keitha
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Post by keitha on Oct 31, 2021 10:13:43 GMT
my scheme starts with a bit of confused dribble, you know me , hi Jane / John followed by i thought it was my son / daughter calling , sorry had a couple of minor strokes get confused, suck them in easy target.Then cannot find glasses , cannnot remember password stretch it on. Target is need to go to toilet get them to listen to urination noises and toilet flush .Dream then to number 2 with grunts and straining through to flush but never got that far before termination of call. Nasty, crude, yes but they are worth it. Second sheme if not got time or cannot be bothered, answer in made up foreign gibberish kind of french mixed with chinese and dog howls, calls tend not to last long cannot understand why.I know its childish but i dont care. Round here that's known as Welsh! 😁 I was going to say that but living in the valleys thought i'd be discrete
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Post by overthehill on Nov 2, 2021 10:45:52 GMT
Squid Game Crypto scam. The upside is plenty of likely advertising revenue for social media sites like Fecesbook. Hopefully every one who lost money have deleted their account as a two fingers to the Metaverse. Not sure how many victims in Fecesbook's targetted range were 6 year olds?
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Post by overthehill on Nov 4, 2021 17:17:26 GMT
Squid Game Crypto scam. The upside is plenty of likely advertising revenue for social media sites like Fecesbook. Hopefully every one who lost money have deleted their account as a two fingers to the Metaverse. Not sure how many victims in Fecesbook's targetted range were 6 year olds?
"NFTs are part of the future of games industry"
As soon as you see the phrases "Play to Earn" and buying and selling something utterly useless you know there is going to be a trail of scam victims and a few more millionaires. The marketing bullshit in the article is mind blowing although I'm not a gamer so I don't know what I'm talking about! It's going to be based on blockchain so there is nothing to worry about, didn't help those scammed in the squid game crypto scam above. Who would want to pay good money for an NFT, it's just another dreamed up speculative investment where you gain or lose big and a number of rich executives are guaranteed to gain big.
I've got a photo of The Jam playing in 1982 if you want to buy the NFT for 10k but I get to keep the photo. The worlds gone mad. I'm just going sit all night looking at my Rolex and Picasso and wish I had an NFT of them instead. www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59167668
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Post by overthehill on Nov 8, 2021 12:36:35 GMT
Not exactly a scam but it's one of those areas which is fairly adjacent.
I generally buy most things using Ebay but there are some items which are just perfect for overpricing and legally scamming people. Take gaming PCs, would you pay £300 for a 1st generation (now 11th) intel core processor and a 10 year old graphics card ? Many people do because they see Windows 10, a shiny new case, a big disk and a long list of games it can 'play' - badly.
The other behaviour with scamming potential that I detest is when the seller increases an out of stock item's normal price say x10 so people don't buy it. You must have noticed them if you use Ebay. Nobody would buy it, would they, surely not ?!
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agent69
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Post by agent69 on Nov 8, 2021 13:48:39 GMT
A woman who discussed buying a house with a man that she met on the internet (but had never met in real life), subsequently sent him £300k. When the man and the money disapeared she said "You see stories, you read stories, you hear about other people's stories, but you feel like that's never going to happen to you".
I feel sorry for anyone who gets conned out of large sums of money, but you wonder if they have ever heard of the old adages - one born every minute, or a fool and their money ......
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adrianc
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Post by adrianc on Nov 8, 2021 14:17:45 GMT
A woman who discussed buying a house with a man that she met on the internet (but had never met in real life), subsequently sent him £300k. When the man and the money disapeared she said "You see stories, you read stories, you hear about other people's stories, but you feel like that's never going to happen to you".
I feel sorry for anyone who gets conned out of large sums of money, but you wonder if they have ever heard of the old adages - one born every minute, or a fool and their money ......
Some people really do make life very easy for the scammers.
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Post by james100 on Nov 8, 2021 20:15:04 GMT
A woman who discussed buying a house with a man that she met on the internet (but had never met in real life), subsequently sent him £300k. When the man and the money disapeared she said "You see stories, you read stories, you hear about other people's stories, but you feel like that's never going to happen to you".
I feel sorry for anyone who gets conned out of large sums of money, but you wonder if they have ever heard of the old adages - one born every minute, or a fool and their money ......
Some people really do make life very easy for the scammers. I knew someone who fell for a "romance scam". They fascinate me, probably because of this. To this day I don't know if he actually realizes or whether he thinks it came to a natural end (when he just happened to be out of pocket considerably having forked out for the medical bills of his girlfriend's sick mother and visa visit fees). Even when I tried to tell him, he didn't want to know...easier to believe he'd been in a tricky love scenario than scammed I guess.
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Post by Greenwood2 on Nov 8, 2021 21:14:49 GMT
Some people really do make life very easy for the scammers. I knew someone who fell for a "romance scam". They fascinate me, probably because of this. To this day I don't know if he actually realizes or whether he thinks it came to a natural end (when he just happened to be out of pocket considerably having forked out for the medical bills of his girlfriend's sick mother and visa visit fees). Even when I tried to tell him, he didn't want to know...easier to believe he'd been in a tricky love scenario than scammed I guess. Also like real life romance 'scams' when someone takes advantage of another person to get what they want sexually and/or monetarily. The internet is just the latest and the most devious way to do it and in either case some victims don't understand what happened or don't believe it was what it was. As you say for the victim it often seems better to assume it was just an unfortunate set of circumstances and otherwise it would have been happy ever after.
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Post by overthehill on Nov 10, 2021 13:32:56 GMT
NFTs as security for P2P lending, anyone ? Think I'll give that miss when it arrives.
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Post by overthehill on Nov 10, 2021 16:48:47 GMT
NFTs as security for P2P lending, anyone ? Think I'll give that miss when it arrives.
A number of Fundingsecure loans were very similar to NFTs , the security was the actual photos rather than what was photographed.
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ilmoro
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Post by ilmoro on Nov 10, 2021 17:21:26 GMT
NFTs as security for P2P lending, anyone ? Think I'll give that miss when it arrives.
A number of Fundingsecure loans were very similar to NFTs , the security was the actual photos rather than what was photographed.
Photos! Pretty sure some of them were artists impressions ... or perhaps photofits would be a better term 
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Post by overthehill on Nov 11, 2021 12:40:18 GMT
Another day another scam, this time Whatsapp, another Fecesbook tainted app. Can't even motivate myself to read the plot and apportion blame. No doubt about the enabler and how uninterested they are in making it harder for scammers to thrive.
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adrianc
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Post by adrianc on Nov 11, 2021 12:48:16 GMT
Another day another scam, this time Whatsapp, another Fecesbook tainted app. Can't even motivate myself to read the plot and apportion blame. No doubt about the enabler and how uninterested they are in making it harder for scammers to thrive.
Not entirely sure you can blame the medium for that one. It's been going around for years via email, SMS, everything.
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Post by moonraker on Nov 11, 2021 13:01:08 GMT
The number of scam calls on my landline has increased recently; in fact they're just about all I get on it nowadays, to the extent that I seldom answer the phone. Then I spend several minutes checking the number out on the "Who called me" websites. Two weeks ago, it was the hoary old "Microsoft engineer", last week "BT" wanting to check my PC speed. Today the number comprised a record 15 digits, which I Googled and got a hit on a German "Who called me" website. I had to translate some of the comments, but it appears to have been to do with "Wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco products".
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Post by agent69 on Nov 11, 2021 13:11:01 GMT
Another day another scam, this time Whatsapp, another Fecesbook tainted app. Can't even motivate myself to read the plot and apportion blame. No doubt about the enabler and how uninterested they are in making it harder for scammers to thrive.
I've no idea how Whatsapp works, but it does make you wonder how difficult it can be to check the request for £1,500 was genuine.
- Contact your daughter by phone to see what is going on
- If you can't get through on the phone then send her an email
- If you are going to send money, then send it to her bank account
How did the scammer get hold of the money?
Great comment from the Dad that was conned - 'I used to run my own business, so if they can fool people like me, a lot of very vulnerable people will be in trouble'.
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