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Cash4Gold = scam
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:38 pm
by FZ1
As if you couldn't sniff it out for yourself...
http://consumerist.com/5144296/10-confe ... d-employee
From the acid-cloud haze of the Cash4Gold processing center steps forth a shadowy figure, fingers stained with orange testing fluid. It's an ex-Cash4Gold employee and in-between tuberculosic wheezes he manages to pass you a yellow legal paid with 10 confessions about how his former employer taught him to rip people off. Then he evaporates leaving behind a pile of gold dust. You dip your finger in it and touch it to your tongue. Just as you thought: fool's gold.
Re: Cash4Gold = scam
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 3:21 pm
by vicaphit
From the first time I saw these commercials I knew it was messed up.
Re: Cash4Gold = scam
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 3:32 pm
by InspectahACE
Damn..article is ruthless..I'm still laughin at how there was a commercial about it with ed mcmahon and mc hammer during the super bowl..probably a spoof but those 2 are broke as hell so i dont know anymore lol...always knew a it was a scam..specially since the local news did a segment on it a few months ago and they straight up pointed that you wont get jack back compared to a jewelry store..wouldnt send a ring or anything like that through the mail anyway
Re: Cash4Gold = scam
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 4:12 pm
by vicaphit
InspectahACE wrote:wouldnt send a ring or anything like that through the mail anyway
That process always worried me too, it is a paper envelope they give you to send your gold in... Great security there.
Re: Cash4Gold = scam
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 4:49 pm
by smack323
I did like that superbowl comercial though.
Re: Cash4Gold = scam
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:08 pm
by InspectahACE
vicaphit wrote:InspectahACE wrote:wouldnt send a ring or anything like that through the mail anyway
That process always worried me too, it is a paper envelope they give you to send your gold in... Great security there.
I can see it now...
"Sir!!! The envelope has turned green!!!" General-
"Well Private don't just stand there MOVE IT!" 1 hour later after lab results "
Scientist-What the..." runs over to the General "Sir, it was only fake gold, nothing biological" Scientist smacks General in back of the head
Re: Cash4Gold = scam
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:52 pm
by Digerati
The superbowl commercial was a joke. Honestly, that commercial might've done more to Hammer's career than Cash4Gold.