{"id":906,"date":"2020-08-21T14:57:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T14:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/?p=906"},"modified":"2020-08-21T14:57:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T14:57:14","slug":"i-was-scammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/i-was-scammed\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was Scammed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Even the smart professional gets scammed every now and then. I\u2019m supposed to be impervious to anything related to parting with money foolishly. How humbling . . .<\/p>\n

Fortunately, I didn\u2019t fall for a huge scam, but I fell for it nonetheless. How did this happen? The scam penetrated my ultimate weakness; not thinking clearly when sleep deprived. Here\u2019s the story:<\/p>\n

I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn\u2019t go back to sleep right away. By the way, I heard that if this happens it\u2019s best to just get out of bed for a little while instead of lying there sleepless or using your phone. Eventually, I picked up my phone, and started to watch YouTube videos. In the middle of a video appeared an infomercial about a special fan that cools air quickly with the use of water and some sort of advanced technology. It was probably a warm night because I purchased the fan thinking that it may come in handy, especially if making pizza in a hot oven during the summer. If the fan can cool down a factory that melts steel, then it can certainly cool down my kitchen.<\/p>\n

Fast forward a few weeks, and fortunately only $90 later after shipping and handling, arrived this magical air cooling fan. I read the directions, added some water, plugged it in, and laughed at myself for being so stupid. The fan was so weak that you couldn\u2019t even feel it unless you were within a foot or two away from the breeze. Nothing was really cooled except for my pride.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, it wasn\u2019t a lot of money, but I did learn two lessons. First, anyone can get scammed under the right circumstances, and two, don\u2019t watch YouTube videos at night, especially when you\u2019re tired.<\/p>\n

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Even the smart professional gets scammed every now and then. I\u2019m supposed to be impervious to anything related to parting with money foolishly. How humbling . . . Fortunately, I didn\u2019t fall for a huge scam, but I fell for it nonetheless. How did this happen? The scam penetrated my ultimate weakness; not thinking clearly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,8,65],"tags":[29,33,190],"class_list":{"0":"post-906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-budgeting","7":"category-business","8":"category-expenses","9":"category-financial","10":"category-technology","11":"tag-expenses","12":"tag-financial","13":"tag-scam","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belbolcpa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}