"Everyone who walked by took a look, the thousand-year-old turtle that I just dug up."
I don't know if you have ever seen migrant workers selling "turtles" on the streets.
In fact, these so-called "migrant workers" are outright liars, and the thousand-year-old turtle they are talking about is even more impossible.
Roadside selling "turtles"
In our lives, it is actually difficult to distinguish some street scams.
For example, some people pretend to be disabled to trick people's sympathy, and some people sell products, only to find out that it doesn't work at all.
And the so-called "turtle" scam is also such an existence.
On the roadside near some construction sites, there will be battered migrant workers in tattered clothes, holding a wooden pole on which hangs what they call a "turtle."
Some people will put a basin in front of them, and inside the basin is a very large "turtle".
From a distance, it actually gives people a very "bleak and pitiful" feeling.
When someone approaches, they will start to sell: the thousand-year-old turtle that has just been dug up is hard to find, and once it is missed, it is really gone.
If anyone asks, then these people will tell how they found the turtle.
Generally speaking, their scripts are also in the same direction, for example, they are migrant workers at a nearby construction site, and when they are digging a well, they suddenly find a huge turtle underground.
And I heard that the turtle can prolong life, and the effect is also very great, if it weren't for the money in his own family, he would definitely not take it out and sell it.
In fact, when they said this, some people would already choose to believe it, because those turtles did have a lot of dirt on their bodies, which also gave people a very real feeling.
However, the price of these so-called turtles is not cheap, and the price is about 15,000 as soon as they open their mouths, and some people even open their mouths directly, and their mouths are three or four thousand.
In fact, their so-called "turtles" are actually some of the more common invasive alien species, such as "snapping turtles".
But many people actually don't know about these so-called alien species at all, so they will believe it and think that this is a "thousand-year-old turtle".
The snapping turtle is an animal that grows in South America, and its size itself is very large, because its appearance is similar to that of a turtle, but the volume is larger than a normal turtle, so it is used to fool others, saying that this is a "thousand-year-old turtle".
It has been reported in the relevant media
In 2019, China Daily published a scam about the "Turtle".
According to this report, when Mr. Yang went to the Lama Temple to play, he happened to see people selling "turtles", and began to tell Mr. Yang about the various benefits of turtles.
Seeing that the person in front of him was talking wildly, Mr. Yang was also unsuspecting, and directly bought one for 800 yuan.
In fact, at the beginning, the hawker's asking price was 1,600 yuan, and Mr. Yang was also an expert at bargaining, and he cut it in half.
When Mr. Yang went out of the scenic spot, a kind citizen said to Mr. Yang that this was not a turtle at all, and that it could be bought for 70 yuan in the market.
Hearing this, Mr. Yang turned around and went back to find the vendor, but in the end, it was "the building was empty".
Later, the police said that these so-called turtles were just ordinary snapping turtles, and they were not worth so much money.
And this kind of thing is not unique.
Guangming.com has also posted about the "Turtle" scam.
In other words, there was a "migrant worker" who dug up a longevity turtle while working, so he wanted to sell it.
But in fact, there have been a lot of such things, and their deceptive words, scripts, and routines are basically the same, and some don't even change a word.
Some people say that this is a thousand-year-old turtle, and some people say that this is a "Xuanwu" that failed to cross the catastrophe, and after buying it home, it can bless the safety of the family, or it can help prevent disasters.
Anyway, in the mouths of these people, the so-called thousand-year-old turtle was made up by them, and even the heavens and the earth were omnipotent, but in the end, they couldn't escape the "fate" that was exposed.
But even if their routine is so obvious, why would anyone still be deceived?
Why do people always fall for it?
In fact, the reason why they were able to succeed was actually to take advantage of people's "kindness." ”
We can think about it carefully, these deceitful people basically pretend to be "migrant workers", and they will work hard to dress up.
Dressed in clothes from work on the construction site, they are all "cement" and look tattered.
At this time, in fact, they already give people a very "pitiful" impression.
After that, they will start to use stories to win sympathy, such as lies about poverty at home, children going to school, etc., in order to deceive people's sympathy.
With such an image, in fact, many people will have a kind of "sympathy", and even feel that they can't buy it.
Some scammers are actually very smart and don't set the price particularly high, which gives people the feeling that they are taking advantage of the purchase.
Not only that, but some scammers will also find a few "to", pretend to pass by in front of their stall, and then pretend to hear their conversation, and start to say that they have experienced such a thing before, or that they have seen the turtle being found.
In the "others" agree, people's defensiveness will be very easily reduced.
And just like that, the crooks are done with their scam.
But we can think about it carefully, as a worker on a construction site, how can you go out and buy things at will during your work?
And it's not something that will be sold in a while, so even if it's a huge loophole, there are still people who choose to believe it.
In addition to some people who bought it out of curiosity, there are also some people who believe in Buddhism.
In addition to appearing on the construction site, these people will also "wait for the rabbit" near the temple.
You must know that for some people who believe in Buddhism, releasing life is actually a kind of "doing good deeds and accumulating virtue".
Therefore, when such a person sees such a creature on the street, he will definitely buy it and release it.
But you should know that the snapping turtle is an alien species after all, and its personality is very irritable, and the attack power is very strong, once it is released into the wild, it actually has a very big impact on our ecological environment.
If severe, it could even lead to the extinction of native turtles.
In fact, the methods of these scammers are very low-level, and we only need to think carefully to easily find some of them.
If we see someone selling "turtles" on the side of the road, don't believe their words, the most correct thing to do is to call the police directly.
Information sources:
Guangming.com "Migrant workers sell "longevity turtles dug up from the construction site" at a low price|Routine scam, "script" is not rewritten" 2019-05-14 19:25
China Daily, "70 yuan snapping turtle sells for 1600 yuan, police tips don't be fooled"2019-04-29 09:03