[Scams] Random Scamdomness

[Isgrimnur]

We don't even answer the front door unless the delivery driver needs us for something and rings the bell.

[jztemple2]

We don't even answer the front door unless the delivery driver needs us for something and rings the bell.

We do answer the front door, of course when I say "we" I mean me as my wife doesn't like to do it. And we're in a neighborhood where we rarely get anyone calling.

[mori]

You all should see the dating sites. I would estimate that 80-90% of the profiles are scammers. Male, female, trans, it is all the same. Most are doing some sort of pig butchering scam and some are quite sophisticated. There are also some doing old school hustle of sorts but they are definitely in the minority. Sometimes I will play along just to see what their end game is going to be but it usually is some sort of crypto currency investment scam. When they mention BTC I block and report them.

[YellowKing]

We don't even answer the front door unless the delivery driver needs us for something and rings the bell.

My dog is a sweetheart Catahoula/Aussie mix, but her bark sounds like a demon dog fully prepared to rip your throat out. We have a glass panel front door so when I get unsolicited visitors, I give her full reign to go nuts and jump at them against the glass. That's usually enough to scare them off. I got a Ring video one time of a solar panel guy literally running down my driveway after she got after him.

[Blackhawk]

My door is at the top of a steep, narrow, dark stairway with banisters likely designed early in the last century.

Very few people knock.

[em2nought]

Hey, I don't like them giving butchers a bad name.

I've just recently gotten some of these sneaky text messages

USPS ECCC SMS: Your shipment has been processed at our facility but is currently on hold due to incomplete address information. To facilitate
timely delivery , we request you verify your address through the link provided below (link redacted) (Reply to 1, keep the SMS and open the SMS activation link again or copy the link to open in Google Chrome)

Pretty sneak with no spelling errors.

[Jeff V]

I suppose it's possible, a lot of companies still do door-to-door. I indulged them once in a while -- Edge for pest control (they were fired after they killed one of my wife's beloved roses). And then there was TruGreen, that managed to feed the weeds and little else as promised. They were fired for non-performance.

With regards to Hello Fresh, every week I drive a number of people to and from their fulfillment plant in Aurora. Those of you who might remember the story of the teenage boy I nearly adopted -- he's a safety supervisor there now.

[Rumpy]

I suppose it's possible, a lot of companies still do door-to-door.

Bell does this over here. They tend to hire students and they are super aggressive in their tactics. To the point of not taking no for an answer. I snapped at them once. And yesterday our neighbour was trapped in having them give their spiel for 20 min.

[Jeff V]

I always make an excuse to get them to go away quickly. The most aggressive lately are the solar panel salesmen. I tell them my average electric bill is $80, they lose a lot of steam because of that.

[jztemple2]

I suppose it's possible, a lot of companies still do door-to-door.

Bell does this over here. They tend to hire students and they are super aggressive in their tactics. To the point of not taking no for an answer. I snapped at them once. And yesterday our neighbour was trapped in having them give their spiel for 20 min.

Mostly I just say I'm not interested and close the door. If it is the local holy roller old folks pushing Jesus I just say no thank you in a polite voice. If it is some pushy type I put on my command voice. It doesn't hurt that I'm six foot and, as my niece told me one time, I always seem to look pissed off. It's a gift

I guess it helps that my door opens outward and so they have to take a step back so as not to get hit (it's also a wide door). That puts them further away from the threshold.

The worse I ever had was two clowns from AT&T a few years ago. The first time they came I was polite, said I wasn't interest and closed the door. A day later, the second time they called, I said I wasn't interested with a bit firmer voice. The next day, when they called for the third time, I yelled something rude and slammed the door.

[TheMix]

I have a "No Solicitation" sign on the door. I could actually get their information and file a complaint. When I last checked it was something like a $11000 fine for the company for each complaint. I've never bothered with that. I have, however, pointed at the sign without saying anything and closed the door in their face. I have also asked them if they know what it means... and then closed the door in their face.

[Kraken]

Our new house has a driveway that's almost 1/4 mile long. I don't think we'll get any unsolicited visitors who aren't in the Manson family.

[Unagi]

Our new house has a driveway that's almost 1/4 mile long. I don't think we'll get any unsolicited visitors who aren't in the Manson family.

Good thing it doesn't snow there.

[Rumpy]

I suppose it's possible, a lot of companies still do door-to-door.

Bell does this over here. They tend to hire students and they are super aggressive in their tactics. To the point of not taking no for an answer. I snapped at them once. And yesterday our neighbour was trapped in having them give their spiel for 20 min.

Mostly I just say I'm not interested and close the door.

Wish it were that easy, but they're so brazen. If they detect you're about to say no, then that only makes them redouble their efforts to try to convince you to change your mind. It's the JW's on the other hand, who are nice and respectful.

Maybe I should hire you to come up here and stare them down...

And there's a reason we left Bell. For basic landline service, the bill was astronomical and kept climbing. That was late 2000's. We've been Bell-free for decades and nothing can convince us to return.

[Daehawk]

I just got one of those car extended warranty scams in the mail. How is it they can get away with committing federal mail fraud? Do they somehow actually sell u a real warranty?..I seriously doubt it.

[hepcat]

But you bought one? That's where I expect this story to go.

[ImLawBoy]

There are businesses that do sell extended auto warranties on a non-scam basis. Whether they're worth it or not I don't know.

[Daehawk]

Id hate to be in a legal business where a well known scam is also.

[Punisher]

You can always try googling them to see if they're legit.

[em2nought]

Don’t Fall for These 9 Venmo, Cash App and Zelle Scams
Digital payment apps are playgrounds for scammers. Here's how to avoid their schemes.

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[Daehawk]

Uh oh...they've found me.. I got this email today..

Dear beneficiary,

This is Jacob Leibenluft (Chief, Office of Recovery Programs and Counselor of the Treasury) in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The Office of Recovery Programs (ORP) was established barely two years ago to lead the implementation of economic relief and recovery programs. The link below will help shed more light;

The U.S. Treasury Department through the Office of Recovery Programs has facilitated the deployment of capital to ensure all outstanding relief, inheritance and compensation funds are paid to deserving beneficiaries, small businesses and scam victims from previous years. This is to make sure all outstanding funds are paid to respective beneficiaries this fiscal year 2024.

As a result of this development, you have been selected alongside a few other beneficiaries to receive a payment of $1,250,000 (One Million Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars) only. You are required to furnish me with your personal details as requested below to facilitate the processing of your payment;


(1) Full Names:
(2) Residential Address:
(3) Date of Birth:
(4) Phone/Cell Number:
(5) Occupation:

We demand your utmost cooperation to enable us expedite this payment. It is guaranteed that this process would be executed under a legitimate arrangement that would legally protect you from any breach of Law.


Get back to me as soon as you can.











Yours Sincerely,
Jacob Leibenluft
Recovery Officer
U.S DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY.

Note: I REMOVED the scam link it had...also I left that last space to let you see how much space they left between each sentence or two..I tidied up the rest above it lolz

[Grifman]

Why are you guys even going to the front door.? I just look out the window and if it is someone I don't know, I just don't answer. After a few minutes, they go away, problem solved.

The scam I get on a regular basis are text messages from people asking if I am a certain named person, or acting like they know me, and asking if I want go do something, like golfing, a movie, etc. Then if you respond you don't know them or you are not that person, they say they are sorry, must have had the wrong number, then they start being friendly with you, sometimes sending a photo. It's invariably a cute Asian woman. Ah, if only that were true I've never let it get any further than that, then I block/report them if I haven't done that already. I know at some point, they are going to "fall in love" with me, then start asking for money.

[Jaymann]

I got several text messages looking to employ me for TicToc. Work at home and make $650 - $1,000 a day. Wow, sounds too good to be true.

[Kraken]

The scam I get on a regular basis are text messages from people asking if I am a certain named person, or acting like they know me, and asking if I want go do something, like golfing, a movie, etc.

I get three or four of those a week. I always just Block Number them, not that that helps. I think my favorite was "I saw your profile on the dating app and wonder if you want to have a drink with me."

[Daehawk]

The scam I get on a regular basis are text messages from people asking if I am a certain named person, or acting like they know me, and asking if I want go do something, like golfing, a movie, etc.

I get three or four of those a week. I always just Block Number them, not that that helps. I think my favorite was "I saw your profile on the dating app and wonder if you want to have a drink with me."

wait! I need that number. i can work from home and make tons of cash to fix my car and buy crypto from Musk so he'll stop whispering in my ear. This is great.

Anything I said above is total fantasy and should not be used in exorcisms or cranial nerve exams.

[Punisher]

I got several text messages looking to employ me for TicToc. Work at home and make $650 - $1,000 a day. Wow, sounds too good to be true.

You know what they say...
If it's too good to be true...grab it before someone else does!

[Jeff V]

I got several text messages looking to employ me for TicToc. Work at home and make $650 - $1,000 a day. Wow, sounds too good to be true.

It's possible, but you have to show your tits.

[Jeff V]

The ones that have been annoying me recently are the friend requests on FB, and boiler plate responses to my posts to the effect "I've always been impressed what you have to say." The profile pics, of course, are stunning. I ignore them all, but now I have to actively delete them because my wife from time to time looks at my phone and decides I'm cheating on her with these scammers.

[Kraken]

The ones that have been annoying me recently are the friend requests on FB, and boiler plate responses to my posts to the effect "I've always been impressed what you have to say." The profile pics, of course, are stunning. I ignore them all, but now I have to actively delete them because my wife from time to time looks at my phone and decides I'm cheating on her with these scammers.

I got peripherally drawn into one of those via an old high school friend. The same young lady friended both of us without realizing that we talk to each other. I kept her at arm's length while he (being single) let her in. She was a legit hottie who offered to go take care of him while he was sick, but first she had to go settle her dad's multimillion-dollar estate if only he would send her the money for airfare. He extracted some titillating pics from her before he sent her packing.

She mentioned to me that she's 6' tall and then told him that she's a porn star who's profile says she's 5'4". I suspect she's not being entirely honest.

My Instagram profile draws a sexy new follower every month or two. I must have a couple dozen young ladies who'd love me and my bank account.

[Madmarcus]

The profile pics, of course, are stunning. I ignore them all, but now I have to actively delete them because my wife from time to time looks at my phone and decides I'm cheating on her with these scammers.

We have fun laughing at the scammers that we each get.

[Max Peck]

It's a weird coincidence that this story is landing on the anniversary of Elvis Presley's death on 16 August, 1977.

Woman charged in alleged plan to steal Elvis's Graceland

A Missouri woman is accused of trying to defraud Elvis Presley's family of millions of dollars and steal the family's ownership interest in Graceland, the US singing legend's family home.

Lisa Jeanine Findley, who used a variety of aliases, was arrested for allegedly orchestrating a scheme to conduct a fraudulent sale of Graceland, located in Memphis, Tennessee home.

Ms Findley, 53, was federally charged with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft and was expected to appear in court Friday. If convicted, she could face up to 20 years in prison.

The Presley family has not publicly commented on the charges.

The US Justice Department claims Ms Findley posed as three different individuals associated with a fictitious private lender called Naussany Investments & Private Lending LLC (Naussany Investments).

The DOJ alleges she falsely claimed Elvis Presley's daughter - Lisa Marie Presley, who died in January 2023 - had borrowed $3.8m (£3m) from Naussany Investments, pledged Graceland as collateral for the loan and failed to repay the debt.

Ms Findley allegedly was seeking $2.85m ($2.2m GBP) from Presley's family to settle the alleged debt, according to the DOJ.

Among the fraudulent actions she's accused of are allegedly fabricating loan documents, forging the signature of Elvis Presley's daughter and publishing a fraudulent foreclosure notice in one of Memphis’s daily newspapers, announcing that Naussany planned to auction Graceland on 23 May.

When the Presley family sued Naussany Investments attempting to stop the sale of Graceland, Ms Findley also allegedly submitted false court filings, the DOJ said.

The auction to sell Graceland sparked international attention earlier this year, after Presley's granddaughter, actress Riley Keough, claimed that the paperwork on the loan was fraudulent. She said that her mother's signature was forged.

Ms Keough inherited Graceland, which has long been a public museum honoring Mr Presley, and much of Presley's estate after her mother, Lisa Marie Presley, died last year.

She filed a legal action to stop the planned auction and a Tennessee judge agreed.

At the time, Graceland and Elvis Presley Enterprises issued a statement to the BBC: "As the court has now made clear, there was no validity to the claims."

[Jeff V]

Once I was driving past Graceland with a Memphis native, and I asked her why he built a mansion in such a shitty neighborhood, flanked by slums at all. The slums look as if they've been there for centuries. But no, my colleague assured me, there was nothing there when he built Graceland. The slum just organically sprouted in complete crapitude over about 30 years (closer to 50 now).

[Holman]

Why are you guys even going to the front door.? I just look out the window and if it is someone I don't know, I just don't answer. After a few minutes, they go away, problem solved.

The scam I get on a regular basis are text messages from people asking if I am a certain named person, or acting like they know me, and asking if I want go do something, like golfing, a movie, etc. Then if you respond you don't know them or you are not that person, they say they are sorry, must have had the wrong number, then they start being friendly with you, sometimes sending a photo. It's invariably a cute Asian woman. Ah, if only that were true I've never let it get any further than that, then I block/report them if I haven't done that already. I know at some point, they are going to "fall in love" with me, then start asking for money.

This is known as the "pig butchering" scam. [Forgive me if this has been explained before, as it likely has.]

Someone contacts you, apparently in error, and then strikes up a fun/loose conversation for a few days until they eventually let you know that they're interested in a relationship. It goes on for weeks, and then they start talking about transferring money.

It's "pig butchering" because it takes a long time, maybe several months. But the theory is that lonely and unsavvy target will eventually come to think that no scammer would possibly invest so much time in them, so it must be real. (Meanwhile, each scamming agent is running one or two hundred targets simultaneously.)

[Daehawk]

Not sure it was a scam but it should be. Tulsi Gabbard sent me a personal email asking me to take a survey on where I stand. I started to click it just to give the biotch a piece of my mind but then thought better of clicking a link from the GOP or whoever it is.

[Paingod]

Got a nice one-two punch that almost got me. It made me check with my wife to make sure we weren't overdue on anything.

One call comes in from an unknown number with an automated message, accusing me of having an unpaid debt and they want to collect. A second call comes in minutes later from a different number and it's a different automated message & voice, offering debt consolidation services.

It was the second one that tripped the "I should check on that" center in my brain, not the first one. The first one had been written off as a scam.

I always write off debt collection as a scam, even if it's not. 100% of the debt we've ever had was over disputes with hospitals on services. When the collection agency calls they can't tell me what the medical service was, so I tell them that if they have no idea what it's for, I don't either. Stop calling.

[hepcat]

Not sure it was a scam but it should be. Tulsi Gabbard sent me a personal email asking me to take a survey on where I stand. I started to click it just to give the biotch a piece of my mind but then thought better of clicking a link from the GOP or whoever it is.

Good thing too. I heard she reads ALL those emails that are sent out in her name and will respond with her fists if she doesn't like what you say.

[Daehawk]

Not sure it was a scam but it should be. Tulsi Gabbard sent me a personal email asking me to take a survey on where I stand. I started to click it just to give the biotch a piece of my mind but then thought better of clicking a link from the GOP or whoever it is.

Good thing too. I heard she reads ALL those emails that are sent out in her name and will respond with her fists if she doesn't like what you say.

That little pipsqueek!...Actually I find her kinda cute...but as a person she is repulsive. Its like yessss nooooo yessss nooooooo.nononono

[hepcat]

You're the same way with Lindsey Graham though.

[Smoove_B]

Politics!

[Daehawk]

lol