{"id":6622,"date":"2024-05-24T14:41:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T19:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6622"},"modified":"2024-05-24T13:43:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T18:43:27","slug":"an-interview-with-the-first-person-to-ever-fall-for-the-oldest-trick-in-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/24\/an-interview-with-the-first-person-to-ever-fall-for-the-oldest-trick-in-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with the First Person to Ever Fall for the Oldest Trick in the Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

3200 BCE<\/span><\/p>\n

MESOPOTAMIA \u2013 Thomas Gully, a twenty-three year old farmer in Mesopotamia, was recently tricked into giving away a sheep and receiving nothing in return. He described the experience as \u201cchastening,\u201d saying, \u201cThis guy promised me a cow in exchange for my sheep. He said he\u2019d give me the cow after I gave him a sheep, and I believed him, so I gave him ol\u2019 Betty. He just took my damn sheep and left. Looking back, it seems so obvious, like why has nobody thought to do this before?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Since falling for the first scam ever, Gully has tried to use the tactic on other unsuspecting farmers, but with little success. \u201cSomehow it\u2019s as if they can all see right through me,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing wrong.\u201d Gully admitted that he wasn\u2019t all that great at lying yet, due to lack of experience. \u201cI mean, up until about a month ago, I wasn\u2019t even aware that that was something you could do,\u201d he remarked. \u201cI just kind of assumed that if you said something, you had to mean it. But, well, you know what they say about assuming.\u201d After this interview was completed, Gully requested a husk of corn from the <\/span>Dealer<\/span><\/i> as payment. You can guess how that went. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MESOPOTAMIA \u2013 Thomas Gully, a twenty-three year old farmer in Mesopotamia, was recently tricked into giving away a sheep and receiving nothing in return. He described the experience as \u201cchastening,\u201d saying, \u201cThis guy promised me a cow in exchange for my sheep. He said he\u2019d give me the cow after I gave him a sheep, and I believed him, so I gave him ol\u2019 Betty. He just took my damn sheep and left. Looking back, it seems so obvious, like why has nobody thought to do this before?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6624,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622\/revisions\/6624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}