#the set-up scam

[foldingfittedsheets]

So my nana called me with the most bizarre list of questions.

1. Do I still have my cat backpack, and do I like it?

Yes, I still have it. But I don’t think that would work for you as cats are heavier than you think (read: you’re 80, you cannot lift your obese cat.)

2. What do you think of those automatic litter boxes?

I love them, they are very convenient. They break after a year because capitalism but it’s still worth the convenience! (Read: please god get this you never scoop your boxes and your poor cat goes to the bathroom everywhere because he doesn’t want to walk over the carpet of his own feces that is his litter box)

3. How do you cook bratwurst?

…what? You- you put it in a frying pan and brown it off. Do you boil it? God no. I guess technically you could- oh. You boiled it for ten minute. Is that enough? I have no earthly idea, but probably? You could still put it in a pan and brown it (although at this point let’s be honest, it’s not gonna taste good after the ordeal.)

#ramblies #my nana is very crazy #my betrothed said once ‘I work with a lot of old people in healthcare but your nana is the weirdest I’ve ever met’ #she then asked if I could help her sell her stuff on marketplace and I spent twenty minutes explaining why I would never throw her to that #I promised to help her set up OfferUp instead where I feel more confident in her ability to not get scammed #but marketplace is a fucking hellscape

[scintillyyy]

not to be controversial but the scammers in robin 54 weren't poor homeless people who didn't deserve what tim did to them, they were implied to be scummy opportunists who came in from out of town just to scam people who just lost everything out of money.

#it's like all the air duct cleaning posts on neighborhood pages on fb #those people aren't desperate they're just hoping to make a quick buck from someone gullible lol #like i know it might seem like tim gleefully slashed the tires of some homeless people #but given he calls them travelers and they appear to have a very convincing set up #i think they're definitely supposed to be read as people who came in from out of town to make a quick buck from desperate people #and they're sleeping in their van because everything is kind lf destroyed right now and motels probably are full if they're open #like yea jack could have afforded to be out what they scammed from him but that's probably not true for all of their victims

[nightshadeowl]

Hey can we talk about how funny it is that Xisuma decided one of the primary antagonistic forces working against the Hermits in Season 8 would be fucking CRYPTO

#like yeah the moon coming down horse head farms bartering souls. and this guy's evil twin setting up a blockchain scam #i'm . head in hands laughing. IT'S SUCH A BASED MESSAGE TOO #XISUMA WHERE DID THIS COME FROM #THE THROWN GAUNTLET TO JEFF BEZOS WASN'T UNTIL AFTER IIRC #passenger status

[starsandthorn]

feel like i need a corkboard and red string to make sense of the narzissenkreuz stuff

#personal stuff #thorn plays genshin #it's not too confusing it's just. a lot. and in bits and pieces #but yeah. the artifact set. the order of skeptics questline and both of the big world quest questlines in fontaine. #also head in my hands. elynas. i have nothing to add but like aughu. auuuuuguuh. dead sentient dragons. #elynas. durin. does orobashi count. #going bonkers i love how someone said ''since apep pretty much said the natlan line we'll probably get dragon lore there'' #and i went yeah that make sense. #then boom fontaine. hydro dragon. elynas. dragon lore. what the fuck #presuming. elynas is a dragon of course but what else could it be #but i was right about the melusines being born from its body!! #but........not like apep i don't think. they weren't alive before elynas died #REALLY cool questline btw and i'm not just saying that because i love the melusines [lying] #but i wasn't expecting it to meet up with the other world quest #so when she was like ''mister jakob--'' i literally fucking gasped aloud. #getting to take both of the companions back to the narzissenkreuz ordo was really cool though. i liked that #everyone say thank you to that random guy who tried to scam us and leave us for dead at the bottom of the ocean!! #never would have been able to unlock this loredump without you <33333

[andthebeanstalk]

My first time watching Glass Onion it was obvious that Miles' speeches were bullshit, but I still searched for any hidden meaning there might be.

The second time is a different experience though because every time my brain starts to search for meaning, I feel like Benoit Blanc discovering that no, there is absolutely no hidden meaning.

It's bullshit it's all nothing nothing nothing! It is just how you end up talking when everyone reacts to your self-aggrandizing word vomit like it is actually wisdom.

Also, legit, when Miles gave his stupid bullshit speech about what the word 'disruptor' means to him, I shit you not I was like holy shit am I back in business school right now?!

Miles must have given speeches like that at 100 business school graduations, goddamn.

Like, the motherfuckers really do sound like this. We didn't have any billionaires come, but we had a lot of millionaire guest speakers in my classes, and they fucking talk like that.

They all think they're rugged capitalists, but they're just glass onions!

#original #glass onion #it's just. business school prepared me really well to succeed in the business world as a straight white neurotypical #able-bodied cis man with a large network of very wealthy friends and family #I really would have killed it if I wasn't a queer autistic cripple! #even the best teachers seemed incredibly unaware of the enormous privilege that they were assuming in their students when they taught #but they basically presupposed you had infinite energy and savings and a disturbingly large number of my classes were just #lectures about pushing as hard as you can no matter what #they used Starbucks as an example of an admirable case of somebody who persisted in going to 150 investor pitches before being approved #and like. how many people do you know who have enough savings to schedule plan and attend 150 investor pitches? #how many people do you know who could set up even 12 through their connections? #where are those savings coming from? where are those investor pitch meetings coming from? those aren't easy to get!! #but none of this was ever mentioned it was just awesome that the guy kept trying I guess. #I have a sneaking suspicion that if I were to have dug deeper into some of the examples we were given that a lot of those #real life businesses probably started with a big big loan from somebody's parents #I was listening to the show you're wrong about which is a really good podcast and Michael Hobbs was like #anytime you see an article glorifying someone's financial success especially at a young age you should control F for 'parents' #because chances are you will probably see the word 'parents' somewhere next to the words 'million dollar loan' #anyway college is a scam. the community aspect was incredibly cool but I don't see why we as a culture need to only be able to access that #kind of community when we are paying a scam Institution a shitload of money for Educations that aren't helpful for the majority of us #if College was free then people could actually study things that are useful or fun for them #I took most of my courses just to fill out my major too. the point wasn't to learn it was to graduate. #and then it turned out that if you're disabled in the way i am it doesn't matter if you have a college degree! #but I'm sure miles would say I just need to pull myself up by my bootstraps. and that's why I'm glad his life got exploded 😌 #andi kept him around for his money - why else would he be there when no one even liked him?? #he was the bankroll #one time I swear to god we just had the guy from American Psycho just a real ass Patrick Bateman #it was wild watching that movie later and being like ???? I know this guy! #outside of the actual murder scenes everything in that movie is not exaggerated in the slightest those bitches really are like that #like my parents are not 1% level rich so there'd be no giant loans but they are rich. it'd be stupid to act like i didn't benefit from that

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

so i never said this to anyone and bottling this up is exhausting so i'm just gonna vomit it here. PLEASE SENSITIZE CHILDREN TO ART.

#raj shitposting #so on new year's eve my apartment complex decided to have like a little carnival and people were invited to set up stalls for their stuff #so my mother is a mix media artist and i FORCED her to set up a stall which i kinda sorta regret now because of this thing that happened #so we were setting up our stall and a little boy comes up and wants to purchase something from the jewelry section and when we #tell him the price of the piece he calls my MOTHER'S ART A SCAM. A SEVEN YEAR OLD BOY WHO DOESN'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO SPELL PHOTOSYNTHESIS!!! #WHO DOESN'T KNOW WHAT A SCAM ACTUALLY IS. CALLS MY MOTHER'S ENTIRE ART A SCAM. #i wanted to smack him so hard across the face but my mother held me back and told me to calm down and asked him to get lost. #but the entire day our mood was rotten about this #PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF FUCKING GOD TELL YOUR CHILDREN THAT IT'S NOT OKAY TO INSULT SOMEONE'S WORK LIKE THAT!!!!!!! #YOU IMBECILE IT'S EXPENSIVE BECAUSE IT REQUIRES SKILL AND MATERIAL THAT IS DIFFICULT TO PROCURE AND KNOWLEDGE THAT IN ITSELF IS HELLA- #-EXPENSIVE TO GATHER!!!!! #ART IS INVALUABLE GUYS WHY DO YOU THINK OUR PARENTS PRESERVE THOSE STUPID ASS CRAYON LANDSCAPES FROM OUR CHILDHOOD????? #he might be a child and not know what any of this means but he could just back off... this is NOT curiosity it's mean spiritedness #and FUCKING RUDE #i was a child sometime in my life. i never talked shit like that to a 40 YEAR OLD AND TALKED BACK WHEN THEY ASKED ME TO BACK OFF #smh #anti intellectualism #art

[its-actually-withered]

I'm watching the second season of Fargo, and Peggy is fucking insufferable

#fargo season 2 #usually i respect women's wrongs but #she is INSUFFERABLE #and the course she's risking her husband's livelihood on sounds like some MLM scam #but she's here with her true crime knowledge of setting up a scene etc and its just...the math aint mathing have you done this before??

[nyxfaei]

IS COLLEGE EVEN WORTH IT IF I JUST COLLAPSE IN EXHAUSTION THE MOMENT I GET A BREAK- IVE BEEN USELESS FOR A WEEK

#it’s been a week. I can’t do anything other than sleep #the pacing is insane. I feel like I’m getting scammed #I just want to set up my website and portfolio and work on getting hired #but ugh… UGH… #a week isn’t enough to pull myself together #nyx shut up #venting #feel free to ignore

[weepylucifer]

Hey Kira !

I noticed you’re a fan of webcomics as I came across your page seeing that you re-blogged a webcomic related post.

I’m Melissa, and I’ve recently embarked on an exciting zombie based webcomic project!

It would mean the world to me if you could check out my recent post about my GoFundMe campaign and consider liking or re-blogging it!

Your support could truly make a difference in bringing my vision to life and sharing it with a wider audience.

Thank you so much for your time and consideration! 🌼

Melissa

let me guess, the zombie is pansexual and has a human roommate who is asexual, and it's going to be called all or noth--

#answer'd #this is some of the funniest spam i've ever gotten. THERE ISN'T EVEN A POST ON THEIR BLOG #THEY DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER SETTING UP THE GOFUNDME SCAM FIRST BEFORE SENDING THESE OUT

[thyandrawrites]

Amazon listings for yarns that don't include yarn weights and yardage be like "here, have 50+ colors to choose from! That's all you crocheters really need to know right?"

#I wish my local yarn store had more options #Buying yarn online feels like setting yourself up for being scammed #A majority of these listings don't have ANY of the information I need... sigh #I don't care about your wide selection of colors if I don't have the right yarn weight to match my project ffs #Thyandra.txt #Looks like I will have to buy local and get creative....... Again #It's not like I'm not singlehandedly funding my yarn store as it is anyway dhgdbdbd #That poor woman lights up when she sees me

[r0semultiverse]

Hello sorry for tagging. I am very sick, my asthma is at its maximum level, my nose freezes, I have no medicine or food. I am in bad shape financially, I am a black disabled, who uses multiple medications, I pay for my food and lodging

Unfortunately I do not have all the resources to keep me safe, that is why I need your help, whatever you can contribute to me will be of great help.

Y’all, the nose freezes scam bot prompt is back! Going to go ahead & guess that this is different from the Palestine donations scam set of bots that steal actual current fundraiser info. Different people running different scams, I imagine. This one seems to function on a more random pattern. These also usually get deleted within a few hours to a day.

Sometimes you’ll see these more random bots follow you first half the time as a means to try to convince you that they’re legit. They’re all just annoying social bots, but documenting this should prove helpful to someone out there.

#I’m guessing whoever runs it must be making some money here & there from people who aren’t as good at detecting scams #otherwise they’d have stopped using the bot by now you’d think #probably costs electricity or server bills or something to run it but I never took classes on how internet social bots worked #or if it doesn’t cost a thing I wonder if they have a macro set up to make gmail accounts & sign up for tumblr #I say surely no one would fall for stuff like this but I know what to look out for I guess #delicatesublimelizzardyy #tumblr scam #tumblr scams #asks #ask #mine #op

[nancywheeeler]

being a casper ruud fan is no way to live a life

#i was really hoping to wake up and see he had lost his match #because i'd rather he lose to an unseeded player than prove yet again he cannot hang with the other top 10 players #like getting destroyed and humiliated by carlos and for what? 90 points? when he isn't making the atp finals anyway? babe please be serious #there is a scenario where if casper can scam tokyo and get far enough in shanghai / paris he might be able to overtake rune #because i don't see taylor defending tokyo or rune defending paris and that only helps casper #there's no reason a former world no. 2 shouldn't be able to scam tokyo with that current roster #but it's casper so he won't lol #he may be delusional about his finals chances but i do not wish to be an active participant #a shout into the void #the tennis tag #(dimitrov up a set against rune right now really isn't helping the delusions) #(update: GRIGOR DIMITROV THE MAN THAT YOU ARE)

[theorderofthetriad]

still annoyed at when hbomberguy pointed out the way somerton was using identity politics as a shield and way too many people on tumblr decided what that meant was that they should double down on identity politics. y'all are so fucking stupid.

#excluding ''privileged'' creators from your media consumption is not a substitute for actual critical thinking skills #y'all're just setting yourselves up to get scammed by someone else #this site has ALREADY been duped by bad actors pretending to be marginalized people i can't emphasize enough that you are so so stupid #santagno

[siennamain]

be very weary of anyone sending you asks asking for donations, please.

it's tough to have to ignore what looks like someone begging for their life, but it's even more disgusting of these monsters to act like they're going through what palestinians are going through.

#the 'funniest' part of this is that #if they wanted money they could probably set up a ko fi or smth just asking for some change without yknow #scamming people

[leadmeastraylittlefairy]

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#okay also xfinity is evil and was actually scamming me???????? #my internet data usage is usually like 8-900 gb a month and this month i shot through my limit in like 3 weeks and had to upgrade to #unlimited so i wouldn’t get a bunch of overage charges and i called today to be like hey what the fuck is happening #i have no new devices connected and am not doing anything different w my internet usage #and the first person transferred me OUT OF XFINITY to an APPLE CUSTOMER SERVICE person #how????????????? #the second time around they transferred me to the data people and they said they had a setting wrong on my modem and they fixed it and #it shouldn’t happen again #UM #so y’all fucked up my internet without me doing anything……forcing me to upgrade or owe $100 in overage fees…………….. #actually a fucking scam!!

[radioconstructed]

⌖ HI, HEY, HELLO! IT’S ME, hi, I’m the problem, IT’S ME, SIMULCASTING LIVE ON AIR and LIVE ON CAMERA! I almost NEVER DO THAT! Are YOU tired of scam calls? I SURE AM! Let’s make these CLOWNS our little APRIL FOOLS! TUNE IN for WILD IMPROV, VOICE ACTING, SCAMMER MALDING, and COVERS OF THE SCAMMER PAYBACK SOUNDTRACK! ALL DAY!

#// gonna drop context in the TAGS! #scambaiting is exactly what it sounds like! you bait scammers. for example pretending to be a potential victim to waste their time. some #people can go further and get their info to report to authorities or reverse connection into their computer and mess up their operations. #Al's goal here is to improv some insane scenarios (see link for an example) and have fun wasting these clowns' time so they can't make money #(this also saves victims but she is fueled mostly by pettiness and spite bc she hates robocalls) #they do get raging tho and she is gonna have so much fun making them rage. she has her own creative insults too. #(first link is long (but worth it) but the second two videos are short) #Her focus is improv but pls remember that she's pretty techliterate (like... her operating system is a linux and she set the hotel network #up with pihole to block all ads on the network) so she is running a virtual machine in case some scammer asks to remote into her computer. #Also! Scammer Payback is a scambaiter with a large following. He collabed with musicians to make a soundtrack. The songs pass as love songs #and stuff but they're about scammers/scamming/scambaiting and it's great. It's Al energy. #Anyway she VERY RARELY goes live on camera bc she dislikes being on camera in real time as there's no editorial control #but this is the sort of thing she wants to be on camera for! she's also broadcasting. #So. Lots of fun improv with live music between calls. It'll be fun. You'll get to see her make music live. Live looping and live instruments #(I don't think city lights & rain on me are officially part of the soundtrack. it's just the same artists collabing. but they have good sax #solos and I think april fool's is The day for Al to unironically refer to herself as h*rny in a song.) #⌖ online #⌖ hellfie #OH! THE FIREARM! I had drafted Al doing an iconic moment from a pengu*nz0 video and decided to use it for this. #She has that bisexual lighting going on too. It's to match the vaporwave music and also bc it's classic youtube.