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One day I was feeling extra generous and some lady came up to me in a Kroger parking lot asking for money for her infant son who had nothing to eat. I went to the ATM in the store to pull out a $20 for them. When I came back out, she was waiting for me... with her family... in their Lexus... with the infant son in the backseat, bottle already full, happily drinking away. "I promise I'll pay you back, look, you can call me on my phone to prove this is my number!" (as she holds up her new iPhone) They did not get my $20. I was so disgusted by that one that I've since stopped giving money to strangers completely.
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USB sticks? Pshh, I found a Toshiba laptop hard drive in the street a couple years ago. I really should see what's on it, if it's even working.
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My friend got an email yesterday and was really worried because she told me there was "personal information" in it. Turned out to be a scam attempt where some lady was saying the police were asking her for information on her whereabouts; the scammer copied in her address from 5 years ago to try to make it look convincing. There was a Word doc attachment of some kind. I told her to report it as spam and delete it immediately, and under no circumstances should she do anything else like reply to it and definitely do not open the attachment. I had to convince her that addresses like that are not really private information; anyone can search for addresses online or get them from public records like courts and such, and cross-reference with email addresses (or just get lucky with guessing things like lastname-firstinitial@gmail.com). Luckily there wasn't any other info in the email or she might have been tempted to respond to it immediately.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Anyway, scams. I ran into a few when I visited Hong Kong, but at least I only really fell for one.  Yeah, uhh, sounds like you fell for more than one there.I feel it's a general rule that if someone is physically forcing you into something then you probably shouldn't stay there. I'm sure you realized that in hindsight, though.
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Apr 8, 2017 14:31
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Midjack posted:Posted in the BWM thread but belongs here too. Ouch. He spent $1400 on a life lesson, but I couldn't believe he kept falling for it even after seeing the car and everyone/everything in it.
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Oct 29, 2018 17:05
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Mister Kingdom posted:I just got a text from Wells-Fargo telling me my debit card has been locked. Yep, the second you respond to them with anything, they've got your number pegged as a live one and you're going to get more spam. And anything offered in the text is almost guaranteed to be a scam.
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Nov 3, 2018 02:14
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I bought a coupon book a few years ago from a pre-med student going door-to-door doing fundraising. I thumbed through it and saw enough places we'd normally visit that it was worth the $20 or so we spent.gaj70 posted:That doesn't make any sense. The word "become" implies a change in state I have become uninterested in your posting.
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Nov 20, 2018 22:35
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Saw a post on r/bestoflegaladvice today and thought of this thread. Here's the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/a027o7/i_cashed_a_fraudulent_check_and_now_the_bank_is/ quote:I was selling an item($800) on Craigslist and a buyer wanted to pay via check. He sent me a check in the mail but it was for much more than what the item was worth($3,000). He said it was a mistake that his assistant made and to wire me back $2000 and keep an extra $200 for my trouble and he would send a shipping company to come pick up my item.
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Nov 25, 2018 17:43
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Yep, the wire check fraud is an old one at this point. It's one of the most common Craigslist scams, so much so that it's on their page reviewing how to avoid common scams.
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Nov 25, 2018 19:14
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Walmart tried to do the same thing when I worked there. Literally nobody took the card. They kept trying to push it and were dropping hints that traditional paychecks and direct deposit were going to go away but everybody's response was basically "get hosed." Wow, what was Walmart's response to that? I feel like they're the kind of company that would just fire everyone and replace them in a week.
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Nov 27, 2018 16:25
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I pretty much always have my phone on vibrate unless I really need to know when someone's calling me or I'm on-call overnight.Piell posted:Just block all non contact numbers, that's what I do. If it's an actual person who wants to reach me they can leave a message. Can you actually do this to unknown/new numbers on Android? I know on 8.0 you can send all of a contact's calls to Voicemail.
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bamhand posted:Not sure if it's limited to bikes or if that's just shows up for me due to my interests but every couple weeks Facebook will have ads for $5000 bikes being sold for $75. A bunch of different manufacturers with pictures and info ripped off the MFG website. Anyone else see these for other products? Like buy a new Tesla for $200! We will sell you this new house in Manhattan for $5000. The prices are laughably unbelievable. Also why not just sell things at a believable discount and just not deliver the product. It would at least be harder to tell that it's a scam in that case. First thing this makes me think of is penny auction sites.
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MSG is literally a "savory salt". Honestly, it's about as bad for you as regular table salt.
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Jul 16, 2019 22:57
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The biggest problem with chip readers for me is that everywhere nearby seems to use a lovely reader. The slot is at a downward angle and holds the card loosely, so the card inevitably slides a few millimeters out of the reader and CARD READ ERROR, PLEASE RE-INSERT CARD
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Aug 2, 2019 19:03
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 So uh, here's one. My wife got some weird spam calendar invite. Turns out people can just send you an email with a bogus calendar invite, and if you have the option enabled to automatically add Gmail invites to your calendar (it's on by default), you'll see whatever message they added. It's a simple measure to disable that feature, but man, what a pain.
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Oh hey, I missed printer ink chat? Well, allow me to share this great video from last year. The markup on printer ink is absolutely bonkers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHX6tHdQGiQ Seriously, either buy a laser printer, or do your printing outside the home (office, library, Staples, etc).
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