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Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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Post by josephg »

themitigating wrote: post #116
josephg wrote: post #100

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> The most important part of managing scams is to expose them, and cite the names involved so that they need to pick a different line of work. Or we make these scams illegal. Sending scammers to jail is much more effective than finger wagging.

Cost of a police investigation, prosecution, and then housing them in jail for what? 2 years ? Public shaming is much cheaper

Still orders of magnitude cheaper than the amount of money scammers con out of the public every year.

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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Post by SamoyedFurFluff »

xwdv wrote: post #128
solardev wrote: post #127

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College is no guarantee of anything anymore. Many schools and degrees don't even have a positive ROI.

Just get a STEM degree and it’s hard to do poorly afterwards.

I would disagree. There are several sections of STEM where there really isnt much for you. What are you supposed to achieve with a bachelors in physics?

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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Post by labster »

SamoyedFurFluff wrote: post #152
xwdv wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just get a STEM degree and it’s hard to do poorly afterwards.

I would disagree. There are several sections of STEM where there really isnt much for you. What are you supposed to achieve with a bachelors in physics?

I’d hire a physics BS grad for a software dev job. The ability to reason through mathematical problems is very similar. But then, I’m an atmospheric science student who ended up as a programmer.

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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Post by onion2k »

chiph wrote: post #64

> There are other types of car giveaways run by more legitimate parties (charity raffles, event promotions) that do deliver the goods — but if you win, you’re liable to pay a hefty gift tax. I don't think it's a gift tax, but ordinary income tax. A coworker won a living room sofa set on a game show, and the staff were waiting with a 1099 for her as soon as she stepped off the stage. The IRS says you need to pay tax b…

Oprah's famous "You get a car! And you get a car! And everyone gets a car! " show landed each audience member who got a 'free' car with a $6000 tax bill.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/oprah-gives-away...

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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Post by koolba »

walrus01 wrote: post #149

It seems like this could be weaponized if you filled out a lot of these with the names, emails, phone numbers and other details of people you particularly dislike. They'll never get out of those shady grey market crm systems..

This idea has existed for decades with magazine and tape/CD subscriptions. Bonus points were given if you picked hard core pornography or new age as the subscription of choice.

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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Post by walrus01 »

koolba wrote: post #155
walrus01 wrote: post #149

It seems like this could be weaponized if you filled out a lot of these with the names, emails, phone numbers and other details of people you particularly dislike. They'll never get out of those shady grey market crm systems..

This idea has existed for decades with magazine and tape/CD subscriptions. Bonus points were given if you picked hard core pornography or new age as the subscription of choice.

on the other hand, if you created a few hundred plausible but fake people and filled out many of these, you could collect an excellent data set of "shady grey market lead generation services that sell peoples' data in aggregate", for the purpose of examining what sort of emails and phone calls they make to the contacts, and then training an anti-spam / call-blocking data set on it.

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Post by astrange »

dpe82 wrote: post #72
ungamedplayer wrote: post #56

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When you say 'footie' that makes me think you are Australian. "Raffles" in australia have very specific legal requirements.

Their explicit mentioning of Australia makes me thing they're in Australia.

A lot of people in Australia aren't Australian. Fairly trivial result though.

Re: Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

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Post by walrus01 »

ungamedplayer wrote: post #56
andrewstuart wrote: post #47

A friend of the family recently won a million dollar house in the hospital raffle. It was a house on the Gold Coast in Queensland, which he immediately sold. I think he might also have won $20,000 of gold bullion in another hospital raffle. And off topic but my brother won a years supply of Kentucky Friend Chicken in the footy tipping..... and he is a vegetarian. Imagine that - you win the sacrifice of 365 chickens f…

When you say 'footie' that makes me think you are Australian. "Raffles" in australia have very specific legal requirements.

there are also raffles for entire houses held in the vancouver bc area, for a children's hospital and a few other charities. the houses/property really do exist and there really is a winner each year. it's my understanding that these do see a fair bit of legal scrutiny and oversight to make sure everything is above board, tickets are like $100 or $300 a piece.
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