
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: Will Collier
Date: July 29, 2015 06:19AM
News story from Vegas about a similar scam:

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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: July 29, 2015 07:20AM
....can we discuss it over drinks....??


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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: what4
Date: July 29, 2015 07:59AM
A common scam. Just might be him, though, looking for drug money.

If you talk to him again, ask him a few questions about family members or pets that would be known only to an insider.

Draw him into recalling the time the two of you took your dog Dillon (who never existed) to the beach (which never happened).

If he remembers this, the call is a fantasy.
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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: rjmacs
Date: July 29, 2015 08:52AM
There are lots of people talking about what they would do if this happened to them. I know it's reassuring to think that in a moment of high-pressure, frightening/threatening discussion we would all stay completely cool, but it's not that simple. Sure, some folks are either 1) constitutionally very calm and hard to excite or 2) trained to respond to high-pressure environments by staying cool, but most of us respond poorly to this kind of stimulus. It can be extremely disorienting and scary to have someone call and tell you that if you don't do something, they will go to jail, or the sheriff will be coming to arrest you. It can throw off your capacity to reason, to be critical, to express skepticism. That's why these scammers do this: when people are cognitively impaired by their own hormones and neuro-responses, sometimes they do foolish things (like wire $1,000 to Mexico).


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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
Posted by: pRICE cUBE
Date: July 29, 2015 04:41PM
I am just going to warn everyone ahead of time to not count on me for bail money if they are unwise enough to drink and drive.


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Re: Urgent - cousin called from Houston courthouse with DUI, needs $1000, lawyer is supposed to call me. It sounds 90% like him. Is his a scam?
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Date: July 30, 2015 10:38AM
Did we mention the $500 consulting fee for b&h? Afterall, MR saved you a grand...


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