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My dad got scammed by the phone call where when you answer some crying kid is on the line saying "Grandpa help I'm in Mexico and in trouble." and then someone yanks the phone away and says they're a lawyer or a cop and you need to WU money or your grandkid is rotting in Mexican prison. You wouldn't think it'd work very often (and it probably doesn't) but from googling it seems like they do a pretty convincing job and the sobbing/crying makes it harder to recognize that the voice isn't right. He sent them somewhere between $1000 and $2500 I think. Luckily he's financially comfortable so it isn't a big deal, but something like this could really gently caress some senior living on social security or whatever. Hopefully he learned his lesson but I'm constantly in fear that one of my parents is going to somehow give someone control of their entire 401k or something. I think they both have an actual money manager guy/company that they've been using for 20+ years so as long as it's not him ripping them off I guess they're probably safe. Things that probably contributed to him falling for the scam: 1. He doesn't have a cell phone so he's not super in touch with the rest of the family. 2. I definitely think he's experienced some cognitive decline. I don't think he would have fallen for this 10 years ago. 3. He probably hasn't talked to this grandkid on the phone since the kid was 9 or something. They live in the same city and see each other occasionally but he's definitely not the doting/involved grandpa type. Why he shouldn't have fallen for the scam: 1. The grandkid was kind of a wiener and probably had never left the city without one of his parents, let alone the state or the country.
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I was thinking about doing an effort post on the old Iraqi dinar scam so I looked up one of my old haunts and saw this post made Sunday and attempting to explain why the value of the Iraqi dinar should be shooting up 1,000% any day now.quote:Ok please try to stay with me on this topic....I Did my Research on Iraq MO Supply..Which is "Not" including there gold,minerals,oil,diamonds etc..Just the Cash Money floating around Cbi quote ...ok this shows their MO in "Billions not Millions...60541 Billion in August 2018...https://tradingeconomics.com/iraq/money-supply-m0...Ok China Chy MO is reading 6980 Billion update in August 2018....So that means China is 8.67% less MO Suppy than Iraq...Stay with Me Here....60541/6980=8.67...Ok let's make this a little easy for the average mind lol.....let's Go with 10% for a close round off....If China Exchange Rate is Converting @ .14 as today...Subtract 10% will give IQD a .O14... Real Exchange Rate....Now Once again I'm not adding the other stuff involve, So yes I Believe What Adam Suggested around a Dime for a Start....Sorry if this is Confusing, It's the only way It's coming out my Head lol...Read Twice it will come to Ya....God Bless
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Inceltown posted:You need better shoppers rights. If it's mispriced then it is on the business for being stupid. Take your bargain and sell it right back to them while laughing. When I was 16 I worked at a big department store with an electronics section and a guy bought two Pentium 1 100 MhZ for the price of two 486SXs (or something, it was like 60% off or so) and I'm 99% sure the dude just swapped the paper price thing inside the plastic price holder thing. I was always surprised the manager that was on duty honored it and always suspected that he was friends with the customer or something, because there was no legal (or moral) reason we had to honor it.
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MLM chat: a woman I went to HS with was pretty high up the chain in Advocare (mostly sells energy drinks and powders and poo poo). High enough that she started doing it and then after a while was making enough that her husband quit his job and they were just an MLM power couple. I assume they were making 6 figures at the peak. She made roughly three trillion Facebook posts about how she made CEO level money at home in her pajamas being a small business owner and you could too! Then Advocare stopped being an MLM (I think due to SEC involvement) and all her income disappeared in an instant, which is of course why it’s really nothing like being a small business owner because ultimately you have zero control over it. She posted a teary 60 minute Facebook live video about how everything was totally fine and the real treasure was the friends she made along the way and she trusted gods plan for her. Two weeks later she posted live again talking about how god had told her to “be still” and praise the lord a miracle occurred and god showed her a new MLM that was way better than that old lovely one she’d been shilling for a decade. She’d been “on product” with the new MLM for two weeks (some diet supplement and other random trash) and it was totally life changing. The best was her saying “if i just picked another product and started selling it it would mean I was just doing it for the money but I’m not doing it for the money I’m doing it to change lives which is why I had to be taking this vitamin goop for a whole two weeks before I started trying to convert my entire Downline over to this new scam.” If you click on any one of her 4,300 Facebook friends there’s a 90% chance they’re hawking the same poo poo by just cutting and pasting random emoji laden advertising poo poo like the one shown below. 
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BiggerBoat posted:No she wasn't. Yeah that’s obviously false. The top 0.01% or whatever do, and I think she was legitimately one of them
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Tias posted:Like most northern europeans, I'm being swamped with retarded rear end crank callers from India and Africa. Any idea how to stop it? Mine finally got so bad that I set my phone to send everything to VM unless they’re in my contacts. I’m in the US though. It’s bad everywhere. One thing that’s good about it is I haven’t lived in the area code that I have for my phone for 12 years, and all the scammers spoof your area code, so I see 319 I know it’s safe to ignore but if I see 775 (where I live now) it’s usually legit.
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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
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In my circles “clutching pearls” means grabbing someone else’s nuts (like, sexually, not violently) does it have some other meaning
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Nextdoor is the greatest place on earth to troll people. I like to offer to purchase random cats and dogs that people have found.
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I’m cross posting this from the Qanon thread for obvious reasons so if you read that thread don’t read it again here but I am gonna add a bonus paragraph at the end also it’s real fuckin long so you’ve been warned. :maximum_effort_post: Kind of a derail but some might find it interesting. I wouldn't say the Dinar scam is directly related to the NESARA/prosperity funds nonsense. NESARA ends up being tangentially related to every long running scam for conspiracy theory dummies just because if you're dumb enough to believe one of them you're definitely dumb enough to believe all of them (CMKX diamonds as another example besides the dinar), but there's no direct link IMO. I.e. the dinar scam isn't a repackaged NESARA scam it's an all new scam that rubs up against the NESARA scam. You didn't have to be a woo woo cult member the Pleaidian lizard people are going to descend upon the earth and begin a new era of peace and love type to end up sucked into the dinar scam, you just had to be dumb and not understand how currency works. And Trump bitching about exchange rates and currency manipulation didn't add or change anything with regards to the scam. People were buying up Dong and Zim dollars and every other hyperinflated currency many years before that. Trump having billions or trillions of Iraqi Dinar has always been a pervasive rumor in dinar circles though, a decade or more before he became president. Which makes sense tbh, who wouldn't believe The Donald wouldn't be down for some sleazy war profiteering at the expense of some poor Iraqis. The Bush’s are also of course said to have billions of Iraqi dinar. The Iraqi dinar used to be worth about 3 bucks each. Back then the largest denomination of the dinar was 25 dinar (so about 75 bucks) and IIRC there was around 20 million dinar total in circulation, so a total "money supply" of around 75 million USD. This was in like the 70s though. Not 2002 or even the 90s like the dinar scammers/scammees believe. But Saddam needed money to finance his Kuwaiti vacations, among other things, so he did what all good dictators do and started printing 500 dinar bills and telling people they were still worth 3 bucks each. That didn't really work very well for very long, of course, so he eventually ramped up to 10,000 dinar bills. This 10,000 dinar bill which the scammers say was (or should be) worth over $30,000 was actually worth about $3 while it was in circulation. Those Saddam 10,000 bills were replaced by the new (current) currency (which includes up to 25,000 dinar bills) at a 1:1 ratio in 2003. At the time the exchange rate was about 1800 or 2000:1 IIRC. Now it's around 1200:1 and has been relatively stable for ~15 years because Iraq has been doing a fairly competent job at managing it by not hyperinflating it and by selling USD from oil sales at the 1200 rate. So the scam is them thinking and people telling them that the dinar (currently worth 0.00086 dollars each, less than 1/10th of a cent) will be revalued ("RV'd") to, if not it's previous $3 glory (a 350,000% return), to at least $0.86 (a 100,000% return). And it'll do that because Iraq is immensely wealthy (they're not, their GDP per capita is like 90th in the world, below such titans of global finance as Bosnia and North Macedonia) and because the only reason the value tanked was because the US forced it to be worth less so Iraq couldn't finance their wars (needless to say the US did not force Saddam to print 10,000 dinar bills for a decade). So, in a nutshell, Iraq used to have a money supply of 20 million dinar worth 3 bucks each, now they have a money supply of around 60 TRILLION dinar, worth 1/10th of a cent each, and dinar "investors" just can't figure out why that dinar value can't just go right back to 3 bucks each as soon as the Iraqi government (or Donald Trump, or the Rothschilds, or the space aliens, etc) decide the time is right. The cast of characters pimping the dinar over the years is what entertained me. You basically had guys like "Okie the Oil Man" and Anthony Renfrow aka "TNT Tony" on one end of the spectrum and a company like Dinar Trade on the other. Dinar Trade being (AFAIK) a completely legit business that just sold dinar without doing any sort of fraudulent lying or marketing (i.e. they're scumbags but not criminals). TNT Tony being a flat out lifetime con man that just latched onto the dinar as a way to make some quick bucks while awaiting trial for defrauding people of millions of dollars in a Ponzi/pyramid scheme known as "14 daily plus" which he eventually did time for (though not enough). And while he was in prison he handed over the family dinar pimping business to his brother Ray and it probably continues to this day, in some form. Usually "conference calls" which have become podcasts since podcasts didn't exist when this all started.  And then in between those two endpoints you've got people closer to the legit side like "Adam Montana" of dinarvets.com. I'm pretty sure he's told some whoppers in his day (that he made big bucks in the "Kuwaiti RV" back in the day being #1) and I'm guessing if the feds felt like it he could be prosecuted for some sort of fraud with regards to the future tax avoidance schemes he sells but for the most part he doesn't really lie and just does a weekly chat session where he googles a couple Iraqi news articles and says the equivalent of "hmmm this seems like good news for us, we're inching ever closer!" He makes his money selling a "lifetime platinum" membership to his website for $400 where you'll get all kind of imaginary/future perks (e.g. a better exchange rate with banks and fabulous post RV investment opportunities) but none of these perks exist until after the RV so since the RV will never happen... And once you spend the $400 you get access to his secret forum where he gives you the hard sell on his more expensive bullshits, here's someone talking about them: quote:I’m typically not one to post much, but this subject is one that has been troubling me a lot lately. I signed up for VIP and OSI at dinarscams, as I was a late comer to the dinar world and thought I did not have much time to play catch up (we all know how the RV is going to happen every weekend). I have watched AM’s operation for several months now, and am left with great concern for the welfare of others on that site that may be at risk. And, like I said, that's one of the most "legit" guys involved in this scam. It's likely he never gets in trouble since there are people doing way worse that haven't gotten in trouble yet either. Which isn't to say no one has gotten prosecuted, but you have to be pretty blatant about your crimes. Like these idiots that were selling dinar while lying about it (and also paying a third party to lie about it). The rule seems to be that you can sell dinar, or you can lie about dinar, but doing both gets the FBI looking in your direction. These guys did both. https://www.ajc.com/news/local/atlanta-men-convicted-iraqi-currency-scheme-that-made-millions/TnZKdwcZ3sknlU4XRkvcGN/ quote:“We are risking serious jail time as promoters of a Ponzi scheme…” James Shaw wrote Rhame in a 2010 email. Shaw also said in the email that his wife had been “very nervous” and “crying” because “she knows we are running an illegal operation.” Then there's these criminal masterminds, that weren't just selling dinar and lying about dinar they were also taking peoples money for a hedge fund that didn't happen to exactly exist (yet!). But, happy ending here, they all got convicted and one of them even died in prison! https://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2015/04/25/Man-dies-5-months-into-prison-sentence.html quote:Less than five months after he began serving a 63-month prison sentence, a Florida man who conspired with two Toledo-area businessmen to sell Iraqi currency as a sure-thing investment has died. But as I mentioned, since these people are incredibly stupid, the scammers branched out from the Iraqi dinar to every other hyperinflated currency they could find, which brings us to the Zimbabwe dollar and my favorite story related to all this, the woman and her husband from Colorado Springs that spent their life savings flying to Zimbabwe in an attempt to get a bank to give her literally 69 trillion dollars for a bunch of Zimbabwe trillion dollar notes that had been demonetized (due to hyperinflation) and that she probably bought off eBay as "collectors items" for 5 bucks each. https://s3.amazonaws.com/khudes/Twitter7.13.15.1.pdf Here's some of the best bits: quote:My name is Terry-------. My husband Charles ______ traveled to Harare Zimbabwe for the demonetization process. We are US citizens, a long term investment in the Zimbabwean dollar was made prior to the deletion of the ten zeros of the currency on the XE international forex. I and my husband had reviewed the demonetization process and had phoned the RBZ several times and confirmed exchange rates of z$35,000 to every $1 USD. The RBZ itself had confirmed this exchange rate for the U.S. Citizens as did the IMF. We arrived in Harare Zimbabwe on June 24th 2015 leaving our two year old son at home with Family. We had been instructed by the RBZ to go into any local international bank to make our exchange... We where then escorted to the reserved bank of Zimbabwe and where sat down by the head officials of the RBZ and told we had no rights to our U.S. Exchange rate and ONLY continued to PUSH Zimbabwean rates at us. We however knew this was a violation of our rights as US citizens and began the crusade to see justice. https://twitter.com/HumistonTrista/status/554470923269853184 https://twitter.com/HumistonTrista/status/617247247563157504 Bonus: My other favorite part of the dinar scam is the selling of dinar “options” which if you’re familiar with the financial instrument is exactly what it sounds like. Instead of buying physical dinar that you can at least sell to some other sucker if you ever wise up you’re paying a lot less for the option to buy dinar if The Big RV occurs during the window you reserved the dinar for (usually 30-90 days). Also called dinar reserves or dinar layaway. The shadier dinar sellers all did it and there were also a bunch of randos on eBay doing it. How anyone could be dumb enough to trust some anonymous eBay idiot to send them millions of dollars worth of currency is beyond me, but, you know... Instead of paying $1200+ for a million physical dinar you pay ~$100 for the right to purchase a million dinar within the time frame. And also you could frequently pay a lesser ongoing monthly fee to “continue” your reserve. You’d see people on the dinar forums doing math like “I’ve only got 2 grand I can either buy 1.5 million dinar or I can reserve 30 million dinar for 6 months and you’d have to be an idiot to think the RV won’t happen in the next 6 months.” Here’s a company apparently still doing it: https://treasuryvault.com/reserve-programs And here’s some quotes from people discussing dinar reserves on dinarvets.com a decade ago: quote:Well I sure hope the company I use can back up my reserves , I'm in too deep to let them go. I'm in for the long haul. I don't see how they would be allowed to do what they do unless they were able to back it up. Surely they are regulated. They'd have some HUGE legal issues if they couldn't back up what they sell. quote:But on dinartrade, if I don't make the payment for the rest of the 90% I still get the 10% that I paid for... My plan is to put a huge amount on layaway, if it RVs I pay the other 90%, if it doesn't then I just get the 10% that I paid for. quote:If one had a reserve (layaway) from Jan 2012 that expired before being paid off, can the down payment be written off as an itemized deduction loss? Notes from one of the conference call scammers talking about layaway (I cut out about 90% of it, most of these conference calls are 1-2 hours long) quote:6/25/2013
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Does that only work if you watched it live
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hyperhazard posted:I've already read an article about scammers calling people, pretending to be from the CDC, and asking for credit card #s to "reserve your COVID vaccine." I'm guessing it's particularly effective with older adults. I’m gonna try it on my dad
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How the gently caress you activate an almond
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Does putting it up your butt activate it
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I don’t care that’s what I’m trying
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Send them the Bitcoin you don’t want everyone to see your tiny wiener think of the shame
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I am giving back to the community. All dick pics sent to the address below will be sent back doubled! If you send 1000 dick pics, I will send back 2000 dick pics. Only doing this for 30 minutes. birdwithbigdick@gmail.com
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Get your card or bank info? You think people running something that would be less sophisticated than a Nigerian 419 scam are advertising on TBS?
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What makes anyone think a lawyer billing $500/hour instead of taking 33% of a settlement will always end up being cheaper? I am not an expert but I'm pretty sure calling every contingency lawyer a "scam lawyer" is not accurate.
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Last vehicle I bought I got from a dealership 6 hours away and had it shipped for $400 and it was great not having to deal with in person haggling and the finance guy trying to sell you every little stupid rear end add on. Next time I'll probably tell whoever I'm buying from that I'm 6 hours away even if I'm not and then I'll just show up to pick up the car. Last car my wife bought we used Costco but it was because it was kind of a rare car and the dealer didn't really want to haggle on it much. You're not ever going to get hosed over using Costco but if it's a common car and you don't mind haggling you can frequently do better not using them. Whether it's worth the extra hassle depends on how much you value your time and what you're buying though, i.e. if I'm buying a 60,000 dollar truck 3% under invoice is worth a little more effort than 3% under invoice on a 17,000 dollar Hyundai.
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Pharmaskittle posted:I usually like hearing about the inside details of how stuff like this works, so I'll do a quick Apple post. Paying for an out of warranty third party repair which you would only do if you didn’t have a warranty voids your warranty wow that’s real weird
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I'm in the middle of refinancing my house and two of the companies that I've gotten quotes from have their entire application system set up to look like a phishing scam. One of the companies uses a different company/software to collect their financial information, so you've been talking to and emailing frank.thomas@mortgagecompany.com and then out of the blue you get an email from efolder@companyyouveneverheardof.com saying that it's also from Frank Thomas and please click this link and give us all your financial information. It's totally bizarre.
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Sounds like you’re passing up a great deal on a quality kitchen storage system OP maybe give this a little more thought before you decline.
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Last time I got one of those I emailed them a video of me whacking it and told them to do their worst.
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Like, if I could force every single person on the planet to witness me whacking it, I would do it.
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Using ad blockers is stealing, when you look at content you tacitly agree to look at ads in order to pay for said content.
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Who gets drunk and orders seeds on the internet and forgets about it when I get drunk and order stuff it’s cool stuff like stand up arcade games or guns or dildos.
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Handen posted:Can someone tell me about the scam that some guy on kijiji is trying to run on me? This is like the second oldest scam in the book how have you not heard of it
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Yeah why bother with $70 window balances when they’re all that sweet support monkey money out there
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Just like meat salesmen.
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what do you think is in these should we do a goon project to buy some and find out? https://www.teslabiohealing.com/collections/shop-tesla-biohealing/products/tesla-medbed-generators?variant=37214479777953
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Valuable, magical rocks?
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Zamujasa posted:not since they got rid of the $1.50 polish sausage Eat a hot dog, like an American.
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EdsTeioh posted:Has anyone ever heard of Landmark? If so, is it a scam, cult, weirdo religion? I have a sorta friend that has apparently gotten pretty deep into it lately. p sure they shut the servers down a long time ago. Might be someone running a private server. 
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Wow you're willing to just give those poor orphans the finger huh
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Parallelwoody posted:Lol do you mean Madoff? No
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I’ve started playing Fran Turismo 7 and my first 6 roulette rewards every single one of them has landed on the lowest value prize, seems like a scam, the probability of that happening naturally seems very low.
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FMguru posted:you'd better hope you die before you're 80 or you'll literally have no place to live. There’s a way to make sure this happens.
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