There’s a scam known as Rocks in a Box, and if we were looking to score with it, Christmas Eve would be ideal. It’s simple and dumb but we’ve seen guys outside the Holland Tunnel pulling this one for years and we're sure they do alright.
It goes like this. You’re in your car, desperate to get one last gift. You’re jammed in a long line of cars, trying to get into a mall parking lot. There, standing next to you, is some guy with a stack of boxes at his side. He's holding a TV, or a game system, or whatever’s big at the moment. Says he’s selling them for $100. Maybe he even lets you think that they’re sorta stolen. Maybe his cousin picked them up in Brooklyn. And what you’re thinking is hey, I’ll get it for cheap and can go home right now. But when you get home, maybe it’s not really a box of rocks, but it’s a box of something worthless, that’s for sure. We’ve actually heard people doing it this season with iPhones. Regardless, the success of Rocks in a Box, as with most scams, tells you much more about the victims than the con artists themselves.
Ok, here's our gift to you... it's not Rocks in a Box, it's Blow in the Hole.
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