re: Which of these scams did your parents/grandparents fall for?

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That is some amazingly crazy stuff Dawg. (Irish Travelers).

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Awgusta speaks the truth on the Travelers. Anyone who has spent time in Augusta/CSRA knows what the Travelers look like, and can spot then forever and a day away. It's a deeply incestuous community (literally), and they will bring in outsiders through arranged marriage to young girls so as to improve genetic diversity. They all look alike, too. Flashy, lots of money, and utterly despicable. They don't exist on paper. They all have the same names. Prosecution is impossible. They're ghosts.

They'd roll up I-20 on occasion to Columbia for dinner. Every once in a while, you'd see them around Columbiana mall area. But they didn't pull their scams around there- they just spent money at restaurants (or would complain for free food).

They're truly awful.