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But wait there's a terribly unexpected twist in this ridiculous tale...

A Nigerian Prince is a sure thing compared to this guy.

Multi-Level Marketing companies employ people to target friends over social media. These companies are basically pyramid schemes that have their employees/victims sell health and beauty products like essential oils, supplements, and makeup. Knowing they are being targeted, some people have chosen to fight back through the fine art of trolling.

Hindsight is 20/20, but some of these could have been avoided even with impaired foresight.

MLMs promise you that you'll make easy money at home by selling health and beauty products to your friends. But these people weren't even trying. And if they were... yeesh.

"Call me Diarrhea. Mr. Jackson was my father's name."

Dave DiCianni is no stranger to trolling people over text. When he got a new phone number he got so many wrong number texts that he started a blog about it called This Isn't Shannon. That's why when he got a fake landlord asking for money he decided to embark on the following exchange:

Today in Twitter theater we have the story of Dave Holmes, an LA based writer and comedian who received a scam call from someone pretending to be from the IRS. Since he was at the beginning of a commute, Dave decided to go along with the scheme.

Content warning: some language ahead is as shady as a scam call.