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Fruits of the sea posted:Yeah, a debit card is sometimes used as a scorched earth solution for folks who have spending issues, gambling addiction or similiar. It isn't perfect (and one can also get a CC card with built-in spending limits) but it works. Also good as a kid's first card. My parents got me a credit card when I first started driving and explained that it was just for gas and, like, poo poo I got explicit permission for, with the understanding that they'd be fine toothed combing that poo poo. But mostly it was for building a credit history so I'd have one before I needed it, and so they could sit down and teach me how to check my bills for fuckery, budget out spending when using plastic, demystify the process, etc. Even as a dumb teenager in what I will for brevity's sake call a libertarian phase, I was like "oh, this is one of those traps that keep poor people poor because they didn't have anyone to explain this poo poo."
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Parallelwoody posted:I get a pig butchering text about once a week. This latest one, I just send a pic of the conversation with the previous one after the "Hello." text. Their response was "E.O" and then separately "Leaf". That some kind of scam lingo or code? May be the bot doing weird poo poo because it doesn't know how to handle the response. Like, the writer straight up failed to foresee someone replying with a picture. Or they don't care because that means you're not a good mark
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BiggerBoat posted:I seem to remember some connection between the cops and the towing companies too, where the police would ticket the cars, then call BubbaTow and the company would kick back a %, cash of course, to the cop(s) who led them to the car. There were a few parking lots that were notorious in the small college town I was in that liked to tow people's cars who were going to Midnight Movies and we only learned the hard way not to park at Roy Rogers Chicken because the NO PARKING sign was almost intentionally hidden. What else are they gonna do? It's the middle of the night at a Roy Rogers. Might as well gently caress with people.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I just realized that when I google my phone number, Jonathan's name comes up... a few times, actually, with those data mining sites that list my number as a number that he "has or had". Which is weird, since I've had this number for 20 years, though it has transferred to different carriers. I get routine robo calls and texts for a specific person who I know exists but have never met. I think some info scraper got their wires crossed. Then every scammer who uses that pastebin calls me to offer me lowballs on property I've never been to, but that matches what I can dig up on my doppelganger. There's a chance you can sic them on Jonathan if you can find a number, like passing off a cursed artifact that returns if you try to throw it away.
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bird with big dick posted:The white van speakers aren’t mediocre they’re literal trash. Like barely capable of reproducing sound at all. They’re probably worse than the speakers built into your TV. They're selling whatever they stole. Quality varies.
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Zopotantor posted:They usually are, though? At least they used to be. These days, it varies. Some are paper, others are polypropylene, kevlar, or various other materials. Tweeters can be metal.
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All the robocalls I've gotten for a while now leave voicemails that start mid sentence because the scammer didn't program it to wait for the beep. I can't even tell what the angle is from what gets captured.
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:Usually when they do that for me they put the number at the end so I call asking what they want. Or would if I was dumb. Some do, some put the number in the middle so I hear, like, "-even seven four nine. If you do not-Message Deleted"
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Professor Shark posted:Just found a new one in my Junk folder: it’s a poorly spelled email from a relative to “Joshua” reminding him to keep track of Grandma’s medicine or else it could be fatal, but also could you keep an eye out for the delivery truck? It could also be there's no link and it's really trying to bait a reply ("I think you have the wrong address") as the hook for the next stage. I've gotten Nigerian prince style spam that didn't ask me to do anything, just "I am rich but now I'm dying of cancer and I realize what is really important please be good to your family God bless," end of email.
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Agents are GO! posted:Just remembering the Shoplifting thread from aeons ago which ended... poorly, iirc On Reddit, people used to post their hauls in r/shoplifting, then on the same amount post in r/legal advice about how they'd been falsely accused of theft. Just the dumbest loving people on earth.
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FMguru posted:R/Shoplifting eventually got shut down, and people tried to relaunch it as a "roleplaying" forum (where people would talk "in character" about their hauls and their techniques...that their characters would be doing in a LARP, hypothetically). Reddit admins didn't fall for that, either. *dons mustache glasses* "hello, this is the pile of random electronics and makeup that I didn't steal today"
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Midjack posted:Those exponentials add up pretty quickly and there's probably some checksumming and similar stuff going on in there to ensure that the entire space isn't valid. Could there be something on Amazon's end that tracks what cards have been reported as sold? I've come across gift cards that had to be activated by the cashier to work but don't know if that's just something on the card.
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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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BiggerBoat posted:That sucks and also rules. It's absolutely an arms race. Someone invents a new scheme, and it takes spam filters and such a while to notice. For months I'd get a notification every couple weeks about someone wanting to share a PDF with me on google docs. I have no idea if Google plugged that hole or the guy running that scam got hit by a train. Maybe both. Hopefully both.
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