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Re: You Just Reveived

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Post by fc417fc802 »

larodi wrote: post #64
fc417fc802 wrote: post #53

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> it is appalling how much these people are not interested in who actually gives their enterprise money Why should they be? In more than a few jurisdictions you can pay utilities or property taxes via an online portal without logging in. You just pull up a property, click "make a payment", and enter an amount along with a payment method into the portal. If you were to use a gift card for a utility payment I believe a…

well... imagine this - you are a concert agency, then some promoter comes, and hires you to do this hall and this artist. you do, it sells out, the room is near empty. should you be concerned where did the money come and go?

That's entirely different because the agency is an intermediary. How can you abuse a utility service to launder money?

Even then unless legally obligated I don't see why you should care. Just report the highly suspicious activity and let law enforcement handle it. Not your problem.

Re: You Just Reveived

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Post by larodi »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #71
larodi wrote: post #64

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well... imagine this - you are a concert agency, then some promoter comes, and hires you to do this hall and this artist. you do, it sells out, the room is near empty. should you be concerned where did the money come and go?

That's entirely different because the agency is an intermediary. How can you abuse a utility service to launder money? Even then unless legally obligated I don't see why you should care. Just report the highly suspicious activity and let law enforcement handle it. Not your problem.

the utility service gets in trouble because not doing due diligence or even is assumed helping facilitate the scheme.

Re: You Just Reveived

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Post by fc417fc802 »

larodi wrote: post #72
fc417fc802 wrote: post #71

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That's entirely different because the agency is an intermediary. How can you abuse a utility service to launder money? Even then unless legally obligated I don't see why you should care. Just report the highly suspicious activity and let law enforcement handle it. Not your problem.

the utility service gets in trouble because not doing due diligence or even is assumed helping facilitate the scheme.

They don't get in trouble because you can't abuse a utility to launder money. The onus is on you to provide an example here.

You only need to look into your customers to the extent required by law; beyond that it's not your problem. In your example with an intermediary a failure to report suspicious activity could potentially result in you being viewed as an accomplice.

Re: You Just Reveived

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Post by garciansmith »

dwedge wrote: post #35
c0balt wrote: post #4

Vodafone is quite a pest in terms of spam, leaving them led to two dozen emails, a bunch of SMS and five phone calls. It is not surprising they don't bother to check spelling on their spam anymore. Especially the emails, resending me literally the same offer of a 5€ rebate per month five times is just offensive spam. The other ones were just variations of the same offer with different styling.

T mobile is worse. They send me sms adverts based on the location of my sim card. Even a flip phone doesn't help

Until recently I used T-Mobile for many years and never got an SMS advertisement. Maybe it was something in the account settings I turned off.

Re: You Just Reveived

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Post by mjcarden »

RajT88 wrote: post #11
internetter wrote: post #9

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Probably practicing minimalism

Frankly - how many phone calls do you really make and take these days? It's vanishingly rare for me. I got a call from a friend today - but I think I otherwise only make or receive a legit phone call every few days. We use social media mostly. Work "calls" are on apps. A family could probably get away with 2 phones easily, as long as they have home internet. Now... When I was young and internet was over dial-up, havi…

Actual voice phone calls are so rare for me these days that I'll often go months without making or receiving one, though my mobile phone is always with me. And I recently realised that the house I live in, which was built in 2020, has no provision for any sort of landline telephone at all.

Re: You Just Reveived

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Post by lproven »

id00 wrote: post #49
ajxs wrote: post #34

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When I worked for an Australian telco (not Vodafone), some developers on another team had used a very conspicuous mobile phone number in their integration tests, which actually connected to a real SMS service somewhere else in the company. No idea why they would do this. It turned out that this number belonged to a real person, who got absolutely buried in test SMS messages, when the integration tests ran as part of…

I worked for an Australian insurance company and we physically DDOSed a poor man's real mailbox with printed policy documents as we used their address during e2e testing and we mistakenly didn't put a testing flag somewhere. Our CTO had to personally apologise to him

I lost a Nationwide Building Society account I've had for forty years last year because the bank bought some extremely poor online-ID-verification system.

The bank forgot it had customers in a Crown Dependency. It forgot those countries issues their own ID, their own passports, their own drivers' licences. It forgot it closed its branches in those countries: it told me I had to go into my branch. My nearest branch is a £200 airfare away. It was not paying, naturally.

The crappy online-verification tool only recognises UK documents. It can't handle Isle of Man ones. They did not think.

Re: You Just Reveived

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Post by lproven »

jp57 wrote: post #69
red_admiral wrote: post #68

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In the 1970s, a German rock group had a one-hit wonder with a protest song against Munich's sex trade licensing (Skandal im Sperrbezirk). In the lyrics, they had a made-up (so they thought) phone number 32-16-8 that fit the meter of their lyrics in German. Unfortunately, that was a real phone number in many cities, you could dial the short/local number directly without a 0 and the area code back then. Cue prank calls…

Same thing happened in the USA with 867-5309/Jenny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny#Popularity_and_...

Online, I believe that one bit of Beverley Hills has the highest number of online users in the USA.

I am one.

I have never visited California or the West Coast of the USA in my life.

But I have used dozens of websites which need a Zip code.

I have never had a Zip code. I have postcodes, like my old one IM2 3EW. That has letters. It won't fit a Zip code field.

So I and millions of others use the only Zip code we know:

Beverley Hills 90210.

Re: You Just Reveived

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Post by wiether »

lqet wrote: post #48
AdamN wrote: post #46

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Germany is more expensive (unless you go with a phone contract from the local grocery store - which I've heard mixed reviews about)

ALDI TALK offers EU-wide unlimited calls & SMS with 60 GB of data for 69.99 EUR per year . That is 5.80 EUR per month for unlimited calls/SMS and 5 GB of data [0]. I switched last year from O2 (they use the same network) after I realized that I only used more than 3 GB of data in two months during the last 3 years. I essentially cut my mobile phone costs by 70% for the same service. Compare to the O2 bloatware, the A…

Why am I surprised that Aldi and Lidl are offering mobile service in DE?

I'd love to have a sub, with like "unlock a free croissant every 100 SMS sent"!

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