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I ran into a few of these MLM scams when I was job searching a few years ago, but was able to avoid wasting my time with any of them. Any job interviewer who doesn't seem to care about your qualifications, and is reluctant to tell you anything specific about the company or job duties is going to be a recruiter for one of these schemes. If you're in doubt, press them for a company name, and then entering it plus the word scam into a search engine will tell you all you need to know.
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Pilsner posted:If you can't save up like $400 a month for 12 months (to buy a perfectly drivable $5k car), what business do you even have owning a car? Insurance, fuel, repairs, tires, taxes, and so on. This is basic economics. Owning a new car is not a human right. You could just as well argue that buying a new car that costs you, for example, $500 per month in payments, will shatter the savings you need for future medical emergencies. Mitt Romney, is that you?
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ilmucche posted:How does that even work? Like i wouldn't take the bet, but how do they ever win that? You got them on your feet.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Yes. The short of it is that they want to obscure the actual origins of the package. The reasons can vary but that's the short of it. Wouldn't that be a great target for a counter scam? Play along for a bit, then steal the "tea" or "coffee" once they think you're a trustworthy mark? It's not like they're going to report you to the cops. Although you'd probably want to not use your home address.
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May 2, 2018 00:41
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Konstantin posted:Bitcoin mining hasn't been viable on general purpose PCs for years. People are building mining farms using purpose built hardware in places where power is cheap, spending millions of dollars to get everything set up. Aren't there a bunch of alt coins that can still be mined this way? Or have they become almost worthless since the last bubble popped?
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Holyshoot posted:You should be liable if your pin is 1234. They shouldn't allow the PINs to be set to anything that meets their criteria of a bad PIN.
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Original_Z posted:The weird part is that OCN is a Japanese ISP so that email address would be linked to a user account and it would be incredibly easy to find out who owned it if an official complaint was made to them. I'd be surprised if that account wasn't stolen.
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GoutPatrol posted:Well if she really is at the top of the triangle as she claims she would be a really good salesperson. And probably a sociopath. They all claim to be at the top though. "I am a loser who can't sell things" doesn't give a potential sucker a good first impression. Especially since it implies that selling mlm bullshit is hard.
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Aug 21, 2019 16:56
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Dumb Lowtax posted:Back to scams: It may work differently in your state, but in California there is also an unclaimed assets program. It's free to use, but doesn't reach out to individual people on the list. So some people do set up companies that go through the listings, notify people on it, and then claim a fee for their services, hoping that those people don't realize they can just contact the program directly for free.
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Aug 31, 2019 01:12
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D34THROW posted:Crossposting from the SH/SC "A ticket came in..." thread, though it might be relevant. Seems like a lot of work to steal just $70.
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I've heard that described as the stock market prediction scam. Where someone would send out letters to 1000 people, 500 saying a stock would go up, 500 saying it would go down. Then to the 500 who received the correct prediction, 250 saying another stock would go up, 250 saying it would go down. After a few rounds of predictions, you then offer some high price stock tips to the people who received only correct predictions.
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May 11, 2022 07:24
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CommonShore posted:I've been getting some new suspicious text message lately - like once per month, maybe. It's always something like "Hey coach Dave do you think my son can start coming to the afternoon class?" from a non-local area code. The first time I responded "Sorry wrong number; check your area code" and then the person started texting me about how being a single mother is hard blah blah blah. It has happened a few times now since summer. I am pretty sure they're using a wrong number bit to fish for horny/lonely people to scam.
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I just encountered a simple but mean one. A friend's Facebook account was compromised and the hackers sent everyone she knew a Facebook messenger text saying that someone had died along with a fake tiktok link. My heart skipped a beat when I saw the first line of text pop up in my notifications, although it was immediately obvious it wasn't something she'd really send once I looked closer.
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Bloopsy posted:About a 1-2 times a month for the last 4 months or so I’ve been getting calls from Beijing, Shangai, and “China Mainland”. I didn’t pick up for any. Once I got a voice mail from a woman speaking Chinese but I had no idea what was said so I deleted it. The voice to text was in Chinese except the words “China Customs Agency” or something similar. At that point I hadn’t bought anything from a Chinese seller in like a year, so I just assumed it’s a scam fishing for someone who buys or bought from China recently, but that doesn’t explain why the call wasn’t in English. Anyone come across this? They're scammers trying to trick Chinese immigrants. Maybe your area code has a large immigrant community in it, or they may just be trying random numbers. A recent immigrant is probably going to be less savvy to how things are done in their new country, and receiving a call from a stranger speaking their native language would probably make them put their guard down.
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greazeball posted:Admin is at 92% spotted, IT is at 91%. There have been some very expensive breaches and ransomware attacks on public sector infrastructure in this country over the last couple of years. I'm pretty sure these scores are getting reported to the top and imagine IT has been told to not loving blow it. Assuming that your workplace uses a security training company like knowbe4, you can set up an email rule that filters messages with "knowbe4" in the headers to their own special folder. It's especially useful to do that if you work in I.T. so you can distinguish between tests and real phishing that somehow got past the spam filters.
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By now there must have been at least one court case that somehow involves those email disclaimers. Seems like it would be a pain to look up though. "Save the Earth, think twice before printing this email!"
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