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'I want your Instagram#0000 account'
Make the number random and exclude numbers under 1000, numbers with special meanings (1337, etc).
So, now 1001 is highly coveted, so lets exclude that as well. Oh, now 1002 is the lowest, lets exclude it as well. And so on.
It's only a very small part of this but I have to wonder why "cash on delivery" is a thing. As far as I'm aware that's very usual in my country. We have no shortage of delivery services but they all need to be paid up front with a credit card. It's like the US food industry has made itself a willing part of the harassment industry. The only reason I can think of for them to really want to offer this service is as a t…
Americans love their cash money. They say it's part of their freedom or something, but I'm not that convinced.
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> but by his own (suspicious) words nobody is in any immediate danger. I'd agree, were it not for my knee-jerk tendency to argue the contrary - the girlfriend may in fact not be dead, but only in shock. Also how do you know there isn't anyone in the house? But probably those would be outlier situations, and the steps you suggest would be better than storming in.
You can always imagine situations in which any approach would be preferable to another, which is why they're terrible for determining the correct way to act. What is more important is how society will act with said regulations/decisions, and then you'll have no choice but accept that the best way forward is the one that's hardest to abuse. The aggressive approach is extremely easy to abuse and there are currently no…
I grabbed a short 2-letter Twitter handle within a few months after they launched. A few years ago I had someone used SIM hijacking to steal access to my phone number. This failed to get access to my Twitter account because I never set up a recovery phone number, however he got access to my Facebook and a few other accounts. I got T-Mobile to fix the SIM swap, but after 3 nights of harassment I just changed my handle…
"Eberle left work and drove to the Palo Alto police station, where he explained the situation. But there wasn't much the police could do about it." This is, IMHO, the key part. Mr Eberle found himself in a situation that would result in criminal charges for the "attackers" if they could be found, but the police simply gives up.
My fellow Europeans: Is mobile phone number spoofing like this possible over here, too?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31862994
[2] https://support.sms.to/support/solutions/articles/4300056265...
I remember getting a demand I surrender my HoTMaiL address to somebody in a very threatening email to my address way back in 1998. It was kind of surreal back then as the internet was still fresh. Nowadays the closest I've gotten to this is the people who keep using my Gmail address as their own email address. I find this behavior rather bizarre and don't know what it achieves.
Looks like it is popular among some ethnic groups.
I get applications for waitress for Black Lion Pub in the middle of the England, tons of registrations to any and each popular service which doesn't require e-mail validation, receipts from all around the world for online purchases (from dresses to drugs to surgical treatment of cats and dogs). I don't mention registrations in several recruitment agencies for low-wage workers ("I" was offered positions of forklift operator, gas station worker, etc).
There was whole year+, when PA of some real estate agency in Florida used this e-mail to book airline tickets and hotels for her boss. It was at least a trip each week, all around Florida and neighboring states. I've wrote to hotels, I've wrote to public e-mail of this agency - to no success. I've cancelled these bookings - they were re-booked, sometimes for much higher price. One time Ive canceled non-refundable booking for hotel 6 times in a row. It was re-booked each time, nothing changed! In the end I've filtered out all messages addressed to this person (name was always the same, it is what allowed me to figure out firm & person). After year or year and the half it stopped.
I remember getting a demand I surrender my HoTMaiL address to somebody in a very threatening email to my address way back in 1998. It was kind of surreal back then as the internet was still fresh. Nowadays the closest I've gotten to this is the people who keep using my Gmail address as their own email address. I find this behavior rather bizarre and don't know what it achieves.
I think it's a mix of room temperature IQ and Main Character syndrome thinking they're the only ones with their own name (especially if it's common)
I remember getting a demand I surrender my HoTMaiL address to somebody in a very threatening email to my address way back in 1998. It was kind of surreal back then as the internet was still fresh. Nowadays the closest I've gotten to this is the people who keep using my Gmail address as their own email address. I find this behavior rather bizarre and don't know what it achieves.
Hotmail: It was really easy to "hack" hotmail during that time. I created mine in 1999 and lost in early 2000. By summer 2000, I happen to talk to a friend of a friend who works at Hotmail. I got him to reset and give me a new Password that worked. I still have my hotmail account and is used to the times when you need a Microsoft Account. Gmail: A lot of people seem to think email, then "Gmail". I get emails of at-le…
My name is also uncommon but it's very English, so I get weird email from England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand—anywhere there was an Anglo diaspora. I've given up trying to do anything about it, and it really isn't a problem because the volume is very low.
I have tried sending emails, contacting them few times but to no good result.
As someone who's had this same Gmail address for 18 years, I'm here to tell you it is absolutely a pointless waste of your time and almost never results in the sender changing their address book, workflow, or typing skills.