While I was unemployed, I was scammed hard.

This is how I got revenge on the scammer.

First and foremost, this did not happen in the United States.

Some events might be possible up there, but down here, it is mostly no man's land regarding

this kind of scam that I fell for.

For the sake of this story, we're going to refer to where I'm from as no man's land.

My wife is a nurse.

Back then, back in early 2000, she worked in an ICU unit of a relatively exclusive and

therefore expensive hospital.

Specifically, she had to care for patients that had undergone cardiac arrest.

At the same time, I was working for a small company that was going out of business.

The owners were retiring, we hadn't secured any important contracts lately, and in my country,

you have to pay employees' severance unless you file for bankruptcy.

So, they decided to shut down while they still had enough cash to pay our severances.

One day, my wife calls me and tells me about this gentleman in his late 50s that had been

on the verge of passing away, and after a close call, he was so grateful.

We'll call him Benny Lowey.

This gentleman happened to work in electronic imports which gave him access to incredibly

convenient deals.

Long story short, he was so grateful for all my wife did as a nurse that he wanted to

sell us an LCD TV, a store demo unit that had been used just once, and we'd only need

to pay one fourth of its retail price as long as we kept it quiet because he was risking

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