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Old 12-07-2007, 09:59 PM   #35 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by PohTayToez View Post
Reporting to the police won't do a thing... all of the guy's information will be fake and near impossible to trace, and it's not worth the investment they'd have to put in to catch him. I get people trying to scam me nearly every day, the only thing you can really do is either ignore it or bait them and make them waste their time.
No, it could actually help. If said con artist were operating under several different aliases, they may have a file on that person. You'd be surprised what one police report could actually do. My parents own commercial property in the city. They filed a police report about some bums loitering or something. Turned out the guy had like 4 warrants out for him, and they had no way of really tracking a homeless person.

It may not help that much, but it at least puts a paper trail on that alias. Sooner or later they may go back to that alias and get busted. Not all criminals are super smart. I mean our prison population grows more and more every day.
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