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Jake Snake posted:When I first moved out I used Craigslist to search for rental listings, because that's the place I happened to find the best deals, outrageously cheap rent for spacious apartments/houses. I answered almost all of them, then I very quickly learned they were all scams once I received replies written in broken English, asking me to wire money. The ones that didn't ask for money up front wanted to run a FREE CREDIT CHECK on me. I just had to click this link!!!! I had something similar happen to me - an ad advertising a suspiciously cheap place to rent, but because of 'timewasters' they wanted me to put a £500 deposit down before being allowed to view the place which obviously they would repay if I didn't want to take it. I assume that if I'd been dumb enough to send them the money they would have given me some random bloke's address and just not turned up at the agreed time!
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kaschei posted:Probably, but maybe if you were dumb enough to send them money they'd also see if you were dumb enough to try to buy a house they "own"? Really a timeshare or rental property, but they'll make up a story for why they'll take 25% of its worth as cash and oh, we have a great realtor, you don't need your own... They were advertising it as a rental. Houses hereabouts go for about £250,000/$400,000 so 25% of even a suspiciously cheap house in cash would look like something out of a Mafia movie.
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Eternal Destiny posted:Did one time something similar. I had a guy with a bad accent asking for some banking information. I told him I had to look that up, but that I was not able to do that because then the line would be disconnected.After a while a agreed to go look it up and just put the horn on the hook. After two minutes he called back, I kept him on the line for an other two minutes, then I asked if he could go look at the window if the police already had arrived. Did not really called the police, just scaring him a little. The dude was probably in a call centre in India and unworried by your local fuzz.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:That goes back to standards in MMO currency trading in general that have existed forever. Generally speaking in-game money isn't all that valuable because there's so drat much of it. In UO, for example, the going rate last time I played the game (which was a rather long time ago) for gold was $20 for 1,000,000 coins. NPC vendors sold things that were like...180 gold at most and you could go to player-owned stores and kit yourself out fairly well for that multiple times. MMO game super funn buxx are generally easy to get utter poo poo loads of but they don't really mean all that much. Depends on the game. You can buy in-game currency with real cash in Eve Online but if you've been playing more than a few months it would take quite a bit of cash to be a life-changing amount.
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Mar 7, 2016 12:20
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Slime posted:Please describe what you mean by 'urban'. He means black.
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Mar 14, 2016 11:41
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Deified Data posted:I think I've only encountered one scam so far (that I'm aware of). The donation is worth more than the card. Many people are guilted into paying it. With those who do, he makes a profit. It's like the squeegee guys on street corners or selling shamrocks or whatever.
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Apr 2, 2016 19:29
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grack posted:Walking out of a dollar store today, some guy pulls up in a minivan and asks me if I want to buy a flat screen TV. Did they actually say flatscreen TV? Because lol at the idea of buying a CRT one, even dirt cheap, in TYOOL 2016.
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Apr 3, 2016 19:04
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Lightgun games don't and can't work with non-CRTs because they rely on precise timing of how the scanlines fill in. Alright, lol at the idea of people who aren't complete and total nerds like us buying one in TYOOL 2016 
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Apr 4, 2016 19:20
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:When we were originally looking for a place to live when I got out of the army my wife got contacted from Craigslist saying they were an older lady that owned a house in East Texas that she wanted someone to live in for free to take care of it. Obviously it sounded like a scam so we didn't do it but she sent pictures of a house and everything. I always wondered what the scam was since she never asked for any money, although we never got past a few emails with her. Probably a deposit of some kind.
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Apr 9, 2016 14:12
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Carnival of Shrews posted:Hey, Kleeneze is British born and bred! Founded in 1923, not like these American upstarts I love that it was founded by a guy called Harry Crook (who apparently learned about MLM in America, so, still a yank invention I'm afraid)
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Apr 18, 2016 15:49
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seacat posted: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? We don't have Target over here.
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May 12, 2016 20:06
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Taste the Rainbugh posted:While on vacation I convinced a married couple I was rich and would pay them $10k to bang the wife. Did you bang the wife
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May 24, 2016 11:25
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House Louse posted:Yes, but if you get it wrong three times it'll eat the card. In the UK anyway; maybe it's different where you are. Except you'll have a heavily muscled guy escort you to the ATM and the second time you 'forget' your PIN he applies some rubber hose cryptanalysis until you 'remember' it properly...
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:That late at night (from whatever US time Zone he was in - no discernable accent), I'd expect it really was a bar - not sure if he was next door to a 24-hour Western Union office to receive my "urgent payment". Calling from a payphone sounds a smart idea if you're just some guy running a scam on your own and you don't want anyone tracking the phone number back to you.
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Jun 27, 2016 15:50
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MANime in the sheets posted:Theoretically, this could allow your TV to participate in DDoS attacks like the one that took down Krebs, yes? I mean, super unlikely, but it *could* happen. Assuming your TV is connected to your network via ethernet or wifi, sure. And not that unlikely, no more so than targeting security cameras or whatever.
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Sep 28, 2016 15:59
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sleppy posted:When poo poo like this exists, that becomes a legitimate liability. It may not blow up your computer like some claim, but Apple won't be happy when you go into their store and ruin one of their computer's USB ports. Probably all of them, it'd burn out the controller.
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Sep 28, 2016 20:39
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Lol if you live in a country where, as an ordinary person working as a full time employee of a company, you have to do any kind of tax filing at all.
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May 23, 2019 13:18
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MrNemo posted:Wow people in the US still get paid with an annual cheque you need to take to the bank? Employers don't just take your bank details and do an electronic transfer? Why? Annual? Hardly. Every two weeks, usually, but yes, when I lived in the US that was still true for all but one job I worked. I guess it costs the employer a little extra to do an electronic transfer. Also, everywhere I lived wanted the rent paid by cheque. Other than that, though, you're not writing cheques unless you're like 70 years old. EditL my paycheque was never sent to me in the post though! Handed out in person by the bossman, which sort of helps with the 'not getting intercepted' thing. feedmegin fucked around with this message at 12:29 on Jul 31, 2019 |
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I feel like if someone says 'it's really not a scam!' unprompted that is um well a bit of a 
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