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I get those occasionally ever since I apparently pissed off some crazy person on the internet. Every so often they try to guess my password and I get those notifications, if they are legit from Facebook there should be a link that says something like "this wasn't me, report this" and the URL will very clearly link to Facebook. When clicked the link gives you a "thanks for the report!" spiel but won't ask for logins or passwords. I think you can see the IP address they are coming from as well. But spammers have also been sending out fake versions of the same message to try to convince people to click and input their logins. Check the URL closely to be sure it has https://www.facebook.com and not farcebutt.ru or something, and you can always just chose to ignore them since it's a notification of an unsuccessful login anyway. I think you can also see any active login sessions in Facebook itself to be sure no one got in.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:I don't do Facebook very much, but find it a necessary evil for promoting my art/music shows so I pop in occasionally. First, go to haveibeenpwned.com and check if the email linked to your facebook account has been stolen in a data breach.* If so, there's a good chance somebody was trying to brute force your account. Keep in mind that website only checks publicized data breaches. Many companies try to cover up data breaches, and some may not even be discovered yet. Do you have two-factor authentification on your facebook account? If not, then they do want your phone number a whole lot, mostly because it is required for 2fa on Facebook's other apps, like Instagram and Whatsapp. The common phone number lets Alphabet track and record your activity on all their disparate apps. They aren't interested in selling the phone number. They want to build a detailed profile on you by tracking your actions and personal data on all their apps. That much more intimate and detailed profile can be used to sell advertising space for content tailored just for you. That pays better than a phone number on its own. *Yes, that website could also have a data breach. You almost certainly have been pwned already though.
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Tubgoat posted:The AARP contributes money to the American Legislative Exchange Council, a political lobby that LITERALLY submits prefabricated pro-Capital bills to be voted into law by republicans and especially-craven democrats.
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Fruits of the sea posted:First, go to haveibeenpwned.com and check if the email linked to your facebook account has been stolen in a data breach.* If so, there's a good chance somebody was trying to brute force your account. Keep in mind that website only checks publicized data breaches. Many companies try to cover up data breaches, and some may not even be discovered yet. I was part of the big data breach that let out millions of SSNs of retired DoD personnel. As a result someone filed a bogus tax return using my info. For four years now I have needed a PIN from the IRS to file my tax return.
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My friend went to file her taxes this year, and they bounced because someone used her SSN as their dependent. It's either an honest mistake (someone could have screwed up a number or two?), or identity theft. But I feel like there are better things to do with someone's information than use it to get a few dollars back on your tax return, so it's a mystery.
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hyperhazard posted:My friend went to file her taxes this year, and they bounced because someone used her SSN as their dependent. It's either an honest mistake (someone could have screwed up a number or two?), or identity theft. But I feel like there are better things to do with someone's information than use it to get a few dollars back on your tax return, so it's a mystery. Maybe if they had the SSN but not the DOB? I don't know how hard the IRS checks that stuff, it would be hard to thoroughly check everyone who claims to have children. Still annoying for your friend though.
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Facebook tracks logins carefully. If I log into my own account from a new device, they send an email immediately. It says to do nothing if it was me, or to follow-up on Facebook if it's an outside attack. Google is the same. SA is my most secure password, lol .
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peanut posted:SA is my most secure password, lol . 
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So my boss's colleague was almost scammed, and it's amazing he almost fell for it. I received the same scam e-mail. Basically it was an e-mail from "myboss'sname27@gmail.com" that said "Hey, are you there. I need you for something." and then had my boss's professional information like in a normal-ish work e-mail (my boss is a department chair at the university I work at). Boss's colleague replies "Sure, what do you need" and then the scammer says "I need some Playstation gift cards" (lol) and then the colleague replies "Where should I send them" (how he did not figure out this is a scam by this point I have no idea; he's worked with my boss for years and they are both men over the age of 60). Fortunately he contacted my boss after the follow-up e-mail said to contact an address that had some random woman's name and a couple typos. He did not buy the gift cards. I guess it was somewhat sophisticated as far as phishing scams go in the sense that it didn't ask for money immediately and involved posing as a specific person and contacting their coworkers. G-mail notified me "this e-mail isn't from the one Boss's Name usually uses" which was nice.
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This is the amateur-hour version of how Fin7 scammed a shitload of people. There's the "wide net" spam that we're all used to, which is very obviously a scam except to the extremely credulous/impaired. Then there's the more careful, handcrafted phishing attack. You figure out a real social bond and exploit it. Of course, asking an academic for Playstation cards is mega-lol but I guess scammers can't entirely help themselves.
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In my inbox this morning: Ruijs, H.W. (Helen) <Helen.Ruijs@student.ru.nl> 1:41 AM (10 hours ago) to info@mwanczyk.com Congratulations Mrs. Mavis L. Wanczyk has donated Three Million Five Hundred US dollars to you in order for you to help the less privilege within your community. For more details reply to back. Sincerely, Announcer: Ruijs, H.W. (Helen)
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MightyJoe36 posted:In my inbox this morning: Well I trust you replied to thank Mavis and H.W. (Helen), you can do a lot of good with $3,000,500.
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MightyJoe36 posted:In my inbox this morning: Dang, just how underprivileged are you. Before you got the 350 mil, I mean.
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MightyJoe36 posted:I was part of the big data breach that let out millions of SSNs of retired DoD personnel. As a result someone filed a bogus tax return using my info. For four years now I have needed a PIN from the IRS to file my tax return. Someone explain the scam here for me.
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They file a fake return using made up numbers that results in a refund which gets send to the scammer. The IRS has no one to point at other than the SSN on the return. I feel like it should be easy for the IRS yo weed those out based on wrong W2 info, but maybe it’s possible to make a passable guess at a military member’s who has a set pay rate?
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Mar 19, 2019 17:48
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The IRS has copies of all your W2s, 1099s, etc before you ever file (assuming your employer is doing what they should). I did my taxes this year without even opening my W2 because HR Block was able to import from the IRS.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:The IRS has copies of all your W2s, 1099s, etc before you ever file (assuming your employer is doing what they should). I did my taxes this year without even opening my W2 because HR Block was able to import from the IRS. Are you sure it wasn’t direct from ADP? Because for the last 6 or 7 years my tax software has imported W2 information direct from my payroll processor (ADP), not the IRS. (But yes, companies and banks report all that poo poo with the IRS).
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Tax preparation in the US is a combination of bullshit protectionist policies by the tax lobby and
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Proteus Jones posted:Are you sure it wasn’t direct from ADP? Because for the last 6 or 7 years my tax software has imported W2 information direct from my payroll processor (ADP), not the IRS. We use Paylocity at work, but I guess they're big enough to do something similar. Thing is, I didn't tell H&R Block anything about who handles the payroll, they just snagged the W2. That implies IRS or some other central clearinghouse. E: Or H&R Block asks a whole list of payroll processors if they have W2s for SSN 123-45-6789? goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Mar 20, 2019 |
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Probably just the biggest few but that's still going to work for most people because ADP alone handles more than half of the paychecks in the US. I've worked at companies that only had two employees besides the owner and still outsourced it to them.
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It seems like that's the best selling point for ADP etc; you have 2 employees so don't hire a 3rd one to do payroll. Once you hit 1000 (or some suitably large N) employees, it starts making sense to bring payroll in house.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:We use Paylocity at work, but I guess they're big enough to do something similar. Thing is, I didn't tell H&R Block anything about who handles the payroll, they just snagged the W2. That implies IRS or some other central clearinghouse. There's probably a database somewhere that it's pulling from that tells what payroll processor to pull from based on the Fed Tax ID for the company. Or they simply query the ones that provide an API and go down the list until hit a match on the company's Tax ID. I just don't see the IRS having a reliable enough system (or an available API) for CPAs/Tax Software to use. Like every other federal or state system, they're held together with twine and baling wire.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:The IRS has copies of all your W2s, 1099s, etc before you ever file (assuming your employer is doing what they should). I did my taxes this year without even opening my W2 because HR Block was able to import from the IRS. Did you use them last year? I used H&R and last year I had to enter in the information for it to initiate the pull, but this year it automatically pulled and asked me to confirm.
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For folks that are interested in the whole Theranos debacle, there’s a great documentary available on HBO about it, called “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.”
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Not sure if scam or kidnapping service. 
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EL BROMANCE posted:Not sure if scam or kidnapping service. My first thought was resurrection.
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drat, that is a pretty good doctor then!
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EL BROMANCE posted:drat, that is a pretty good doctor then! Doctor Acula will make sure you don't die in the first place.
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As much as this is an obvious scam (and there's a huge amount of these whatsapp witch doctors going around in Africa apparently), I love the idea of the alternate reality where this is a real person and that works and she posted on it online. "Honey, what is this comment you posted? Who is Dr. Akpada?" "Oh yeah, I meant to tell you, when we broke up I had a wizard cast a love spell on you, that's why we're back together now." "That is hosed up, I'm breaking up with you!" "No you're not" "welp"
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Yeah, when you google 'akpadatemple' all that comes up is similar "referrals" like this, my favorite beingquote:Am here to testify of a great and powerful spell caster named Dr Akpada
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goatsestretchgoals posted:The IRS has copies of all your W2s, 1099s, etc before you ever file (assuming your employer is doing what they should). I did my taxes this year without even opening my W2 because HR Block was able to import from the IRS. Actually, the exact reason this type of identity theft works is that the IRS doesn’t have your W-2 info at time of filing! Your employer is required to put your W-2 in the mail to your last known address by 1/31. It is not required to render that same information to the IRS until roughly June. Many employers are faster than that, but there is generally a large gap between the opening date of filing season and the date when the wage info is complete. Even though identity theft would be nearly eliminated by forcing those dates to sync up, it will never happen. The IRS does not make tax law, it can only enforce those laws written for it by Congress. Congressional reps would either have to piss off their voters by opening filing season on June 15th or piss off the rich capitalists that donate money to them by forcing them to get their poo poo fully together by January 31st. Neither of those are likely, so we’ll just continue to lose millions and millions of dollars a year to foreign organized crime (the single largest source of fraudulent returns).
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CannonFodder posted:Doctor Acula will make sure you don't die in the first place. Mitch Hedberg posted:I went to the doctor. All he did was suck blood from my neck. Do not go see Dr. Acula.
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Proteus Jones posted:Are you sure it wasn’t direct from ADP? Because for the last 6 or 7 years my tax software has imported W2 information direct from my payroll processor (ADP), not the IRS. Yeah, it’s from payroll/financial companies not the IRS directly. Considering the IRS doesn’t store state tax info, that would suck for state tax purposes anyway.
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Buncha scam podcasts The AV Club linked: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/body-tape-intl/lie-cheat-steal Figured I'd toss them in here
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BiggerBoat posted:Buncha scam podcasts The AV Club linked: Awesome, those topics look great. Thanks!
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I'm mostly numb to the old Nigerian Prince scam emails of old, but this one got caught in the old spam filter and I got an actual laugh out of it. quote:OFFICE OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE JACKSON L. KISER
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As a regular insulter of Chairman Powell, thank you for saving me from this scam.
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Tell me about common cons/scams II: The Final Insult.
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2 young looking kids (maybe 18-20 years old) showed up at my door the other day claiming to be from ATT and apologized for "not looking like it" and told me they were informing people of some "services they were upgrading" or some such poo poo. I could have pressed it and asked "why don't I believe you? What department of ATT?". But...what's the scam? Do people hand non uniformed random teenagers cash for telecom service?
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BiggerBoat posted:2 young looking kids (maybe 18-20 years old) showed up at my door the other day claiming to be from ATT and apologized for "not looking like it" and told me they were informing people of some "services they were upgrading" or some such poo poo. I could have pressed it and asked "why don't I believe you? What department of ATT?". I assume anybody shady who physically comes to my house without an obvious product or scam is just checking out places to potentially burglarize. Or I guess just rob you then and there if you let them in 
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