u/Smart_TossOut

I gave my cats (13f and 5m, both domestic long haired) each a croton-sized piece of raw, freeze dried chicken from Vital Essentials. Several hours later, I realized they were raw. I thought I was buying something like Bonkers pops, which are pre cooked. Ugh. How serious is this? I’m so worried they’re going to get terminally ill.

They ate it around 2pm today.

Hey everyone! Throw away in case my friend finds this post lol. This HAS to be a scam and I can get my friend to see it.

Basically, 30yo male friend, who works at a Target in a Midwest suburb, was at cigar lounge and was approached by a late-middle aged man. He started chatting my friend up and asking him about business. My friend wants to be an app developer so he told him about that. Business man then says, “I see so much potential in you. Hey, I need a personal assistant. I’ll give you $10k per week.”

Friend says that’s a great deal if he can give the cash up front before starting. Guy says cool, meet back here tomorrow.

They meet up again. The guy buys him 4 alcoholic drinks in about an hour—my friend texted me that he was drunk—while the businessman tells him that he’s an illegal arms dealer for both the cartel and some mafia members. He tells him he wasn’t able to bring the cash because it needs to be washed, so he will wire him $50,000. He adds that it’s a weekend so wires will be delayed until next week. **My friend gives him his bank info.**

They’re going to “be in touch.” My friend tells me that this guy is *so* impressed with how smart he is, that he is going to be an “asset,” that he has connections and can make his app development dreams come true. He tells my friend he will take him on fancy business trips starting next weekend.

My friend is so excited. He says that even if it’s all fake, it’s not a big deal. I said the guy will probably ask for a wire back as some sort of proof or surety, and that’s the scam. He says he just won’t give the money back, but also that he “can’t back out now because the cartel know about me.”

Is there anything I can do other than just sit and watch?? I tried to find news articles on similar scams with no luck. I didn’t think he was this gullible. I would let him just learn the lesson if it wouldn’t possibly cost him **hundreds of thousands**

Edit 1: He emptied bank account the guy has access to, in theory so that the guy can’t take that money. He said it’s as low as the bank will allow without a low fund fee or whatever; not sure it’ll help.

Edit 2: Comments have confirmed the lack of money in the account won’t really make a difference in the end