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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. Probably should have told you WHY they sent you the email before WHAT = sending it.
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Midjack posted:Assuming, of course, that it isn't itself harvesting valid email addresses and doing something else with that information. I always trust free services that ask me for personal information to do good. ![]()
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EL BROMANCE posted:Aren’t a lot of the download tools loaded with adware/malware these days? Neatly tying this discussion back to the thread topic! ![]()
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I just got a call earlier today from the "Windows Department in Microsoft about my computer". I egged the guy on, told him the whole thing sounded suspicious, then asked to speak to his manager, so he hung up. He said he was in Oregon, but I looked up the number and it's a Quebec, Canada area code. That spoofing is really annoying.
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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. Did you miss the part where we're talking about the US, a country where in most places not owning a car makes you nigh unemployable?
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Lutha Mahtin posted:when i was in high school, we often had field trips to college fair days and had college admissions people stop by the school. i only realized years later that a big percentage of them were crummy for-profit schools. i went to a rural school, where the only colleges within a 90 minute drive were community/tech schools, so I've wondered if they targeted us more heavily than other areas. i certainly remember being impressed that there was a school called The Art Institutes where you could study COMPUTER GRAPHICS and the school was in a big city with so much cool stuff to do The real kicker is when you realize how much of a scam all college in the US is. ![]()
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shame on an IGA posted:More than one mafia guy is on the record being resentful that they only charged about half what the average payday loan joint does Mafia guy, shareholder, potato, potahto.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:The major difference is if a mafia guy breaks your legs you're going to heal a lot faster than it takes for something negative to fall off your credit report. Corporate veil, my friend.
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MightyJoe36 posted:People wonder why, in the year 2018, it's still almost impossible to buy a new car without going through a dealer and going through the whole "what would it take to put you in this car today" and "let me talk to my sales manager" bullshit. They tried the "no-haggle" car sales with Saturn in the 1990s and the company ended up folding. No, that's actually because regulations make the alternative impossible. Nobody likes buying cars this way.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The place I got my current car from (note: I bought it used rather than new) actually does no haggle pricing. The price on the website is the price you pay. No negotiating, no shenanigans, no dickhead salesman trying to rip you off. There wasn't even a four square! ![]() Moving away from cars, on a scale from 1 to hella, how much is this an mlm?
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I just got a weird email from a gmail account ostensibly belonging to my late grandma. It had a real weird looking image in it. I hope the preview reading process on the server side didn't get my account hacked, I sent an email to warn my Dad.
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"We are calling you from A Common Cable Provider in Your Area with a special offer" LOL, I should have recorded this, somebody got a robocall script and forgot to specialize it.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:like many people now, i usually let incoming calls just go to voicemail if i don't recognize the number. i got a voicemail the other day from a local area code that started out "hi roger, we have in our records that you have an insurance policy coming due please consider us this time around" and yeah my name is not roger and i don't have that kind of insurance. the guy then goes on to give his name and that it's a local branch of a well known insurance company. it was a real call lol. i wonder if that clueless insurance guy knows he sounds exactly like every scam call in the world Most spam calls I get don't try for a name.
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EL BROMANCE posted:The student loans messages I get usually use the name of the guy who had my phone number before me, so they either got his details from somewhere or he willingly gave that up at some point. Been getting them for a year and they’re always due to expire the next day. What luck. My phone number was caught up in some kind of data breach... under some other guy's name and details. So if I do get a named spam, it's from that.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Yeah my number just must be on so many lists, either due to previous owner stupidity or bad luck. I don’t tend to make/take calls super often these days as I tend to use online tools as I speak with people internationally, so my recent calls list for the week tends to look like this. No reason to expect any of these are legit. I'm Scam Likely.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Sorry I’ve been dodging your calls, Mr. Likely. A Likely story.
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Fil5000 posted:Oh, of the Conneticut Likelys? No, the Boston Likelys. Common mistake.
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BigDave posted:Ah, yes, founder of the Likely Real Estate Company. "Our Prices Are Credible!"
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Oh, wow! The FBI EXECUTIVE Director is emailing me?! Oh, boy!![]()
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Counterpoint: You used to be a mod on the SA forums. FBI/SS emails should be nothing new! To my knowledge they only contact the site owner.
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peanut posted:It's been impossible to get Carp tickets since they won the championship in 2016. loving internet scalpers The recent Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Live series was beset by scalping bots. They managed to mitigate it a little bit, but not enough for me to be able to get a ticket. I'm not one to be on the lookout to buy as soon as ones are available, though. I am a bad fan. ![]()
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PhazonLink posted:been getting a lot of voice mail spam the last few days. Just got two of these today. Reported them through the do not call website. Also got this spam email, which I am not going to bother opening: ![]()
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Lutha Mahtin posted:is it even worth reporting robocalls now? most of the ones i get seem spoofed, where i see identical or very similar numbers over several weeks This one, at least, doesn't seem to have been: it was not the same area code as my cellphone, was the same one for both calls, and when I looked online I found that other people have complained about the same scam from the same number.
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Corsair Pool Boy posted:I'm getting one or two of these every week. If anyone finds out what it is, ease let us know. Mine always come from a D.C. area code (202). I got a call like that once. When I looked up the number, it was for the Chinese Embassy. I'm going to guess it's a scam spoofing their number.
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BiggerBoat posted:I called that FCC number or whatever it was. I posted it a few pages back and it's actually worked wonders on my robocall bullshit I've been reporting numbers on the website for weeks. Have not felt any reduction in robocalls.
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Proteus Jones posted:Did you re-register your number? It expires after 36 mos I think. I registered less than 36 months ago, and I confirmed that it was registered before I started complaining.
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I got the dumbest robocall the other day. This guy in a weird synthesized voice tells me he's an officer with the internet security force and there's been strange activity on my IP address. I need to call them before they block it. Then he says something about blocking my landline. A woman's voice then gives me a number to call, and then says that if I want to be put on their do not call list, to press 2. I felt like I was listening to a neural network which was trained on a couple of scams and then set loose upon the world. ![]()
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Despite the pooh poohing about the marketing that surrounds it the Mach 3 is in fact a drat fine razor. Yeah, I tried the electric razor thing for years, went back to the Mach 3 and have no real complaints. Anything beyond that seems a bit excessive.
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Wow, I guess the White House really is boring:![]()
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Just came up on my Facebook feed:![]() Sure, this doesn't at all look extremely suspicious and scammy.
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Just have a three day waiting period on getting gift cards, with full refund if you change your mind.
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Ancillary Character posted:Then you'll screw over the internet sex workers being paid with gift cards. If you're using them for that purpose you can plan ahead. Meanwhile, scams depend on pressuring people into doing things at short notice.
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Corsair Pool Boy posted:We can't get mandatory waiting periods for loving firearms, good luck with that. You realize your argument could be used against all types of money laundering laws, right? "Oh, but what if someone needs to a pay a ransom to the Mob, we can't just start letting companies flag suspicious money transfers or be forced to report large money transfers to the FBI/IRS!" Also there's no 2nd Amendment for them to fall back on. Honestly, gift cards themselves are a big scam. Transform legal tender into extremely limited currency! Sometimes with an expiration date!
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Hoshi posted:Not what I was suggesting at all. I didn't post a policy by any means, I suggested maybe another vector might be more appropriate than cashiers which is what I think most people were discussing. It isn't just the elderly or otherwise caretaken that get scammed, though.
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therobit posted:Many stores already have the people at the customer service desk looking out for people getting scammed with Western Union money transfers. Banks certainly all do as well. Part of that probably has to do with anti money laundering legislation and part of it has to do with having a duty of care. I don't think it would be too hard to move the gift card sales to the customer service desk and have a rubric for transactions that might be someone getting scammed. I imagine that's part of the reason they've moved over to gift cards.
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ilmucche posted:People frothing at the mouth to go off on perceived maga trump supporters all over the drat forums. I just want to talk about how a guy called me up asking if I was interested in their duct cleaning services, or telling me he was from Microsoft central security and there's a problem with my computer. It is well known that the internet is a series of ducts, so you may want to call them back. ![]()
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Money laundering has had an even crazier past than iTunes gift cards: https://twitter.com/RobertWuhl/status/1023409462223093761
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A variation on a classic, from the spam folder: From: Publishers Clearing House <some email> Subject: PCH Lotto: Alert!!! Code..some code Congratulation on winning 850,000.00 USD in our 2018 Pch Lottery. Kindly send your contacts to some other email Given Names: Address: Telephone: Gender: *Age: Publishers Clearing House ---------------------------------------------- © Copyright 2018 Publishers Clearing House. All Rights Reserved
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