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Sharks Eat Bear posted:kind of a variation on a classic scam, but just seemed like the weirdest twist. expensive meat deliveries seems like a relatively difficult product to base the scam around Nah, it's not that weird, it's a classic hustle in it's own right. Some of them operate like you described. Some of them operate like the white van speaker scam: "We couldn't make the scheduled delivery and it'll unthaw before we get back to the warehouse so we're willing to let it go to you at a great price" etc.
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Marenghi posted:Hasn't that been the case for the longest time. Counterfeits are usually built in the same factories as the real deal just with the production ramped up and less quality control. You really can't generalize like that anymore. Sure, it happens sometimes, but there are a lot of factories cranking out counterfeits these days. Hell, I've seen the counterfeit version hit the market before the authentic when the knock-off factory saw pictures of the prototype product posted on the internet, cloned it and manufactured it.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:I didn't click the link, but another scammy type of business that I don't think has been mentioned yet are those companies that advertise HOT TIPS TO BEAT THE GOVERNMENT but when you fork over your cash all you get is a cruddy pile of publicly available information. Like the scammers just write to various government agencies and make copies of the information because it's not copyrighted or is freely copyable, and charge tons of money for this SECRET INSIDER INFORMATION. 
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The Sexual Shiite posted:You get a cold call. Big Clive takes it to bits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASnLL6ebaco
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Cyrano4747 posted:If he wasn't just casing the place for a burglary he probably had some cheap router he was going to try to sell as being the fancy highest tech poo poo. Get some grandma who doesn't know gently caress all and you can talk about how their old router is giving them slower internet because it isn't comparable with the fancy glass fiber laser quantum switching unit that he, as an ISP worker, just installed down the block. This would also explain why he was put out by him knowing his exact router as that implies he isn't the kind of person who can be convinced they need more gigabytes in their thruware to prevent their packets from getting bad sectors. No way, that was a totally a Centurylink sales pitch; that's exactly how their door-to-door salesmen operate. Their pitch starts out with "we just upgraded to fiber in your neighborhood!" and it's as truthful as you'd expect from a door-to-door salesmen. It could mean anything from offering fiber to the home on your street, fiber to the central office or fiber buried somewhere in your state. It's the same meaningless marketing buzzword to them now as it was 10 years ago when Qwest, a telcom they purchased, was selling 20mbps "Fiber-Optic Internet"  "Just some random dude with a Centurylink ID" is how they dress. They're weird and pushy.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:...but the theoretical basis for detection still exists. Proteus Jones posted:Honestly outside of lab conditions and being only feet away, I fail to see how anyone can detect a passive receiver. Apart from crystal radio sets receivers are not truly passive. Certain types of receivers leak a notorious amount of RF as they are receiving and there are ways to force them to leak more, remotely (potentially useful for detecting some types of IEDs). It was, during wartime, used to locate spies. Outlawing ham radio during the wars made it easier to detect people using such equipment. It's also been used by police to detect if you're using a radar detector in places where they aren't legal. Radar detector detector I don't put much stock in the "TV Detector Vans" actually doing much detecting, but the British absolutely did have the technology and deployed it in mobile units to track down spies years ago.
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Collateral Damage posted:Don't buy merch at shows. It's always stupidly expensive and the event organizer takes 25-50% of the profits. Buy it from the band's own store, it's going to be cheaper and the band gets a larger part of the profit. Lol, you like music popular enough to have "event organizers" instead of some dude named Chris thats praying he can get some band that lives out of their van to show up on a week day. Hot Tip: dudes living out of their 12 passenger rental van selling merch at shows are turning your merch purchases into gas money, meals and hotel room stays. I've missed out on a whole shitload of "tour-only" releases by not having the cash on hand to pick up a bunch of 7"s.
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Reminded of the first, and only, time I had the "jab a cd into your hand and demand money scam." I was a teenaer, high as gently caress, just leaving the Family Values Tour and some jackass jammed a rap cd in my hand. I had no idea it wasn't legit. I think I just dropped it on the ground when he demanded money. Some dude had just shoved a Digital Hardcore sampler at me. The Digital Hardcore sampler was legit. It's still one of the my favorite things I've gotten for free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ncm9J8KXU50 It had as MSRP of $2 at music shops. They were literally shoving them at people like they were prostitute cards after a show.
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Mar 16, 2018 10:45
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Collateral Damage posted:Of course if it's a tiny bar show where the band themselves are selling the merch off the edge of the stage after the set, that's a different question. Those guys are probably not going to have a merch store anyway. Speaking of selling things just off the edge of the stage.... ATR getting arrested at an anti-fascist riot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb-wgQ9DsMw
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Sep 7, 2018 05:51
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ChocNitty posted:A lot of city kids are going to the suburbs to scam people with these coupon cards that supposedly give big discounts on local businesses, like unlimited two for ones. Asking $20 for these plastic cards, claiming its a school fundraiser. I overheard one reasonable person asking to see the kids student ID, and of course he gave a BS excuse. You've never hear of fundraisers selling coupon books before?
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Nov 20, 2018 21:11
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bamhand posted:I keep getting calls about medical grade braces. Is that such a large demographic that it's worth robo calling over? Yup, "every person on Medicare" is a large demographic. I watch the weird over-the-air networks you've never heard of: braces make up a pretty good chunk of the commercials. It's the ol' "they're free! We'll bill Medicare (several thousand dollars) for you!" poo poo. It's straight up Medicare fraud. Once enough of the brace sellers get busted they'll move on to some other product to scam money out of Medicare with. https://www.mcall.com/news/watchdog/mc-nws-medicare-back-brace-scam-watchdog-20170904-story.htm It's similar to the old electric wheelchair scam but the scammers don't need to get a doctor (or fake being doctors themselves) to say you need a knee or back brace like they did with the wheelchairs. Ever wonder why you don't see Hoveround commercials anymore? The government started busting people for fraud and Medicare updated the price they'd pay so the fraudsters wouldn't make $4000 in profit on every sale. https://amac.us/medicare-scam-just-kept-rolling/
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ToxicSlurpee posted:It's one of those situations where they aren't technically lying as there are a few people making a crap ton of money off of it. What they never tell you is that that's a very small handful of people at the top in the inner circle and I'll let you in on a secret; you aren't getting in. Ever. I forget the numbers but the amount of people actually making any decent money off of MLM is somewhere in the single digit percentages toward the low end; like 1% or some poo poo. People making six figures doing it is in the fraction of a percent. You are way, waaaaaaay too generous in your estimation. People making four figures, gross, is typically in the single digit percents or lower. You don't even get above the poverty line as a 1%'er in a MLM.
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BiggerBoat posted:2 young looking kids (maybe 18-20 years old) showed up at my door the other day claiming to be from ATT and apologized for "not looking like it" and told me they were informing people of some "services they were upgrading" or some such poo poo. I could have pressed it and asked "why don't I believe you? What department of ATT?". Phone companies absolutely do send scammy looking people around like that. They don't bother with stuff like uniforms or anything because the job turnover is too high for an expense like that. It could have been scammers or employees (but I repeat myself); they're basically indistinguishable. In my area they'll send people around like that saying "$phone company is upgrading to fiber in your neighborhood!" and try to get you to switch to DSL. By "neighborhood" they generally mean "maybe somewhere in your metro, but definitely not to your house."
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Mar 29, 2019 21:45
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CleverHans posted:Roulette: European wheels have a single zero on them, standard US ones typically have 2 zeros: I have been seeing ones that have *3* zeros on them with, of course, the same payouts as the single and double zero wheels. You do the math on that. The house edge is 2.7%, 5.26%, and 7.69%
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Sep 10, 2019 06:47
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:unless your address is so weird that you can't imagine anyone having that address plus a number or whatever, I'd say the most likely answer is that someone typo'd their own address as yours Or they just don't understand you don't get to own an email address just because you want it. Pretty common with FirstnameLastname@gmail/hotmail/outlook I hear. I've seen people track down the phone numbers of the folks signing up for stuff with the wrong address like that. It often ends with a verbal argument when the owner can't get it through the idiot's brain that this isn't your email address, and never will be, no matter how many times you try and claim it is.
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Oct 18, 2019 09:49
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ToxicSlurpee posted:For better or for worse sometimes somebody needs to borrow money. A bank I've used since childhood is a rural co-op. Farming in this country would basically collapse entirely if farmers weren't able to borrow against future earnings (and/or government payouts). It's a sad fact of life that if they can't get loans every year to put the crops in the ground, they'll have to sell the farm to one of the international conglomerates. Trump has royally hosed these people over, despite most of them voting for him. There are people in /r/legaladvice asking what to do as they lose their farms because they trusted the Trump administration to pay out what they promised, and then reneged on. The co-op I've been a member of since I was a child is quite successful with their farming loans and has bought up quite a few of the other co-ops in it's area (pre-trump). I expects some hits as the local branches are closed as time goes on. Sydin posted:the mail I'm getting for her seems to be winding down to 1-2 things a week. Highlight was about a week ago when I got at least six small package envelopes, all from China, which apparently contained hair clips according to their labels. Chinese companies will literally send random compromised accounts a bunch of junk so they can inflate their "verified reviews" on places like Amazon. You can google it as "amazon brushing scam" or just "brushing scam". quote:"Here's how the scam works: A seller has something listed on the website, then a fake account created by them or someone close to them buys the item and sends it somewhere random. That account can then leave a glowing "verified review," which is worth a lot to sellers. " https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadesh...t/#4f85977573da
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Midjack posted:Where’s the scam here again? The scam is that people believe this propaganda: luxury handset posted:e: florida distributes some (could be more, imo) money to local and college education in the form of grants and scholarships States that use lottery proceeds to fund education often take as much, or more, of the lottery money out of the education budget and spend it elsewhere. "We actually were better off, in operating dollars, before the lottery," said Charlotte County District Spokesperson Mike Riley. "The lottery money isn't enhancement money," Riley said. "It's replacement money, and not as much money is being replaced." https://www.nbc-2.com/story/38107458/how-much-money-goes-to-schools-from-the-florida-lottery-jackpot
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Yawgmoth posted:You argue that temp agencies aren't an MLM but then you say this, which absolutely sounds like some MLM bullshit. Protecting sales lists sounds absolutely nothing at all like an MLM and I have no idea how you could even begin to make that stretch.
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Nov 30, 2019 20:14
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Tubgoat posted:The "flu" "vaccine" is a scam. Vaccinations are not a scam, they are the foundation of reaching adulthood alive and uncrippled. But the flu "vaccine" is bullshit. It's never the correct one. YIKES If the people that choose the few flu variants to vaccinate against each year are wrong, it's not a scam. They just predicted wrong. It happens every year. They don't have a loving time machine, you know?
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BiggerBoat posted:No one under the age of 40 will know what that means. Records were actually about to overtake cd sales for the first time since '86. They're really quite popular as a physical medium. You've been out of the loop a lot longer than you think. LP sales have loving skyrocketed over the last 10 to 15 years. (One big downside is that the kids don't know the plural of vinyl is vinyl. They call records "vinyls.") One of the two places left that can supply a required piece of the record pressing supply chain burned down in February. Things are not looking good right now. https://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/business/8550477/vinyl-record-industry-apollo-masters-plant-fire
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Mar 27, 2020 05:17
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TheParadigm posted:That's not actually a bad idea. Virtual, or "ghost," restaurants aren't new. These sort of places already exist but they mostly fly under the radar. Door Dash has had it's own shared kitchen in the bay area for a while now: Chick-fil-A has been renting space there for about a year now. Some restaurants even operate their own virtual restaurant out of their kitchen. Chuck E Cheese calls itself Pasqually's Pizza on delivery apps. It's not the same pizza they sell in the restaurant. It's Just Wings is Chili's. https://www.businessinsider.com/virtual-brands-owned-by-chain-restaurants-pasquallys-just-wings-2020-8
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Bioshuffle posted:What's the deal with those door to door electric provider services? It's got to be done kind of scam, right? Ya know about MVNO, the Mobile Virtual Network Operators? The folks that sell substandard access to AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon or Sprint? Kinda like that, but for power. Like the "Boost Mobile" of electricity. They resell something you can get directly. The electric middlemen will almost certainly cost you more, despite what the salesperson at your door says. Nobody that goes door-to-door promising to save you money is good for you. Not paving/asphalt, not fiber, not shingles, not trees, not power. You get screwed 100% of the time. Power and fiber "scammer's" are often locals in my area that hire temps that don't even understand they're working a scam. Some of the biggest DSL companies enjoy these people. The asphalt and tree scammers are summer seasonal professional scammers. They migrate up from the south (don't poo poo where you eat) when it warms up here in the north and station their wives and children to beg in suburban neighborhoods while the men work their scams. Never ever ever ever ever agree to let somebody "refinish your driveway" or "trim/cut down" your trees if they knocked on your door. They'll promise still sorts of things, take your money, and disappear into the ether.
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Also, be vary vary wary of anybody trying to convince you to put solar on your roof under contract. People get absolutely hosed when they go to sell the house and the problem is going to keep getting worse as more people keep signing up for these "deals."
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nonathlon posted:
That's what Costco Auto purports to do. If a dealership tries to play dealership games while selling through the program, narc then out to Costco. Some goons have bought cars through the program. Stop in to the Costco thread in GBS and ask about it.
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Volmarias posted:My favorite is "real estate investor seeks trainee, serious inquiries only" which... I'm not sure who you plan to rope in with that. An absolute poo poo-ton of people. Like MLMs, the real money in that scam comes from selling classes and conferences. It's pretty funny seeing some 21 year old take out an hour log pre-roll ad on YouTube to try and convince people to buy whatever real estate scam training he's offering.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I've gotten several emails from "Google" letting me know "your photo has been chosen". That's all it says and there's a link to "Google". Google does actually send out updates to tell you how many people have viewed your photos if you take pictures at businesses. You'd think the scam mails would at least attempt to emulate the legit mails, but they don't. Also half my spam is in cyrillic these days for some drat reason.
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Feb 26, 2021 05:55
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Midjack posted:That was a thing with really old electromechanical switches, the call didn't terminate until the originator hung up. I'd be amazed if anything installed in the last 50 years was vulnerable but if the author lives in an old part of town in London that prides itself on old stuff or something similar I could see it happening. It worked the opposite when I was a kid. People used to prank call us and we'd set the handset next to the stereo and tie up the phone line for hours.
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Tubgoat posted:What is the scam here? I assume it's "get a hotel clerk to agree to receive a usuriously-priced parcel or no parcel and bilk the hotel for multiple thousand dollars in fraudulent shipping charges for a package that may exist," but I can't really figure out step 2 or 3. Usually they want to use your hotel as a dropoff point for stuff they bought with a stolen card. Sometimes they'll make a reservation, see that the package was received, make an excuse to cancel the reservation and pay to have you reship it. It could very well be something different, but that's the shipping scam I hear about from front desk workers.
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Tubgoat posted:I'm not sure if we send them on, but we frequently do have packages sent to guests who have stayed here, I'm not responsible for them, though. Yeah, receiving and holding packages is a normal thing. That's why y'all are targeted. All it takes is one employee loving up and some scammer gets a few $thousand in stolen laptops or whatever. Probably GPUs these days. ID for package or return to sender is about all you can do. Scammers know they can take advantage of the normalcy of receiving packages and the poor training of the day people handling them. Like I said before, they **might** be trying a different scam, 'cause they called a NA. I'm just guessing it's the usual scam but they wanted you to leave a note to "hold it for "Mr. Patel, the "owner"" and then "Mr. Patel's assistant" would come to pick up the package and you, or the FDA on days, was just supposed to ignore the wrong name on the package, and any ID policy if you have one, qand hand it over to "the "owner's" assistant." That, or the "owner's assistant" would contact your hotel later with a shipping label to reship the package.
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You can try replying "Alaye" to txt scammers. It's basically a codeword for "I'm a scammer too, stop wasting our time." "Omo ode" if you want to call them a dumbass. https://www.legit.ng/1031944-8-insults-yoruba-mothers-use-will-reset-brain.html
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Eric the Mauve posted:"oh golly gee there's just no way to stop these obvious bot calls from getting through" unless someone is paying them handsomely to look the other way. IIRC phone companies pay to dial in to a different company's system which is balanced by calls coming out of that system. (The internet works that way) The scammers/spammers dial out from little-used interchanges, which make the fees balance out or at least shift the payments to be more favorable to the small operator. This is the system that used to make calls to cell phones cost more in the US. This can be abused to collect more money on in-bound calls as well, like for 900 numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_rates Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering Peering is why you can sometimes get a better ping to games using a VPN. Comcast tries to keep as much of it's traffic on its own network to save money and it often uses shittier routing. I'm 11 jumps though the Comcast network to reach Google's California DNS server and 8 jumps through my VPN.
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Pekinduck posted:In Massachusetts retailers must take cash but I think that's an unusual law. Unfortunately uncommon. Laws that require bars and restaurants to take cash should be the norm. "Card only" places discriminate against the poor and unbanked. Restaurants shouldn't force you to scan a QR code to look at a menu. A lot of people have difficulty reading a phone menu and it's literally age discrimination to not have printed menus. Zamujasa posted:not since they got rid of the $1.50 polish sausage We had brats, then polish, then brats again before they discontinued the alternative sausages. The people that miss the polish bug me because they don't even know that they were missing out on the superior brat option. Brat with kraut, onion, brown mustard was so, so vastly superior to anything else. The only thing even close was a polish with everything + pepper packet + parmesan packet.
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Midjack posted:You get weird fuckery with things like that sometimes; it was not uncommon for industrial equipment to do a bunch of direct access or some homegroan custom interface scheme and sometimes the emulators fall short on nonstandard comms like that. That will be a longer term solution than a shoebox of new floppies if it works though, and if your bossmasters aren't super cheapskates lmao they are it's worth a few bucks of company money to investigate, since they definitely aren't going to buy machines made after the World Trade Center was destroyed. You can get converters made for specific CNC controllers. https://www.shopfloorautomations.com/hardware/floppy-connect/ These folks claim to make 600 models. https://floppyusbemulator.com/check-compatibility
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I lost the window I had this saved in: Ya'll need Blockada. It's adblock, for Android https://blokada.org/ It creates a fake VPN and works like a pi-hole You can either run a real VPN, or the Blockada VPN. You could also use a VPN provider that blocks ads. Your choice. You can't run Blockada and your usual mobile VPN.
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greazeball posted:I teach college courses and when I ask, it's probably less than 10% of students run an adblocker. Most common reason why is "meh" followed by "it's too complicated/I'm too lazy to figure it out". I've also heard from a number of students that you always have to allow all the cookies and trackers or the websites won't work properly. Like, wtf? Seriously? 10%? Jesus Christ, that explains why I have to explain over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again that every single Facebook and Instagram advertisement is an outright scam, or at best, a dropship company and you could buy it direct from China for like 1/10th the price.
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:The text actually did say that, I fooled myself into thinking it might be a mistake, because why would someone ask for this otherwise. You could try adding "Alaye" to your reply. Supposedly it's a code word Nigerian scammers use to identify each other to avoid wasting each other's time. For those dating goons out there, it might be worth slipping in your dating profile. Perhaps as a middle/"nickname" in your name? Mister Kingdom posted:Got a new one today: a text telling me my EBT card has been locked. That's loving evil as hell, jesus.
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