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Tunicate posted:The secretary of education has the power to unilaterally forgive all outstanding federal student education loans, which is bernie's plan Convincing people that the government is going to forgive any debt and forfeit all that revenue is the biggest scam of all.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Eh, for most it's probably that casinos are fun. It isn't just the gambling; you do have people going into casinos knowing full well that they're going to lose money in the process but in exchange they get to drink a lot, goof off, catch a show, and have insane fever dreams of what they'd do with the money if they actually hit the jackpot. Gambling is fun and exciting; the trick really is to never bet money you can't afford to lose and expect to come out behind. If you do make money great but it's important to know when to walk away. If you keep this in mind and just look at it as spending money on entertainment the way you would if you went to a movie or a football game, it works.
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-woman-psychic-family-curse-sentencedquote:A woman in Florida who claimed to be a psychic fortune teller has been sentenced to over three years in prison for scamming a Texas woman out of $1.6 million to lift a made-up curse on her and her family.
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I just got a robocall today that was in Chinese. The only part I could make out was "UPS."
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Oct 11, 2019 20:12
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Dumb Lowtax posted:Another common scam: Organ donation. You signed up for it on your license intending to do a good deed. But see below. The companies that rip them out make deals with the state coroner that let them do so at the expense of interfering with your autopsy. If you ever become one of the folks who get murdered by police/criminals, then organ harvesting corporations might well be the reason why your death is never properly investigated as a murder and pushed under a rug. Better still, your organs might go towards installing borderline luxury products into rich baby boomers instead of saving lives. To rescind your organ donor status you need to do another whole DMV visit and risk getting another ID made (and perhaps intercepted for identity theft, the subject of my last huge post). And people thought I was overly paranoid when I didn't become an organ donor.
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HerStuddMuffin posted:There’s already the fear that being on a donor list makes you more likely to be preemptively declared dead by hospitals if you go in there looking like a promising organ box. This was my reason for not being an organ donor.
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Oct 14, 2019 12:34
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Got a call from Kingston, Jamaica yesterday telling me that I won the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes, mon.
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Oct 16, 2019 12:32
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veni veni veni posted:I used to work with a guy who honest to god fell for the Nigerian Prince scam. It was back in probably 2004. it was especially sad cause he came up to me and was like "I haven't told anyone yet, but I'm about to quit this place, I know it's crazy but it turns out I'm a Nigerian prince". I just started laughing and then quickly realized he was dead serious. When I told him it was a scam he didn't even believe me at first and even claimed to be aware of the scam but "this is different/real". By the end of the conversation and a bunch of convincing on my part, I got to see him realize that he wasn't Nigerian royalty in real time. It should have been funny, but it was just kind of depressing seeing this true believer realize he wasn't actually rich or about to quit his job. Like, yeah he was dumber than a door knob but drat. I can't count the number of times I've heard this from somebody who is about to get involved with an MLM scam.
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Nov 26, 2019 13:27
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Almost all of the major cable providers have MLMs as a core part of their marketing strategies. Look up Cydcor. They spam all the job sites using keywords like Sports Marketing and use a bunch of fake shell companies literally just to prevent desperate saps from googling them and figuring poo poo out before they've gotten a month or so of work out of them. quote:Ok, this explains the two dudes selling ATT cable/phone packages door to door that showed up to myself a while ago. It was so off putting and weird that I thought they were casing my house or something. I've had this happen; two in the same week. I've also had the "You're paying too much for your gas/electric" guys who want to look at my utility bills.
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Dec 2, 2019 14:08
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Do you live in the one city in America where utilities aren't a monopoly? No. That's how I knew it was a scam. 
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I just wait for them to finish their whole pitch, then ask them to repeat it, then keep asking until they hang up.
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bamhand posted:We just bought a new car. Found the lowest price on Cargurus.com. Called the dealer, had them send us the price in writing. Drove over and paid for it. All in all, a pretty pleasant interaction. Years ago my son bought a new Scion TC and had a pretty similar experience. Found the car he wanted online, got the price quote, went to the dealer, and that's what he paid.
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Sydin posted:Yeah my roommate used to have an unmodded, manual Honda Civic and he'd get like 3-4 of those a month. Two different times I was leaving for work and somebody came up to me on the driveway to ask if the Civic was my car and if it was for sale. I still get mailers from car dealerships about once a week saying they want to buy my 2005 Honda Accord that I sold 4 years ago. I also used to get a thousand calls to buy an extended warranty when I still had a landline.
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Here's a new twist on an old one. Received this in my inbox this morning. Nothing was changed/deleted: Stifft, Frank <f.stifft@zuyderland.nl> 12:31 AM (6 hours ago) to info@ronforrun.com.biz Mr. & Mrs. Patrick and Frances Connolly has nominated you for three million, five hundred British pounds for you to help the less privilege within your community. Contact them by their email address patrickconnolly3391@email.ch for more details. Announcer.
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Volmarias posted:What's the new twist that I'm apparently not seeing? IDK, I guess they're going to just give me millions of dollars to help my community as opposed to giving me millions to deposit a Nigerian prince's money in my bank account?
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May 28, 2021 17:58
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This particular one is new to me. I usually get the fake job ones: "Make $3,000 a week working from home!"
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May 28, 2021 21:26
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I continue to get spam texts addressing me by a name that isn't mine asking if I'm interested in selling a property I don't own. I get these about once a week. I also get spam texts for job offers that I never applied for that say they saw my resume on a job board that I never posted my resume on.
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Jul 12, 2021 18:09
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Just got an email this morning that I've been nominated for a listing in "Who's Who in America." 
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Midjack posted:I think you can self nominate into that, make sure you're not sleepwalking and also buying eBay pianos. I haven't taken Ambien in decades.
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A friend of mine just posted something similar on FB yesterday, but it was a Holiday Whiskey/Bourbon/Tequila exchange.
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Dec 7, 2022 21:46
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The latest iteration of the Chain Letter.
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Dec 8, 2022 15:46
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smellmycheese posted:My wife got the “mum” scam text and replied so expertly they went quiet after this lol 
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Discendo Vox posted:Tony Robbins and his ilk recognize that the longer-lasting model is to sell the image of success, and to make the target dependent on them for access to that self-image. Robbins sells a lifestyle brand; he franchises coaches to different sub-areas, he's got multi-level, uh, programs, and of course, he sells dietary supplements. All of these products are cheaply produced, borderline useless, and are sold at an insane markup because they bear his name and quotations on them, and are effectively selling his image of success. At root, the business model keeps people coming back through all the methods of manipulation that are possible (and that can be monetized). Graduating to directly induced emotional dependence through cult-style abuse is a natural progression. Villacis is getting his targets to give him money to receive incredibly intense group sessions of denigration and in group affirmation; selling the need to buy more. Sounds almost exactly like Amway.
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Red Oktober posted:Speaker scam is a great one, because loads of people (myself absolutely included) know gently caress all about speakers, so if they sell them a mediocre pair at a price between mediocre and good, and tell them they're good then people will be non the wiser and still be convinced they got a great deal. That, and the illicit thrill of buying something that may or may not be "hot." You just know you're getting a good deal.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Recently at work we've had a wave of spam that comes in as a warning from your "email administrator" that your account is 100% full, with a button to click to clear space. It's from the wrong domain, and looks pretty fake since it is completely different-looking from our normal emails, and on top of that our system flags it as being from an external source, but IT still had to send out a warning to people to not click anything in that message. Just went back to the office last month after working from home for 3.5 years. The first call I get on my new work phone is a collect call from Inmate somebody.
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Wee Bairns posted:The trapped astrounaut scam has a kinda interesting history. I guess if you try a scam long enough, someone is going to fall for it.
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I see from my Instagram feed that the old Medical Billing Work From Home scam is making the rounds again.
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doctorfrog posted:I had someone who I knew was not completely honest once offer me a side gig doing medical billing. I think it was an actual job, subcontracting type of thing, just a low-paying and crappy one that paid by the inch (as in a stack of paper) or something. The one my co-worker's wife got sucked into back in the 90s was that you paid a shitload of money up front for the classes and the software, then they gave you a list of "leads" so you could set yourself up as an independent contractor working from home and start raking it in. The "leads" were either: a)Outright Fakes or b)Medical Offices that already had staff/contractors/companies doing their billing for them. I don't recall the exact amount but it was in the neighborhood of around $2,000USD, a lot of money back then.
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We just had a guy last week hand over $1.3 million in cash to a "courier" in a parking lot to invest it in Bitcoin. https://www.cleveland19.com/2024/02/14/holmes-county-man-loses-13-million-cryptocurrency-scam/ It boggled my mind how somebody capable of getting their hands on that much cash would be stupid enough to hand it over to a stranger in a parking lot, but I guess this is fairly common.
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I always write a check out of spite when I have to pay my income tax.
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Here's a story from back in the 90s of a guy who got a fake check for $95,000 USD in his junk mail and deposited it in his bank account as a joke and the hilarity that ensued. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Playing-With-Money-How-a-95-093-35-junk-mail-2588766.php
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