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Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans
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i recently wrote a check to another member of the same credit union. they deposited the check to their credit union account. the credit union insisted on a ten day hold!!
I’m 43 and have never written a cheque in my life. Utterly useless things when you have good customer centric regulations.
It’s easy to avoid checks if you don’t mind paying transaction fees
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m 43 and have never written a cheque in my life. Utterly useless things when you have good customer centric regulations.
It’s easy to avoid checks if you don’t mind paying transaction fees
Never paid a transaction fee. I can put money into any account I have the number of right now , free.
Australia and Canada.
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I’m 43 and have never written a cheque in my life. Utterly useless things when you have good customer centric regulations.
we resorted to checks because we hit a non-transparent zelle limit which is not documented anywhere.
Never used Zelle or paid a transaction fee.
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Your kids are far more likely to fall for dumb shit their friends talk them into than random texts. They will be, or already have been, exposed to people telling them that crypto/leveraged day trading/AI/whatever is the shortcut to wealth. That will likely be their peers, or the people (podcasters) that have high status amongst their peers, and is a much more insidious problem. That's what will get them into trouble.
I hate online scammers to my core -- weird reason too. A guy I knew back in high school was notorious for falling for 419 type scams all the time. His brothers would constantly dunk on him for being scammed online. It was like 7, 8, 9 times... Years later he was caught on TV by Chris Hansen and charged. Went to prison. That recontextualized everything. He wasn't falling for scams -- that was a fiction to cover the fa…
Its far more concerning that online scammers are more effective than police at finding pedophiles, and in fact the only reason the dude did get caught by the police was as part of a copaganda collaboration with a major media company.
Policing in the US is pretty highly paid profession. We should expect more competent results from them
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hate online scammers to my core -- weird reason too. A guy I knew back in high school was notorious for falling for 419 type scams all the time. His brothers would constantly dunk on him for being scammed online. It was like 7, 8, 9 times... Years later he was caught on TV by Chris Hansen and charged. Went to prison. That recontextualized everything. He wasn't falling for scams -- that was a fiction to cover the fa…
Its far more concerning that online scammers are more effective than police at finding pedophiles, and in fact the only reason the dude did get caught by the police was as part of a copaganda collaboration with a major media company. Policing in the US is pretty highly paid profession. We should expect more competent results from them
Truly agree with you, especially with all the details that came out in his case.
His fucking email was pied_piper@aol.com for fucks sake.
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The best defense to scams is maintaining a high trust society.
I'm having trouble understanding exactly what it is you're trying to say. Could you elaborate?
For thousands of years western societies executed or exiled troublemakers. This created the selective pressure that led to high trust society.
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we resorted to checks because we hit a non-transparent zelle limit which is not documented anywhere.
Never used Zelle or paid a transaction fee.
if you ever need to transfer money across far enough borders from your home, it’s currently almost impossible to avoid paying some sort of fee afaik (whether an airplane ticket to hand-carry cash or some kind of markup to convert currencies or some sort of blockchain fee to use newer methods). i’m actively looking for methods that are legal and don’t carry a fee. ex ibkr currency convert -> fidelity individual account -> fidelity cash mgmt -> free wire ?? there are all sorts of gotchas at every step atm ostensibly for aml or sanctions “compliance“