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Dumb Lowtax posted:I did a one year freeze -- but I'm going to also apply for a seven year one, which according to Equifax has to be done in writing and I think requires documentation proving you need it. It sounds like you may have gotten a year of fraud alert set up, not an actual credit freeze. Credit freezes are perpetual, and way better than a fraud alert against determined scammers. See the last item here: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faqs
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Ah yes, I meant 1 year credit alert, not credit freeze. Mixed up the words. I did both and the freezes were indeed a separate process from the alert, and are permanent. With the freezes I had to call each credit bureau individually do to each one, although their automated phone systems handled it all. For the 1 year fraud alert, it only takes one call to any of them and they have to notify the others via a government agency. That was easy too. But, for a 7 year alert you need a reason and you have to mail it in writing. For each of these events they mailed me something to acknowledge that it happened. For the fraud alert it came from the government agency they had to notify.
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# ? Sep 21, 2019 17:35 |
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Parallelwoody posted:But...why? lol iknowrite that's me, just another dumb human looking for one weird trick that will supplement my deficiencies and laziness
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# ? Sep 22, 2019 14:47 |
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Got the Chinese Embassy scam the other day, except this time they started with a spiel in English before (presumably) repeating it in Chinese.
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# ? Oct 10, 2019 15:03 |
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I've been getting the outstanding warrant for my arrest call 6 times a day for about a week now. I used to only get it once every half year. It's super annoying because it fills up my voicemail.
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# ? Oct 11, 2019 12:57 |
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computer angel posted:I've been getting the outstanding warrant for my arrest call 6 times a day for about a week now. I used to only get it once every half year. It's super annoying because it fills up my voicemail. Jesus, just turn yourself in. The consequences will only get worse over time.
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# ? Oct 11, 2019 17:09 |
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I just got a robocall today that was in Chinese. The only part I could make out was "UPS."
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# ? Oct 11, 2019 20:12 |
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35 calls from different numbers in Anguilla in the last 2 days. How many Aussies even know where that is let alone someone there.
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# ? Oct 11, 2019 20:21 |
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Getting automatic transcription of voicemails on my phone has saved me so much time in the last year. I get some legitimate calls from numbers that aren't in my contacts (doctor, utility company, etc) so it's nice to be able to sift through them at a glance.
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# ? Oct 11, 2019 23:37 |
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This sort of thing is only really just starting to take off here so I've never been concerned about setting anything up. It's either a legitimate call or someone fat fingering the number. Needles to say I'm not a fan.
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# ? Oct 12, 2019 00:10 |
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computer angel posted:I've been getting the outstanding warrant for my arrest call 6 times a day for about a week now. I used to only get it once every half year. It's super annoying because it fills up my voicemail. I got one of those once and I told the guy to come and get me, but be sure to bring plenty of body bags. They never called back.
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# ? Oct 12, 2019 01:05 |
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i got a whole day of calls from my own number the other day.
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# ? Oct 12, 2019 06:14 |
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The scams are coming from inside the house!
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# ? Oct 12, 2019 15:22 |
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I've been getting the Chinese embassy scam call, and a "this is your bank trying to contact you" scam call. (I can tell that's a scam because it's for a bank I don't have an account with.) I also got a text trying to scam me into thinking there was a problem with a previous phone bill, after I paid it, which was Fun. I nearly got taken by that one; I was tired and blew off the fact that it was from F1d0, not Fido.
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# ? Oct 12, 2019 16:43 |
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I've started getting the 'your car warranty is about to expire' from a shifty number, but bonus is that I just bought my car. Total misfire.
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# ? Oct 12, 2019 23:53 |
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Chef Bourgeoisie posted:I've started getting the 'your car warranty is about to expire' from a shifty number, but bonus is that I just bought my car. Total misfire. My defense for that one is my car's warranty expired looong ago.
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# ? Oct 13, 2019 00:31 |
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Mister Kingdom posted:I got one of those once and I told the guy to come and get me, but be sure to bring plenty of body bags. Telling them that you're excited about being arrested because you have a Cop Fetish, also gets the scammers to hang up on you.
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# ? Oct 13, 2019 07:57 |
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Another common scam: Organ donation. You signed up for it on your license intending to do a good deed. But see below. The companies that rip them out make deals with the state coroner that let them do so at the expense of interfering with your autopsy. If you ever become one of the folks who get murdered by police/criminals, then organ harvesting corporations might well be the reason why your death is never properly investigated as a murder and pushed under a rug. Better still, your organs might go towards installing borderline luxury products into rich baby boomers instead of saving lives. To rescind your organ donor status you need to do another whole DMV visit and risk getting another ID made (and perhaps intercepted for identity theft, the subject of my last huge post).comedyblissoption posted:the article says the body harvesting companies are literally writing laws coercing coroner's offices to let them get first digs comedyblissoption posted:In the rush to harvest body parts, death investigations have been upended comedyblissoption posted:*cinematic logistics montage of child dead from opioid overdose, grieving family agreeing to organ donation because at least it will save some other child, body harvesters throwing away the useless internal organs b/c they were liquefied from kidney failure and prolonged life support, ripped off skin being grounded up, middlemen haggling over price and profit margins and then hand-shaking, then finally skin paste being injected into the now fatter rear end of a sackler family socialite* Happy Thread fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Oct 13, 2019 |
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Or when you donate your remains to medical research after you die, but they get sold for profit or used to test weapons. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49198405
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# ? Oct 13, 2019 21:19 |
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Stick Insect posted:Or when you donate your remains to medical research after you die, but they get sold for profit or used to test weapons.
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# ? Oct 13, 2019 21:22 |
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Within an hour of my wife dying I had a voicemail trying to claim her eyes. Luckily my friend is medical and knew I was obviously struggling to deal with everything going on let alone that and told me they wouldn’t actually be used to help anyone anyway. So yeah gently caress everyone.
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# ? Oct 13, 2019 21:33 |
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EL BROMANCE posted:Within an hour of my wife dying I had a voicemail trying to claim her eyes. Luckily my friend is medical and knew I was obviously struggling to deal with everything going on let alone that and told me they wouldn’t actually be used to help anyone anyway. So yeah gently caress everyone. Jesus loving Christ. I'm so sorry, comrade.
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# ? Oct 13, 2019 22:01 |
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that article posted:A single body can supply raw materials for products that sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Where do I sign? I don't really care if they take my skin or whatever after I'm dead, even for profit, since I won't be alive to care. And I'll just be cremated anyway. Better I make someone's rear end nicer rather than just end up as more dissipated heat. But if they are making a profit from it, I'd like my family to get at least a piece of that action.
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# ? Oct 13, 2019 22:32 |
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zmcnulty posted:Where do I sign? I don't really care if they take my skin or whatever after I'm dead, even for profit, since I won't be alive to care. And I'll just be cremated anyway. Better I make someone's rear end nicer rather than just end up as more dissipated heat. Your family won't see a dime, but they'll pay all lf the funerary expenses.
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# ? Oct 13, 2019 22:34 |
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Tubgoat posted:Your family won't see a dime, but they'll pay all lf the funerary expenses. This memorial brought to you by McDonald’s. Duh duh duh duh duh I’m Lovin’ It.
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# ? Oct 13, 2019 23:05 |
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idk I think I'd rather let my corpse feed the worms rather than get injected into a boomer butt I have to get my ID renewed soon anyways, I'll have to look into getting my organ donor status removed
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# ? Oct 13, 2019 23:18 |
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Counterpoint, donated organs do once in a while manage to make their way to someone who critically needs it and would die without it
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# ? Oct 13, 2019 23:40 |
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Life/death hack: die outside of the US.
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# ? Oct 14, 2019 00:07 |
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Wrex Ruckus posted:idk I think I'd rather let my corpse feed the worms rather than get injected into a boomer butt
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# ? Oct 14, 2019 00:08 |
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Eric the Mauve posted:Counterpoint, donated organs do once in a while manage to make their way to someone who critically needs it and would die without it Yeah, this - telling people to rescind organ donor status seems like harmful advice to me, can we not do that?
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# ? Oct 14, 2019 04:25 |
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rujasu posted:Yeah, this - telling people to rescind organ donor status seems like harmful advice to me, can we not do that? I wasn't suggesting to, I was just preemptively suggesting how. Personally I do not want my own death investigation to be compromised for profits. But, requesting a new ID is a risk too so I might not.
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# ? Oct 14, 2019 04:41 |
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Tubgoat posted:Cremation, don't posion the earth further, the worms can't eat you, you're pumped full of toxins to keep your corpse around as long as possible. Embalming isn't mandatory. I've been putting off looking into Tibetan sky burial. The entire funeral industry is a scam. It's like Used Cars but with grandma's body.
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# ? Oct 14, 2019 04:57 |
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I mean, you can just buy the cheapest coffin model ($2000) if Grandma didn't really mean anything to you
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# ? Oct 14, 2019 05:03 |
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When I die I want to be flung out of a catapult at sufficient velocity that my body self-buries where it lands.
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# ? Oct 14, 2019 05:10 |
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Get composted and use the soil to grow some tomatoes.
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# ? Oct 14, 2019 05:37 |
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rujasu posted:Yeah, this - telling people to rescind organ donor status seems like harmful advice to me, can we not do that?
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# ? Oct 14, 2019 05:49 |
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HerStuddMuffin posted:There’s already the fear that being on a donor list makes you more likely to be preemptively declared dead by hospitals if you go in there looking like a promising organ box. Joke's on them, I'm an organ donor and a career smoker with lovely vision, they won't be able to use a goddamn thing by the time I kick off
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# ? Oct 14, 2019 06:07 |
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My plan is to go for a swim and never be found. We've screwed the ocean over hard I may as well give the fish a dinner before they're extinct too.
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# ? Oct 14, 2019 06:31 |
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I'm with the late Jeremy Hardy: I want to be scattered when I die. I don't want to be cremated beforehand, I want to cause as much inconvenience as possible.
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Dumb Lowtax posted:Another common scam: Organ donation. You signed up for it on your license intending to do a good deed. But see below. The companies that rip them out make deals with the state coroner that let them do so at the expense of interfering with your autopsy. If you ever become one of the folks who get murdered by police/criminals, then organ harvesting corporations might well be the reason why your death is never properly investigated as a murder and pushed under a rug. Better still, your organs might go towards installing borderline luxury products into rich baby boomers instead of saving lives. To rescind your organ donor status you need to do another whole DMV visit and risk getting another ID made (and perhaps intercepted for identity theft, the subject of my last huge post). And people thought I was overly paranoid when I didn't become an organ donor.
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