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Original_Z posted:http://abc7ny.com/news/canadian-tourist-slugged-by-free-hug-guy-in-times-square;-suspect-arrested/1335434/ Including a couple of people dancing behind the newsreader at the end of the clip.
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Cyrano4747 posted:So what are these? I've never heard of it. Fyre Festival is the one you might have seen in the news recently - the disastrous attempt at a festival associated with Ja Rule. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/29/ja-rule-heartbroken-after-fyre-festival-descends-into-disaster http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39743303/luxury-fyre-festival-is-cancelled-with-ticket-holders-still-stranded-in-bahamas The other one was a huge failure that they started trying to raise funds to pay the hotel during the con, I think? They also offered 'an extra hour in the ball pit' as compensation, which became pretty famous.
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May 14, 2017 21:40
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glitchkrieg posted:Not exactly common, but reminded me of the strip search phone call scam - Humiliating scam led to mum and daughter licking Poundworld staff's feet after fake phone call. There was a pretty good film made about this subject (though not this case): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1971352/ It's really interesting to see how people respond to perceived authority, and if it's ratcheted up at just the right pace can be made to do all sorts of things.
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May 24, 2017 10:43
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PT6A posted:Wait, that wasn't just a Canadian thing? I've had them in the UK too - and I know they're a thing in the states.
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Jun 28, 2017 21:47
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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. It was all legit, but I can see how someone could have billed me for something I didn't use and get the money.
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Jul 19, 2017 23:53
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There will have been a number, (and if I think hard enough I can probably remember what it was) where they would check first. But in general the theory makes kind of sense - you don't want to be wasting people's time getting sign off for relatively small amounts.
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Jul 20, 2017 09:24
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Accenture (as in these guys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture) are a completely legit IT/Management Consultancy firm. There is a referral scheme for employees, but no different to most large consulting/FS firms. It's absolutely nothing to do with these guys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACN_Inc.), although as TheKennedys points out, Accenture trades under the ticker ACN. And that Reply All episode was fantastic, Alex Goldman can be such a risk-to-the-wind!-weirdo sometimes, it's great.
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Jul 29, 2017 16:00
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goatsestretchgoals posted:technically and legally legit != cool and good place to work Oh absolutely - I've worked for, and resigned from, Accenture so believe me when I say I know exactly what you mean.
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Jul 29, 2017 16:51
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The second and final part of that Reply All episode is up, and it's just as weird as you'd hope. Pro-listen for sure.
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Aug 4, 2017 10:14
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A 50S RAYGUN posted:i got a scam call a month or two back that my iPhone told me was from Chile. whether or not that was true, they attempted to tell my voicemail that they were process servers and something something about my mother. to date my mother has not been audited or arrested or assassinated or what the gently caress ever was supposed to happen unless i gave them 20 dollars of iTunes credit Yes, really high percentage (sell a 20 dollar gift card for around $18.5-19 by the looks of eBay right now), untraceable resale.
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Aug 11, 2017 11:18
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cumshitter posted:I made the mistake of putting my resume on Monster.com some years back, and as a result received a ton of calls from various insurance places. Working out class sizes for those things must be an interesting challenge. You need enough people to a) make it worthwhile and b) get a bit of groupthink going so some of the more gullible members bring the less gullible on the journey with them, but you don't want so many that one or two people who aren't falling for it then the rest off.
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Aug 31, 2017 00:27
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They haven’t even spelt the username properly. If anything these are more insidious than the FWD:FWD: type, as once the page has enough likes it can be sold to a marketing firm who will change the page to a product they are pushing an have a built in audience of 50000k+.
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Jan 16, 2018 14:04
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I remember getting those, some would say send a chocolate bar, some a post card. I received one on Facebook recently:quote:Hey - so it's a bit of a book pyramid scheme, probably invented by Amazon, but here it is: So they’re still around, just in a slightly different form.
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Jan 16, 2018 21:53
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Corporate hospitality teams will buy a row of seats for a year in a venue, and get tickets for every event that year. If it’s not something of interest to the client base they’re trying to entertain they’ll put them up for resale. I went to see Muse at the o2 in London on exactly that deal, and when I picked up the tickets they had the name of the company on them.
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Jan 25, 2018 22:16
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peanut posted:This is going around LinkdIn. I find this pretty interesting. It's a very standard (I think it's called) advance fee fraud scam, but without any of the common capital letters, YOUR MOST HONOURABLE JUDGE AND PRIEST, and all of the usual markers that it's speculated scammers use to whittle down the pool to only the most gullible. Obviously this is because of the market they're publishing on, but it's very interesting nonetheless.
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Jan 26, 2018 00:03
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Lutha Mahtin posted:i don't work in that field but cc fraud prevention works partially on the idea of locality. purchases that are similar to recent purchases are considered less questionable than ones that are dissimilar. tge scammer in this case is hoping to manufacture a trail of "similar" purchases, to bridge the gap between whatever item OP purchased and whatever items a person can buy on eBay that provide the most bang for the buck. it's classic "try to hide from scrutiny" stuff imo Yes, this is it. Normal purchases = ok Different type of purchase, same location = ok Different purchase, different location = not ok Similar purchase, different location = ok So when you purchase a similar product for a new location, it goes through. And you can now make a ‘different ‘ purchase to that same location.
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If I had to guess, you’re generating leads for credit card companies. You qualify the customers which are eligible for a lower rate, and feed that to companies who will then try to get them to switch.
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Aug 26, 2018 16:20
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Absolutely no idea then. Can’t think off the top of my head of any other reason.
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Aug 26, 2018 16:31
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TheParadigm posted:I liked Molly's Game, after family took me to see it. I think its less scammy as much as exploring the lifestyle impacts of being in an environment conducive for being taken advantage of. Worth a watch on its own merits, i think. Molly’s Game came to mind for me as well but I hesitated as - as you say - it’s not really about a scam as much. Well worth watching though.
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Oct 15, 2018 09:30
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The Lone Badger posted:Why not just do a direct funds transfer? What would happen if this was found to be from a compromised bank account? Could they reverse the transaction?
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Feb 15, 2019 23:06
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Inceltown posted:Having your email address for 20+ years guarantees you're going to show up on this list a few times. I even got an email the other day saying that I was in trouble and showing a plain text password. Given that I have used the same password manager for at least 10 years it was very easy to see exactly what site spilled my details - thanks 000webhost for what ever stupid project I set up on you years ago - and just laugh knowing that they had nothing on me. I’m somehow not surprised to see 000webhost cocking up. This is the company that sent me an email to see if my account was still needed, and then deleted my entire account because I hadn’t replied in 7 days. To a single email. While I was out of the country.
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Aug 16, 2019 13:20
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Here's a little article on carnival games. Nothing especially detailed, but a nice read. Are carnival games rigged?
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HerStuddMuffin posted:They’re not interfering with the operation of the machine, so I don’t think what they’re doing qualifies as a scam, in spite of the journalist using that word several times. Yeah, the article is a weird one. The two parts of your post I've quoted are the two different outcomes I think: In the first one I can't understand how they can be forced to forfeit winnings, that doesn't seem legal - unless it's in the T&Cs of the casino that you can't use any electronic equipment to help you gain and edge - and even then it's dodgy if that's enforced. But highly likely, given how much the area needs to keep the casinos sweet. In the second one, it's not illegal, and I'm fairly sure you can't be forced to give up the money you've won (especially if you've cashed it out rather than just holding in chips) but the casino can absolutely ban you - it's a private premises and they can refuse admission for no reason at all.
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I think it’s because they’re saying it’s worth less than $10, and the other place is saying it’s worth enough that they’re not comfortable giving a price without the owners say.
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BiggerBoat posted:Hmmm....I wonder. Frank also co-hosts the podcast ‘the perfect scam’ which is really good, and talks about things like this.
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Inceltown posted:You just take the bill off them and place it across the register so you know what they gave you and hand out change after that. The idea of getting change sorted before actually having the money in your hand is bonkers. It's pretty common in, for instance, France for the cashier to take your note and put it on the side of the register (out of your reach, but in sight) held with a magnet.
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Tubgoat posted:Forgive my non-cheque-using ignorance, but isn't bouncing a thing when you first go to deposit it? Will they re-withdraw the money from your account after honoring it? Will they send pigs to retrieve the money you withdrew from the check if you no longer have a balance? When you deposit a cheque the funds are available immediately, but the cheque is sent off to the issuing bank after. If it then bounces your bank will debit the money from your account.
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EL BROMANCE posted:He (Patrick Combs) used to have a website all about it, but it seems to be gone now and weirdly his official website as he's now a public speaker doesn't mention it at all. But there's a video of him telling the story, which given that he toured the show for a while and got awards it should be pretty good. Oh, how interesting. I remember reading this years and years ago as a teenager but never found how it ended as he put the final chapter behind a paywall. As I remember the fact he put a smiley face on the cheque instead of signing it to endorse it was critical - it meant he hadn’t actually meant to defraud or something.
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Volmarias posted:They don't, they just assume that you're lying if you claim to not be who they're looking for. All they want is blood from a stone and they don't care how they get it. Oh absolutely, like the collectors who phoned me a few years ago and when I mentioned I had just moved in and had nothing to do with the previous tenants tried to convince me that as I lived there now, I owed the debt. (It was their utility bill) Red Oktober fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Feb 27, 2020 |
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Sydin posted:
You don’t even have to do that - the phones are set up to forward the order to your actual phones (through cloning usually) so they can just stay in the tree until they need charged.
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Sorry if it came off like I was giving them poo poo, if anything it's loving sad that they have to jump through so many hoops just for the system to pay them something approaching a workable wage.
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hyperhazard posted:Piggybacking on that, if you want to be absolutely horrified, check out this autobiographical comic from a dude who survived Elan.  I don’t have much more to add than 
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The BBC did a great radio series on OneCoin, which was a MLM riding the crypto wave. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-50435014 What was amazing to me was that they got people like Igor Alberts and Andreea Cimbala into it - these are people that already sell MLMs, and simply pivot their GIGANTIC crowd of followers onto a new one.
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Captain Monkey posted:They can! Not only have I received annoyed calls and texts from people who got my number spoofed at them, I’ve also received spam calls from my own number. That's a common tactic - apparently people are likely to pick up if it shows their own number. Makes sense, if only to find out 'what is this here?'
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BiggerBoat posted:Not sure of the Lie, Cheat, Steal podcast has been posted before but I've enjoyed a few of these episodes Life Cheat or Steal is a great podcast. It's co-hosted by Frank Abagnale for anyone interested.
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Sorry, I meant “the perfect scam”, that’s got frank as a co host. Didn’t know he had another though, I’ll check it out!
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hyperhazard posted:Weird, I just had a friend ask me the same thing -- she got a ton over the weekend. Guess you guys are on the same lists. I'm in the UK and I've noticed a huge influx over the last month. Both SMS and calls spoofed from numbers three digits different to mine.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Someone there with a landline will have to confirm, I moved away a few years ago and it’d been a while since I dealt with landlines before then. That’s how the behavior always worked though and I’d be surprised if it changed. It did have some uses, like someone could call you and you’d pick up the line closest and could then resume the call somewhere more comfortable. Of course it was always a pain if someone thought they’d hung up but didn’t, and tie up your line for however long (it will start blaring a loud noise out their handset after a while at least). We used to have this problem every so often with my grandparents when I lived at home. They'd think they had put the phone properly, but it hadn't terminated the call. And of course there is no way to call them back to tell them. Because obviously the mobile phone we got them is turned off and in a drawer, because it's only taken out when they went in the car.
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Haifisch posted:Sites turning into "marketplaces" universally sucks rear end. I get why they do it - more money for them without having to do any of the work of shipping product - but it sucks on the buyer's end. And the random 'promoted' items when you're trying to search for something specific.
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If it looks like a relatively cheap item it might be a review scam. Companies order something cheap to a random's address and then write a 5 star review. Amazon calls this brushing https://clark.com/shopping-retail/amazon-scam-brushing-warning-deliveries-you-didnt-order/.
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