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Tristesse
Feb 23, 2006

Chasing the dream.
I get those occasionally ever since I apparently pissed off some crazy person on the internet. Every so often they try to guess my password and I get those notifications, if they are legit from Facebook there should be a link that says something like "this wasn't me, report this" and the URL will very clearly link to Facebook. When clicked the link gives you a "thanks for the report!" spiel but won't ask for logins or passwords. I think you can see the IP address they are coming from as well.

But spammers have also been sending out fake versions of the same message to try to convince people to click and input their logins. Check the URL closely to be sure it has https://www.facebook.com and not farcebutt.ru or something, and you can always just chose to ignore them since it's a notification of an unsuccessful login anyway. I think you can also see any active login sessions in Facebook itself to be sure no one got in.

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Tristesse
Feb 23, 2006

Chasing the dream.
Just wait until Microsoft starts pulling the monthly subscription poo poo for the OS itself. They already moved Office to a monthly/ cloud hosted deal and are also actively pushing patches that break the poo poo out of older installs of office.

Tristesse
Feb 23, 2006

Chasing the dream.
A mechanic once seriously tried to convince me my car needed a new flux capacitor and only backtracked when I said "my car sure as hell is not a loving time machine and now this shop isn't doing anything for it. gently caress you bring my car back out and I'm done."

It's really frustrating to me being a person who knows enough about cars to know when I'm being hosed over but I'm also unwilling to my own drat repairs. I send my husband instead since he's less likely to be outright offered a scam, but the problem is that if he is he won't know it. Our current system is he goes to the mechanic and calls me and tells me what they said to basically double check.

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