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LaundryPizza03 Maintenance? from Texas Since: Aug, 2020
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#1: Dec 24th 2020 at 3:24:05 AM

The image is of a circled entry in an obituary, which does not demonstrate the trope. The trope is about committing a scam where the Con Man contacts a family on supposed behalf of a deceased relative.

Edited by LaundryPizza03 on Dec 24th 2020 at 5:24:16 AM

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#3: Dec 29th 2020 at 7:14:49 PM

Yeah, that doesn't show the trope at all. Pull.

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#5: Dec 29th 2020 at 8:07:39 PM

It took a while for me to figure out, but I think that it's supposed to show that "the Con Man circled this obituary in the paper to single them out as The Mark in this type of scam." Which is still really obtuse and non-illustrative, and I'm not even sure that my interpretation is right. Pull this please.

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#9: Dec 30th 2020 at 1:22:59 PM

This is the only thing I could think of for a suggestion, but it might be better for this to be BUPKIS.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/image_230.png

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LaundryPizza03 Maintenance? from Texas Since: Aug, 2020
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#10: Dec 30th 2020 at 1:29:05 PM

[up] [tdown] That is even less illustrative, and looks like a stock photo to boot. I don't think this would be BUPKIS, however. Do we have something from a comic or a webcomic where a guy is attempting the scam by phone call?

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#11: Dec 30th 2020 at 7:03:47 PM

The pic's pulled and the page is tagged for this thread.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/paper_moon_0.jpg
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#12: Jan 6th 2021 at 7:18:46 PM

Locking as this is at the clocking point and has been dead since the pic was pulled.

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