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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging
bainidhe_dub:
There's been a scam going on here where the caller somehow has some background information on the person they're calling. My husband's grandparents got a call from someone claiming to be my husband, saying he was in jail or suck in Mexico or something and could they send money. The scammer knew my husband's name and his father's name, but couldn't answer where his father was born. I've also seen it as an email scam but that's obviously easier to make up since they don't have to have a phone conversation, and easier to check since if you get a suspicious email you just call the person.
Welu:
That's scary. I hung up figuring it'd give me a chance to ring people and if it was serious I would get a call back.
Redball:
--- Quote from: Welu on 02 Feb 2013, 11:30 ---Problem is that it's just a shell and needs a lot of work but could be very worth it.
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You'll learn a lot!
Papersatan:
--- Quote from: bainidhe_dub on 02 Feb 2013, 11:35 ---There's been a scam going on here where the caller somehow has some background information on the person they're calling. My husband's grandparents got a call from someone claiming to be my husband, saying he was in jail or suck in Mexico or something and could they send money. The scammer knew my husband's name and his father's name, but couldn't answer where his father was born. I've also seen it as an email scam but that's obviously easier to make up since they don't have to have a phone conversation, and easier to check since if you get a suspicious email you just call the person.
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That is actually called the "grandparent scam". I used to work in a call center which was funded by a class action law suit against Western Union and we called to educated seniors about telephone fraud. Frequently they get the information by calling the person weeks earlier with a survey or some such and they get friendly and chatty enough to get a few details. They frequently claim a grandchild is on a field trip in Canada and has been in an accident and they can't get the surgery they need until someone wires money.
When I was in high school, and in the period of adolescence where I pulled away from my parents and tried to find out who I was, much to their exasperation as I sighed and scoffed at all the things little kid me used to like, someone stole files from the school office which contained phone numbers. They called my house and asked me, (to try and prank me) but I was not home. When my mother asked if there was something they could help them with they told her it was unlikely since she had never been there for me. I came home to a heart-broken mother concerned I did not love her.
I have never been in a fight in my life. If I had been able to find out who did it I would have jumped them in a parking lot without regret. Fuck with me all you want, but do NOT fuck with my mother.
BeoPuppy:
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--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 01 Feb 2013, 00:05 ---Three people using one bathroom? I am looking forward to living somewhere where 14 people don't use one bathroom!
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RT
Except for me it's 46 sharing two toilets and one shower.
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And this is student housing ... not trench warfare or a similar uncomfortable place?
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