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Fruits of the sea posted:Here’s a scam I’ve run into two times now bartending - guy walks in and orders a beer with an extremely strong accent and kinda broken grammar. Ten minutes later he comes up and wants to get another drink, but he can only pay with an extremely large denomination bill. Standard quichange artist. It is day one of bank teller training to watch out for that, and should be also be part of training for any job that involves a cash register.
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I don't know how anyone that handles cash regularly can wind up taking a counterfeit bill. I have about 4 years of cash box experience at a bank and also worked the till at a couple other jobs. You very quickly get a feel for the money, and all the counterfeits that I ever ran across felt different. If they hand you money that's really worn, you just have to slow down and scrutinize it. Otherwise most money just feels like money, and not like paper. One way to tell if you're on the fence if a bill is real or not is that the shirt collar of whoever's on the bill should feel rough.
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Nov 23, 2019 08:12
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I made my whole family get the shot this year. The real-deal flu is traveling around my wife's workplace. She caught it, but it doesn't seem to be as bad as the last time one of us had the flu, even though she missed almost a week of work. My daughter was also sick for a few days but bounced back. My son shows no signs of illness. I am tired and have a sore throat, and a little nausea, but am otherwise OK. A+ would get jabbed in the arm again. It was free though our HMO and I am pretty sure they wouldn't pay for it if it had no efficacy.
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Dec 18, 2019 04:38
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bird with big dick posted:I’d never had a flu shot until last year I finally got one and now I love trains and have difficulty interacting in social situations Yeah but that was all true before also.
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Dec 18, 2019 05:40
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occamsnailfile posted:Flu shots are cheap or free in a lot of places, get stuck, be gay, do crimes. Flu shot didn't make me gay. I got it about 2 months ago. Should I get another? How will I know it's working?
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Dec 19, 2019 04:49
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occamsnailfile posted:I dunno, did you do enough crimes? How much sushi did you get? Wait, I thought I had to be gay first and then do the crimes. So I need do crimes and then I become gay? I am always down for sushi but I didn't know it figured in here. Should I switch from eating tuna to eating yellowtail?
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Dec 19, 2019 05:20
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Thursday Next posted:So, I recently closed out an old bank account I hadn't used for years. Did they ever send you any statements? If not, where were the statments going? That could demonstrate that the account was fraudulent if the statements were going somewhere else. Are they asking you to pay them money now or are you asking them to refund money you paid? If the former, tell them to pound sand.
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May 7, 2020 04:21
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postmodifier posted:Another huge, huge way that they shot themselves in the foot was that as Target and Best Buy were positioning themselves as big players in the consumer electronic/appliance market by having full-paid employees handle bargain sales, Sears was still paying their employees on commission, jacking up prices like crazy, and placing the pursuit of extended warranties and credit applications over customer satisfaction. Back before the sears near me closed, I had to wait 20 minutes to check out while a lady that didn't speak Spanish sold a credit card to an old abuelo who didn't speak English and just wanted to buy his poo poo and leave. Unfortunately he had already signed for it before I figured out what was going on but as someone who has worked in banking and specifically with the Spanish speaking community that is a really lovely thing to do.
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Jul 14, 2020 23:29
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Yeah it's a goddamn shame about Kenmore appliances. When I was delivering appliances back in like '04 I remember pulling a pink "Lady Kenmore" washer and dryer set out of an old couple's home that had been installed by the old man in 1953 as a gift for his wife to find upon returning from the hospital after giving birth to his 5th son. He said they had never been repaired and still worked, but he felt that after over 50 years his wife deserved a new washer and dryer.
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Jul 15, 2020 03:27
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Proteus Jones posted:There's a mall nearby that was fairly successful, but had been declining over the years. They've pretty much lost all their anchor stores. They ended up walling off half the mall and they've been transitioning more to an activity center than traditional store fronts. There's a mall near me that has a Macy's and a Ross, but has lost Sears, Toys R Us, Marshalls, and Nordstrom. They have a ice rink there that was doing decent lessons business pre-covid. When I went there the Saturday after Thanksgiving, everywhere but the ice rink was completely dead. It was just sad to see. The worst part is that while the ice rink was the only place doing lots of business, it used to be twice as large and got cut down in a mall remodel a decade ago.
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Jul 16, 2020 16:59
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Hey guys I have a new cloud based blockchain project. It's a virtual currency called DickCoin...
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Jul 16, 2020 23:57
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LOL so wait they sent a bill to an LLC that doesn't exist? Let them know your identity was stolen but I am sure you can demonstrate you don't own that LLC
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Sep 7, 2020 03:23
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Midjack posted:What if the OP is a free man on the land? He just has to announce that he is traveling and does not want to create joinder.
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Sep 7, 2020 04:07
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If they could get merchants to switch en masse they probably would do away with the strip. Banks don't like losing money due to fraud.
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Oct 19, 2020 08:39
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His Divine Shadow posted:My SO just donated 100€ to some charity via FB using debit straight to our family account. As a banker I'm not sure you are overreacting. I would never use a debit card online, only a credit card, and I would never expose my credit card to anything on Facebook. If she wants to donate to charity she should do that through said charity's website. If it's not a gigantic organization, she should use privacy.com or another single-use card number mask. Some credit cards have those built in and you can just sign in to their web portal to get a single use number to use online. Even legitimate online retailers can be infected with malware and you can become part of a mass comp.
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Oct 31, 2020 18:44
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Ahh, that kinda makes sense. especially on a roofing or payment job, where they tore up your roof/driveway, then swanned off. Still, if a contractor did that me, I'd tell them to pound sand and find someone who will actually finish the job before demanding payment. The normal payment structure for contractors working on you home where I am is 1/3 upfront, 1/3 at half completion, and 1/3 after you have done the walkthrough, given them the list of all the shot they need to fix, and they have fixed said poo poo.
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Nov 2, 2020 03:53
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doctorfrog posted:This seems to be a golden age of completely legal scams. Something something US presidency 2016-current.
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Nov 9, 2020 20:13
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If recruiting other people is any significant component of how you make money, it's an MLM scam.
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Apr 24, 2021 22:13
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Maybe they need someone good with a knife to prepare the long pork special.
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Apr 29, 2021 03:25
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If you have any way of alerting a younger relative or her bank, there’s actually a chance you could do something to stop it. At the bank I work at if we tell a person they are getting scammed and they don’t believe us or otherwise insist on continuing to send money to the scammer, we shut down all their accounts and mail them a check. The reason for this is that as long as they are our customer we have a fiduciary duty to not help them send money to scammers if we know that’s what’s going on. The banks regulators also are paying more attention to elder fraud than they did 10 years ago.
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Sk8ers4Christ posted:I got scammed a couple weeks ago, but I'm wondering how the scammer benefitted in this case. I saw a listing on Facebook Marketplace for some furniture I wanted. I contacted the seller, and they told me to go to their website to make the purchase (already a red flag, but I did it anyway). The weird thing was the seller insisted on PayPal, because it was the "most secure" payment method, since they wouldn't be able to see the customer's credit card number (??????). Despite my reservations, I bought the item. PayPal doesn’t always refund the customer and if they don’t your bank often won’t do a chargeback because you authorized PayPal to withdraw the money per the terms of the PayPal user agreement. PayPal will do a lot to not pay you if a lot of money is on the line. Cash apps generally are hit or miss with whether they will refund you in case of unauthorized transactions and typically your bank will not be any help of you authorized the app to withdraw funds from your account, which you did if yo signed up for the app. It’s lovely.
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