Okay, this takes chutzpah

We got a letter in this week’s mail from a “land company” out of Seattle offering to purchase a portion of our property from us (our new homestead consists of two smaller adjacent parcels rather than one chunk of land – their offer was for the undeveloped pasture).

The undeveloped parcel is about 3.75 acres. For this, the land company is willing to pay the curiously precise sum of $22,520.38. Never mind that I’ve seen similar undeveloped acreage in our area for sale at ten times that amount.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not reading too much into this “offer.” I fully realize it’s a generic shoot-from-the-hip phishing letter. But the “chutzpah,” in my opinion, was the enclosed Purchase Agreement.

Hey presto, all we had to do was fill in the form to get the ball rolling! What could possibly go wrong?

I guess what amazes me is how anyone can fall for this. Yet they must, or the company wouldn’t send out phishing letters like this.

P.T. Barnum allegedly said there’s a sucker born every minute. Maybe he’s right.