Yes, it's normal for even the best to make mistakes. That's why pilots have checklists and copilots, for example.
I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed
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#432There's one easy rule that could have avoided all of this - never give out any info on incoming calls. If I get a call or text about fraudulent transactions, I'll keep them on hold while I log into the bank website. If I get a call about a late payment, I'll thank them for the info and ask them to stay on while I pay online. If I get an inbound call with a more complex request, I'll ask them for their employee info a…
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Re: I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed
#433Re: I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed
#434Yes, it's normal for even the best to make mistakes. That's why pilots have checklists and copilots, for example.
The best pilot would not rationalize for even a second why their instrument readings did not match their intuition. They would fall back on their training immediately in the face of ambiguity.
This person is not even close to being the best…which is irrelevant, since they should have known better anyway.
That being said, bad stuff can happen to anyone regardless of who they are.
Re: I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed
#435There's one easy rule that could have avoided all of this - never give out any info on incoming calls. If I get a call or text about fraudulent transactions, I'll keep them on hold while I log into the bank website. If I get a call about a late payment, I'll thank them for the info and ask them to stay on while I pay online. If I get an inbound call with a more complex request, I'll ask them for their employee info a…
Better rule: NEVER answer the phone.
Re: I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed
#436It's actually also quite frustrating when financial institutions don't have proper secure practices in place. If you've ever wired money from SFCU, you'd know they would ask you to fill out a form with a handwritten wire password. You submit the form and someone from the credit union would call you to verify your wire password.
When I received the call from them, they asked for my date of birth and other information. I explained that I'm not comfortable revealing my details to an incoming call and to give me their extension instead. When I did this with BoA or Chase, they'd immediately understand my concern.
The SFCU person on the line, however, gave me some passive aggressive statement about me causing extra work. This was followed by me calling their official number on their web page and having to wait about 20-30 minutes to get through to the extension number to the same person, which proved that the previous call was legit. However, said person proceeded to mock me for having wasted our time.
I love SFCU but they really need to understand how scammers work.
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#437Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Amazon today is a street side flea market. You really don't know what you'll get. There are two time when I will use Amazon nowadays: 1) If there is an official store there Anker is a good example of this. It seems like Amazon doesn't commingle inventory if there is an official store. 2) If I want something faster than Alibaba/Aliexpress Quite often I can find the exact Chinesium equivalent on Amazon and I get the…
> It seems like Amazon doesn't commingle inventory if there is an official store. Is there any confirmation of this? I've seen assertions both ways.
As I understand it, Amazon charges a fee to avoid commingling. Any seller can pay it and have their items isolated.
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#438Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone why buys a lot of cycling parts online, there are many mom/pop bike shops with web storefronts, that are very reasonably priced and often include "free" shipping. Stop giving bezos your money, you have no excuse.
Reality check: I'm not exactly rich. When I'm a millionaire I'll happily support LBS. Until then Amazon helps me save a shitton of money. I got a pair of Continental GatorSkin tires from Amazon for 30% less than LBS just 2 weeks ago. And yes, I called LBS and checked the price.
Your local shop isn't the only option. The first online retailer (above Amazon in my Google search result) is €3 cheaper than Amazon, shipping included.
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/C1010429-P-Continental-Gatorskin-...
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#439Permanent hug-of-death? > Lupinia Hosting Is Shutting Down Original archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220331074459/http://www.lupini...
That's an error condition I've never seen before; that page only appears when no corresponding virtual server can be found (leftover from when I used to host friends' websites, a very long time ago), but I'm not sure what would cause it to be displayed without fuzzing the domain name. If the application got overloaded and fell over and died, it should've thrown a 50x error of some sort. Thank you for pointing it out!…
FWIW, the TLS certs did not match; it redirected to some other subdomain (and/or cleartext http, don't recall which)
Re: I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed
#440I wonder who these well-spoken, educated scammers are and how they’re recruited. Pet theory: voice recordings will be the next fingerprints/DNA, at some point it will be trivial to identify the person based on old recordings. At which point we can retroactively convict these people years or decades later, when they thought they were out of the woods.
I hope you’re not implying that these voice-recording/identity databases would be a good thing.