mostlygray posted:

I shall now retire for the evening. I worked in that industry for a decade and hated it so... Once, though, I loved it. I wish I was back in the poo poo... It was magical. Now, all I have are memories of absurd inside deals and missed attempts to get free poo poo from reps.

DamagedGoods posted:

Wonderin' about a letter x2 I got today for Nextdoor. It's got a stamp on it. Dumb postal carrier put both in my physical mailbox. Thing is, oops noticed that there are 2 different codes. Seems fishy. Shredding atm. Activation code was said to expire in 7 days. Red flag for me. Watch out for this bullshit.

bird with big dick posted:

quote:

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

Mustached Demon posted:

To be fair, my rear end in a top hat spits out more sense about affairs than orange man.

bird with big dick posted:

How the gently caress you activate an almond

Guest2553 posted:

So like but for :almonds:

Proteus Jones posted:

How the gently caress did you get there?

No. More like a sleeper agent or Manchurian Candidate. But an almond.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

"We've stopped pretending this is an actual video game, My Lord"

(This was a Facebook ad)

Dumb Lowtax posted:

Quite a memory, did you save it to your computer?

rt_hat posted:

Could be a bot..

Guest2553 posted:

[timg]tl;dr: kid unintentionally nut-shot me reaching for a hug

Cage Kicker posted:

Go gently caress yourself, if you fall for an OBVIOUS SCAM you are at least partly to blame for not exercising better judgement.

Cage Kicker posted:

Yes, because no matter how obvious a scam it is, people are absolved of personal responsibility for making good decisions because ??????

I forgot I was posting on Something Compassionate...

D34THROW posted:

So what's the scam? Change the hyperlink text to a legit URL while the actual URL for the hyperlink is the phishing site, counting on people not to hover over the link to verify its veracity?

Salt Fish posted:

lol that's hilarious

Which slurs did you use?

EdsTeioh posted:

Welp I think this gives me exactly what I need. When she started posting these LENGTHY posts about “a new thing that’s all about positivity” I was a little suspicious but then she drops this big thing about “you know when you go to see your favorite band live and there are thousands of people singing along and experiencing the same energy? That’s what this is like but BETTER!” (Personally, my favorite band is the Dead Milkmen and I’ve never seen them with more than about 70 people, so no, I don’t really know that feeling). I tend to be pretty “cult aware” due to listening to weirdo podcasts and just generally being interested in dumb poo poo but this one has apparently escaped me.

Midjack posted:

To be fair this is how I end up signing off on about half the phone calls I have to make.

Tunicate posted:

In the UK there's a similar scheme where elderly people can sell the house but keep living in it until they die, rent free.

IIRC one lady who did that ended up becoming the oldest living person in the UK.

Organza Quiz posted:

https://x.com/scriptingjapan/status/1702081524815003735

The "Hi mom, it's me" scam is a little trickier in Japanese than in English.

Tears In A Vial posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatebeak#:~:text=Hatebeak%20is%20an%20American%20death,as%20to%20not%20distress%20Waldo.

Hatebeak is an American death metal band, formed by Blake Harrison and Mark Sloan, featuring Waldo (b. 1991), a grey parrot. Hatebeak is reported to be the first band to have an avian vocalist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwXKR9EWhXo

quote:

“I am a very smart lady. Well-educated. I fell for a scam,” McGee said at the meeting, before claiming she had been groomed into handing over the cash.

“Grooming is when you talk to somebody and you believe in them, and they get you to trust them that this is really real, and so I fell for it,” she said.

Volmarias posted:

Uh

What do you think "grooming your successor" means? The usage is perfectly fine in this context, it doesn't have to be sexual in nature.

Pantaloon Pontiff posted:

Saying that there are categories of scams I would not fall for resulted in replies like: "Everyone likes to think they're too smart to be a sucker. Con artists love this, because you're absolutely not." "And you, oh great scam detector, can be a victim if the circumstances meet your specific criteria." " Yeah, thinking you’re not the person that can be scammed puts you halfway there for the scammer". So the argument does seem to be that I'm arrogant (or greedy, I guess) for thinking exactly what you said above.

As I've already said, I could certainly see myself giving someone pocket money, click on a link, give my credit card number to someone I shouldn't, or similar things that actually involve a momentary lapse of reason. But much more than a momentary lapse of attention is needed to wait until a business day, go to a credit union branch, fill out the forms to withdraw my entire savings account in cash, talk the past the credit union people asking me why I'm withdrawing so much money, put said cash into a bag, wait until evening, look for a car to approach, and hand the bag of cash to the person in the car. I can maintain the level of awareness that I need to avoid going through a likely multi-day process to do something that I know will have significant consequences for my life indefinitely.

I don't believe that it can happen to anyone, and I think it makes more sense to make a plan of 'I plan on not withdrawing my entire bank account into a paper bag and handing it to someone' than to plan on someone one day convincing me to do that. Also I think a plan of 'get a lawyer as soon as possible if you think you're being investigated by LEOs, yes even if they tell you they're on your side' (which also derails the example) is better than 'make a plan for what to do if someone convinces you that they're an LEO and asks you to do something stupid, and you do it'.

I don't believe that it shows arrogance (I'm guessing that's what you meant? You still didn't clarify) to say "I will not go through the multi-hour to multi-day process (that involves talking to people who want to verify I'm not being scammed) required to withdraw my savings account into a paper bag, then hand it to someone" or "If I think I'm the target of an LEO investigation, I will contact a lawyer ASAP even if the alleged LEO tells me not to".