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Gobbeldygook posted:Just remembered the name of it, they're selling "flye cards". Cool, now you can leave all your credit/debit cards in the ATM at once. Efficiency!
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ToxicSlurpee posted:My personal favorite robocalls are at it again; they keep calling me to tell me that there is "no problem with my credit card." They'll claim they're from the credit card company but never, ever say which one. Then it's "however, we can..." and a suggestion that I press one and/or call them back. Nice credit rating you got there, it'd be a shame if
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Haifisch posted:Even if you only get one a week or so, how often is an unknown-to-you number going to be anything important? If it actually is important, they'll leave a message. I've given my personal cell out at work, so I answer unrecognized numbers with a professional-sounding 'Hi this is <first name>' but I'll immediately hang up for anything other than a legit call. Also regarding your spoofing comment, the exception to the above is if I get a call from <first 6 digits of my number>-<random last 4>, those are always spoofers and they can talk to my voicemail.
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Don Gato posted:I didnt get telemarketers calling me until I enlisted, then everyone and their mother wanted to sell me health insurance and life insurance for some reason. Not sure what the logic was, they weren't even good plans unless I was planning on some insurance fraud or something. Thank you for your service, I am proud to offer you a 10 year old Camaro with nothing down and only 30% interest. Because we love America.
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I worked at a legit place that would use verbal verification for low dollar (3 digits/month, business to business) agreements. Our verbal verification consisted of more than the word 'yes' though.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:yeah. like, my employer has us call a call center for the annual employee benefits process. most of the time I spend on the call with them is repeating my answers to yes/no questions, and listening to the rep rattle off paragraphs of legalese sorry your employer cant afford computers yet
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Old Binsby posted:but Accentures reputation isn't that it's a super fun place to work its great if
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technically and legally legit != cool and good place to work E: I guess it depends on your posting as all temp/contract jobs do. I won't drop my favorite (so far) contracting house in here for life/goon firewall reason, but they are my favorite because the pay check showed up on time and I only dealt with them enough to set up hire paperwork/direct deposit. goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Jul 29, 2017 |
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Depressio111117 posted:I call the number, get a a woman with a very thick accent who asks for my name and the first line of my address (?). I didn't even want to give her that much So what information did you give her?
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 Fake edit for content: I used to work for Comcast and their customer service reps are graded on how many 'saves' they can make, where they convince you not to cancel your service when you call to do so. Combined with lax oversight, there's a very good chance your service isn't actually cancelled. If you had returned your cable boxes, you'd have a leg to stand on when you dispute it. Unfortunately you left your cable boxes plugged in, which Comcast's equipment provisioning CAN see. So when you call back in a month, the conversation will basically be 'LOL nope, you were watching cable the whole time.'
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PT6A posted:One time, I was having breakfast with some people at a hotel, and they billed the entire bill to my room despite the fact that the person who signed for it used their own room number and their own signature, and the restaurant hosed it up, I assume, because both rooms were booked at the same time. I disputed the charge with my credit card company and won, because I did not sign for the charge. The fact that I knew who actually did sign for the bill in question never came up, because the restaurant was so incompetent they couldn't produce the actual receipt. If they asked me outright, I wouldn't lie, but they never did and I don't feel any obligation to cover their rear end for them. Sorry that you broke bread with someone who was so literally bad at money that even the waiter noticed it.
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I said it once and I will say it again: unhook all of your Comcast gear. In fact, to be safe, go and make sure nothing is attached to any coax outlet in your home. If they do try to pull the fake cancel poo poo again, you will at least have a leg to stand on. Also call billing and ask about the status of your account. Don't ask if you're cancelled, ask for the status. E: We need a Poe's Law emote but IDK how to draw it. goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Aug 12, 2017 |
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None for Comcast at least. Every box that hooks up has a unique identifier of some kind, which is then provisioned onto an account. Anecdote only but the night I moved across town to ~my girlfriend~'s house (same billing area), I still had internet at my old place and she only had cable TV. I hooked my modem up and...the internet worked. I wasn't a Comcast engineer (lol call center hell), but I suspect everything is based on 'this device is attached to this account' and geography doesn't matter inside the billing area (which is usually a large city + suburbs).
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MLM is a wrapper around book/event sales.
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What really needs to happen is a complete rework of the caller ID system into something less trusting than 'this is my number' 'okay then'
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Could they even (theoretically) figure out what channel you were watching on a CRT? Someone else upstream said the UK also has ad-supported channels; could the van tell the difference?
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The remote virus removal/help desk company I used to work for got a call for one of those scams but with the added benefit of the malware putting actual child porn on the computer. We didn't work on it because we didn't need that poo poo in our internal logs.
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bongwizzard posted:Weed isn't that good yet. more like bongapprentice imo
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please stop talking to them E: No seriously, every single post in here that involves 'lol i owned that cold call scammer' is basically just that. E2: read to present lol goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 09:07 on Nov 6, 2017 |
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Nov 6, 2017 08:58
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Assuming you're already getting spam at that email address (and they aren't asking for anything else), I don't see a downside even if they are selling off the address.
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Post the error and we might even be able to help.  E: NM I see the column and what you were saying. I am nowhere near a dev computer (not the original dev, just a guy who unfucks exceptions), try the command line version and/or try and find a log file. goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Nov 15, 2017 |
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Exactly. Python (and other interpreted languages) are better for this sort of thing because the assumption is that _someone_ must have looked at the code and called out bullshit if it was present, but if it's a niche module with 10s of installs per year, that's not a guarantee. Nerdchat: Also in Python you have to import the sys module to inspect command line arguments which is also the module that lets you do Bad poo poo (tm) so you can't easily automate a malware Y/N check.
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Mustached Demon posted:Amway gave us Betsy DeVos. That's about all you need to know. The current Secretary of Education. That's about all you didn't want to know.
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:My friend recently told me about a situation her ex boyfriend faced: hes a small time drug dealer/user and on occasion prints out :20:s and :10:s to scam his dealer with. Apparently, when he was printing out a :20: or something from a google image search, there was an extra message from 'some government agency' (she doesn't remember which, but if it were legit obviously the secret service?) saying to cease and desist. Another print out, and it said something to the effect of "We know who you are and where you are", and on a third print out it told them the city they were in and described him, my friend and another friend of theirs. I call bullshit on it actually being the government, though, cause why the gently caress would they use the loving printer and not knock on the door especially since they'd have to send someone out to surveil the place, right? or your idiot friend clicked on the first link for 'counterfeit 20s lol' E: ^ EURion is a thing, but not this thing
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Gonna split this off into it's own post. I used to work for a place that cleaned computers from virii etc for money by walking them through installing our VNC fork. Basically grandma clicked the wrong link then called us. I worked there when everyone and their Eastern European brother was using Cryptolocker as payload. Most of the time, it was hilarious ('Attention: The FBI has been notified that <webcam output> is looking at the pornos, send a prepaid to <extremely foreign address>.') Sometimes the threat would even claim they were looking at child porn. This is fine, your files are loving gone but if you're stupid enough to pay my company $100+ to probably not get all the malware out, that's cool. The most hosed up variant actually downloaded child porn and displayed that as 'hey look what you did'. Our policy was to nope the gently caress out, except not every computer with symptoms was actually infected with a file encrypting virus, and our standard process when confronted by 'LOL look what U did!!!!' on boot was to hold power button and then mash F8 until Safe Mode with Networking. Cue a much younger goatsestretchgoals remoting into a customer computer and being confronted with...something disturbing.
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Applesnots posted:Huh? Brake calipers are pistons. You can use a c clamp to push them back in or you can use your hands. It takes a little while to do with your hands as it compresses slowly but it works. Hayne's or Chilton's (or both?) recommend the C-clamp as a standard step for changing brake pads.
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Zodijackylite posted:Even if someone does buy meat from a van on impulse, what would motivate someone to be a repeat buyer? didn't die last time, also i want a steak
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Counterpoint: You used to be a mod on the SA forums. FBI/SS emails should be nothing new!
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probably better for your long term mental health re: aatrek also   and no offense meant, was trying to set you up for an alley-oop
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Mar 7, 2018 07:54
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band's name is 'hoobastank', there might be some backstory not included in the song
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We have a scam in the USA called the Better Business Bureau that claims to do similar, but in reality just shakes down small businesses for 'memberships' at which point their rating goes from F to A for no apparent reason. What's it like living in a country that actually looks out for the little guy.
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peanut posted:Don't they get refunds?? Even if they could, which I doubt*, certainly not after the game is already started. *I have literally never bought a ticket for a sporting event myself, much less tried to return one.
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Sorry we couldn't answer your scalper question. I'd suggest doing more research on Craigslist with your debit card, and then reporting back with an actual scam.
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And if you don't believe it, and you live in a Commonwealth country, I have a job opportunity for you that involves copy writing. Boxes will be delivered to your house, you open up the box and compare the contents to the manifest we will email to you, stick your copy in the included envelope and tuck it in between the items (we want to be sure we're the first ones to see it!), grab the prepaid overseas shipping label, seal it up and slap it on! You'll be on a top 10 list in no time!
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GF got a voicemail from 844-868-9742 yesterday. What is their long term goal anyway if no one answers the line? Gathering up phone numbers of known idiots similar to confirming emails via unsubscribe links?
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Nope luckily I stopped her from calling back! She is an inherently nice and trusting person so this is one of the rare situations that my cynicism and hatred for mankind actually help out.
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also you can silently tap the sign as you shake your head mournfully and close the door
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EL BROMANCE posted:Point them all to the goatman. No real reason, but can’t hurt. He can handle as many as you point his way and more.
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I've never seen that sign. I think you may have discovered a fetish.
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Platystemon posted:This sounds like a good way to go to prison for a long time. Agreed but I might have put emphasis on different words.
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