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They could at least set it up to use Github pages then. Then you could access http://openblockchains.github.io/awesome-ico-truths
I'm the author / editor. Done. Works now with Github pages too. Cheers. Prost.
As an added benefit, the pages version loads much faster than loading GitHub itself!
I recently fell victim to a nasty scam I've never heard about before. Wonder if anyone had similar experiences. Happened in Serbia on a highway. We had an RV on German plates and slept on a gas station there, next to the truckers. Morning comes and the clutch pedal is dead - no resistance when I press it (this is a manual transmission car). Obviously not driveable, and we're not car gurus to debug it. We call the ins…
> she tells me she's seen that tow car waiting seemingly for us for several hours FWIW, at least in the U.S. it's common for tow truck operators to wait alongside various roads. Breakdowns are predictable and service is faster if the operator is already nearby. It's not like the driver has anything better to do during his shift. That doesn't mean you weren't overcharged or even scammed. Really can't say without more…
As a teenager I fell for the most dumb in person scam. I was coming out of Barnes and Nobles with my gf and a guy approached me asking for money. I said no initially but then he made up this whole story about being out of gas on the way to see his kids and so on. You’d have to be an idiot to fall for that and idiot I was. So I ended up giving him $20, left feeling weird right away. I got in the car, looked at my gf a…
Getting off the bus in NYC one day, guy comes up to me, seemingly nice guy asks if I have $5 so he can get home. Give him some money, feel scammed, couldn’t say exactly why. Talk to my Dad about it later and he asks what was it? Was he holding a book or something? Yep, right in his hand obviously when I recalled it was a cheap rough condition paperback book. My dumb brain saw that and said “surely this guy is ok, he…
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> If people do crimes, why trust law enforcement? That really helps noone. Report in a nearby larger city. If they don't care they just drop it.
Yeah in retrospect I should have done this, but to be fair I was just frightened by the realization of what might have just happened here, and wanted to simply leave the area. Another thing is that I have no proof to distinguish between an overpriced fix and deliberate cable cutting. Now I'm way too far from Serbia to report it.
With there being no proof, you likely saved yourself pointless frustrating experience.
However most likely explanation really is no cut cable, but taking advantage of foreigner with bad luck.
I recently fell victim to a nasty scam I've never heard about before. Wonder if anyone had similar experiences. Happened in Serbia on a highway. We had an RV on German plates and slept on a gas station there, next to the truckers. Morning comes and the clutch pedal is dead - no resistance when I press it (this is a manual transmission car). Obviously not driveable, and we're not car gurus to debug it. We call the ins…
They likely sabotaged your vehicle.
I remember the first time I got one of these "Nigerian scam" mails. In retrospect it is funny that what made me suspicious was not the offer to make millions in return for an upfront price of a few thousand bucks; it was the fact that the mail did not address me by name but started with the claim that I seemed to be trustworthy person. If I was trying to move a huge amount of money out of the country, would I ask som…
It has made me laugh so hard I was in tears. Especially the ones where they reverse the scan, and make the scammer physically travel to other locations while working towards "receiving the money".
EDIT: it seems some of the site is unavailable. It must be accessed via Archive.org then
I recently fell victim to a nasty scam I've never heard about before. Wonder if anyone had similar experiences. Happened in Serbia on a highway. We had an RV on German plates and slept on a gas station there, next to the truckers. Morning comes and the clutch pedal is dead - no resistance when I press it (this is a manual transmission car). Obviously not driveable, and we're not car gurus to debug it. We call the ins…
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Getting off the bus in NYC one day, guy comes up to me, seemingly nice guy asks if I have $5 so he can get home. Give him some money, feel scammed, couldn’t say exactly why. Talk to my Dad about it later and he asks what was it? Was he holding a book or something? Yep, right in his hand obviously when I recalled it was a cheap rough condition paperback book. My dumb brain saw that and said “surely this guy is ok, he…
5am in Penn Station, waiting to board the early Acela. I've been in NYC 20 years at this point and have become tolerably good at deflecting our local street scammers, for the most part. I'm printing my ticket out and a construction worker comes up to me, wiry dude with a hi-vis jacket carrying a hard hat. $5 to get home to NJ, his truck got broken into and wallet stolen, blah boo hoo. He got the $5, and it didn't tak…
I recently fell victim to a nasty scam I've never heard about before. Wonder if anyone had similar experiences. Happened in Serbia on a highway. We had an RV on German plates and slept on a gas station there, next to the truckers. Morning comes and the clutch pedal is dead - no resistance when I press it (this is a manual transmission car). Obviously not driveable, and we're not car gurus to debug it. We call the ins…
Fast forward to 2018:
If the "debug interface" (OBD type deal) on the car is in the mix, it means the clutch system is electronically monitored. Assuming this wasn't a scam, it is possible that the car monitors hydraulic pressure in the clutch system and a software issue was causing it to falsely report that the pressure was zero and so it disables the whole mechanism to prevent damage. That's pretty sophisticated, but entirely possible in a larger, newer vehicle. In order to fix the problem, they applied a software update and then everything was fine again.
Not sure you got scammed.
In my BMW, I had a bad O2 sensor that wasn't producing a code and it took the BMW mechanics four weeks to solve the issue of an intermittently bad sensor. They replaced a ridiculous number of components before calling in an Audi mechanic who actually had decent troubleshooting skills and found the $50 part that was actually at fault. I got to keep the new fuel pump, transmission, wiring harnesses, etc. Thanks BMW!