Three Card Monte

You should said, "OK so just give me some money."

 

haven't seen it yet.

but it also took me all these years before i finally (somewhat) met a hooker. never even seen one. till then. 2 weeks ago.

 

I've only seen this once. I'm walking back to my truck and one guy is acting really excited about this guy giving away money after winning big at the casino. So I take a peak, and these 5 dummies are sitting in a circle playing a stupid card game in the piss covered parking lot. First, I think, "Who would sit in a filthy parking lot?" Then I think, "Nobody is that excited." Then I think, "This is a ruse, and it's 5 guys against me if this goes bad." I just got the heck out of there while the initial guy got up to try and talk me into going back over. I got in my truck and left.

Another scam I've seen 4 or 5 times in the last few years is "The White Van" scam. This scam must really work, because it is the most common. It never was a white van, they usually have a rented minivan or SUV, but that's what it's called if you study up on the various scams on the internet.

Two guys in a SUV will drive up to you in the lot, at the fuel island, or at a shopping center. They claim they are sales guys and the warehouse mistakenly loaded an extra home theater system which is unaccounted for. So they don't want to go back to the warehouse with it. They want to sell it to you for a few hundred dollars instead. The crap is Chinese no-name crap made to look legit. It will likely catch fire eventually and burn your house down. They buy it from a middleman for maybe $100, show the MSRP on the box of $4000, and try to get you to give them $400, $500, or whatever they can get.

Most good scams play your emotion of greed against you. Other common scams are many of the so called fuel saving devices hawked at repair shops, truck stops, and online.

It's a good idea to study up on scams and do online forum searches on products before you buy. Truckers are a huge target for many scams. Many are willing to take a chance, are greedy, or are just uneducated. So the scams keep working for these cons.

 

.....but I just don't understand. I won the first hand. It was easy, since that dumb guy had bent the one card's corner, and didn't even notice. Then when I won the first hand, and reached for my winnings ($10), the dumb guy offers me double or nothing. I add another $10, which brings the pot to $40.....

When that guy turned over the card I picked, and it was the wrong one......well buddy, you could have knocked me over with a feather. The bad part is I could not tell the guy about the one card being bent, or then **I** would be the one shown to be a cheater.

I was in the rest area on I-95, just north of the Delaware line. Same scam. I walked back to see a guy all set up. I walked up to the scam, and pulled back my jacket a bit, so you could see my 2 friends, Smith and Wesson. I told the guy he could get his feet moving, or get shot in the face. He had 10 seconds to decide, and the clock was already running. The look on his face was priceless.

Sure, I wasn't going to shoot him, but he didn't know that for sure. He was playing 3 card, but I was wearing my POKER face. It took him about 3 seconds to fold up the little table, and march off. He didn't even look back as he left. People need to start beating the crap out of these guys, and it might stop.

 

It is 2014. Any driver who gets had in a three card monte deserves it. I'm sorry. It's the oldest scam in the book.

 

By the way, if it's too good to be true, it usually is. Rule of thumb.

 

The last time I ran across that I was sleeping in a small truck stop I think was in IN. Someone knocked on my door and sure enough one of these guys... "you got to see this, blah, blah, blah". They were set up right outside my door and had two suckers engaged. I pulled back my curtain and rolled down my window. I pulled my camera out and started popping pictures off, lol. One dude tried to get in between the camera and them. "What are you doing"? "I said I'm gathering evidence for the police I just called". I still popped off pictures. You should've seen them scatter like rats. They disappeared going through the store. I knew they were headed to their cars. There was six of them working together.

I walked towards the road and rested against a dropped flatbed with my camera. There was four cars in total. I popped more pictures as they drove by and got their plates. Three turned left at the light and the fourth hesitated and then turned right like he didn't want to be seen with them. They all had OH plates.

I then called the cops and they said they have been trying to catch them guys and they would send a patrol car out. They got my personal info and my phone number. I waited about an hour and the cop never showed. I called and told them I had to leave. I waited another half hour and so and had to leave. About 15 minutes later I got a call from a sheriffs deputy. I told him I couldn't wait anymore that I was driving down the road. I ended up emailing them the pictures and that was the last I heard of it.

I can swear they were the same guys I've seen outside Nashville at the Petro a few years earlier. What is that Kingdom Hall or something like that? If you think about it they do have to organize and get a crew to work together. So they are regulars at it traveling the country. Most times I have seen them it was in OH. I'm not sure they were all the same one's but it's not like a one time thing. They are regulars at it.

It's kind of strange someone does that for a living. What do you do? I'm a scam artist. They appeared well dressed and drove nice cars except for one guy had an older car. I kind of figured it's a second job hobby for them or they are fulltime at it doing rather well. One of these days they'll run across the wrong person.

 

These guys used to be around in jersey a lot. Sometimes I would see the same guys in the same parking lot. This was slit I would take a break in when I was peddling.

 

Family is seeking information about their relative Monte, 5'9" skinny and just turning his life around. Age 36 with 9 kids.
Last seen at truckstop off highway 420

 

They're modern day gypsies is what they are. They also roll into towns (especially after a disaster) and do these home repair scams. People give them money up front then they never return to do the jobs.