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elizabeth  ·  3254 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: Have you ever been scammed? Have you ever scammed someone?

I have a friend that told me how they used to make money back in the USSR, in the 80's. Basically, they were selling an old russian samovar on the red square to tourist for a pretty reasonable price. The catch was that exporting such things was (is?) illegal. They had an in at border patrol and let him know whenever someone bought the samovar so that it could be confiscated... and be back at selling it on the red square. He said they made pretty good money like that for a while.