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Daphne is the noblest of scoundrels. Is she not?
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Chapter: Prince of Dappled ShadeCharacters: Daphne Hannah Tyler (aka Taylor)Tags: commandment con pioneer scam
SWIMSUITEMBER RETURNS!!!
Summer wanes and the swimsuit reigns. So…
VOTE TO SUIT UP!!!
As for this comic...
Daphne is the noblest of scoundrels. Is she not?
You gotta Robin Hood this thing… “WOOF!”
Make sure to get the lupins.
Denis Moore, Denis Moore.
“…they robbed the rich, gave to the poor / except what they kept for expenses…”
I know how charity works.
Daphne: “Don’t steal from the sort of people who can have you executed and get away with it, was good advice in the middle ages, and it’s good advice today!”
Hannah: “Probably a good idea to sweep police into that group too.”
Tyler: “Well duh. Why do you think you had to tell ME that?”
Hannah: “Well I assumed a preppy kid who’s so white his parents named him ‘Tyler’ might have a very naïve understanding of what Police actually do.”
Tyler: “You think I… (oh right, blind…) Daphne… help me out here! I… Quit laughing Daphne!!!”
Daphne: (tiniest voice squeaking) “can’t!!!”
Hannah: “…….What?”
You’re right, she hasn’t met Dr. Tyler’s Mom.
I agree far more with Daphne’s t-shirt than her sentiment.
That means you have a soul.
I am sure Tyler’s Mom was very disappointed Tyler was not a girl child, a child she planned on naming Taylor. This is reason for confusion in name. I wonder if Tyler grew up in a room prefurnished with pink wallpaper and beddings?
Nah, Taylor was named that before the great girl Taylor takeover. All Taylor’s I taught until around 2010 were male. Then it switched.
Even this job is a bit much as it feels like the kids are over their heads here. I mean they’re going to need a crack team of hackers to even pull this off without raising the alarms.
If only they had a wheelbarrow.
Where did we leave the wheelbarrow that the albino had?
Over the albino, I think.
Stolen by Crackistan. I’m sure they can buy another.
Why wasn’t that listed among their assets!?!
Now if only they had a Holocaust Cloak.
Indeed. I wonder how it will go down.
Odd how The First Commandment of Con Artists is in opposition to the First Rule of Lawyers: Never sue poor people.
Lawyers fleece within the bounds of the law. Con men have no such protection. It changes everything.
It’s the next level. C’mon.
Level up!
She’s not wrong. No one cared what Bernie Madoff or Elizabeth Holmes were doing until rich people lost their money.
Note how certain powerful influencers who shall not be named can fleece millions upon millions of dollars from their mostly young, mostly non-rich fan base and face zero consequences. Compare that to figures like S.B.F. whose FTX company specifically damaged the books of large-scale investment funds and billionaires. The latter ended up in jail pretty fast.
Ah, yes, Honour among scammers. You can’t scam a scammer.
Well, you can. It’s just harder.
Id like to talk to you about your car’s extended warranty…..
(i’m glad there are no downvotes here….)
My experience is it is much more fun scamming a scammer especially when scammer goes to jail trying to regain ill gotten gains.
But it happens so rarely. Which is why it’s so satisfying.
and here i thought the first rule was: always profit yourself from your scam – whereas daphne plans to use her powers for the benefit of another. so yeah, total robin hood vibes here!
also, i love hannah´s slightly shell-shocked look in the last panel. looks as if the not-so-badass-after-all is buying a clue just who she´s hanging out with 😉
I think maybe, perhaps, we’re confusing the Rules of the Scam with the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.
Hannah is still processing all this. She’s down with it. Just adjusting.
It is a lot.
and now I have the theme song from “The Sting” stuck in my head… Thanks a lot, Gecko!
and as the movie proves, it’s not against the code if you are scamming a scammer… this qualifies.
I think they call this the Cincinnati swap. And if they don’t, they should.
The Entertainer? Man that’s a good tune.
Not that it has anything to do with Canada (now that was a surprise) here’s Scott Joplin’s first top hit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCxLAr_bwpA
I’m getting flashbacks to William Gibson’s “Burning Chrome”, in which two small-time hackers try a cyberheist to drain the accounts of a rich and dangerous crime lord.
Ooh, I should read that. Give me some ideas.
This just doesn’t work
Stealing from people diabolical enough to steal everything but his loincloth from the Devil himself?
What would stop them from making sure Daphne and Co ended up dead in a ditch?
This needs something else: – currently it’s so far out of Daphne’s league and persona the Andromedans are commenting on it in Andromeda
I’ve got it! (maybe)
Daphne doesn’t have enough skin in this game, beyond Satan playing computer games on “her” couch
What’s needed is a reason for Daphne to really go for it. Unleash the avenging fiend within, and not the one who half asses a snorf theft and has to be bailed out by Puck
The perfect incentive is for Satan to come outside and yell that there’s smoke coming from the game console…
As for incentives, the latest TWC one is interesting. She can no longer say “Hey! My eyes are up here!”
Something else may be in the works.
She doesn’t really need to steal from the SAME rich people who stealed from Satan. Although, somehow I suspect she will.
Look to the end result. It’ll get Satan off her couch.
Exactly.
All due credit to mention of “The Sting,” but this calls for a darker heart – something on the level of Annette Bening and JT Walsh giving their marks the brush off on “The Grifters.” (This is only part of a longer scene – its winds up intense. But I don’t think Daphne will tempt madness with her schemes.)
https://youtu.be/Rlwhv7m3CSI?si=Ln9QaFNKbmPoHY3W
That was the truth. Just not a truth he lives. Creative.
We got three scam phone calls this morning alone.
My favourites are the “Hello, my name is….*checks script* JO-nath-an, I am calling from Visa-Mastercard Security”” ones…I always just say “pick one” and that confuses them so badly they hang up. Too bad they’re not paying long distance for the calls from Calcutta, they’re using other people’s phone bills with the “This is Bell Canada, your service is going to be ended, please press 1 to speak to a representative” robot voice that if you do press any numbers switches your phone account to other scammers.
Or the heavily accented “I am calling you from Revenue Canada, you have to give us $2000 in walmart gift cards or we will send the Sheriff to arrest you” I just tell them to send him around, he owes hubby $20, and trhen they hang up 🙂
Down here in the states, I’ve taken to using my Caller ID, and not answering if I don’t recognize the name or number—most of the time it doesn’t give a name, just a city and a number. (Though yesterday I picked up ’cause the guy left a message and called again—they usually don’t, either way—and was clearly dialing a wrong number.)
I get cities, states, oddball names and my favorite, unknown.
It’s called ‘spoofing’, they can make caller ID look like any number, even a family members or the local police, so even if you do a reverse lookup it seems to be the one it says it is…even better, sometimes they set up those fake numbers so if you call “Revey-noo Ca-NA-da” that’s how they answer the phone..luckily, still in the same accent but when you call the real Dept for a tax question nobody who answers speaks English or French you can understand anyway so that just adds a little credibility to the scam.
I love that, maybe next time you could add a couple of zeros and that you’ve been trying to serve him papers for foreclosure and eviction.
The main reason they are not paying long distance is they don’t CALL long-distance, they call short distance by using some service which overcomes most of the distance by internet.
I don’t think the mistakes are mistakes. It’s a test. If you’re stupid enough to not notice, you might be stupid enough for the scam.
Daphne forgets, stealing from the rich and powerful gets you more money.
Mo money, mo problems.
She’s not a sqid. Her culture has rules about that sort of thing.
I’ve got a better target to scam, supposedly successful scammers surrounding the Sub-Continent.
Daphne’s fear of this call from destiny is sound. Satan’s people gave him the boot less out of malice and mostly out of contempt. If she does this, she may journey down a dark path she might never return. However, if she does this she’ll need to put together a team. And if she’s successful, Satan will be forever in her debt, which doesn’t sound all that bad.
Exactly. Friends in infernal places and all that.
Cesare felt like it worked out.
Hannah (the blind girl, right? I’m terrible with names, even with actual people) is just staring off into space.
The blind people I’ve known (two. I’ve known two blind people in social settings) tended to ‘look’ at or at least in the general direction of the people speaking around them.
Her usual staring out the 4th wall is a bit disconcerting.
Just a thought.
The staring out the 4th wall is a bit of a visual gag. I think she knows we’re here.
I’d thought it meant she was disconcerted.
(Shifting topic) YAY! More Bethany!
I knew someone would be happy. She actually won second place on the vote.
Sow the Apple of Discord amongst your enemies.
Then reap them in their disarray.
Helps to have a third party stooge to take the fall.
That doesn’t really sound like it pays out much but eh, you do you.
Just what we need a new kind of scam! Oh wait, it’s just a webcomic! OK that’s my snark of the day. :p
You’re safe.
Could Daphne become a modern day Robin Hood? What a plot development! 🙂
She steals from the rich and gives to the Devil. Not sure if that qualifies.
Unless she has a moment of enlightenment. Nah, not Daphne.
Nah.
Start taking your cues from a different Robin, Daffie.
And I mean Robin Hood.
Ooh, I like it.