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BiggerBoat posted:Quickest way to weed these out is just offer to buy them the item they claim to need. I like to help people out but also hate getting scammed so, if they seem to really need help, I'll say "I'm not carrying any cash but I can buy you the (gas, bus ticket, food, diapers, etc.)" Nine times out of ten they pass which tells you how often they really need help and how often it's a con. I only did this once because I didn't have any money and wasn't about to go to the ATM with this dude in the middle of the night, he was asking me for gas money so i offered to buy him like 10 dollars in gas on my card. He accepted it and seemed genuinely grateful. I guess I caught the only one that wasn't a scam with that. Usually when people come up to me I just give them spare change in my pocket.
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I have no doubt that panhandling could net you good money sometimes but it's kind of ridiculous to think they are going home to $300000 homes. How would you even buy a home? You're not making enough to buy one with cash and you technically have no income in order to get a mortgage.
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When we were originally looking for a place to live when I got out of the army my wife got contacted from Craigslist saying they were an older lady that owned a house in East Texas that she wanted someone to live in for free to take care of it. Obviously it sounded like a scam so we didn't do it but she sent pictures of a house and everything. I always wondered what the scam was since she never asked for any money, although we never got past a few emails with her.
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Apr 9, 2016 14:09
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Isn't that illegal or at least against Amazon TOS?
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Apr 17, 2016 17:58
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Yeah i'd feel alot safer buying speakers from a guy by a dumpster then just sending gold off to some random address.
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Apr 24, 2016 04:03
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cheerfullydrab posted:As in, if I come up to you in a clown suit, and I do nothing other than wear the suit and pressure you in a vaguely threatening manner for money until you give in, that's not "the clown scam" that's a drat robbery. I've never heard of them threatening with violence (although i'm sure that could happen). I think they more of make a public spectacle and kind of embarrass you into giving them money. Usually its done in a pretty crowded area.
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May 8, 2016 13:41
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How does it work though? I assume everyone around you know its a scam so how would it be embarrassing? Its just such a weird thing because I don't see it working at all. If you try to publicly shame me by asking loudly for money i'll just keep walking because I assume everyone else that can hear you knows its a scam. If you try to threaten me vaguely i'll just walk away because after I leave you will probably never see me again so that doesn't scare me. Who does this work on?
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May 8, 2016 15:14
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I live in a state that doesn't happen and it would feel weird for someone to pump my gas for me. I'm sure you would get used to it if you lived in a state where it's normal but to me it would be like someone cutting up my food and feeding it to me in a restaurant.
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Jul 18, 2016 00:46
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Yeah I live in Texas and ours are all like that. It might be city to city though.
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Aug 26, 2016 15:17
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I've always wondered if the reason older people are more susceptible to scams is because they can't reason as well when they get older or are the scams to different and more complex then when they were younger. I mean scams have been around since humans started talking so I can't believe they haven't seen scams before.
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Feb 4, 2017 17:41
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I got had by a quick change guy when I worked at a grocery store when I was 18-19. He kept asking for different denominations of change. I knew in the back of my head that this was weird and that something scammy was going on but I was worried about getting in trouble for refusing to help a customer.
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Apr 9, 2017 19:55
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Whats the end game? You email back and you're like "What the hell?: and then they email you back and say "Hey whats your personal info?"
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Apr 22, 2017 01:21
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I'm also inclined to give homeless people money no matter their story for the same reason. I hardly ever have cash on me anymore though so usually I don't.
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Apr 23, 2017 09:39
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Yeah it makes no sense at all. Gatorade doesn't farm their sales out to independent salesmen and the stuff their selling is supposed to be even better?
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Dec 11, 2017 19:22
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Yeah if your smart enough to know you shouldn't go to a strange interview where they refuse to tell you the job your doing then your probably smart enough to not fall for the pitch.
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Panfilo posted:No denying that however desperation can lead people to making questionable choices. When there is a serious shortage of solid full time jobs in an area even practical people can throw critical thinking out the window. Most of the people that got sucked into MLM 's were the most economically vulnerable. Absolutely. I agree and also I don't think just because someone was dumb/gullible and fell for it that it makes it right. It should be illegal and I have no idea how it doesn't count as fraud or an issue of workers rights (I know lol america and all that but still).
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Panfilo posted:This also makes me wonder if MLMs are like gold in that they get really popular during times of financial insecurity. I mean if most people were in a position to work a stable full time job with benefits then why would they bother with something like Amway? Maybe some of them, buy get rich quick schemes have been around since currency was first used I'm sure.
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I havent answered but I started getting alot of calls from the "CDC" asking me to do a survey. Its on my work phone so its not even registered to me or connected to me in anyway. They dont name me by name though. Its a Utah number but I live in Texas and they say theyre the Utah CDC.
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Sep 22, 2018 05:10
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gaj70 posted:That doesn't make any sense. The word "become" implies a change in state Lmao
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Nov 7, 2018 17:42
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Yeah why would they devote resources or even care to increase the storage on a service almost no one uses.
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Dec 16, 2018 23:57
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Mister Kingdom posted:Just curious: where do you live that you can choose your power company? I thought everyone could. I live in Dallas and we have a few big providers to choose some and alot of really small providers tbat go door to door or work in like some kind of weird recruitment thing for lower prices. We have prepaid electric companies too.
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Feb 15, 2019 15:31
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It got done to me once when I was 20 working at Albertsons and I fell for it. I knew about halfway through that funny business was going on. I didn't know how to back out at that point and I figured I was good enough with numbers that he wasn't gonna fool me. I felt really stupid that day.
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Nov 21, 2019 21:43
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Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:I can't figure the angle with this one, help me out. Maybe just some kind of account error/glitch?
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Jul 4, 2020 01:36
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His Divine Shadow posted:My SO just donated 100€ to some charity via FB using debit straight to our family account. You are way overreacting. People buy poo poo on FB all the time. It's not any more unsecure than any other online retailer or website.
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Oct 30, 2020 13:45
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Yeah the electric providers thing is legit insofar as they are providing a real service at a normal price but it uses the sleaziest ways of getting business.
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Nov 9, 2020 19:55
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Oh yeah I get the emails all the time saying that my skills on my resume line up perfectly for their sales role. My resume? Full of installing cable, internet, home automation and alarm systems. Luckily theres just enough small sales in these roles that I know how terrible of a saleperson I would be so ive never given them a second glance.
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Apr 24, 2021 12:33
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Oh yeah it definitely is an MLM. I had a neighbor a few years ago get my roommate into it. She paid for the starting package (cant remember the price) and promptly sold 0.
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May 13, 2021 17:26
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Presumably itll bounce a few days after youve already sent the scammer portion back to him so he has your laptop and some extra money.
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