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Zamujasa posted:Make all social media illegal except for one network that's only cute Jeremy Renner videos with zero commentary.
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I'm now getting spam via Google drive notifications, which ask me for approval for a doc named Only4U.pdf, shared by a different user name every time. Google is apparently aware of the issue.
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Mar 5, 2024 13:48
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I'm now getting spam via Google drive notifications, which ask me for approval for a doc named Only4U.pdf, shared by a different user name every time. Google is apparently aware of the issue. The red bull scandal is getting out of hand
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Facebook is down today. Can't login and password reset pops an error when you enter a new password. The whole thing has the feel of a phishing scam. But I talked to my sister, who is an employee, and she said they can't even log in to work. I was definitely triple checking the URL the whole time I was messing with my password stuff.
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bamhand posted:Facebook is down today. Can't login and password reset pops an error when you enter a new password. The whole thing has the feel of a phishing scam. But I talked to my sister, who is an employee, and she said they can't even log in to work. I was definitely triple checking the URL the whole time I was messing with my password stuff. It's been down all day now, 8+ hours? Did someone update the DNS again?
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Mar 6, 2024 07:02
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Comstar posted:It's been down all day now, 8+ hours? That last time it was BGP which is like DNS but even worse. 
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Mar 9, 2024 02:07
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o no my subscreption
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Mar 15, 2024 03:28
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Shoulda re-nwed it when you had the chance.
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Mar 15, 2024 07:34
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Oh hey, it's a random number I don't recognize, let's see what's up "Hey, it's Leah, I'm calling about your electricity bill?" "Get hosed, Leah!  " *hangs up*Lazy rear end scammers, SMH at the lack of grind over here
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Mar 16, 2024 00:13
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Me and all my homies hate Leah.
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Mar 16, 2024 00:18
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You don't answer the phone if the name doesn't come up. You let it go to voicemail and google it. Then you realise it was a courier trying to deliver you something and quickly run outside in the hopes that you haven't missed the package.
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Mar 16, 2024 01:41
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Inceltown posted:You let it go to voicemail and google it. When has this ever told you anything?
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Mar 16, 2024 01:53
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I just changed my setting to only ring through known numbers. Feels good man.
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Mar 16, 2024 01:57
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I simply have the Google Assistant screen my calls for me, which sort of takes as much time but also removes me enough to feel amused and not annoyed as their time is also wasted.
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Waste of Breath posted:When has this ever told you anything? It literally told me that the number I let through to voicemail the other day was the courier company trying to reach me. Which then allowed me to get my package before the courier left.
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Mar 16, 2024 11:09
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I feel like listening to the VM the courier left would have told you that also.
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Mar 16, 2024 14:28
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Congrats on getting lucky I guess. I've only ever seen it return phone lookup sites or unrelated false-positive businesses that have a similar but not identical number, found only after you click through to the website and look for contact info.
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Mar 16, 2024 14:36
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Tagra posted:o no my subscreption I found the spammer 
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HopperUK posted:I found the spammer I dunno, that seems pretty marginal.
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I got a message from ??? asking if I was still up for hiking on Saturday. I figured "Eh it's only a bit of effort" and sent a "sorry wrong person!" text back just in case. If not real i'm wasting a scammers time. win win They messaged back and it was clear it was chatGTP or something so I started talking about snails and pockets on women's clothes and I think I broke the bot to the point where it just wasn't telling me where to send it money? Or giving me any suspicious links to click? It's an independent business woman who loves god and I've had more productive convo's with 3 year old children.
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Desert Bus posted:I got a message from ??? asking if I was still up for hiking on Saturday. I figured "Eh it's only a bit of effort" and sent a "sorry wrong person!" text back just in case. If not real i'm wasting a scammers time. win win It's a pig butchering scam. They aren't going to send you a link now, they are going to spend the next couple weeks/months getting increasingly flirtatious while also talking more and more about the amazing profits they are making investing in crypto. They will then turn to talking about how great your life together will be if you both strike it rich, then they will send you a link. And you've had more productive conversations with 3yos because the person you are texting is a non-native-speaker working in a sweatshop carrying on 20 similar conversations from copy/pasted scripts and google translate.
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Mar 16, 2024 19:07
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They stopped messaging me after I told them I was going to bed. Been days and nothing more.
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Mar 16, 2024 19:25
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going from a recent John Oliver episode, messing with them might be harmful as its likely its just some sort of passport hostage whose job is to be the phone banks/call center. tbh its either best to just ignore them completely so their criminal org managers dont give them a talk.
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Mar 16, 2024 23:15
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PhazonLink posted:going from a recent John Oliver episode, messing with them might be harmful as its likely its just some sort of passport hostage whose job is to be the phone banks/call center. basically yeah https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/whos-behind-these-scammy-text-messages
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Here’s a gift link to a related story from the Times Seven months inside an online scam labor camp https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...&smid=url-share
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quote:U.S. authorities say that a key investor in the Dongmei Zone is Wan Kuok Koi, a convicted Chinese organized crime figure also known as “Broken Tooth.” Mr. Wan could not be reached for comment.
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Had a whatsapp last week about a 'job'. Business Account claiming to be from a legit recruitment place. Rang alarms immediately as they'll usually just ring, even if you've never interacted before. Cursory look at linkedIn told me no-one of that name worked there so just blocked it. Gave the agency a heads up and they emailed back this morning saying 'yeah, it's this:' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-68110626
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Not going to link this, but you can easily find it on r/writing:quote:Severely Scammed regarding my books A scam that only the arrogant will fall for, but it's really just the old "tech support scammers tell you you're being hacked" scam but with books. Yes, the third largest publisher in the US, who approached you out of the blue, will definitely need you to send them a couple thousand dollars to help publish your book. And Netflix too. The time of easy credit is over, so you're going to have to advance us some cash for casting
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quote:All my checks went to one fellow and I was a little suspicious. His name is Jerome S. Elero Concerning
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Too many friends of that writer have lied and told them their books are good rather than provide the painful truth that they’re barely literate, and saved them a bunch of money.
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"If anyone knows a real safe private way for us to publish our books please let us know" My dude, loving Roosh V and the rest of the shitlords he hung around with worked out how to publish a book on the internet a decade ago, it took me two seconds of googling to find Kindle Direct Publishing as well as a bunch of guides on how to use it. This is so dumb it feels like it's somehow the start of it's own scam.
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Mar 20, 2024 14:20
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Is the writing in that post representative of the writing quality in their books?
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To be fair, the publishing industry as a whole is basically a scam  But yeah, if you haven't even attempted to run the gauntlet of getting your manuscripts noticed in the pile of absolute dogshit, which is now a slush pile of that is saturated with AI-written hollow drek on top of everything, Netflix isn't going to randomly contact you and offer to make a movie of your work for a fee.
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I'm glad other people are calling out what a terrible loving writer that person is, jesus christ
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Understanding they are a scam magnet is actually more self awareness than most people in these situations have.
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I’m gonna guess their rationale as to why they’re a scam magnet is anything but self aware, mind.
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Been receiving a lot of fake invoices and receipts lately for things I didn't buy and services I don't have
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Seems like these things come in waves. Been getting 5 calls a day for the last couple days. Zero calls for months before that.
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I’m also getting a handful of calls a day for the last couple weeks now. Some spoof my city but most spoof my hometown which is an hour away and I haven’t lived there for over 20 years . Sometimes it shows one of the smaller towns around it. Don’t quite know what to make of that sort of specificity.
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Turn on the setting that silences calls from unknown numbers and sends them straight to voicemail.
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