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SEKCobra posted:These questions were still part of ESTA in 2019. Was still there summer 2022. Along with a question asking if you suffer from mental illness, with a big warning if you click yes asking you to reconsider clicking yes. https://www.esta-for-usa.com/english/clarifications-for-some-eligibility-questions.html Because mental disorders are famous for being treated and never reappear later in life.
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EricBauman posted:It's so they can deport (and bar entry for five years) you for the crime of lying to the govt even if you haven't committed any crimes that would otherwise be actionable by or in the US I've seen this explanation before and it strikes me as strange. Australia has character requirements for visas including a provision for just generally being of bad character even if you haven't committed an actual crime ever. Surely the US has something similar?
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Organza Quiz posted:I've seen this explanation before and it strikes me as strange. Australia has character requirements for visas including a provision for just generally being of bad character even if you haven't committed an actual crime ever. Surely the US has something similar? Why hasn't Australia evicted everyone then?
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Why hasn't Australia evicted everyone then? you've got it backwards, australia is where they sent the people of bad moral character.
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EricBauman posted:It's so they can deport (and bar entry for five years) you for the crime of lying to the govt even if you haven't committed any crimes that would otherwise be actionable by or in the US The way Congress drafted the immigration laws there's a couple of general categories and then some real specific line items. It's all "the Attorney General* shall deem an applicant for entry into the United States inadmissible if: *** 3) such applicant presents a threat to the national security" *these laws were mostly written before GWB invented DHS and moved CBP there. Then seven unrelated sections later, there's: "(F) for purposes of subsection (3), above, an applicant shall be deemed to present a threat to national security if such applicant: (i) is or has been a member of a communist party; (ii) has committed terrorism or provided material support to a terrorist organization; (iii) has been convicted of any crime involving controlled substances . . . " And then when drafting the forms, CBP just goes down the line, asks a question for (i), then for (ii), then for (iii), doing exactly what Congress asked.
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Captain Monkey posted:you've got it backwards, australia is where they sent the people of bad moral character. That's what I meant. With that ruling it should be back to where it was before transportation.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Why hasn't Australia evicted everyone then? We did. Unfortunately they all got deported to Australia.
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https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-principal-scammed-elon-musk/43446499quote:
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Some rear end in a top hat just tried texting me with "the CRA has sent you an Interac transfer for $463.48" and a link. Which, if I were more gullible, might even have worked. But the CRA doesn't do e-transfers, they have the ability to loving deposit money right into my bank account.
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Apr 16, 2023 00:21
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Friend of a friend almost got got because he wanted tickets to the Kevin Hart comedy tour and was gonna get last-minute sale tickets for the event. Got so far as sending the money via e-transfer, only for the bank to decline it because the email (A NO-REPLY@ EMAIL) was banned/discontinued/wrong. The thing that I couldn't believe was that the scammer wanted a screenshot of the e-transfer with the banking data on it. F of F says he was glad that the bank auto-obscures critical banking information. Moral of the story is don't bother going to a comedy tour, just watch it afterwards.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:The thing that I couldn't believe was that the scammer wanted a screenshot of the e-transfer with the banking data on it. I think scammers are now checking to see if its a real bite or someone messing with them. Its just anecdotal but my older coworkers get a ton of scam calls and play along if they're bored. I don't have any data to back this up but it would be awesome if people like Kitboga have inspired a meaningful percentage of targets to waste the scammers time. Funny story: a friend has an elderly neighbor with a landline who bought an air horn to use on scammers. Every afternoon: PHEEEET PHEEEEEEEET He had to have a chat: "look, I get it, but my kids need to sleep for school"
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tinytort posted:Some rear end in a top hat just tried texting me with "the CRA has sent you an Interac transfer for $463.48" and a link. I hear there's an issue with my Netflix payment
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BiggerBoat posted:I hear there's an issue with my Netflix payment Oh, I've gotten those too.
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BiggerBoat posted:I hear there's an issue with my Netflix payment When I see that I think "drat right there is I cancelled it over a year ago."
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I get a lot of calls and texts about wanting to buy my house. One time I played along. Ask him to make an offer.. he was indignant. "Oh, I'm not just gonna make an offer!" Well, what did you expect? That was pretty funny. I might dick around with a few more. Because one things for certain. They do not. loving. stop.
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My sister in law is a nurse and she and her colleague tried to explain to the guy at the scam centre who called them everyday that they were calling a hospital and they really needed to save the phones for important stuff and he called them “stupid loving bitches” and hung up.
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Before I had ads blocked I saw a lot of ads on YouTube, and hear a lot of radio ads, to get you out of a timeshare. The cynic on me just thinks corps are buying timeshares so they can resell them to another unsuspecting buyer. Or maybe Airbnb them ? Just curious if I'm off base there.
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tinytort posted:Oh, I've gotten those too. I don't really get the end game here because all someone has to do is go log into their Netflix account and see if it's, you know, actually loving working. I knew it was a scam but that's what I went and did anyway; just to do it. Am I just supposed to go "Oh, deary me, that doesn't sound right at all. Let me just go get my check book, young man. I'm so terribly sorry about all this. Anyway, it's 0123 3456 7891 0112...What's that? I need to pay in advance now? Why yes, I would like to pay in advance for the next year. I would hate for this to happen again. You need the what now? What is a CVC code? Yes, you'll probably need my social security number too, right. OK then"? pumped up for school posted:Before I had ads blocked I saw a lot of ads on YouTube, and hear a lot of radio ads, to get you out of a timeshare. The cynic on me just thinks corps are buying timeshares so they can resell them to another unsuspecting buyer. Or maybe Airbnb them ? Just curious if I'm off base there. Every now and again I browse/search in Incognito mode where it disables my ad blocker and it's absolutely astonishing how much trash is added to the experience. Then I realize that for probably half the country that this is their normal internet journey. When I try to use Youtube on my phone, it's totally insufferable working my way through ads every 3 minutes. Also, even looking at Yahoo News or anything like that looks like the TV in Idiocracy. BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Apr 16, 2023 |
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Professor Shark posted:he called them “stupid loving bitches” and hung up. To be fair this is how I end up signing off on about half the phone calls I have to make.
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pumped up for school posted:Before I had ads blocked I saw a lot of ads on YouTube, and hear a lot of radio ads, to get you out of a timeshare. The cynic on me just thinks corps are buying timeshares so they can resell them to another unsuspecting buyer. Or maybe Airbnb them ? Just curious if I'm off base there. Last week Tonight just did a thing on time shares, and those companies are just as exploitative as the time share companies.
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BiggerBoat posted:I don't really get the end game here because all someone has to do is go log into their Netflix account and see if it's, you know, actually loving working. I knew it was a scam but that's what I went and did anyway; just to do it. Yes, actually. It's especially insidious that the elderly are targeted with this, but we all have brain farts. Similarly to this, a scam has been to just send an invoice to a large company's Accounts Payable(?) department for some vaguely defined service and a relatively small amount of money. A normal and functional bureaucracy would actually verify that they're being billed for a thing that they got, and look up the reference number. A normal and functional bureaucracy does not, however, exist for large companies.
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Midjack posted:To be fair this is how I end up signing off on about half the phone calls I have to make. In the reverse order though, I'd assume. ... 
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DeeplyConcerned posted:I get a lot of calls and texts about wanting to buy my house. One time I played along. Ask him to make an offer.. he was indignant. "Oh, I'm not just gonna make an offer!" Well, what did you expect? That was pretty funny. I might dick around with a few more. Because one things for certain. They do not. loving. stop. I got an unsolicited offer from a real company to buy my house for about 20% under market during the height of the pandemic housing market. Not technically a scam I guess? Just looking for really dumb people
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It seems like either scam detection is finally kinda working with my cell carrier or I'm just on the weirdest soliciting list because for the last year or so I've been getting hang up calls where if I answer it's complete silence and they hang up, and if I don't they leave a 4 second silent voicemail. Always 4 seconds and I get 2-3 per day from phone numbers that are all obviously spoofed trying to be local calls. My cell number is old and I got it while halfway across the country so it's very easy to know when these are coming in because if it's a FL area code and not in my address book it's them. What I can't figure out is what's the grift? If I answer they know my phone number is active? I've blocked hundreds of numbers at this point and spent hours the other day deleting the hundreds of silent voicemails. What gives?
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bamhand posted:I got an unsolicited offer from a real company to buy my house for about 20% under market during the height of the pandemic housing market. Not technically a scam I guess? Just looking for really dumb people If you accept the offer they'll pay out. It's not a great choice but if you need to cash out RIGHT NOW it works as advertised. Tristesse posted:It seems like either scam detection is finally kinda working with my cell carrier or I'm just on the weirdest soliciting list because for the last year or so I've been getting hang up calls where if I answer it's complete silence and they hang up, and if I don't they leave a 4 second silent voicemail. Always 4 seconds and I get 2-3 per day from phone numbers that are all obviously spoofed trying to be local calls. My cell number is old and I got it while halfway across the country so it's very easy to know when these are coming in because if it's a FL area code and not in my address book it's them. What I can't figure out is what's the grift? If I answer they know my phone number is active? I've blocked hundreds of numbers at this point and spent hours the other day deleting the hundreds of silent voicemails. What gives? I get these on my home number too, best I can tell they're sweeping for a list of live numbers to sell to someone else.
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At that point in the market I could've called any random realtor and gotten at least 10% more than what the letter offered within a week, Likely more.
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bamhand posted:I got an unsolicited offer from a real company to buy my house for about 20% under market during the height of the pandemic housing market. Not technically a scam I guess? Just looking for really dumb people Sounds more like looking for desperate people more than anything. Tristesse posted:It seems like either scam detection is finally kinda working with my cell carrier or I'm just on the weirdest soliciting list because for the last year or so I've been getting hang up calls where if I answer it's complete silence and they hang up, and if I don't they leave a 4 second silent voicemail. Always 4 seconds and I get 2-3 per day from phone numbers that are all obviously spoofed trying to be local calls. My cell number is old and I got it while halfway across the country so it's very easy to know when these are coming in because if it's a FL area code and not in my address book it's them. What I can't figure out is what's the grift? If I answer they know my phone number is active? I've blocked hundreds of numbers at this point and spent hours the other day deleting the hundreds of silent voicemails. What gives? The auto dialer some spamming marketer is using is dialing far more numbers than they have capacity for. The assumption is that not all numbers called will pick up, so there's fewer agents than outbound calls, and when you pick up it will get connected to someone in the call center. But, sounds like that last bit isn't happening, so either they're really under-resourced and are ok with that, or the call just isn't getting correctly routed to Hello yes Sir I am Thomas with Microsoft home consumer Support How are you Doing Today Your Computer is broadcasting an IP address and
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Pekinduck posted:I think scammers are now checking to see if its a real bite or someone messing with them. Its just anecdotal but my older coworkers get a ton of scam calls and play along if they're bored. I don't have any data to back this up but it would be awesome if people like Kitboga have inspired a meaningful percentage of targets to waste the scammers time. gettin high huffin airhorn again no doubt
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The blank voicemail / silence and hang up calls have been a thing for me forever. I agree with the take that they're just looking for active numbers.
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Isn't that usually just some call center (usually a scam one) illegally using more autodiallers than they have staff working so there's noone to pick up the call when it hits your phone?
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Masonity posted:Isn't that usually just some call center (usually a scam one) illegally using more autodiallers than they have staff working so there's noone to pick up the call when it hits your phone? Most of the time yeah. I don't know how the law works in the US but in the UK you can dial as many lines as you want, the regulator only gets involved if you're hanging up on 3 percent of the calls you make without the customer getting to speak to an agent. This leads to running an auto dialler being a fun balancing act between getting through the records as fast as possible and going slow enough that you don't drop a bunch of calls and end up with Ofcom on your back.
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Oh no, i've BEEN HACKED!! (I just signed up for like four ai text generators trying to find one that spawn realistic names for the games I run for my friends, so I'm due for a deluge of poo poo like this) The reason I share this one is because it's loving illegible. I know they usually use bad english to weed out anyone halfway intelligent, but this is a whole different ballgame. quote:You've been HACKED <573victim@573.storebloxcs.com>
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Fil5000 posted:Most of the time yeah. I don't know how the law works in the US but in the UK you can dial as many lines as you want, the regulator only gets involved if you're hanging up on 3 percent of the calls you make without the customer getting to speak to an agent. This leads to running an auto dialler being a fun balancing act between getting through the records as fast as possible and going slow enough that you don't drop a bunch of calls and end up with Ofcom on your back. In the USA almost all telemarketing is already illegal so they DGAF.
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Pekinduck posted:I think scammers are now checking to see if its a real bite or someone messing with them. Its just anecdotal but my older coworkers get a ton of scam calls and play along if they're bored. I don't have any data to back this up but it would be awesome if people like Kitboga have inspired a meaningful percentage of targets to waste the scammers time. Tell this dumbass one of them will call him back and do it to him one day, or some other poor fucker that answers the phone.
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Midjack posted:To be fair this is how I end up signing off on about half the phone calls I have to make. Software mute* is the best thing ever for call center types. Yes random lady I do care about the injustice you just suffered at Starbucks. I understand why your husband installed the porn app. *Hardware mute has a definite click to it. Trick was to time it so the caller was talking during the click over.
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Reverse mortgages, they seemed so scammy to me the first time I heard of them but I have no idea what the scam actually is. Best I can come up with is, they give oldies a bunch of money for their houses, basically "buying" the house in all but title, owners keep paying the taxes, maintenance etc and when pop-pop and meemaw finally die or go to the old folks home, the "financial institution" gets the title/legal poo poo that says they own the home for rizzles, and then they sell the house for its (presumably) higher value than they paid for it. Is that more or less it? What about selling your life insurance policy?
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