Pharaoh
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Generally, fairy tales in scam alerts are in one of 2 categories.
1. Huge problem quickly turns out to be a silly little thing and all the money arrived the next day. This could be a real incident misinterpreted, or a broker employee making up a fairy tale to show that the company really is good if only you will provide them with more trust.
2. Huge problem with no hint of useful data and few, if any, followups by the original poster. Could be real - angry client goes off and doesn't bother to ever return to report success/failure of resolution attempts or could be a fairy tale by someone paid to attach the company.
Partial resolutions are more likely to be strange, yet believable. A company employee who wants the company to look as good as possible won't make up a story about how it only partly solved a problem. A competitor wants the company to look as bad as possible, so has every reason to report NO resolution instead of a partial resolution. Fairy tales almost always end with good and bad clearly defined.
So, in this case, we have a partial resolution along with 2 different stories being told regarding company policy. This is much more likely to be one or more employees making mistakes than a pre-planned and carefully staged story designed to sway our opinion 100% one way or the other.
1. Huge problem quickly turns out to be a silly little thing and all the money arrived the next day. This could be a real incident misinterpreted, or a broker employee making up a fairy tale to show that the company really is good if only you will provide them with more trust.
2. Huge problem with no hint of useful data and few, if any, followups by the original poster. Could be real - angry client goes off and doesn't bother to ever return to report success/failure of resolution attempts or could be a fairy tale by someone paid to attach the company.
Partial resolutions are more likely to be strange, yet believable. A company employee who wants the company to look as good as possible won't make up a story about how it only partly solved a problem. A competitor wants the company to look as bad as possible, so has every reason to report NO resolution instead of a partial resolution. Fairy tales almost always end with good and bad clearly defined.
So, in this case, we have a partial resolution along with 2 different stories being told regarding company policy. This is much more likely to be one or more employees making mistakes than a pre-planned and carefully staged story designed to sway our opinion 100% one way or the other.