The Sewing Machine Hoax

Who can ever get enough of purple mercury?

These people are so confused!

Red mercury makes you all uninhibited and callous and dishonorable. Black mercury can split you into two separate personas.

Really watch out for green mercury–it can kill you.

Not sure what purple mercury does.

here in turkey we have a similar hoax. but they say grundig televisions that was built in 1977 have red mercury.. and other things are same..

The only mercury compound I can think of that is red, is mercuric oxide. I’m fairly certain there isn’t any in Singer sewing machines, either.

There’s also a “popular” Singer sewing machine scam in Romania. It’s been going on for some years now, here’s how it goes:
First, you see an ad posted somewhere that says that a foreign (most of the times German) businessman is buying Singer sewing machines at very high prices. As these machines are quite common, many people call in feeling lucky that they could sell theirs for thousand euros. When they call, the scammer tells them that these machines are only valuable in pairs, based on serial numbers. When the mark gives the serial number of their machine, the con man remembers that he did find somewhere a machine that matches that serial number, but the owner won’t sell, so he invites the mark to visit the other owner and try to convince him of selling his machine too. The other owner is of course connected to the con man and eventually gives in and accepts to sell his machine to the mark for a huge sum. The mark then has the “pair” of sewing machines and wants to sell them to the con man, which naturally is nowhere to be found.

I haven’t heard about this in 10 years. Back then, a friend told me that he could make me a lot of money if I could make it.