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polyamorouspunk · 1 year

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Going to put on my Tumblr Parent Pants™️ for a second and out myself by saying I play an ungodly amount of Candy Crush, and recently I’ve been seeing an ad that I wanted to talk about but kind of just passed it off until I saw this ad on tumblr as well recently, so I just want to say: You Are Not Making Thousands Of Dollars Off A Stupid Little Game App. And I’m sure MOST of you are saying “nO sHiT pUnK” but listen if you are, then this post is NOT for you. I’d like to think that my mom taught me a decent amount of life lessons including this one but I still know what it’s like to feel like you grew up as a “sheltered child” so I’m passing this message onto anyone whose parents DIDN’T teach them this lesson: If a game was REALLY giving out THOUSANDS of dollars for FREE, they would NOT be putting THIS MUCH EFFORT into ADVERTISING because you would ALREADY KNOW ABOUT IT because that shit would have gone VIRAL. And if you’re thinking to yourself “oh, yeah, this post is definitely for me”: DON’T feel stupid. Look, we all fall for scams at least once in our life, whether it be a scam like this or just a phony relationship or whatever. Falling for a scam does NOT make you stupid. We live and we learn and we pass the knowledge on to those who come after us, hopefully with love. You’re not stupid.

#life advice #the punk gives good advice #money scams #phone scams #cyber scams #online scams #scams

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thundergrace · 2 years

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Signal Boost: there's a scam happening. No one should be calling you and asking for any information, especially not banking information, in regards to your student loans.

#phone scams #student loan forgiveness #student loan debt

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yours-trudy · 1 year

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Quick, Trudy! Give them your credit card number!

#Yours Trudy #webcomic #comics #artists on tumblr #comics on tumblr #187 #postal service #phone scams

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eternalistic · 5 months

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The FTC announced last week that it would host a competition challenging private citizens to find solutions to protect people from AI-generated phone scams.The scams can use AI to clone a loved one’s voice, making it sound like they’re in trouble and tricking unsuspecting people into coughing up big bucks. The FTC is offering a $25,000 reward to anyone who can innovate a solution, essentially leveraging the same AI technology to protect consumers, Maxson said. Applications will open in January. The agency previously held similar crowdsourcing competitions to help combat robocalls.

#AI #scams #ftc #phone scams #regulation #Congress #technology #privacy #consumerprotection #deepfakes #robocalls #crowdsourcing #legislation #voicecloning #consumers #innovation #rewards #guardrails

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kaiispost · 1 year

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Pls wtf is this 😀😀😀

#scams have evolved #phone scams #wtf lmao #what is grief if not love persevering #im confused #x male reader #gay #i’m totally fine #i’m suffering

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gwydionmisha · 2 years

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The Shiloh Ministries and Phone Scams

#The Shiloh Ministries #Phone Scams #Scams

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marciodpaulla-blog · 2 months

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How to Know if it's Really the IRS Contacting You?

Know IRS contacts protocols for mail, calls, visits to avoid scams demanding payment or making threats. Report suspicious communications claiming to be tax authority.

The IRS contacts taxpayers in various ways, including by phone, mail, and in-person visits. However, scammers also often impersonate the IRS to try to get money or personal information from victims. It’s important for taxpayers to understand how the real IRS operates so they can identify any suspicious communications that may be IRS imposters. The IRS Primarily Uses Mail for Legitimate…

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#audits #credentials #criminal investigations #fraud #identification #identity theft #impersonation #IRS #mail scams #phone scams #reporting fraud #scams #tax collection #taxes

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cathscreations · 3 months

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Identifying Scams

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dwarfvader · 7 months

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I would love to be one of those youtubers that troll with scammers. But I don't know how to without like getting actually scammed. Also scared they'd put out a hit on me or something.

#youtube #scammers #phone scams #email scams #phishing #youtubers

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sofiadragon · 11 months

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I got a life hack for those auto-dialer spam phone calls from a cousin and it works! Answer the phone with "[Your name] speaking, how can I help you?" Scammers hang right up, not wasting your time and potentially flagging your number as a business line. They don't want to call people at work or the self-employed, they want easy marks. If it is a legitimate call or a political survey they might ask if they have the right number, but that's easily sorted. No need to explain, it's a legitimate way to answer the phone and many will assume you answer phones like that at work all day. I know I've answered my own phone as if I was still at work once or twice.

#life hack #phone scams #get your number off their call list

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tehjleck · 1 year

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New phone scam?

I've gotten three texts supposedly sent to a woman named Ellen about going to yoga.

I was nice to the first one, suggested the sender check the number, and even said, "Have fun at yoga", they said, "Oh, you seem like a nice guy, god bless you. My name is Emily. Wanna be friends?"

My reply: "I'm an atheist, I'm not single, and I'm not a very social animal. Good day."

The next two just got blocked

#phone scams

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anbuselvi1 · 1 year

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Protect your Account From the Latest YouTube Scam Attacks

Protect your Account From the Latest YouTube Scam Attacks The latest record from Google’s Threat Analysis organization highlights a phishing marketing campaign focused on YouTube content material creators. Hackers effectively hijacked heaps of channels, which have been both offered off or used to release monetary scams in opposition to the channel’s viewers. While Google says it is actively…