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Michael Corleone posted:Pay attention. The scammer asks you to give him 2 tens for a twenty. Not a twenty for 2 tens. He asks for 2 tens for a twenty – with some reason that is marginally plausible when you are busy and not thinking much. When you give him the 2 tens, he then says you made a mistake and gave him a ten and a one. Yup. I encountered the guy pictured in the story at U Street a couple of years ago and that was exactly it. It works because you are expecting a fake bill and get distracted examining it while he swaps out one of the tens you gave him for a one. In my case, I knew exactly what I'd given him plus he presented a hosed up crumpled $1 when he pointed out my "mistake" and I knew I didn't have a bill that messed up at all, so I told him to gently caress off and he started yelling at me while I was walking away.
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Doubtful Guest posted:I saw this on another message board. Is it a scam of some kind? Something to trick you into revealing your phone, or (as others suggested) to set up some kind of criminal meet-up? If so why not use a burner phone? You have to pay for a burner and in many places you have to show ID to get a SIM card, so it can be difficult to make a truly misattributable phone call. The few remaining payphones may have camera coverage.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Whats the end game? You email back and you're like "What the hell?: and then they email you back and say "Hey whats your personal info?" That or you email back, they mark your address as valid on their checklist, and secondary spamming, scamming, and phishing occurs. All of which may be automated and may have been triggered if any embedded graphics, including a transparent 1x1 pixel, were loaded.
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Fandom scams are loving weird. Some lady wrote a book, When a Fan Hits the poo poo, about how she and a bunch of other people got taken for a ride by a couple of Lord of the Rings scammers.
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I think this is her http://kumquatwriter.tumblr.com
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:How do I post a negative review of Yelp? Find their corporate office on Google Maps.
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CommieGIR posted:There's a definite increase in the number of robocalls, I wonder if Trump's not enforcing the Do Not Call list anymore I thought you had to renew your enrollment on the do not call list. Maybe you timed out?
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Jun 19, 2017 19:14
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MANime in the sheets posted:Hell, I'd reply to that email just to see what the next step is, and string them along as long as possible. Like this.
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CommieGIR posted:
Life is cheap, it turns out after all.
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504 posted:I always just handed the phone to one of my two year old daughters, they were in the never shuts up loves the phone stage. Everyone wins in this situation.
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Jun 29, 2017 01:03
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Thanatosian posted:I answer numbers I don't recognize because I like to answer political polling, so local politicians think my far-left opinions are representative of their constituents. I used to do that until the polls all became 50 questions long. Now I don't even bother.
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Jun 29, 2017 22:05
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CommieGIR posted:Pretty much everything is a scam or a ripoff.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Did you hear there's a forum that wants $10 to register an account! That one wasn't so bad until they pulled the bait and switch with the moderator of the firearms subforum. Edit:that's a joke, you're a good dude and not why I kind of quit reading there. Midjack fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Jul 1, 2017 |
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Gobbeldygook posted:If you're white, cops are also locksmiths. My mom locked her keys in her car and waved down a passing cop. He pulled out his slim jim and wedges and opened her car for her. Depends on local policies. My hometown did that until the mid 90s when some old lady sued over damages to her Mercedes when they opened her car at their request so not anymore.
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Old Binsby posted:Cancel in writing, have them sign for receipt? Turn in all your poo poo, play by their rules This, you're basically giving them every reason to continue to bill you if you keep their equipment and use their service.
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Is your concern that they stop providing signal to your house, or merely that you not be billed for it? You are attempting to prove the former, while making the latter more difficult for yourself.
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BiggerBoat posted:Comcast cable box update. Glad to help!
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Fil5000 posted:That's not a lifehack as it makes sense and makes your life better. A lifehack would be to call and cancel, then reroute the cable to your neighbour and give him the equipment so now he gets free cable (and then you get billed every month for the service that is now his) I'd like to see the flowchart of thoughts that led to you believing this was worth posting.
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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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CommieGIR posted:There are some good ones, like the Hackerbox. 
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Guest2553 posted:Reminder that this closes next friday, don't be an idiot like me and forget about it and be scramble to find out if there's a way to be eligible for this after moving out of country. You're not going to see that money. quote:The Court has authorized this update to inform consumers who have filed claims that, to date, over two million claims have been filed seeking to recover from a Settlement Fund expected to total $12.5 million.
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From another thread:minato posted:I don't know if this counts as a security fuckup, but I was talking to an Uber engineer today who told me a couple of interesting scams they encountered the past couple of years.
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Professor Shark posted:Is this somehow more profitable than actually driving people around? I assume the first one was a "no work" scam, but the second... Second is also no work, it banks on people being so freaked out by the driver photo that they cancel the ride and the driver rakes in a few yuan from Uber for the cancellation.
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peanut posted:This was from a regular gmail address. I'm not sure if it's spam, or just an idiot. Is there a link or 1x1 pixel in the message somewhere? This seems to be bait somehow.
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Assuming, of course, that it isn't itself harvesting valid email addresses and doing something else with that information.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Assuming you're already getting spam at that email address (and they aren't asking for anything else), I don't see a downside even if they are selling off the address. They could sell it off to an entirely different bunch of marketers, since you're self selected into the "discriminating phishing aware consumer" bucket. I like the idea, just don't trust the people running it.
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bongwizzard posted:Yea, it seems like everyday there are more concert videos that I want to grab the audio from, but I am not terribly computer savvy and I'm a little gun shy about installing random stuff on my computer. I've had pretty good luck with a Firefox plugin called "Video DownloadHelper" to get the video and then extract audio with Audacity.
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Tell me about common cars/vans
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Cyrano4747 posted:It blows my loving mind that Steam, Blizzard, and tons of bullshit F2P MMOs offer two factor authentication to make sure your level 80 wizard with the epic Eye of Poopsocking doesn't get stolen by the Russian Mafia, yet SSNs and credit checks are just a thing. Well sure, you can quit a video game if you're unhappy. Can't quit Experia though, so why should they try? Tyler Durden did nothing wrong.
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Cradle to the Grape posted:I got a Google Hangouts (which I don't really use) message supposedly from a doctor, claiming he's upset I left him a bad review online. He said perhaps I went to his office while he was out of town and a different doctor was covering for him. He'd like to discuss this privately with me, as the bad review could hurt his business. Or someone with the same name as you did. Many people run with the first name that shows up in search results.
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If you need a voice recording of someone saying a single word, just call them up and do nothing but say the word you want them to say. Works surprisingly often.
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A similar test strategy was used with stolen credit cards, so it makes sense that it would be adapted to a new environment.
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Previously you'd test that it was a valid number and then go nuts because the victim wouldn't know until the card was declined when it was over limit or the statement came at the end of the month. There may be enough people who only check when the bill is due to make it work even today.
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BiggerBoat posted:Yep. I got a call a week ago about fraudulent activity on my CC asking me if I'd made any purchases in Orlando. I've only been between Jacksonville and St. Augustine for the last 3 or 4 months so, no. Oddly, the only registered charges were a couple of $1 service charges but not the purchases themselves. If you have the name, number, and expiration date it's staraightforward to generate the rest and write it to a blank card. Magstripe writers are available, and at a gas pump nobody is looking at the card to question a blank white card, hotel key, or reused to card with the wrong name and number being used.
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Depressio111117 posted:Christmas music is just fuckin' god-awful. Yup.
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EL BROMANCE posted:It's quite funny that the generation of kids growing up will probably use vinyl, tapes, but barely any CDs. Arguably once it's digital the corpse of information doesn't matter. You could theoretically build a music player that read the digitally encoded signal off of chiseled stone tablets, which actually sounds like something I need to patent and market to audiophiles for extreme audio longevity.
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shame on an IGA posted:Sorry bro you're too late. Another million dollar idea down the drain. 
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shame on an IGA posted:There was just a secret service alert about this today, someone's intercepting brand new cards in the mail to the user, then stealing the chip and switching it for a fake one. Real chip goes into generic fake card, real card with now fake chip goes to you, and they siphon all your cash as soon as you activate the card. Whoa. Delaminating a card to remove the ic intact is kind of hard. This is either pretty sophisticated or there's something else going on. Edit This article has pictures. They're not delaminating the card and the alterations are detectable. Midjack fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Apr 6, 2018 |
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BiggerBoat posted:I've sold tickets before when i had extras and I just have the guy scan them first before accepting any money. Why would anyone buy a ticket without doing that? You may be surprised to learn that option isn't always available.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:why is it when i tell a street scammer to buzz off, their preferred comeback is to call me a "human being". why yes, it is 1995 and i care about a dumbass on the street attacking my hetero manliness durrr Street scammers aren't generally known for their sensitivity and good manners.
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