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Red Oktober posted:I worked for a midsize bank, and would often get requests for my budget through from central finance as "we had someone addressed to you, we paid it, now pay us back." Without any sort of checking before paying it. In my last job, the finance person I worked with spent some time every single month going through all the things that other business units had charged off to ours and rejecting the gently caress out of them when it inevitably turned out to be inappropriate for them to have done so. Corporations scam themselves internally.
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CommieGIR posted:That robo call has valled 7 times today. Nobody picks up the phone. A robocall that no one answers is practically free, so they'll try it a LOT of times.
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Aug 4, 2017 11:35
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maskenfreiheit posted:I mean, usually what you do is cancel via phone, then return the equipment. That's not a lifehack as it makes sense and makes your life better. A lifehack would be to call and cancel, then reroute the cable to your neighbour and give him the equipment so now he gets free cable (and then you get billed every month for the service that is now his)
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Pharmaskittle posted:He's just joking that "life hacks" are usually dumb. That's it, that's all there is to it I mean yeah, I thought that was the whole point of the thread. Edit: haha, I'm a loving moron and thought I was posting in the lifehacks thread. Fil5000 fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Aug 14, 2017 |
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greazeball posted:According to Charity Navigator, they spend about 25% on fundraising and 10% on admin so only 65% goes to the program which is pretty poor IMO for an org with revenue of $35 million/year. Is that top one spending nearly 97% of its revenue on raising revenue?
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Sep 2, 2017 13:52
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EL BROMANCE posted:In the UK it's common to get hit by a wave of 'chuggers' in the high streets, (charity muggers). They're a vile type who do their best to guilt you into paying a monthly subscription to a charity - some really well known, some unheard of. They also make it sound like they're in the streets volunteering but the ones in my old area were on about £8 ($12) an hour. They're told that they generally need 2 years worth of money from a person to break even. Scams all the way down. Chuggers are the worst. They're all working from the same playbook down to the emphatic hand gestures. I hate them. The only upside is they're not allowed to sign you up to donate then and there any more, they have to arrange a time for someone to call you a few days later to set it all up.
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peanut posted:More like someone who actually cares about the cause and doesn't know the money is used ineffectively I've seen the same people on different days collecting for different charities so either they're massively into everything or they're not really into the cause and just need a job.
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Sep 5, 2017 13:42
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stringball posted:Can a UK goon tell an idiot american about TV taxes? The concept of it is odd and I remember hearing the collectors go door-to-door, bringing up great opportunities to scam people apparently It's not hugely complicated - you need a license to watch broadcast TV or to watch the BBC online. The usual approach that the beeb takes to enforcing this is to just repeatedly send mailings to any address without a license telling them if they watch TV without getting one they're breaking the law, but there are also TV detector vans. How these vans work is subject to some debate (with some people believing they don't actually do anything at all) as the beeb says it doesn't want to put the mechanics out there as then people would work around them. What IS apparently the case though is that as a form of suveillance, the beeb has to get the same permissions to use a detector van as the security services do to use a wiretap. Which is weird. I guess you could scam someone by driving down a street full of students with a van with a big antenna on the top, knocking at each door and demanding they give you £150 for a TV license because you detected their laptop watching Doctors. Edit: If you google TV License scam you get a LOT of results. And frankly I'm amazed only one of them is from a Murdoch owned paper saying the concept of the license itself is the scam. Fil5000 fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Sep 5, 2017 |
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If you watch the BBC iplayer now it asks you for your address and name, so I assume if you're dumb enough to put your own in and you have no license it sends you a fine through the post. That's kind of it for ways they could enforce it though.
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Sep 5, 2017 15:05
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Haifisch posted:Why not just make it something subsidized through regular old taxes? It seems like they're making way more work(and spending more money) with the TV fees than if the funding just came through income tax. I guess the thinking back in the day was that not many people have it so they'll pay for it and it's just continued through inertia, similar to the annual car tax we have. This way though, there's distinct funding for the BBC that a hostile government has to do a lot more work to defund and dismantle. It's like how national insurance makes the tory dream of putting a bullet in the NHS a bit harder.
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Sep 5, 2017 18:08
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goatsestretchgoals posted: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? In addition to what's already been said about phreaking, from a legal standpoint it wouldn't matter. The TV license is for you to watch ANY broadcast television whatsoever, so it wouldn't matter if you were watching ITV or Channel 5 (Channel 4 is both ad supported AND publicly funded, weirdly), you'd still need the license.
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Sep 6, 2017 09:11
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EL BROMANCE posted:I know back years ago, if you could prove you were in an area where you physically couldn't receive the BBC signals, you could get out of it. Well yeah, don't let them into your property unless they can actually prove they have the legal right to come in there with a warrant.
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Sep 6, 2017 14:03
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Corrode posted:That's the bigger "scam" part - their tendency to pretend to people who are trusting or clueless (old people and students basically, sometimes immigrants) that they have police powers and force their way indoors. Are there actual cases of this happening then? I'm looking now and pretty much every news story I can find on dodgy TV license inspector behaviour is from the Daily Mail, which I'm always loathe to believe unless there's something else backing it up. Especially when it's about the BBC because they loving hate the BBC. Edit: Oh, they've subcontracted it out to loving Capita, I believe it entirely.
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It may also be that they're required by statute to enforce it, even though collection might not be especially profitable. It's like how some train stations here are technically open and have one train a week because closing them down is mired in paperwork and stuff that has to go through parliament.
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Corrode posted:Idk but in looking I found this fantastic FoI request: Lol at this really specific sovereign citizen bullshit. "I've decided it doesn't apply to me so please refund"
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peanut posted:U.S. Department of Justice Oh no, not the world wide law enforcement agency!
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Sep 19, 2017 14:15
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AlbieQuirky posted:Loot crates. Door to door euthanasia loot crates.
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Oct 27, 2017 08:13
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My wife does Avon stuff and yeah, it's basically a bit of extra money. She posts catalogues through people's doors, they order stuff, she puts the order in, collects the cash from them, delivers them the stuff and then pays for the order. She gets a phone call from them the day before each campaign order is due where they try to get her to order extra items that are on sale, but she basically ignores those. You CAN do the whole "recruit others and profit from them" thing, but they don't seriously push it and they don't expect you to live and breathe it. The worst you can say about it is that it probably takes more time than it's actually worth spending.
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Dec 25, 2017 21:58
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TheKennedys posted:I mean, Avon is probably one of the less exploitative MLMs but it's still an MLM, one of the oldest and most well-established ones. The fact that they focus more on sales just helps to legitimize them, but I doubt anyone would see significant money without pushing recruiting hardcore just like any other MLM (also lol if they think they'll be making significant money with that either). I like the MLM recruitment posts where they do everything they can to not tell you what the product or service actually is. Just about how much you can make and how happy they are because they're an entrepreneur and why wouldn't you want to be an entrepreneur too! If you won't even mention the name of your company, you can bugger off
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Was it the lifelock CEO who put his social security number on the side of a truck to prove how good the product was?
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MightyJoe36 posted:Can't find it on YouTube right now, but there was a Seinfeld episode where he buys his dad one of those electronic organizers that at the time were really expensive. George tells him to tell his dad that he "got a deal" on it, and hint that it might be "hot." This really impresses the old man. "Look at this! Jerry got me a deal on it. It might even be stolen." Has the US got anything like the car supermarkets we have in the UK like AvailableCar? They have customer service and finance types that are on no commission, they don't haggle over sticker price and you basically wander their huge parking lot looking at the cars and then go back to the office to do a test drive. When you buy it the finance guy shows you their options but if you say you've got the funds already they just shrug and you're on your way. I've bought like three cars through them and one through a Ford dealership and I'd prefer to never go back to a dealership again after extra fees getting tacked on and aggressive sales pitches for finance and their "service plans".
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Rusty Shackelford posted:My voice is my passport? God shut UP Werner, you've compromised security like eight times this week because you keep saying that poo poo.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I'm Scam Likely. Oh, of the Conneticut Likelys?
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Thanatosian posted:Leverage was pretty good. In a very similar vein, Hustle is great.
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DigitalRaven posted:Tony Martin would beg to differ... I love that he claims he "found" a pump action shotgun. Yeah, sure Tony, we're just tripping over firearms here in the UK. After Hungerford and Dunblane all the guns in private ownership were gathered up and just scattered across Norfolk for farmers to find.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Generally speaking I abhor violence and prefer to solve issues in non-violent means. My favorite thing about that John Oliver thing is the number of people that sent him envelopes with actual seeds in after.
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Guest2553 posted:Don't have kids, but if you do get used to this happening a couple times after they call to see what would happen or cry into the receiver because TV time is over. "maybe you can help us work out where this meat is from"
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Cast_No_Shadow posted:One of my first jobs was ringing people to try and hand out lost money. https://youtu.be/03K1cR9qQZM Was this you
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Sanford posted:That happened with burger vans in Derby and Nottingham in the UK. My wife used to know some guys who ran food vans and they all had guns. Chap with a burger van near my old job used to sleep in the van fairly often because people tried to set it on fire so many times. He reckoned he was the only one in the city who actually wanted to sell burgers rather than launder money/sell drugs. Punch-ups over the best spots outside the stadium on match days were not uncommon for a while. The only burger van in Nottingham I can imagine needing a gun is that one near Rock City and Rescue Rooms that's always absolutely swarming at chucking out time. I can see needing to loose off a few rounds if the students are getting rowdy.
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Offler posted:The same logic that the U.S. border control used for the first question on the short form you had to fill out to enter the U.S. as a tourist in the 90s. The form was just 6-7 yes/no questions, the first one was literally "Are you a terrorist?" Wasn't there also one that asked if you were a Nazi?
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Masonity posted:Isn't that usually just some call center (usually a scam one) illegally using more autodiallers than they have staff working so there's noone to pick up the call when it hits your phone? Most of the time yeah. I don't know how the law works in the US but in the UK you can dial as many lines as you want, the regulator only gets involved if you're hanging up on 3 percent of the calls you make without the customer getting to speak to an agent. This leads to running an auto dialler being a fun balancing act between getting through the records as fast as possible and going slow enough that you don't drop a bunch of calls and end up with Ofcom on your back.
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beats for junkies posted:I got an email telling me that I had a new google voice message for a number I haven't paid attention to in years. The message was nothing (literally 30 seconds of silence), but I decided to scroll through the history and found these two There's a reason Paul F Tompkins used to have a section of his podcast where he just read aloud Google Voice transcriptions of messages he received, it's never not funny how it screws up in minor ways that totally change the intended tone and meaning.
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I've been watching Jeeves and Wooster (someone has uploaded them all to YouTube) and even though I knew him as a sketch performer with Stephen Fry first and foremost, these days it still feels odd to see him speaking with what is mostly his own accent.
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Neito posted:Anything that ends up being the subject of an episode of Last Week Tonight has to be good for capitalism. That was coroners wasn't it? Which is kind of worse.
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Red Oktober posted:It's astonishing how suddenly aggressive they become, you see it on the reddit convo chats all the time. Because you've wasted their time, how dare you?
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Neito posted:I had someone call my phone to offer me services for my website and I pretended I didn't know what the internet was. He told me I was being "Very mature, gently caress you" and hung up. When I still had a landline I'd get about three calls a week from "Windows" trying the scam where they get you to install remote access stuff and spyware and steal all your digital stuff. After months of this I finally said to one of them in a weary, weary voice "Look man, could you just take my number off this list? You guys call all the time and it's literally never going to work, it's a waste of your time". And the guy loving LOST it at me. "gently caress you, we're going to call you a hundred times a day", poo poo like that. They didn't, the calls continued at the same rate, and we just kept hanging up on them. What a waste of time.
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Collateral Damage posted:I keep forgetting that Jagger is still alive and making toxicologists question their research. Jagger nothing, Keith Richards is the one pushing up LD50s for everything he can cram in his mouth.
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EL BROMANCE posted:This has been my Gmail from the word go, dumbasses with the same real name as me who think they own firstname.lastname@ when they don’t. It’s unusable. Luckily those dummies don’t have Apple stuff, so my @me.com has always been fine. My first name is both uncommon and spelled in the less common of two ways it could be and my surname is pretty rare. There's still some guy in Brooklyn who sometimes forgets he doesn't have the Gmail for his name and gets stuff sent to me, most recently all the receipts and confirmation email for everything to do with his wedding.
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Zopotantor posted:Go to the wedding. If the bride is hot, claim you're the real groom, with the emails as proof. I dunno man, Massachusets is a long way from the middle of England and the receipt for the catering didn't look like my kind of thing.
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Pantaloon Pontiff posted:A lot of lawyers offices just have some a 'this is sensitive information, do not open if you are not the intended recipient' disclaimer as part of their default signature on all outgoing mail to cover themselves, and I think that encourages them to treat the more sensitive stuff casually. I remember a couple of jobs ago one team started putting something like "this email is categorised as SECRET" in all their signatures (it might have been INTERNAL or something else, it was basically the second highest category of document we had), and this was eventually met with our director emailing everyone to say "Hey, that poo poo is not alright, you review each one and categorise it, you don't get to just pretend your every utterance is going to cause material damage to the company if it is shared, do it properly"
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