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DaveSauce posted:OK, so first, you're proving my point in that there's a criminal case where the homeowner was thrown in prison for murdering a 16-year-old kid who, while trespassing with intent to commit burglary, posed no threat. I actually remember a case from way back when I was in high school where a dude did break into someone's house and ended up suing. The guy whose house got broken into had it happen several times, so he rigged up a shotgun in front of a window and when the dude broke in he got hit and wounded. If I recall, the homeowner setting up a booby trap was not acting as "a reasonable and prudent individual" and the perp was able to sue for damages.
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Plus, a lot of people actually want $20 fake Oakley sunglasses and know what they are buying.
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MightyJoe36 posted:I actually remember a case from way back when I was in high school where a dude did break into someone's house and ended up suing. The guy whose house got broken into had it happen several times, so he rigged up a shotgun in front of a window and when the dude broke in he got hit and wounded. Yeah... booby traps are extraordinarily illegal in every circumstance. Dude's probably rotting in prison right now.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Anyone who uses this as part of a so-called reasoned argument is welcome to look up the photos of her injuries. Enjoy that experience. I've read the most basic description, and have a kneejerk response to describe it to people when they bring up that case as an example of a frivolous lawsuit, but I've never looked up photos. And I am not going to. Yeesh.
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You Tube led me to this guy named James Veitch who I haven't seen mentioned yet here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dceyy0cX6J4 He seems to have turned loving around with scammers, spammers and thieves into a sort of stand up routine which, tbh, sounds like a lot of fun. I've pretended to be a frightened old man or a confused crazy person on a few occasions when I've gotten fake scam calls. Serious question, what's the most reliable app or setting or whatever to block some of these people on your phone? I keep hearing about congress being "gravely concerned" about spam calls but why can't they just legit make it so that you can actually block and actual number? What if it was a stalker or someone threatening you? I can't imagine it'd be hard to make it a real thing. I've mostly worked it out with email but unfortunately, if you're on a job/career website anywhere at all I promise you that you will get correspondence asking you to be in sales. Which is amazing because I have a fine arts degree and NOTHING whatsoever in my skill set or resume suggests I'd be a good salesperson. They're all MLM bullshit, direct retail or those weird insurance selling pyramids. Maybe one day when I get bored I'll gently caress with one of them but, man, I really hate how the internet has opened the floodgates for just the lowest common denominator of greed and shittyness.
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BiggerBoat posted:You Tube led me to this guy named James Veitch who I haven't seen mentioned yet here Blocking numbers is pointless because the caller ID is all fake. The appropriate pressure point is fixing the laughable ease of spoofing caller ID but telcos don't want to because come on, the scammers are the only people making calls anymore. If you've got an android you can whitelist by leaving Do Not Disturb mode on with an exception set for your contact list. This won't reject the calls but will mute the ringer. shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 23:31 on May 14, 2019 |
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Major US Telcos are actually finally moving on getting verification, they just haven't taken the necessary step of cutting off overseas telcos who don't abide by the verification standards
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Vavrek posted:I've read the most basic description, and have a kneejerk response to describe it to people when they bring up that case as an example of a frivolous lawsuit, but I've never looked up photos. And I am not going to. Yeesh.
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Zereth posted:The mcdonalds was keeping their coffee illegally hot and had previous complaints about that, too Yeah, it had to do with being able to use less grounds and save money or something.
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Yesterday I got a phone call (sent to voice mail) with a robotic computer generated voice. Said they were “US Social Security” and that they “had to disable [my] social security number because a fraud was detected.” If I just pressed one, I could “disable the fraud and speak to agents to fix the number.”
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We keep getting Windows refund department calls at work, at least twice a day.
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shame on an IGA posted:Blocking numbers is pointless because the caller ID is all fake. The appropriate pressure point is fixing the laughable ease of spoofing caller ID but telcos don't want to because come on, the scammers are the only people making calls anymore. There actually is legality in place that can get rid of all call spoofing. Its just old and a little backwards and not everyone knows it. IIRC Trapcall (the phone app) makes use of it. Basically 1800 numbers have the right to see the real number all the time because they're paying for the service, and are thus immune to all call spoofs forever. so when you pay for trapcall, you're basically paying for an 1800 number forwarding service subscription. Someone with actual know how and a digital phone system could probably make the same setup fairly easily. Edit: detailed here. https://www.wired.com/2009/02/trapcall/ TheParadigm fucked around with this message at 17:24 on May 15, 2019 |
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Thats just caller id blocking. Scammers are spoofing it, and a common scam is a scummy phone company allowing people to make tons of spoof calls through their service to 1800 numbers. Since each phone company involved in the chain gets a cut, they split the scambucks.
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My boss got a long email in English, spoofed to look like it was from the office email address. Hackers stole our passwords and recorded us jerking off to adult videos!!! It's the isp provided address. For a Buddhist kindergarten, in Japan. I translated the best parts of the email and we all lolled.
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Rugby World Cup 2019 Japanquote:Please be reminded that NONE of the tickets purchased via the following Websites shall be deemed valid or usable under any circumstances. ViaGoGo is still aggressively advertising on Facebook. :/
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peanut posted:My boss got a long email in English, spoofed to look like it was from the office email address. Hackers stole our passwords and recorded us jerking off to adult videos!!! No joke, we got the exact same emails at my work. Except they were in Japanese. Spoofed to look like they were coming from a Bay Area public transit agency. Maybe they mixed our emails up. e: Here's what we got (with emails redacted): quote:Subject: ハッキングされています! すぐにパスワードを変更してください! Sydin fucked around with this message at 00:57 on May 16, 2019 |
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peanut posted:Rugby World Cup 2019 Japan How are they going to know? You can list on third party sites just by Section and Row number, they can’t just cancel every seat on the row to guarantee they get the resold one. Like, I appreciate the effort to try and stop price gauging but I can’t see that working.
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The longer I live the more I realize hat probably 90% of any communication I engage is a scam. "gently caress you motherfucker for wasting my time when I am trying to steal your money, you mother fucker"
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I added a server side rule to just flat out delete anything with a SpamAssassin mark of 5 so it doesn’t even hit my local inbox, and not even 24 hours later I’m loving this decision. My primary email account was just getting hit dozens of times a day by obviously the same company for so long, even seeing it in the spam folder was driving me mad.
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Sydin posted:No joke, we got the exact same emails at my work. Except they were in Japanese. Spoofed to look like they were coming from a Bay Area public transit agency. Omg that email sucks lol
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So what's the scam with the constant "Trouble with the IRS? Call us" sorts of ads? Only thing I can figure is that they charge unsuspecting/lazy/ignorant people to visit the IRS website and work out a payment plan that the customer could have just as easily done themselves. I would up owing the IRS some money I didn't have after my divorce and applying for a payment plan online was remarkably easy. Getting those fuckers on the phone was a pill and an entirely different matter but what are these "Settle your IRS debt" companies selling exactly?
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BiggerBoat posted:So what's the scam with the constant "Trouble with the IRS? Call us" sorts of ads? You pretty much have it. They work as a middle man for a monthly payment plan. Except you pay them and then they pay the IRS on your behalf. Except they get a fee on top. So instead of paying $500/month, you pay $650/month with the company pocketing the difference. They count on the fact that most people are confused and scared by the bureaucracy of the IRS and present themselves as a professional service that can smooth out the experience. They’re counting on people not realizing the experience is already a pretty straightforward thing. E: I no grammar today Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 22:48 on May 22, 2019 |
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Proteus Jones posted:You pretty much have it. They work as a middle man for a monthly payment plan. Except you pay them and then they pay the IRS on your behalf. Except they get a fee on top. So instead of paying $500/month, you pay $650/month with the company pocketing the difference. The IRS, sadly, doesn’t do themselves a lot of favors on this front. If they just opened with “You owe us $XXXX. We know this was probably a mistake, so we’d like to offer a zero-penalty payment plan of $YYY/month for ZZ months,” it’d probably kill the IRS scam industry. Instead, it’s written to be about as daunting as possible. This could also be resolved by loosening the tax prep industry’s chokehold on Congress and just letting the IRS autoprepare a 1040 based on the records they already have, and asking people to make changes if they want to itemize deductions, contest things, etc.
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Blue Moonlight posted:The IRS, sadly, doesn’t do themselves a lot of favors on this front. If they just opened with “You owe us $XXXX. We know this was probably a mistake, so we’d like to offer a zero-penalty payment plan of $YYY/month for ZZ months,” it’d probably kill the IRS scam industry. Instead, it’s written to be about as daunting as possible. Absolutely. Simplifying the tax code and getting rid of H&R Block and all these "tax preparers" who essentially do noting more than run Turbo Tax and who aren't held accountable if you get audited or something gets hosed up is just infuriating. Still weird though because if you go the IRS website and submit a payment plan it's quite manageable from my experience and hardly took any time at all. They'll basically accept any offer you make in my experience. I'm doing some graphics installations for a company that supposedly offers help for people with bad credit attempting to buy cars. Near as I can tell, all they do is fill out the paperwork and shop for banks or dealerships willing to take a risk at 20-25%. . I install their wall and window graphics and overhear they're salespeople on the phone and it all just sounds like someone applying for a loan. It's probably all stuff the person who needs a car could do themselves but they're either too scared, too ignorant or maybe even too poor to afford a computer and work 15 hour shifts at 7-11 and can't do the back and forth.
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The one time I owed money on my federal, it was ridiculously easy to set up by myself. Tax preparers have us scared into thinking that the average person's income tax and everything related to it is this scary enigma that can't be cracked unless you buy their software for $40.
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I briefly worked at a Liberty Tax office that was charging people upwards of $200 to file simple returns that the customer could have done for free online.
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I've been doing my own taxes since I started working and I am still amazed by the number of people who are in awe of the fact that I do my own taxes.
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Lol if you live in a country where, as an ordinary person working as a full time employee of a company, you have to do any kind of tax filing at all.
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I've just received an email from Spotify telling me that I need to reset my password because there has been 'suspicious activity' on my account. I don't have a password for Spotify because I use Facebook OAuth for it. The email looks completely legit, the headers in the email look correct, and the Reset Password link appears to direct to spotify.com (I haven't clicked it). I'm 99.9% sure it's not a phishing attempt but I can't figure out why they ever would have sent this email.
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"Suspicious Activity" is code for "we've had a data breach, and we're going to blame the end user for being sloppy rather than admit to our mistakes".
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I got the Spotify email and when I went to log in to Spotify it said you need to change your password, so it seemed fairly legit.
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Proteus Jones posted:You pretty much have it. They work as a middle man for a monthly payment plan. Except you pay them and then they pay the IRS on your behalf. Except they get a fee on top. So instead of paying $500/month, you pay $650/month with the company pocketing the difference. It also tends to run on traditional radio which is mostly listened to by older people these days. They remember the days when the IRS was much nastier and would in fact come after people for money they couldn't afford to lose. One of the reasons the IRS is less of a dick these days is because they realized that people who don't loving hate you are way more cooperative. You basically have to actively try to piss them off or actively dodge your taxes to get them angry enough to actually be lovely. Most people you can basically just call them and talk to them and work something out. They'll work with you so long as you aren't trying to not pay your taxes. Sometimes they'll even negotiate the debt down. This is part of why the adverts talk about getting the total down and why you have people saying "I owed like $200,000 but they negotiated it down to like $60,000! They threatened to take my house!" except that anybody who ends up in that situation was probably doing something wrong that Joe Average wouldn't have done in the first place. Yes, the IRS can garnish your wages and seize your assets but they'd very much prefer not to and if you're not a dick about your taxes they won't even consider it.
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The hell kind of nefarious suspicious activity can you get up to on loving Spotify? No doubt they hosed up and some cc#'s leaked or some poo poo
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BiggerBoat posted:The hell kind of nefarious suspicious activity can you get up to on loving Spotify? I'm pretty sure my account was compromised too; I logged in after not using it for a few weeks to find a ton (a TON) of songs on my recently played that I'd never listened to, and then the next time I logged in songs were being added as I was not listening. I was tempted to let it be, if you have to steal someone else's Spotify account you must be really poor. But it was loving up my history and recommendations so I logged out of all devices, removed synced devices (there were more smartphones listed than I've ever had), reset my password, and it's been fine since then.
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BiggerBoat posted:The hell kind of nefarious suspicious activity can you get up to on loving Spotify? Probably noticing wild IP addresses that aren't connected to the user, people constantly reselling stolen accounts so there's definitely reasons to crack users.
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BiggerBoat posted:The hell kind of nefarious suspicious activity can you get up to on loving Spotify? The point of hacking accounts on Spotify or Netflix or whatever is to then turn around and try that username and password and variations of both on other sites, connecting one account with another until they can put together enough info to compromise a primary email or bank account.
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Sanford posted:I got the Spotify email and when I went to log in to Spotify it said you need to change your password, so it seemed fairly legit. Yeah like I said it all seemed legit, just weird since I use OAuth and not a normal Spotify login
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Corsair Pool Boy posted:I'm pretty sure my account was compromised too; I logged in after not using it for a few weeks to find a ton (a TON) of songs on my recently played that I'd never listened to, and then the next time I logged in songs were being added as I was not listening. Same thing happened to me. It was logged in to a computer and an Android phone in Columbia, while I live in New York.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:The point of hacking accounts on Spotify or Netflix or whatever is to then turn around and try that username and password and variations of both on other sites, connecting one account with another until they can put together enough info to compromise a primary email or bank account. Yeah, I didn't even think of that. I ran into a password hack on OK Cupid once and couldn't figure out what was to be gained since it's a free site and no money changed hands before realizing that they were likely hoping I used the same username and PW for my banks, gmail and credit cards or something. God drat, being on line is like an constant arms race. loving scammers, salespeople and marketers ruin everything I swear to god. I'm suddenly getting a lot of emails offering me "own my own business" and "direct marketing" and sales "opportunities" in my inbox despite not actively seeking a job for 2 or 3 years, letting my LinkedIn and Career Builder profile sit dormant and nothing whatsoever on my resume is even remotely related to sales, marketing or any of that bullshit nor suggests I'd be good at any of it. I'm an illustrator, graphic designer, art director and larger format graphics installer. "Why yes, I am interested in selling life insurance, knives, managing my own sales force and selling nutritional supplements as an IBO." gently caress off you parasites.
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Quote-Unquote posted:Yeah like I said it all seemed legit, just weird since I use OAuth and not a normal Spotify login Oh yeah I see what you mean, I didn't have a Spotify-only password set up. Oh well, I do now!
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