Recently, I
received a phone call from someone claiming to be from Columbia Pictures wanting
to buy the rights to my novel, THE HOUSE OF SIN AND SPLENDOR, for a movie version.
And they were willing to pay me $300,000.
First of
all, I’d want $500,000. And second, I
see this story as more of a series, since it encompasses many decades unfolding
thru characters’ conversations, along with a past life hypnotic regression of the main character Arlene.
Later, after
the regression she has an out-of-body experience and visits the past guided by
a ghost.
Arlene has
psychic abilities which she was forced to hide and deny, due to being raised by
her fanatically religious grandparents. Eventually she comes to embrace her gift.
I sat
listening to this message which came up on my answering machine as Unknown
Caller. The guy kept calling me Deanne – My name is Dianne!
Since I’m a
senior citizen I don’t appreciate some stranger referring to me as “Hey
Deanne!”
In the
background I could hear numerous people on phones. If that wasn’t a scammer’s boiler
room, then I don’t know what is! I could smell the stench right thru my
answering machine.
It reminded me
of that 1980’s Florida serial killer who roamed shopping malls carrying an
empty camera. He’d approach young women and claim to be a photographer for a big
modeling agency.
He’d tell them,
“You have great potential. But first, you must sign papers and I left those in
my car.” Naturally he was parked in a secluded spot where he’d knock them out
and lock them in the trunk.
Scammers
just as serial killers lure and often catch victims thru the person’s
aspirations, fantasies, & egos. This is easy now! Way too much info is
exposed over the internet. And these cons are getting sneakier all the time!
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