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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Wondering how many people who rushed to buy over-priced rural properties that require oil deliveries for their hot water and heating are now regretting it! Plenty around here. It's an extra nail in the coffin along with the second home council tax multiplier that's due soon. The estate agents say they've never been busier. Good riddance to most of them.
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Rustybear posted:Sorry to break in with a random request but wondering if some of the folks in this thread might be able to point me in the right direction. Your friend should under no circumstances defend themselves, it's a recipe for disaster. Try contacting your local law centers, chances are that they won't touch a criminal case but they may point you in the direction of someone who act can help.
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Tsietisin posted:Around 1998-1998 the Cult of the Dead Cow released a piece of software that scanned IP ranges for malicious code installed on people's PCs, which allowed you to completely take over and access their PC. On of my school friends managed to get me to install BO2k in 99/2000 or so. I've been much better at security since.
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Got a scary Amazon/scammer scare there over the last week that I thought I'd share to warn others. So my mother bought some clothes on Amazon, due March 29th, by Royal Mail. Day came, but mum was out, and so missed the delivery. No card, nothing left at neighbours as can happen sometimes, nothing. Few hours later my brother (who ordered it for her) got a text from a 'Simon' that said he had to pay £2 for the delivery. The text had no mention of Royal Mail, the link wasn't to their site, just you had to pay £2. Brother thought it was suspicious, and went through the royal mail website to redeliver it today. Got it today, and when talking to our local postie about it, he said it was definitely a scam to get your bank details. Anyone hear about this scam before? How did they know we had a delivery and it was not collected?
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I think this scam is usually just chancers who know that deliveries are common enough they'll get lucky sooner or later because everyone is getting stuff delivered all the time these days. Edit: it's a really really common scam now tho, some people get it multiple times a day so it's maybe just coincidence there'd just been that missed delivery.
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happyhippy posted:Got a scary Amazon/scammer scare there over the last week that I thought I'd share to warn others. This scam has being going around for ages - sometimes it says Royal Mail, or DPD or Hermes or whatever. I've had loads. My mum gets them and I've warned her so many times she just deletes them now. It's just coincidence that your mother missed a delivery and the text said it. The texts normally say something like missed delivery or something stuck in warehouse or whatever. Basically, anything asking for money to redeliver is 99.9% a scam. https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/beatthescammers/article-10339343/Delivery-text-message-scams-rise-says-UK-Finance.html (Sorry for the Heil link)
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happyhippy posted:Got a scary Amazon/scammer scare there over the last week that I thought I'd share to warn others. I got messages like that most days during the pandemic. It's just a scattergun approach.
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happyhippy posted:Got a scary Amazon/scammer scare there over the last week that I thought I'd share to warn others. I had the same thing, haven't ordered anything online for months. The message didn't give a company or courier name either, I didn't even click the link. So yeah, seems like random chance by scammers. e. I didn't realise it was so common! Makes sense I guess mrpwase fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Apr 5, 2022 |
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Ah, thanks all. First time happened to us. We are usually 'wise' to these.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Search history... 'asian babes with big boobs'. Hold on... That's not against the law? Or even bad
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Hold on... That's not against the law? Or even bad No it's not against the law. But given my dad's local role at the time, looking up asian babes would definitely be harmful to his reputation. Especially as he wasn't and it was my nephew.
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Lol I'm only joking obvs, but if I took my PC to a repair place and my love of Asian babes ended up front page news on the middleofnowhereshire times I'd be livid!
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I just want to live in a world where looking up hot Asian babes is not looked down upon
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Lol I'm only joking obvs, but if I took my PC to a repair place and my love of Asian babes ended up front page news on the middleofnowhereshire times I'd be livid! My town is the kind of place where the doctors' receptionist gossips about the patients' problems. Nevermind privacy and all that. It's also the sort of town where if a girl goes into hospital to get her appendix out it goes all round town that she had an abortion, or if you meet someone for half an hour in your entire life, suddenly it's all round town that you were doing bongs with them every night for a year. (One of those happened to me, and one to a relative.)
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Jakabite posted:I just want to live in a world where looking up hot Asian babes is not looked down upon 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:This scam has being going around for ages - sometimes it says Royal Mail, or DPD or Hermes or whatever. I've had loads. My mum gets them and I've warned her so many times she just deletes them now. Annoyingly I get a bunch of work stuff through courier so I never know when I'm expecting something, fortunately if it doesn't arrive I don't care anyway so I never bothered checking lol.
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A particularly insidious scam I found trying me a couple weeks ago was a fake contact tracing message saying someone I'd recently come into contact with had tested positive, and offered a link to get my free covid testing kit urgently.
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Apr 5, 2022 21:32
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Guavanaut posted:*googles "Asian girls first time seeing huge white cock"* That's a real odd picture, the crack in the wall running into the woman's straight posture makes it look like it's two pictures
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Jakabite posted:That's a real odd picture, the crack in the wall running into the woman's straight posture makes it look like it's two pictures EXACTLY this possibly its an expansion gap
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Apr 5, 2022 22:10
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I'm proud of my searches for hot Asian babes 
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josh04 posted:The infinite lifts will have to move infinitely fast to get you to your infinite floor, which is good, but unfortunately they're going to have to stop at every floor while all the occupants move one lift car to the right, otherwise you'll never get a free one. You could solve this with a paternoster, which is basically a bucket wheel but for humans.
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OwlFancier posted:You could solve this with a paternoster, which is basically a bucket wheel but for humans. The man engine is much more fitting with the whole "infinite amount of people move one along" theme: 
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Ah yes, what if we could maximise the amount of opportunities to loving kill yourself and also you still need to do a lot of walking.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The man engine is much more fitting with the whole "infinite amount of people move one along" theme: It doesn't even really resemble it but seeing this gave me a total flashback to the Spectrum game 'Mad Nurse' where you have to stop little cartoon babies killing themselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxCfmXUQxa0&t=113s
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I think i would genuinely rather try my luck with a rope looped over a pulley with stirrups tied to it.
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Not a scam, but we got a note through the door from a ''family firm" advising us that they had cleaned our wheely bin (unsolicited), and we now owed them £3, which we could pay by BACS or by ringing some mobile number. We have not paid our £3, and actually I guess it probably is a scam, or at least scam adjacent.
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Rustybear posted:Sorry to break in with a random request but wondering if some of the folks in this thread might be able to point me in the right direction. Defending yourself is an incredibly stupid idea. Pay for the best legal defence you can get because it will always be cheaper than the price of your freedom. Green and Black Cross are not solicitors, but they have a list of different types of solicitors, including criminal solicitors, and has a list of ones that come recommended and ones to avoid here: https://greenandblackcross.org/solicitors/. This isn't a comprehensive list but it's somewhere to start.
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The Perfect Element posted:Not a scam, but we got a note through the door from a ''family firm" advising us that they had cleaned our wheely bin (unsolicited), and we now owed them £3, which we could pay by BACS or by ringing some mobile number. We have not paid our £3, and actually I guess it probably is a scam, or at least scam adjacent. Did they actually clean your bin tho? Also who gives a poo poo about cleaning their wheely bin?
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OwlFancier posted:Ah yes, what if we could maximise the amount of opportunities to loving kill yourself and also you still need to do a lot of walking. I mean the alternative was either climbing up a thousand feet worth of ladders or a lift with no passive safety features and using hemp ropes which failed all the time, something so dangerous that it was completely banned *even in Industrial Revolution mines*. That's right, the people who used naked flames for illumination and 8-year-old kids to operate ventilation systems balked at riding up with the ore. Even when steel cables and arrest systems were cracked, making lifts much safer, the man engine continued to be used in Cornish mines because it was considerably quicker - 1 person every 2 seconds could get on it, compared to 30 or 40 every 15 minutes for the lift at the deepest mines. Surprisingly deaths and injuries were rare, the users were pretty careful and the shaft and rods were sized such that actually falling was surprisingly tricky. Of course when something *did* go wrong with the system itself the death tolls were horrific, but again we're talking pre-unionised mining here, a lot more people were getting killed by literally every other thing involved in it and the man engine at least got you home an hour earlier.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The man engine is much more fitting with the whole "infinite amount of people move one along" theme: quote:It was invented in Germany in the 19th century and was a prominent feature of tin and copper mines in Cornwall until the beginning of the twentieth century. I suppose it's not that surprising Blighttown would be underneath the UK.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:My town is the kind of place where the doctors' receptionist gossips about the patients' problems. Nevermind privacy and all that. Ah, the charm of small towns.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Did they actually clean your bin tho? Also who gives a poo poo about cleaning their wheely bin? You know, I haven't even checked.
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The Perfect Element posted:Not a scam, but we got a note through the door from a ''family firm" advising us that they had cleaned our wheely bin (unsolicited), and we now owed them £3, which we could pay by BACS or by ringing some mobile number. We have not paid our £3, and actually I guess it probably is a scam, or at least scam adjacent. If nothing else that's the equivalent of a guy with a squeegee at the stoplights.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Hold on... That's not against the law? Or even bad Shockingly, things other than crimes make the papers. Remember David Mellor and his toesucking? (Ok most people probably don't now  )
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feedmegin posted:Shockingly, things other than crimes make the papers. Remember David Mellor and his toesucking? (Ok most people probably don't now It was the Chelsea shirt wot done for Mellor.
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I remember the Chelsea kit scandal. Also Fergie married to Andrew HRN was in a toe sucking scandal. Also
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feedmegin posted:Shockingly, things other than crimes make the papers. Remember David Mellor and his toesucking? (Ok most people probably don't now Shockingly, it's not about that though is it? Whilst I might forgive or even support a PC repair shop breaking customer confidentiality to report a crime, they can go gently caress themselves for revealing my Asian babe fetish.
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