Amusing story of the day: yes, someone has tried to scam us

So there I am waiting for my 3:30pm phone call. Working on a Delta-V for a partner. Get a call from the number 5618260072 Remember that number. This person claimed they were representing Hugh Downs production company and wanted to do a story. Obviously this person had no clue, was reading from a script, and didn’t have any research background on us. I was at least amused. One of their questions at the end got me thinking that this person wasn’t clueless, but was fishing for something. Aroused my suspicions. They asked me what my advertising budget was. So I gave them a random range pulled out of a hat.

That number is between me, my business partner, and anyone who invests (and the tax-man). No one else. The number I gave was low, I smelled things that were not unlike rotten fish. Sure enough, I googled that number after he hung up (right after the low random number), and came up with this:

heh …