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PHIZ KALIFA posted:didn't know they farmed almonds in Manchuria You've never had chicken with almonds?
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I’m a Muslim woman named mirna hadid who is very interested in weed gummies and online lotteries.
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May 26, 2020 14:36
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Sanford posted:I just got a call from "Amazon" saying that there was a problem with my Visa card ending XX. They got the card wrong, but they had my name and knew that I signed up for Prime last week. I just contacted Amazon and they went no, not possible, must be a coincidence. What gives? My vote is that it was a coincidence.
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Nov 10, 2020 18:24
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It's the new salvia now that it's illegal most (all?) places. Except now it's dumber and worse.
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Nov 19, 2020 19:28
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Sk8ers4Christ posted:It's not my number, but I'll black it out anyway. I think sometimes active phone numbers can be spoofed. They can! Not only have I received annoyed calls and texts from people who got my number spoofed at them, I’ve also received spam calls from my own number.
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Jan 7, 2021 01:21
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hyperhazard posted:Phone scammers are the goddamn rudest/angriest people when called out, and I don't know if it's because the type of person who takes that job is naturally an rear end in a top hat, or if working conditions are so bad that they're constantly on edge. I have a feeling it's a little of both. I called out some guy who contacted me on linkedin to try to sell me crypto as running a scam and he ranted at me for 45m then reported me to linkedin.
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Jan 31, 2021 00:14
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After a few calls from a number I decided to google it to make sure it was a spam call as it's from the same state but doesn't share an area code with my phone number or current residence. So I looked up the most unintentionally creepy auto-generated transcript for a robo-call that I've ever seen in my life. https://www.nomorobo.com/lookup/210-899-6448 quote:Transcript that's definitely not what it's saying, but I was very unnerved when I read that transcript.
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Mar 2, 2021 20:44
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Apr 14, 2021 04:44
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When I was much younger and desperately between jobs I worked at a ‘call center’ that ended up being scam calling people for a ‘police charity’ with similar numbers (if you see people with the 100/200/300 ribbon stickers on the back of their car for police/fire that’s them) I worked there for one day - the guy in charge said to play up my usually faint Texan accent and to speak slowly and authoritatively as if we were sheriffs ourselves. I have never felt more disgusting walking out of a day of work than I have at that place. And they had a (likely illegal) ‘must work 2 weeks or you forfeit your pay’ thing going on that I was too skeeved out to fight or care about.
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May 13, 2021 20:56
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Why? For those of us who aren’t maritime competent. It doesn’t look too much less stable than a pontoon or something. In shallow water it’d be fine, right?
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May 18, 2021 06:55
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It's just waves and your time is up, my wife and I were bombarded a week and a half ago but it's relatively quiet right now.
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Jun 2, 2021 16:41
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wizzardstaff posted:This is not even close to the same thing as what you posted earlier. Gotta save face somehow after getting dunked on by the entire rest of the thread for being a stupid piece of poo poo.
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Jun 9, 2021 06:59
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Cage Kicker posted:Saving face implies I care about half the thread's bad opinion whoa! Watch out for that edge, y'all!!!!! We've got a stone cold seventeen year old atheist posting in the thread.
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Jun 11, 2021 03:10
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Sanford posted:This is what I think about Ali. Looking at a fake lego man or whatever, someone had to copy it, manufacturer it, pack it, pick it for the order, bag it up, ship it half way round the world via half a dozen different carriers... and it's cost me 90p. How is anyone making money off something like that? Lego is both using more expensive plastic and also massively overcharging you.
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Jun 23, 2021 19:32
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I just got a brand new scam. I received a text that reads - You just sent Miguel $15.99 if this is in error please click (not-that-obviously-fake Paypal link) to cancel or confirm. Pretty sneaky, as I feel a lot of people would autoclick 'I didn't send anyone named Miguel money!!!'
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Jul 22, 2021 18:35
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Yeah, one of the earliest scam calls I remember is some guy being like 'Hey is (relatively uncommon random name) there?' With the response, no matter what you said being, 'Oh well maybe you can help me...' before launching into the spiels.
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Dec 17, 2021 19:55
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Anyone else start getting endless spam texts starting a week or two ago? I'd almost never get them and then suddenly *bam*
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Mar 28, 2022 07:02
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I continue to get texts addressing me by a specific name and asking if I'll sell them a specific property. Googling the name, they appear to be both a real person and a former owner of the address. I have two of these. One is a deeply conservative MAGA named Roy. One is a very devout Muslim woman named Mirna. It leads to a very strange cross-section of spam texts/calls.
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Jun 6, 2022 16:46
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thrakkorzog posted:I'll admit, I'm a bit weak on the slurs. "Please stop calling me," doesn't work. It's been said but it cannot be overstated how weird and lovely this is lmao.
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Jul 2, 2022 20:20
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BiggerBoat posted:I just closed a mortgage loan on my house and have been inundated with URGENT: TIME SENSITIVE junk mail that looks like it's from the mortgage company telling me I'm eligible for a free life insurance policy. I finally called the lender because I got like 10 of these things and they assured me they don't offer life insurance. I don't know what the angle is but I assume it's trying to get me to give personal information and poo poo related to the money. Which is a serious red flag because obviously my lender knows just about anything there is to know about me, as anyone who's gone through that process can attest. they are 'real' companies that are trying to prey on you being a new homeowner who is worried about themselves/their family. That are definitely scams, my realtor even warned me about them when we bought our house.
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Nov 10, 2022 03:41
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:There's even a ballad about corrupt towing. They really went in a new direction after Chester died, huh?
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Dec 14, 2022 17:59
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Professor Shark posted:My FIL paid him what he agreed to so the guy started trash talking him around town as a dead bear so my FIL went into his office, tossed an extra 50% on the desk, and dramatically told him that was the end of it in front of everyone. I love this typo
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Dec 17, 2022 16:21
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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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Mar 26, 2023 19:26
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I get this but 'Roy'. and I just assume it's them trying randomly with some common name or name that somehow became associated with your number/data. It's literally not worth their time to even verify whether you have property or are that person, it costs them next to nothing to just keep dialing even if you make it clear it's the wrong number. And renting/buying/real estate is basically just 60% scams.
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May 1, 2023 21:55
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Yeah, 'real' antivirus software isn't that far away from antivirus software scams, except it's easier to get your computer back to normal after a run in with the scammers.
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Sep 20, 2023 21:38
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Usually when they do that for me they put the number at the end so I call asking what they want. Or would if I was dumb.
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Sep 29, 2023 00:13
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Wtf I read about this then got the emails literally 5m later.
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Oct 1, 2023 04:32
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Can you tldr for those of us who deleted Twitter?
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Oct 1, 2023 07:31
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Bee grade, surely.
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Oct 5, 2023 13:47
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Nov 10, 2023 13:00
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Sucks, they make the world actively worse and prey upon the elderly, infirm, lonely, and those new to technology. I have sympathy for their situation, I'm just also ok with it not working and them getting toyed with.
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Nov 10, 2023 14:28
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bamhand posted:We have those emails monthly. We are also a financial institution so I think it's perfectly reasonable to expect employers not to be idiots with security. I work for a company that makes training for financial institution types, none of our information or knowledge is secret it's literally just repackaging law updates, statues, etc. into slightly more easily digestible forms. I (and everyone else) receive 1-3 phishing test emails a day.
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wesleywillis posted:As if goons know anything about grooming. Mods(?! or . Your call)
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My wife has her (uncommon in the US, very common in Sweden and Finland) first name as her gmail account and she gets no end of old Finnish/swedish lady emails. And every now and then someone else in the US who is part of a group of friends who travel together. She's reached out to the nordic ones a few times when it was like hospital records and important stuff, and they've understood, but the lady's group in the US just keeps re-adding her to the list even when she replied all and let them know randomly informing strangers of your addresses and dates you'll be out of town is a bad practice, or that we're flattered but don't intend to go to the lady's family reunion. Like how hard is it to know whether you have an email address or not? This seems like a really common problem from this thread alone.
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peanut posted:I texted somebody that her phone bill was going to my email address and got a very sassy "No you should change YOUR address because I'm not going to accommodate you". Cancel the phone account.
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My PIN is 4826 posted:I sure as hell will not give out a free sample of my voice for no reason, so my voicemail greeting (which I'm apparently not even allowed to disable?) is just a speech to text voice saying something like "this voicemail is not in use. Please send a text message or an email instead" Your username makes me doubt how security conscious your post claims you are.
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Pantaloon Pontiff posted:And this is where I disagree; you're making a claim about me based on no evidence other than assertion, then claiming that I'm arrogant because I don't believe that some stranger on the internet knows me better than I know myself. How on earth would my mother having a health emergency going to lead to 'need to give a bag of cash to someone in a car, so need to empty my savings account and ignore the person at the credit union who tries to stop me'? Hospitals and doctors don't work by handing bags of cash to someone in a car - immediate life saving treatment happens at the ER and then is billed later. If I thought my mom was in a medical emergency there are a lot of things I might panic and do, but withdrawing money into a paper bag to hand to a dude in a car is not on the list. I could fool you. I could make you do whatever I wanted you to do. Just from reading this post, I know you more intimately than you're capable of knowing yourself. You are ripe for a scam, you are the target, you've likely been scammed and didn't even realize it. Everyone in the thread knows it too.
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I'm glad other people are calling out what a terrible loving writer that person is, jesus christ
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