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Interesting but I wasn't entirely convinced that it's fake. There might be more to this story. Maybe the seller is the one who got scammed when they bought it 20 years ago.

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Maybe they did. Do you suppose they got scammed on eBay - which they "perfectly" remember buying it from - or from the Red Cross, which they have an invoice for?

That German Red Cross invoice is 100% absolutely a fake.

Source: I'm a German who has donated to the red cross. That ain't it.

(Also: There needs to be a a specific key phrase without which the German equivalent of the IRS will come down on you like a ton of bricks. It is missing)

The date 8.12.2001 is a Saturday. This also seems off.

Did you miss the part where Chris Espinosa said "That’s not Sherry Livingston"?

Chris also has a follow-up post not shown in Cabel's blog where he says there aren't any photos of Sherry online: https://mastodon.social/@Cdespinosa/112391173495267599

Which is kind of amazing when you think about it. There's no "The Apple Team" group photo that includes employee #10 anywhere? No wonder the scammer chose her when making the fake, it would be impossible to verify the photo without tracking down either Sherry herself or someone who personally knew her back in 1977.

That's an interesting thing to assert. How does he know there are no photos of a given person online? It's getting into Russell's Teapot territory.

Possibly an overstated version of "I know what Sherry looks like, and an image search for her name does not turn up any pictures of the real person".

I might say the same for several of my friends.

I have a bridge for sale. Completely genuine, honest!

I can't tell if it's a reference to this but thought I'd mention as it's a fun story!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(Lake_Havasu_Cit...

The traditional bridge sale involved the Brooklyn Bridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Parker

They did not cause their "invoice" was also fake

With a price on the invoice of “3.000” Mark, with the decimal point being the thousands separator. Or about 1,500 EUR in today’s money.

Yeah, I don’t think so.

In Germany the dot is the most used thousands separator. It is still a fake.

I know that, I wasn’t expressing incredulity at that, I was expressing incredulity at the price of 3,000 DM… while also wanting to make clear that it wasn’t 3 DM.

A then I seem to have misread. Sorry.

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