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Hello Pigeon How Are You Today

Hello, Pigeon, How Are You Today? By Elton Camp When a phoning stranger calls you by name Know that he is playing some financial game And he intends to offer you a chance to invest One that offers a return far higher than the rest In hard economic times, he know what you need And makes a blatant appeal to usual human greed Even though we suspect it’s an attempt to deceive That such profit can be so easy we want to believe The best way to deal with such an obnoxious crook Is simply to silently return the receiver to the hook If your desire to show courtesy makes it hard to do There are still other ways that will work well too Ask for an address and a number to call him back That will almost always throw him off the track Remember that his intent is to defraud and steal He has been told such information don’t reveal Or say, “Now send this to me in writing please.” His refusal will confirm that it’s only a sleaze Then you can feel good about it when you say “I am not stupid and don’t do business this way.”

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