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photomikey posted:Please BE WARNED! Over the last month I have become a victim of a clever 'Eastern European' scam whilst out shopping. Yeah I think I missed the part where this was supposed to be funny, im assuming because of the "whilst" it's a British humor sort of thing?
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Yeah, I gotta support everyone on here that's saying the IRS is much easier to deal with them most people say. me and my ex filed on time but ended up owing 900$ and they just set us up on a payment plan. I owe 300$ this year and cause I am a broke rear end have to split it into several payments but still no sweat. these numbers are pidly but an acquaintance of mine actually did owe close to 30,000$(!) and managed to get it paid off with a year and a half with some late fees and interest reduced. they're not some jack booted Gestapo thugs who will take you away in the middle of the night. prison time is generally reserved for people who knowingly and intentionally commit tax evasion and tax fraud on huge sums of money. Just to contribute a few years ago my Indian (higher caste, hardly bad off) coworker got a phone call from an "officer <don't remember his name>" demanding 2000$ by Western union to drop charges for some offense (I don't think he even specified the offence). he was kind of coddled and understandably freaked out about the whole thing until I explained him: - cops don't drop charges, the DA has that some discretion - he hasn't committed any crime to my knowledge (this is a 22 year old kid who wouldn't touch drugs or alcohol - no law enforcement agency in the world will request money by Western union except as a money order for probation fees for example, NOT by untraceable wire transfer - I called the dude back and he identified himself as Officer <Smith> I asked him for a PD and badge number which he claimed was none of my business. told him I didn't think he was any type of officer and would be filing complaints of fraud to the government. he realized he. hadon't found an easy mark and hung up on me
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Imaduck posted:If you keep your health claims nonspecific, you can say pretty much whatever you want. This is why so many herbal products will claim to "boost your immune system" or "improve brain functionality." These statements are so vague and medically meaningless that they can't really be evaluated, so they get past the FDA / FTC. Everyone who's commented ITT is pretty much on the money but there is light at the end of the tunnel because the US FDA is starting to get more strict about "supplement" label claims/requirements. A year and a half ago I used to work quality control for a contract manufacturer who made dietary supplements, drinks and the like and at the last FDA audit they actually starting to question why we were not testing certain things enough. I can't get too specific but the amount of times we would have to make something and the label came out to be just plain wrong (i.e. claimed 50 mg of niacin per serving on the label, but the formula the compounders weighed it out by only had half that amount). Or not as bad, the formula was right but the ingredient deteriorated (folic acid, the methyl- form of Vitamin B12 and vitamin C are really bad about this) by the time it got to me to be tested we'd already filled 10,000 bottles and omg they just shipped them anyway. One other sneaky thing shady manufacturers do is label stuff as a food instead of a drug or supplement because food has far less stringent testing requirements. E.g. if there's a "Nutrition Facts" panel instead of a "Supplement Facts" panel they don't have to do nearly as much testing in quality (in fact, a little known fact is that for processed foods they just plug the ingredients into a formula to generate how many carbs, fat grams, etc are the final product). They are really stringent about microbiological testing on pretty much everything though (which is why Blue Bell got into serious poo poo over their listeria outbreak). I work in pharmaceuticals now. As much as I agree with the poster below regarding overregulation for things like 5-HTP, not to mention new drug/medical device approval wait times (90 days to 6 months just to market a comparable device to something that already exists!), I'm still fairly glad for their existence because otherwise this shady poo poo would be even more prevalent... and we got bitchslapped at our last FDA audit (mainly not my division but two of my bosses lost their jobs over it).
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bulletsponge13 posted:Not sure if I shared this already or not. Yeah, to be honest, at worst it's someone trying to get a free frozen pizza (seriously, they would have asked for cash if they were trying to do somehing devious) and most likely someone trying to get a meal for her family. That's why when someone asks me for cash for <whatever>, i offer to juts buy them the thing instead. Like 4/5 of them gently caress off in a rage at this point but the remaining 1/5 are truly grateful. It is true that the few times I've run into this it's been someone sitting in a lovely car with his/her family/kids but to be honest I was out like 5 bucks of gas, or 10 bucks for some lunch meat and bread. I might have been taken for a ride but it's never been for more than 10$. Maybe i just have a weak spot for struggling families, dnno
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Aug 27, 2016 20:41
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Where the hell did this idea that crime victims can "press charges" come from? I'm a complete idiot, and even i know charges are pursued by the DA's office, not the victim. Too much TV? :P
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