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The only way to help with this is education - maybe we need a course on online scams that kids need to take to graduate, along with personal finance.
Simple: it's time to stop using phone numbers. I use Apple's Messages. If someone spams me, I report them. They're blocked and have to go through the extra work of setting up a new account to try again. Compare this with, say, Google. Gmail lets spammers / scammers have limitless accounts and they don't do shit when an account is reported for spam. You can block and report Gmail spammers all day long and you'll get n…
I don't want one company to be the arbiter of all communications everywhere. Phone numbers work fine.
Why are registered businesses not verifiable? Or at least banks and government departments? Why can't phones hold an ID in their cloud profiles so switching numbers let's your friends auto-uodate to you?
We could be doing so much better (with the goal of making it practical to whitelist only operate).
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How did you know the PayPal payment was fake? Was it an edited screenshot, or did they actually spoof a 'you received money' email from PayPal? I ask just on the off-chance that you got a seeming-real email from the real PayPal, and I'd like to know what to look for if so.
I believe this scam works by then reversing (withdrawal) of the PayPal funds.
I got one of these, almost convincing enough except she said she lived in SF. I asked where in SF and she said Alcatraz. I almost wanted to keep the conversation going just to hear more about her life on the island
I basically just send them all a big copy-pasta full of banned Chinese terms like 6/4, Free Tibet, Tiananmen Square, Winnie the Pooh, etc; they often leave me alone after that or act confused
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> Scamming people outside Israel was legal in Israel at the time. My head just exploded here. I think I need to go lie down. Please nobody tell the Florida legislature about this.
Quite real, though. Until it became so embarrassing to Israel that the law was changed in 2017.[1] The Times of Israel: "The crooks are still out there. Some binary options firms have closed down. Others have relocated overseas, including to Cyprus and Ukraine. Some of the prime movers and shakers have already adjusted their focus to other fraudulent fields — in the fields of diamond sales, cryptocurrencies, initial…
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In case you haven't seen it, someone automated this: https://jollyrogertelephone.com/
I didn't know I wanted this service until now. $2/mo? Hell yeah. The sticking point, for me, is that I have to merge the call every time. Ugh. I want it to prompt me whether I want to blackhole a call like the Pixel Google Assistant, but instead of politely screening just torment the asshole. For a service like that, I could imagine paying substantially more, possibly even for a premium service where the call would g…
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I've gotten a few in the last couple months, with a US cellular number that I've had for over 20 years. At least two are "I missed you at the gym today!" via text and another was from a Vermont area code via WhatsApp to a "Dr. Jack": > Hi Dr. Jack! My cat is very slow and does not eat cat food. Can you make an appointment for me? > Sorry, you have the wrong number > Sorry, I just checked, I entered a wrong number, pl…
Oh wow. I got EXACTLY the same message, only with a sick dog and an asian woman in a car. I did the exact some response you did too. So weird.
The profile picture was the smiling face of an Asian girl. I didn’t bother to respond.