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My two biggest hardons are reserved for MLM's and televangelists. I don't know if the latter really even counts as "scam" since bascially it's just shameless dicks begging for money and gullible people sending it to them but it's still just false promises and I hope there's a special place in hell for people like this. From John Oliver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y1xJAVZxXg Made worse because it's all tax free since it's a "church". poo poo really grinds my gears. BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Mar 9, 2021 |
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BiggerBoat posted:My two biggest hardons are reserved for MLM's and televangelists. I don't know if the latter really even counts as "scam" since bascially it's just shameless dicks begging for money and gullible people sending it to them but it's still just false promises and I hope there's a special place in hell for people like this. Oh plenty of televangelists are scamers. Peter Popoff comes to mind. He used mentalist tricks to convince his flock he could faith heal. He has people who have spun off of him who likely use the same tricks.
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Mar 9, 2021 17:32
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^^Oh, no doubt^^^ I think they're all scammers and really the worst kind, to my mind. I just meant I'm not sure what kind of law you could implement that would label it a crime the way you can with Nigerian Prince scams and selling burn bags full of baking soda. Which, some to think of it, the latter is almost exactly what those miracle spring water and essential oils shitheads do. drat. I started going down a YT rabbit hole and John Oliver has a ton of poo poo on scams. I'd never really watched his show before since I don't have HBO but his take downs are pretty awesome.
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Mar 9, 2021 19:35
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yeah i quit watching John Oliver because it's really not my style of humor and politics, but I can't deny some of his segments are legitimately really informative, like the one about cops stealing poo poo
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Mar 9, 2021 20:10
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What's the deal with SEO service scams? They're 99% of my spam inbox and all have the same pitch of boosting website traffic or hosting/designing sites, all with a fake English name that redirects to an Indian company. What's their deal? I've been chatting with a few just to see where the scam comes actually comes in. Here's one example: https://mediatrenz.com/
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Mar 9, 2021 20:31
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Its Happening! posted:What's the deal with SEO service scams? They're 99% of my spam inbox and all have the same pitch of boosting website traffic or hosting/designing sites, all with a fake English name that redirects to an Indian company. What's their deal? I've been chatting with a few just to see where the scam comes actually comes in. Its a poo poo product. That's the scam.
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Mar 9, 2021 20:44
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Yeah I used to do amateur SEO for a company as like a side thing to my real job, and anybody who says they can dramatically boost your SEO rankings is full of poo poo and will get you retaliated on by google
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Mar 9, 2021 21:09
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Thomamelas posted:Oh plenty of televangelists are scamers. Peter Popoff comes to mind. He used mentalist tricks to convince his flock he could faith heal. He has people who have spun off of him who likely use the same tricks. Skip to about 2min to see this rear end in a top hat at work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7BQKu0YP8Y hyperhazard fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Mar 9, 2021 |
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Mar 9, 2021 22:06
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If you want to find someone good at boosting seo, just google 'someone good at boosting seo', it doesn't have to be complicate
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Mar 9, 2021 22:56
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Boosting SEO is easy, getting your boss to recognize that the current SEO is poo poo and persuade them to improve it is hard. (Don't imbed all your text in images!)
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Mar 11, 2021 03:28
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hyperhazard posted:James Randi did a great takedown of him on the Tonight Show. They used a scanner to pick up the dialog on his earpiece. Good to know that Fletch Lives was actually a documentary
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Mar 11, 2021 23:59
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Popoff is still at it too, he just laid low for a couple years after the earpiece fallout before coming back with a different miracle healing scam and is once again rich as gently caress entirely off the back of fraud.
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Mar 12, 2021 03:24
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Sydin posted:Popoff is still at it too, he just laid low for a couple years after the earpiece fallout before coming back with a different miracle healing scam and is once again rich as gently caress entirely off the back of fraud. He's was pushing spring water from near Chernobyl for a little while.
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Mar 12, 2021 05:44
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Thomamelas posted:He's was pushing spring water from near Chernobyl for a little while. An oldie but a goodie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_ore_Revigator?wprov=sfti1 Now that's what I call an energy drink!
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Mar 12, 2021 05:50
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Midjack posted:An oldie but a goodie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor?wprov=sfti1 I should have been clearer. He was pushing water he claimed was from a spring near Chernobyl, and among it's magical properties is that it could cure radiation sickness along with every other aliment. Because clearly it had the power of God. You could even test it and it wouldn't show any traces of radiation. Because the power of God and not from it being tap water from somewhere in the UK. I assume the UK because that's where he was running the scam, and why ship tap water?
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Mar 12, 2021 05:54
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Thomamelas posted:I should have been clearer. He was pushing water he claimed was from a spring near Chernobyl, and among it's magical properties is that it could cure radiation sickness along with every other aliment. Because clearly it had the power of God. You could even test it and it wouldn't show any traces of radiation. Because the power of God and not from it being tap water from somewhere in the UK. I assume the UK because that's where he was running the scam, and why ship tap water? Well if it's not radioactive how do I know it's been touched by the power of a god??? Bull poo poo.
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Mar 12, 2021 06:06
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Also, water absorbs radiation. Nuclear power plants store their spent fuel rods at the bottom of pools, and the water at the surface is safe enough to swim in.
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Mar 12, 2021 07:00
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Konstantin posted:Also, water absorbs radiation. Nuclear power plants store their spent fuel rods at the bottom of pools, and the water at the surface is safe enough to swim in. Everything absorbs radiation, only contamination with radioactive particles is a problem. Water from chernobyl would be heavily contaminated.
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Mar 12, 2021 09:53
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Konstantin posted:Also, water absorbs radiation. Nuclear power plants store their spent fuel rods at the bottom of pools, and the water at the surface is safe enough to swim in. The best part is the fact that they note at the bottom of the article that trying to actually do this would result in a swift death from rapid onset lead poisoning!
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Mar 12, 2021 10:38
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Thomamelas posted:He's was pushing spring water from near Chernobyl for a little while. The guy from EEVBlog made a couple of videos about receiving water samples from Popoff.
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Mar 12, 2021 13:38
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOH37W0jPpA wow wow that's good wow I would eat this right out of this shovel wow wow
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Mar 12, 2021 19:49
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there's the 40 minute supercut of Vic Berger's Jim Bakker's apocalypse show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw3_5AaWBlY
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Mar 12, 2021 20:00
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Re: Posts above lol
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Mar 13, 2021 09:42
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Anymore, I feel like everything is a loving scam. I switched phone carriers, was very clear about the plan I wanted and got socked with an initial bill that was over twice what I normally pay. All in an attempt to save 5 bucks a month when I finally had to buy a new phone. Spent an hour speaking with customer service and had to threaten to cancel service to straighten it all out. What I think happens is the salespeople at the store sell you a plan and then automatically enroll you in everything; all the top tier stuff. First guy I talked to tried to explain there was a $30 one time activation fee but I could already see that. I was reading him my itemized bill and the billing for the plan I didn't sign up for. The also spelled my name wrong so badly that they could barely find me in the system. Badly like "Bugger Beat" bad. Telecoms are the loving worst.
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Apr 4, 2021 23:55
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There is no scam but Capitalism, and Amerikkka is its prophet, death be upon both.
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Apr 5, 2021 01:13
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Tubgoat posted:There is no scam but Capitalism, and Amerikkka is its prophet, death be upon both. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix-AMYos0Js
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Apr 5, 2021 03:19
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Who's ready to be angry!?  Nichael posted:Want to see what the American healthcare system spends its ludicrous profits on, instead of, you know, caring for poor people?
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Apr 8, 2021 21:43
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But we just can't afford UHC
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Apr 9, 2021 11:14
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Tubgoat posted:Who's ready to be angry!? Maybe it's like the playing cards that get distributed to armies to help them recognize opposition leaders? These doctors are your enemies, recognize them and capture if possible, kill if not.
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Apr 9, 2021 20:17
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BiggerBoat posted:But we just can't afford UHC But look how efficient we've gotten the shenzen factory>USA>shenzen burn pit pipeline.
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Apr 9, 2021 20:46
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Volmarias posted:Maybe it's like the playing cards that get distributed to armies to help them recognize opposition leaders? These doctors are your enemies, recognize them and capture if possible, kill if not. Lol, no, supposedly it's to humanise doctors to patients to get them to take medical advice more seriously. That said, we need cards as the ones you describe to recognise more billionaires and politicians; so many eldritch horrors with kill counts in the millions wander around anonymously, disguised as humans because no one knows who the gently caress they are.
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Apr 9, 2021 21:58
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Tubgoat posted:Lol, no, supposedly it's to humanise doctors to patients to get them to take medical advice more seriously. This is the most comically transparent justification for someone in marketing deciding that this is a "fun" idea. Best case scenario the doctors having their pictures taken actually had fun doing it.
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Apr 10, 2021 17:37
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Volmarias posted:This is the most comically transparent justification for someone in marketing deciding that this is a "fun" idea. Best case scenario the doctors having their pictures taken actually had fun doing it. According to the originating thread, it is just plain required as part of residency, lmfao.
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Don't know this is a scam, but it seems weird and I'm wondering if anyone else had encountered it. Recently, while walking around my neighbourhood I've seen parked cars where someone has stuck a large flyer under the wipers. The flyer says HEY IF YOU'D LIKE TO SELL THIS CAR CALL PETE ON 123 456. It's printed and always inserted in a protective plastic slip. Only 1 or 2 cars in a street or lot will be targeted. The cars themselves seem like nothing special - not new, not old, maybe a touch on the rundown or dirty side. Is someone precisely targeting particular models of car that have some niche value, or is there a trick involved? Maybe this is one way of seeing if the car is neglected or not being regularly moved?
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Apr 12, 2021 12:06
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nonathlon posted:Don't know this is a scam, but it seems weird and I'm wondering if anyone else had encountered it. Given that only some cars got these notes: Some used cars retain their value better than others. The ones with the notes probably had a decent resale value and Pete is hoping that he can low-ball the owner and resell it, or works for a dealership outright.
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Apr 12, 2021 15:54
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Yeah my roommate used to have an unmodded, manual Honda Civic and he'd get like 3-4 of those a month. Two different times I was leaving for work and somebody came up to me on the driveway to ask if the Civic was my car and if it was for sale.
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Apr 13, 2021 01:34
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i used to drive a beat up old jeep comanche and the amount of attention i'd get from car/jeep guys was insane. i couldn't take it to the mechanic without some dude coming out and asking me if i'd like to sell it. i had a dude ask me one time if i would sell him the tail lights off the thing. eventually it got hosed up in an accident and then the radiator fell out and it wasn't worth fixing. even in the undrivable, rusty and ragged state it was in, some car guy still gave me my full asking price, cash, and showed up to haul it away that day. he was practically drooling over his lucky find
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Apr 13, 2021 17:19
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Is it that particular model or all Jeeps? I've seen bumper stickers that say "It's a Jeep thing, you wouldn't get it". And they are correct!
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Apr 13, 2021 17:26
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Jeep Guys are a thing (when i had this truck, if i made eye contact with another guy in a jeep, i'd get at least a knowing nod if not a full on 'jeep wave') and this particular model is rare - they stopped selling them in 1992. imagine a jeep cherokee but a small compact pickup, which are hard to find because all pickups sold in america have to be loving enormous i guess seriously though it was like this every loving time i went to the shop and dudes would start asking me questions about my truck and how much it cost and if i had any plans for it and if i'd like to sell it and what the displacement is or the foot torque and i'm like i dont know! i bought it off my uncle and it sat behind his barn for years! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW6bPOIqwKc
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Yeah, obsessive Jeep guys are definitely a thing, especially with models they dont make anymore. At one point when I was growing up, the family car was an old Jeep Wagoneer and I remember dudes offering to buy it from my dad fairly often. Even when it got to be in terrible shape he had no trouble selling it.
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