06-05-2024, 02:01 AM | #37291 |
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One recent example was the woman who was very upset when the bank stopped her from sending most of her savings overseas. Turned out her boyfriend needed to money since he was in jail. A boyfried she had never met.
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06-05-2024, 04:43 AM | #37292 |
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A few years old, but this one's definitely a doozy.
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06-05-2024, 12:57 PM | #37293 |
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Sadly, all too often people fall for these things. And really, if you figure the cost of sending out several million emails as pennies, and if even one person falls for it, the economics are in your favour.
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06-05-2024, 06:03 PM | #37295 |
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I love when I'm doing surveys and they ask me "In the last week, have you experienced trembling in the hands?" in a series of questions obviously about anxiety. I have Parkinson's, so I have no idea what the hell am I supposed to answer here?
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06-05-2024, 06:36 PM | #37296 |
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Be honest and say yes?
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06-05-2024, 09:03 PM | #37297 |
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I still can't help but feel like I'm screwing up their results
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06-10-2024, 11:04 AM | #37298 | |
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06-10-2024, 11:16 AM | #37299 |
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As that WhatsApp I got from my "son" that needed money because he had been robbed. Taking into account I don't have neither children nor cats... even Kokomo is not an option...
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06-10-2024, 11:37 AM | #37300 | |
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P.S. before ANYBODY lectures me (!!!), no, the cat, despite his lines, has never been bred. Neutered, no breeding, no kitties, nada, zip, zein, zilch. I'm a huge believer in zero population growth for kitties/puppies/etc. until we get shelters and the like emptied to at least a QUASI-reasonable size. Every animal I get (even a mare once) has been neutered, no matter what. (It made me cry, to be honest, about an amazing g Dutch WM Stallion I had once, with remarkable athletic capabilities and for those of us into these things, astonishing bloodlines, but...I did it anyway. Sigh.) Yes, cut late (not proud! for those of us who know thereover I speak), but a non-breeder, nonetheless. Crushed my soul, really. But OTOH, I also knew that no eventually-unwanted, higher-end sons or daughters of his line would end up in the kill line, due to being bought by overhorsed brats and ladies-who-lunch. Hitch |
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06-10-2024, 11:43 AM | #37301 | |
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06-12-2024, 08:35 PM | #37303 |
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Around here, I've gotten calls in English, Mandarin, Tagalog and Punjabi. I suspect they are looking for new immigrants who may be more susceptible to their scams.
OTOH, my spouse recently got a call from a "nephew" who needed to be bailed out of jail but had lost his cell phone and only remembered her number. The scammer was not happy when she went off on a rant about having told his mother that he was a bad seed who was going to come to a bad end and she hoped he stayed in jail until he rotted. Admittedly, she had me call the nephew's cell number—which he answered—so she was certain it was a scammer before she went off on him. |
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06-13-2024, 06:18 AM | #37305 |
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Have you ever had the "You've been involved in an accident and you didn't even know it" or the "Your Windows PC has a virus and we'd like to fix it for you.". calls.
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