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NESguerilla posted:I rented a place off of Craigslist. I don't have any reason to think it's a scam , but I am supposed to deposit the first months rent and security deposit directly into a Wells Fargo account, and just in case something goes wrong what can I do to protect myself? I realize that it's not unheard of to directly deposit rent as I have known people that do it, but it has me wary compared to just writing a check or something which I'm used to.=
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NESguerilla posted:I rented a place off of Craigslist. I don't have any reason to think it's a scam , but I am supposed to deposit the first months rent and security deposit directly into a Wells Fargo account, and just in case something goes wrong what can I do to protect myself? I realize that it's not unheard of to directly deposit rent as I have known people that do it, but it has me wary compared to just writing a check or something which I'm used to. Who actually owns the property? Look it up. It's not uncommon for people to break into an abandoned property, change the locks and rent it on CL until the bank or real owners find out. Usually the payment is in an untraceable format, but still I'd be wary. If they stole someone info and opened an account they could just withdraw it and run.
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May 30, 2015 03:47
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Nintendo Kid posted:Does it work or not work in Chrome? Since Opera and Chrome share most of their code these days, if it behaves the same in Chrome it's not just an Opera problem, but if it doesn't then its somethin in the Opera shell. This the pre-Chrome version of Opera, but it also works fine in Chromium.
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May 30, 2015 03:53
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ulmont posted:What do you think happens when someone deposits a check? There's an actual check to be recorded versus presumably cash being deposited right into someone else's account (I mean you can't write a check and deposit it in someone's account yourself without forging the signature after all, they're supposed to sign it). Tiggum posted:This the pre-Chrome version of Opera, but it also works fine in Chromium. Oh, then you should probably stop using a 2+ year old unsupported browser .
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May 30, 2015 03:55
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Bovril Delight posted:Who actually owns the property? Look it up. Heh. Reading about this scam is what made me all paranoid all of a sudden. Really I think anything fishy is incredibly unlikely. The landlord and guy that lived there seem legit and I even met the neighbors and they seemed nice. I've been there a couple of times to drop off boxes and everything seems fine. The main thing that I'm wondering is if depositing directly into an account is less safe than writing a check somehow. poo poo, I don't even know how this works to be honest since I can't write a check I hope I'm not supposed to bring cash. I'm hoping my debit card would work? I'm planning on asking the people at Wells Fargo about all of this too. No luck finding the property on any of the sites I found from google. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 04:13 on May 30, 2015 |
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May 30, 2015 04:11
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NESguerilla posted:Heh. Reading about this scam is what made me all paranoid all of a sudden. Really I think anything fishy is incredibly unlikely. The landlord and guy that lived there seem legit and I even met the neighbors and they seemed nice. I've been there a couple of times to drop off boxes and everything seems fine. The main thing that I'm wondering is if depositing directly into an account is less safe than writing a check somehow. poo poo, I don't even know how this works to be honest since I can't write a check I hope I'm not supposed to bring cash. I'm hoping my debit card would work? I'm planning on asking the people at Wells Fargo about all of this too. The bank will have a record of the transaction, just as if you'd written a check. It doesn't open up any secret bank backdoors where they can draw an arbitrary amount of money from your account in the future.
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May 30, 2015 05:46
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NESguerilla posted:Heh. Reading about this scam is what made me all paranoid all of a sudden. Really I think anything fishy is incredibly unlikely. The landlord and guy that lived there seem legit and I even met the neighbors and they seemed nice. I've been there a couple of times to drop off boxes and everything seems fine. The main thing that I'm wondering is if depositing directly into an account is less safe than writing a check somehow. poo poo, I don't even know how this works to be honest since I can't write a check I hope I'm not supposed to bring cash. I'm hoping my debit card would work? I'm planning on asking the people at Wells Fargo about all of this too. I'm Australian and this post is just so loving weird to me. No one writes cheques here, everything is done via direct deposit and it's perfectly normal and safe. We do it via web interface but I guess there's probably a way to do it via debit card somehow.
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May 30, 2015 06:04
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Well it's not like we use checks for everything, but since it's a new landlord I just want to make sure there is some sort of paper trail (literal or figurative) and I'm not just going to have to dump cash into this account. I probably should have just asked "can I use check or debit to deposit straight into someone else's account provided I have the acct #?" instead of going into the backstory.
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May 30, 2015 06:32
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tuyop posted:Where does the Indian burial ground trope come from originally? There was a lot of stuff in the early 19th century about US settlers being cursed by Natives. Plays like Tecumseh and Metamora were hugely popular in the 1820s and 30s. There is a lot about this in Werner Sollors's book Beyond Ethnicity. I suppose there must have been a transition from "cursed by dying Natives" to "curse hangs around burial ground" as Native removals hit their stride in the Jackson administration.
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May 30, 2015 06:58
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Is there still a CAD mock thread?
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May 30, 2015 13:57
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Baron Porkface posted:Is there still a CAD mock thread? Welcome... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu_eXegPAWc http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3689737
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May 30, 2015 14:03
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Kurtofan posted:Welcome... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu_eXegPAWc Could you please link the photoshop phriday loss.jgp compilation video?
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May 30, 2015 14:07
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Gravity Pike posted:The bank will have a record of the transaction, just as if you'd written a check. It doesn't open up any secret bank backdoors where they can draw an arbitrary amount of money from your account in the future. Except the landlord could just claim they deposited the money themselves if they wanted to gently caress you over. You write a check or do a wire transfer and there's a record that you have of the transaction versus dumping cash in some random bank account.
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May 30, 2015 15:43
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Nintendo Kid posted:Except the landlord could just claim they deposited the money themselves if they wanted to gently caress you over. You write a check or do a wire transfer and there's a record that you have of the transaction versus dumping cash in some random bank account. This is why receipts exist.
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May 30, 2015 16:56
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Organza Quiz posted:This is why receipts exist. The receipt wouldn't prove anything. It's why normal people and non-sketchy landlords don't ask you to just deposit cash into their bank account directly! It's seriously something you should only do to like give a close friend $20 or something else like that. It's putting yourself at risk for no reason.
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May 30, 2015 17:08
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jackpot posted:Lately I'm getting calls from numbers I don't recognize, and a second or so after I answer the phone it starts ringing again. I always hang up, because I assume it's some sort of bullshit where it's transferring me to some $20-per-minute thing, but is that it? Or is it something else? This happens all the time with my phone, both for answer/instant hang ups or if I decline the call. Think it's been this way since I updated to android lollipop. Annoying af.
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May 30, 2015 17:23
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Nintendo Kid posted:The receipt wouldn't prove anything. It's why normal people and non-sketchy landlords don't ask you to just deposit cash into their bank account directly! Agreed, just because our man has his receipt doesn't mean if he gets hosed out of the place he can go to the bank and say "yes I'd like my money back please."
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May 30, 2015 17:52
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Nintendo Kid posted:The receipt wouldn't prove anything. It's why normal people and non-sketchy landlords don't ask you to just deposit cash into their bank account directly! Most people I know use direct deposit to pay rent. Direct deposit works just like writing a check, except you don't have to worry about mailing it every month or having someone come pick it up. On your end the money get's taken out on time and it says where it's going and why; and on their end it says exactly who it came from and why. I can't think of any reason why you would think it different from a check.
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May 30, 2015 18:59
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TheLastManStanding posted:Most people I know use direct deposit to pay rent. Direct deposit works just like writing a check, except you don't have to worry about mailing it every month or having someone come pick it up. On your end the money get's taken out on time and it says where it's going and why; and on their end it says exactly who it came from and why. I can't think of any reason why you would think it different from a check. We're not talking direct deposit, which is a wire transfer with records on both ends, dude. We're talking going to the bank and depositing directly into someone else's account, which can only be done with cash or a forged signature on a check.
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May 30, 2015 19:08
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How long did it take yall to find out that the playlist "my mix" on youtube wasn't created by another user with surprisingly similar musical taste to your own?
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May 30, 2015 19:12
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Nintendo Kid posted:We're not talking direct deposit, which is a wire transfer with records on both ends, dude. We're talking going to the bank and depositing directly into someone else's account, which can only be done with cash or a forged signature on a check. Or, you know, "forging" your own signature on a check made out to yourself. So long as it's endorsed, you can deposit it anywhere you want.
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May 30, 2015 19:21
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Nintendo Kid posted:We're not talking direct deposit, which is a wire transfer with records on both ends, dude. We're talking going to the bank and depositing directly into someone else's account, which can only be done with cash or a forged signature on a check. Went down there today and you can write a check as for deposit or use a debit/ credit card. The guys at the bank seemed confused that I even thought it was weird and told me it is extremely common. I used a check.
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May 30, 2015 19:43
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Baron Porkface posted:How long did it take yall to find out that the playlist "my mix" on youtube wasn't created by another user with surprisingly similar musical taste to your own? I only listen to stuff outside my own library on the rare periods when I'm trying to find new stuff and up until last time I did it I would use grooveshark  . I never listened to music in youtube is what I mean.
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May 30, 2015 20:04
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program666 posted:I only listen to stuff outside my own library on the rare periods when I'm trying to find new stuff and up until last time I did it I would use grooveshark Yeah, I use Songza for music discovery and soundcloud for playing particular songs. I guess I've used YouTube at a friends house before, but it always struck me as a weird way to listen to music all the time because of the constant ads.
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May 30, 2015 20:12
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Baron Porkface posted:Could you please link the photoshop phriday loss.jgp compilation video? I don't have a link to it, maybe ask in the thread.
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May 30, 2015 20:18
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tuyop posted:Yeah, I use Songza for music discovery and soundcloud for playing particular songs. I guess I've used YouTube at a friends house before, but it always struck me as a weird way to listen to music all the time because of the constant ads. I don't watch tv for almost a decade and it's hilarious how google seemingly doesn't want me to use their service as a replacement.
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May 30, 2015 20:49
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tuyop posted:Yeah, I use Songza for music discovery and soundcloud for playing particular songs. I guess I've used YouTube at a friends house before, but it always struck me as a weird way to listen to music all the time because of the constant ads. program666 posted:Also the youtube interface is goddamn awful to play around with the queue, so you can't just search for something and "play next".
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May 30, 2015 21:06
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Is it disrespectful to veterans and active duty personnel for me to have a infrared reflective flag patch on my bag if I've never been in the military?
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May 30, 2015 23:35
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Nintendo Kid posted:We're talking going to the bank and depositing directly into someone else's account, which can only be done with cash or a forged signature on a check.
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May 30, 2015 23:39
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b0nes posted:Is it disrespectful to veterans and active duty personnel for me to have a infrared reflective flag patch on my bag if I've never been in the military? Also anyone who cares is an idiot and you should do it just to piss on their Cheerios.
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May 30, 2015 23:58
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b0nes posted:Is it disrespectful to veterans and active duty personnel for me to have a infrared reflective flag patch on my bag if I've never been in the military? Nope. Is it disrespectful of other patriots to be a patriot?
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May 31, 2015 03:27
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b0nes posted:Is it disrespectful to veterans and active duty personnel for me to have a infrared reflective flag patch on my bag if I've never been in the military? No, it just makes you look like a dumb nerd and you should be aware that you're a punchline for everyone who walks by and knows what you're wearing. Do you also wear marpat pants in public as casual clothing?
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May 31, 2015 04:23
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Baron Porkface posted:Is it proper decorum that The Queen not sing God Save the Queen? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3dR7u7TPNo Yes, it is absolutely proper that the Queen not sing that song. An analogy I can draw for you is like someone singing along with "Happy Birthday To You" at their own party.
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May 31, 2015 06:37
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Memento posted:Yes, it is absolutely proper that the Queen not sing that song. An analogy I can draw for you is like someone singing along with "Happy Birthday To You" at their own party. She must be so bored of hearing that loving song.
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May 31, 2015 11:13
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ineptmule posted:She must be so bored of hearing that loving song. The Sex Pistols are pretty awesome all the time and it is her own drat fault if she doesn't like it.
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May 31, 2015 14:23
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I'd like to know what people in other places think of English-language books/films/whatever gets translated. Is there a place where I can easily find that out?
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May 31, 2015 22:57
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Dzhay posted:I'd like to know what people in other places think of English-language books/films/whatever gets translated. Is there a place where I can easily find that out? Well, not everyone here has English for a first language 
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May 31, 2015 23:03
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I've got a potentially stupid question. Is there a thread that specifically discusses features specific to AT&T U-verse? They issued a recent firmware update for their DVR and I'd like to ask a specific question in an appropriate thread 
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May 31, 2015 23:22
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Kurtofan posted:Well, not everyone here has English for a first language True, I could make a thread about it, but I was hoping someone else had already done something like that somewhere on the web.
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Dzhay posted:True, I could make a thread about it, but I was hoping someone else had already done something like that somewhere on the web. 
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