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sweart gliwere posted:That one was so badly composed, though. Like maybe a patient but low-functioning schizophrenic could fall for it, but there's enough word salad that a regular dumb person or gullible auntie might not parse it. the Microsoft Research paper about Nigerian scammers goes into detail about this. it's a good strategy to make your email really dumb-sounding because then you get fewer responses from people who might come into the interaction with a hunch that "hey this might not be totally legit"
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Platystemon posted:Slag it on site, buy new hardware, and restore from backup. We were REQUIRED to call the cops. Explaining that we were 99.9% sure it was incidental and he probably innocently clicked on a bad link was... interesting. "Then why did you call us?"
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Sep 20, 2017 04:32
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There's one doing the rounds in the hospitality trade in Australia. Some "old man" ("John Murphy") who's undergoing double cochlear implant surgery is contacting venues where he has a jazz band booked ready for his recovery party. He wants to confirm the venue with time, place and food orders. The so called jazz band then sends an invoice to the venue expecting them to front the bill with the impression the old guy will send on the cash later when he's recovered. With other bizarre claims he hasn't setup an online account because he's old. Some people have been stringing the guy along to see how far it goes and it's pretty impressive revealing photoshopped or stolen and expired credit cards and driver ids, along with false invoices that have been cleverly done so that the ABN (Aussie business number) actually matches up with someone who is a musician. The other giveaway was the band and the owner being in two completely different states in Australia. It's a variation on the advance fee scam. However in this case they are actually putting effort in targeting venues like hotels and so forth (a ton of venues were spotted in the CC) in the hopes that someone in accounting glazes over the details and falls for the sob story.
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Caught up on the thread and actually had something to contribute! Got an interesting one late in the day yesterday, texted to my phone. Weird number with too many 0s posted:1 of 2 Just to be safe I double-checked all my accounts through my actual bank's app, and everything was fine. Was just curious what it might've been like had I called the number. A spiel about needing to verify my account information and then they run off into the night with my money?
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Chef Bourgeoisie posted:Was just curious what it might've been like had I called the number. A spiel about needing to verify my account information and then they run off into the night with my money? Currently in Australia we also have a spate of people cold calling pretending to be from the tax office claiming they have a legal proceeding or an arrest warrant. They then declare that to avoid this you need to buy a ton of iTunes cards then read back the numbers to the guy. Sometimes they even stay on the line as the gullible go shopping. So yeah people's logic centres take a backseat when presented with a plausible sounding legal threat. Most people's instincts are to get it fixed ASAP so the odd logic of buying gift cards to pay back the government doesn't connect as the panic kicks in. Recently this neatly backfired when a radio presenter decided to remark that the call was being recorded and got a nice spray back from the scammer. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-12/ato-scam-backfires-when-abc-presenter-targeted/8895030
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Sep 20, 2017 12:04
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Chef Bourgeoisie posted:Caught up on the thread and actually had something to contribute! Looks pretty legit. I too get messages from the pentagon every time I overdraft my checking account.
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Sep 20, 2017 12:51
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Tunicate posted:Walk in at the end of the month, find the guy who looks most stressed out, give him an insane lowball offer and a throwaway email address, and walk away. 
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Sep 29, 2017 01:31
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My favorite spam message of all time was a thinly veiled 419 scam that ended with: Sincerely, Perry Analfistula
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Sep 30, 2017 12:42
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Just got an email that someone just used mycode:
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Sep 30, 2017 21:27
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Almanac posted:My favorite spam message of all time was a thinly veiled 419 scam that ended with: It kinda makes me smile that there are guys in west Africa and SE Asia, probably finishing their shift in a net cafe on a Friday afternoon, thinking, "whatever, lol."
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Oct 4, 2017 22:12
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Almanac posted:My favorite spam message of all time was a thinly veiled 419 scam that ended with: there is a bitcoin shill with the real, actual irl name of Tuur Demeester. sometimes things like this just happen
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This is a bit of an odd one. Washed up bad musician Tom Delonge of Blink 182 infamy has started an academy of science, aerospace, and.... entertainment (those three disciplines that always go together). He's crowd-sourcing investments and talking a big talk about how much of his own money he's putting in, but digging into the details reveals he will personally receive a large annual payment from the organisation regardless of their financial performance. There are several other red flags such as a Scientology-esque "invest more to learn more secrets" and one of the advisors coincidentally having the same name as the Executive Director of the Georgia Institute of Aerospace Innovation (meaning a cursory Google search seems to validate his credentials). To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science Some highlights include claims they will build a vessel that can travel "instantaneously through space, air and water":  Timecube-style maths supporting methods to travel "beneath time":  And an advisor who looks like a Vegas stage magician:  It seems primarily to be weird marketing for Delonge's range of books and comics, but that hasn't prevented a very naive colleague contributing $200 that he really can't afford to the cause.  To the stars!
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Oct 20, 2017 09:02
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Tom went nuts, I liked it better when he made jokes about boobs and farts
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Oct 20, 2017 10:33
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lmao he should look into ancient astronaut consultant positions with the history channel...
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peanut posted:lmao he should look into ancient astronaut consultant positions with the history channel... Needs 300% more hair. The hair is what makes Tsoukalos a star.
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Oct 20, 2017 23:32
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Sanford posted:Timecube-style maths supporting methods to travel "beneath time": That image describes a theoretical way to travel quickly across the universe. It’s a modification of the idea that you can warp space such that the distance between you and the destination is shortened, rather than you moving faster than light. It’s a theory that’s been talked about by respectable physicists, and in principle does not violate any of the physics that we currently understand. It’s been a while since I’ve heard or read anything about it. IIRC, the problem is that it requires generating a massive amount of negative mass, which we don’t know how to do (or even if it’s possible, although it doesn’t specifically break any theory), and also involves intense forces on the spacecraft, such that no material we know of could handle it. This is still just cool sci-fi, nothing concrete will come out of it in our lifetimes, or even close. I also don’t know what “beneath time” is supposed to mean. To be clear, they’re definitely nuts, but the graphic on that slide isn’t gibberish. I think the equations are just a bunch of barely related general relativity things.
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ShadeofBlue posted:I also don’t know what “beneath time” is supposed to mean. Imagine five watches at the edge of a cliff as you stand below...
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ShadeofBlue posted:That image describes a theoretical way to travel quickly across the universe. It’s a modification of the idea that you can warp space such that the distance between you and the destination is shortened, rather than you moving faster than light. It’s a theory that’s been talked about by respectable physicists, and in principle does not violate any of the physics that we currently understand. It’s been a while since I’ve heard or read anything about it. IIRC, the problem is that it requires generating a massive amount of negative mass, which we don’t know how to do (or even if it’s possible, although it doesn’t specifically break any theory), and also involves intense forces on the spacecraft, such that no material we know of could handle it. This is still just cool sci-fi, nothing concrete will come out of it in our lifetimes, or even close. I also don’t know what “beneath time” is supposed to mean. Just gotta get on the spice and fold space in half.
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Oct 23, 2017 21:14
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ilmucche posted:Just gotta get on the spice and fold space in half. Weed isn't that good yet.
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bongwizzard posted:Weed isn't that good yet. more like bongapprentice imo
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bongwizzard posted:Weed isn't that good yet. Kwisatz Hitothat
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Grognan posted:Kwisatz Hitothat 
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bongwizzard posted:Weed isn't that good yet. I think the strongest stuff out there peaks around 24, 25% THC content. Once they cross the 50% barrier, then yeah, you could probably travel the multiverse with it.
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ShadeofBlue posted:That image describes a theoretical way to travel quickly across the universe. It’s a modification of the idea that you can warp space such that the distance between you and the destination is shortened, rather than you moving faster than light. It’s a theory that’s been talked about by respectable physicists, and in principle does not violate any of the physics that we currently understand. It’s been a while since I’ve heard or read anything about it. IIRC, the problem is that it requires generating a massive amount of negative mass, which we don’t know how to do (or even if it’s possible, although it doesn’t specifically break any theory), and also involves intense forces on the spacecraft, such that no material we know of could handle it. This is still just cool sci-fi, nothing concrete will come out of it in our lifetimes, or even close. I also don’t know what “beneath time” is supposed to mean.
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BigDave posted:I think the strongest stuff out there peaks around 24, 25% THC content. Once they cross the 50% barrier, then yeah, you could probably travel the multiverse with it. The Marijuanaut Guild has multidimensional travel locked down and they take an extremely unchill view of scabs honing in on their action.
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BigDave posted:I think the strongest stuff out there peaks around 24, 25% THC content. Once they cross the 50% barrier, then yeah, you could probably travel the multiverse with it. I vaped some extract claimed to be 92% recently and it made me downright uncomfortably high. I had the sweats and felt really light headed, which I would simply attribute to too much of a hit but even the guy who showed up with the stuff got the sweats and everything after one hit.
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bongwizzard posted:The Marijuanaut Guild has multidimensional travel locked down and they take an extremely unchill view of scabs honing in on their action. Dabs not scabs
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I gotta wonder what the scams are gonna be like when Millennials are retirement age. Probably stuff like "Boomer prosperity was in fact buried in the form of Gold boullion in land plots in XYZ location! Buy a plot and recover what your parents unjustly stole from you all these years!"
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Oct 25, 2017 20:44
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Guest2553 posted:Dabs not scabs 
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Panfilo posted:I gotta wonder what the scams are gonna be like when Millennials are retirement age. Probably be the same poo poo. Geriatrics never change. Ideally we'll all be dead in the next 5-10 years so it's hopefully not an issue.
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"I wouldn't buy a vacuum off him, but the door to door salesmen selling euthanasia services seeks legit" *Gets tricked into selling euthanasia services door to door as a MLM scam *
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Panfilo posted:I gotta wonder what the scams are gonna be like when Millennials are retirement age. The OldTek is just past the skeleton of the Great City, I have a map and only need a few gallons of water to make the journey and make us both fabulously wealthy!
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Oct 26, 2017 09:35
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Loot crates.
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Like every other week there's an article about a sob story on gofundme that turned out to be fake. Instead of trying to get a relatively small number of people to send a lot of money, like the Nigerian scammers, they get a whole bunch of people to send them a couple bucks each. Basically the same effort, but with the added chance that the scammer strikes gold and it goes viral.
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Oct 27, 2017 08:01
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AlbieQuirky posted:Loot crates. Door to door euthanasia loot crates.
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Please donate at the $10 level so I can just get a couple of bucks for the bus to go see my sick mother at a job interview.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Please donate at the $10 level so I can just get a couple of bucks for the bus to go see my sick mother at a job interview. And another $10 for gas money so I can go pick up the ticket.
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Also I'm gonna need smokes.
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Panfilo posted:Also I'm gonna need smokes. GOOD smokes, not that Maverick crap. Newports or Camels. ...know what, just gimme your wallet.
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