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seiferguy posted:Man, that sucks, Leper. I had to go to my future in laws because they kept getting emails from some spammer who claimed they had his password (and they listed a password) and hacked into his Webcam and recorded jerking off, and would delete the video if they sent $500 in bitcoin. One of the best things you can do for an elderly computer user is to just get them a Gmail address and have them stop using whatever crummy email system their ISP provides. Gmail is going to have way better spam/scam filtering and better protection against malicious users spoofing their address causing bouncebacks like that.
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All of this makes me very happy my MiL is overly suspicious of everything. I'd much rather listen to stories about how the person who asked if she could jump their car at the grocery store was probably trying to scam her instead of stories about her actually getting scammed.
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Apr 15, 2022 15:38
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Someone a tried this on my Grandmother one time. Trying to explain to a 90 year old woman who doesn’t own a mobile phone and never touched a computer in her life to buy apple gift cards to pay HMRC didn’t get far.
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Mr. Nice! posted:It’s more common than you think. They then flip the gift cards for 80-90% of face value and pocket the cash. Oh believe me this I know. I have a colleague who specializes in elder abuse, I’ve just never seen someone try the gift card scam for TWENTY THOUSAND That’s brutal. Thankful for the clerks for watching out for common sensibilities
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Apr 15, 2022 15:56
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And don’t feel bad leper my moms the kinda woman who would’ve argued with the cashier and demanded the gift cards “just to be safe”
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:One of the best things you can do for an elderly computer user is to just get them a Gmail address and have them stop using whatever crummy email system their ISP provides. Gmail is going to have way better spam/scam filtering and better protection against malicious users spoofing their address causing bouncebacks like that. Yeah, that was basically our advice, plus if they ever decide to change ISPs (unlikely but you never know) they don't have stuff tied to it. My parents are dealing with changing their ISP now and transferring everything they've had on that email address has been a massive pain. LeeMajors posted:Making him admit to him future son-in-law that he had jerked off in front of that webcam is the He called his daughter first (my fiancée) and was like "someone said they've been watching me on my webcam, I don't anything weird though!" so lol, but I did a quick Google search and it's a pretty common scam that someone takes your email /password from breached database thinking they've captured you.
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Blowjob Overtime posted:All of this makes me very happy my MiL is overly suspicious of everything. I'd much rather listen to stories about how the person who asked if she could jump their car at the grocery store was probably trying to scam her instead of stories about her actually getting scammed. My mom is so overly suspicious that if I email her or text her a link she will call me to confirm I sent it if I don't put in some random bit of trivia so that she knows it's me. The other day I sent her a link for something for her dog and I put the little league team I played on and position I played in fifth grade
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seiferguy posted:Yeah, that was basically our advice, plus if they ever decide to change ISPs (unlikely but you never know) they don't have stuff tied to it. My parents are dealing with changing their ISP now and transferring everything they've had on that email address has been a massive pain. I had someone send me that webcam blackmail email a few months ago. I just ignored it. If all my friends got a video of me jerking off, they were polite enough not to mention it to me.
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Spoeank posted:My mom is so overly suspicious that if I email her or text her a link she will call me to confirm I sent it if I don't put in some random bit of trivia so that she knows it's me. The other day I sent her a link for something for her dog and I put the little league team I played on and position I played in fifth grade https://youtu.be/xCUO0261LcM
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Bird in a Blender posted:I had someone send me that webcam blackmail email a few months ago. I just ignored it. If all my friends got a video of me jerking off, they were polite enough not to mention it to me. Jokes on the scammers, I'm an exhibitionist
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Apr 15, 2022 16:30
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Half day for Good Friday. Already done with work for the day. Time to have a beer with lunch.
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Apr 15, 2022 17:47
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I got lucky and don't have to last minute fly to Spokane today to pick up a kid. So far Friday is off to a fun start.
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Confirmed that UKR sank it. https://twitter.com/DanLamothe/status/1515004423268937732?t=GTZTMRAL8rdOa08Yq-S89A&s=19
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Was such a weird thing... like option B was the russian navy was so incompetent they managed to blow up their own munition stockpile?
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LeeMajors posted:Making him admit to him future son-in-law that he had jerked off in front of that webcam is the I got one of those but it said something like "we recorded you having sex with your webcam!" and I was like "tricks on you fucker, I'd have to have had sex  "
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:One of the best things you can do for an elderly computer user is to just get them a Gmail address and have them stop using whatever crummy email system their ISP provides. Gmail is going to have way better spam/scam filtering and better protection against malicious users spoofing their address causing bouncebacks like that. Yeah. She uses an ancient at&t account because she worked for them for 40 years. She also has a yahoo email she set up like 15 years ago. My wife at least taught her how to use webmail, so we didn't have to cope with trying to get her to migrate off of eudora and onto thunderbird or something. And that means her email is all on the server, thankfully. But she already has 2 accounts and is resistant to switching everything to a third. She also read somewhere about gmail accounts being unsecure because google shows you ads based on your email or something, which... is kinda true... but I'll maybe try again. My wife says she has very little of importance on the lap top. One spreadsheet she uses, but no important family photos or whatever, so I think I will just wipe it completely tomorrow. The way she explained it to my wife, the scammers told her she was actively being hacked and her account was in danger, and the way to secure it was to cash out onto gift cards and then read them the gift card numbers and this would somehow counteract the online transactions by being faster than them. Somehow my mother in law did not think to just call her drat bank. She does everything on the phone, which is both a blessing and a curse - the fact she had called the scammers rather than vice-versa was key (but of course, she'd called them by using a number on a popup on her browser designed to look like an alarming windows alert) so she thought she was talking to a trustworthy party. So they hit a lady in her 70s in all the right places. "Be scared of online stuff", "this is super urgent we need to do it on the phone because the hackers are in your computer right now" "there isn't time to call your kids and you don't need to bother them," "I'm a microsoft employee, we make windows, you can trust us", all that poo poo. I just really thought we'd trained her enough to not respond to scams but I think she focused on the ones where they send you an email or call you and didn't understand what a scam popup would look or act like.
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Yeah, that sucks. Well, uh if you need a distraction, new game: https://framed.wtf/ Guess a movie by a frame from it. You have 6 guesses, each wrong one gives you another frame.
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Apr 15, 2022 18:14
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Kalli posted:Yeah, that sucks. Got it in 2 
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Freaquency posted:Got it in 2 same, and I've never seen the movie 
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Same and same.
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Same but I have seen the movie
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Apparently that one was just really easy because same
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I was kind of surprised I got it in two.
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Apr 15, 2022 19:27
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No loving clue, never seen it. 
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I forgot that movie existed and I've never seen it so I didn't get it.
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Sorry Leper that really sucks. There’s a special level of hell for those scammers.
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Bird in a Blender posted:I was kind of surprised I got it in two. Must be the lunch beers because same
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I'm ashamed that I didn't get it until the last guess (but I never saw it). RIP
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Fifty Three posted:No loving clue, never seen it. I recognized Robin Williams's big rear end forehead in the second pic
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I've never even heard of that movie!
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Don’t let your cat get kidney disease. This special food is expensive.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Don’t get a cat.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Don’t let your cat get kidney disease. This special food is expensive. What kind do you have to get? Our cat has needed special food for his urinary crystals for years now, and I've just gotten used to the cost.
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ozymandius1024 posted:What kind do you have to get? Our cat has needed special food for his urinary crystals for years now, and I've just gotten used to the cost. It’s Hill’s kidney care dry food and some wet food. I got it straight from the vet to try out, so if I need more, I’ll look online for something cheaper. The dry food is like $9/lb. Also my furnace is on the fritz. Have a guy coming tomorrow morning to check it out. I think my blower motor is busted. It’s making a loud buzzing noise. Hoping I can keep it running through the night. At least it’s not super cold out. Going to be in the upper 40s and 50s.
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 There's a comfy empty couch and three beds around the main living area but no, this fluffy boy just wants to sleep on the floor all because Lena is sleeping on the top bed of the cat tree.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Don’t let your cat get kidney disease. This special food is expensive. When our dog died last November we got Hill's renal diet for him maybe a week before he lost his appetite for good, so now I have 90% of an $80 bag of prescription dog food that I can't give away because a shelter won't take food that's already open Please just let me give you this expensive and life-saving but not in my case lmao food!
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