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221 Cannon is Not For Sale

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Re: 221 Cannon is Not For Sale

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Post by some_random »

stogot wrote: post #181
some_random wrote: post #62

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They're busy planning domestic terrorism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_pl... ), entrapping the mentally ill ( https://archive.vn/riFSI ), etc. In all seriousness, this is probably an international crime and they just do not have the resources to chase them all down.

That first link does not prove your claim

Sorry no it doesn't prove my half joking claim it only documents a single case of a high profile terrorist plot from a small group that was led by an FBI informant, containing another 4 informants and agents, and funded by the FBI in which they had trouble convicting several defendants (despite a 95%+ conviction rate normally) for some reason no clue why.

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

estsauver wrote: post #204

This was extremely common as a scam in Kenya, the solution there was an extraordinarily simple tactic: Put up a big "This property is not for sale" sign on the land.

But if the scammer lives nearby, wouldn't they just show up and remove the sign? Or pay someone to remove it.

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

wildzzz wrote: post #205
bookofjoe wrote: post #200

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Remember when credit cards required your signature on the back?

My mom used to tell me to write CHECK ID in the signature block. Someone only ever asked me once. It's probably been like 10 years since I've signed the back of a new card. An older woman at an antique shop actually checked for a signature and made me sign it in front of her.

The fact that a signature is, to date, a legally binding form of identification is baffling to me to be honest. More and more is digital these days, but still.

(my "signature" is just a squiggle based on my initials and I can't reproduce it consistently)

Re: 221 Cannon is Not For Sale

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

jgoldshlag wrote: post #15
teeray wrote: post #8

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A motivated attacker need only don a green safety vest and hard hat, then roll up with a white pickup truck, place some orange safety cones and take down the sign with a chainsaw.

The point is that nearly all of the people doing this don't even live in the country where the land is being sold from. A simple sign would probably be quite effective

I'm sure you could put an ad up on craigslist or fiverr or whatever, one asking for someone to take photos of the property to see if there is a sign, and another to remove it. There's plenty of people willing to do anything for money.

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Post by WarmWash »

dandelany wrote: post #125
dizhn wrote: post #118

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Leaked? Isn't it used in the open basically like for everything including student IDs?

This was once common but is exceedingly rare these days. I'm sure exceptions exist, but nearly all Americans now treat this as a Very Secret Number.

*Super Secret Number

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Post by consp »

angry_octet wrote: post #208

The best remedy for this is a Land Title Registry, which is a secure database of who owns a parcel of land, and a mandated verification of identity (VoI) standard. You no longer require title deeds, notaries, or title insurance. It isn't totally proof against sophisticated social engineering and gullibility of course, but it is a lot safer. For registry titles you can also add caveats, that require sign-off from anot…

It's not the same as forgery, and maybe less worse, but it's not a panacea. It would still have issues as there is a lot of legacy stuff out there. We have a registry (based on the Cadastre system) and it's not uncommon for there to be disputes about the land borders which are only resolved by a judge and not simply by looking at the data. Maps are old, stuff gets lost, is poorly digitized, etc.

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Post by Boltgolt »

Nextgrid wrote: post #191
Hardwired8976 wrote: post #187

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Handing your credit card to pay is still such a foreign concept to me

Back when computers were actually expensive and wireless networking technology wasn’t as good/common, they would take your card to the back office and run it on the single , hardwired card terminal. Nowadays it’s less of an issue as those terminals cost peanuts and WiFi is ubiquitous so they have many of them and can just bring one to your table.

When there was only a single terminal it was common in Europe to just... walk to the counter and pay for the meal card in hand. No other way to type in your PIN

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Post by ghaff »

skissane wrote: post #63
dcrazy wrote: post #34

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No, the United States doesnt have a central land registry because that is not an enumerated power of the federal government. The individual states have sovereignty over their own land and each has its own system for land registration. The article you linked to even names several states that have a partial Torrens title system. The claim that the title insurance industry is the reason for lack of adoption of Torrens t…

> No, the United States doesnt have a central land registry because that is not an enumerated power of the federal government. I think you misunderstood the post you were replying to. Torrens title was invented in Australia. Just like in the US, land titles are a state responsibility in Australia not a federal one. But each state has a central statewide land registry which is the authoritative source of truth for lan…

In fact, in the US, I'm not sure it even happens systematically at the state level. In the state where I live (Massachusetts) even though counties are largely vestigial, that's where deeds and such are registered and filed as far as I know. (Just went through this for various reasons.)

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Post by burnte »

direwolf20 wrote: post #189
citizenpaul wrote: post #117

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Facebook admits around 10% of their ads are fraudulent. I think it's much higher. The scam is even larger than you see and exploits missing children reports. There are huge automated scam networks that post missing children reports then get people to share them. Then once the post/ad gets traction they change it to a listing of a house that is auto pulled from public information. They then use that to scam people. Pl…

A leaked Facebook document showed they know which ads are fraudulent because the ad system is programmed to never show those ads to the ad regulators, and it's most of the ads.

Any source for this?

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Post by consp »

kstrauser wrote: post #93
emptybits wrote: post #7

1. Author lost me at his first sentence: "Like most people, I’ve had my identity stolen once or twice in my life." I am careful and aware of this possibility, but AFAIK I have not experienced this, nor have "most people" I know. o_O Crazy times. 2. I don't even understand how a title transfer could happen without verifying ownership. Is the title system in the USA decentralized or that much different than elsewhere?…

In the dark old days before Apple Pay, where it was common in America to hand your credit/debit card to some rando at a restaurant and have them disappear with it for a few minutes, about once a year my bank would call me to ask if I'd been using my card in some far-off locale: "Hi! Are you in Tijuana?" "Not since 1993. Why? What's up?" "So you didn't just try to buy gasoline at a PEMEX there?" "Nope, I'm in San Fran…

Reminds me of the carbon copies (actual carbon copies) some local car renter made. They wrote your risk on the carbon copy as a "reservation", carbon copied your CC onto it and stored it in a safe. Pretty much a list of ready-to-use cards if you got hold of them.
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