Scams

[Tigress]

Sounds vaguely like the guy who tried to get my Mom listed in his directory, back when Mom owned a bird seed store. As I remember it, the guy kept trying to get her to agree to go in the 'pets' listing, to which Mom kept saying, "We don't sell pets."
"But, you have birds...?"
"We have 'a' bird, but she's not for sale. We sell bird seed."
"So, 'pets'?"
"No, not 'pets'! We sell feed, and I don't want to spend any amount of money to be listed in something I didn't check out on my own anyway. *click*"

Or the Who's Who scam! A year after getting fired from my title insurance company, I got that bit of junk in the mail and cheerfully shredded it.

Also, I still periodically get some "free" tech magazine, with the name of a software company I used to work for, but my address. The catch is: I haven't worked for them in 7 years!

[jparenti]

My favorite is the Landshire sandwich scam. A couple of guys come in and say they're from Landshire (the company who makes our prepackaged sandwiches). A transport truck's refridgeration unit had broken down, and they didn't know it until they sold some of the sandwiches. They're here to collect the (supposedly spoiled) sandwiches and take $500.00 out of the drawer for "compensation" to the victims.
Sadly, two of our stores fell for this. Mine didn't, but we got a chuckle reading the memo and realizing how obviously ridiculous this scam is. Someone out there has at least $1,000 and A LOT of crappy sandwiches.