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Post by impulse on Sept 24, 2024 8:49:12 GMT -5
You wouldn't download a pair of eyeglasses, would you?
(Actually that would be amazing, to 3D print glasses and lenses).
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 24, 2024 9:10:34 GMT -5
Hey tartanphantom , further to our conversation about regional British accents during yesterday's Zoom meeting, I just stumbled across this map on Reddit... My accent would be South East English, but I do get a touch of the old, seldom heard nowadays traditional Buckinghamshire "ooh-arr" accent creeping in when I get angry and annoyed! Speaking of maps, I found this interesting:
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Post by Batflunkie on Sept 24, 2024 9:41:05 GMT -5
Today's Jim Henson's birthday and the muppets gave him a very sweet tribute
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Sept 24, 2024 12:58:17 GMT -5
Hello. I think I lost my eyeglasses in this forum the last time I was around Anyone find a pair of glasses recently? Are these them? I found them lying in the gutters between some of the threads a while back. I wondered who they belonged to... -M (PS Welcome back stranger, good to see you!)
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 24, 2024 13:23:14 GMT -5
Thanks MRP. Wasn't sure if there was a Lost & Found thread on this forum
So happy to see so many familiar names still hanging around here. Hope life has been kind to all of you
It's been 2 years since my last postings. I don't think I could ever be the same chatterbox I used to be due to ...reasons.. but this is the place this crusty comic curmudgeon naturally fits right in. Looking forward to future banter with the bunch of you
Except tonight when I'll be getting prepared for the NY Yankees' A.L. Eastern Division championship celebration
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 24, 2024 16:36:58 GMT -5
Welcome back.
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Post by shaxper on Sept 24, 2024 18:14:52 GMT -5
So happy to see so many familiar names still hanging around here. Hope life has been kind to all of you It's been 2 years since my last postings. I don't think I could ever be the same chatterbox I used to be due to ...reasons.. but this is the place this crusty comic curmudgeon naturally fits right in. Welcome back, old friend. Were your ears burning?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 24, 2024 19:22:14 GMT -5
Thank you Shax. Thank you Iccy. Thank you all Just a bunch of real Super Friends
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 24, 2024 19:41:53 GMT -5
Thank you Shax. Thank you Iccy. Thank you all Just a bunch of real Super Friends The rest of us are the Legion of Doom.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 24, 2024 21:31:19 GMT -5
Thank you Shax. Thank you Iccy. Thank you all Just a bunch of real Super Friends The rest of us are the Legion of Doom. Look, I just want some pants.....a decent pair of pants!
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 25, 2024 12:42:54 GMT -5
Had a little scare, last night. I had been home from work, for a while, and noticed I had a couple of messages, on my land line, which is extremely rare. The first said it was confirming my purchase of a VR headset, which I didn't order. The second was a spam thing that just kept repeating to call back at a certain number. The first was identified as Spam, on the caller id and the second with a name, Dynata, which is some kind of survey service, according to Google. That message tactic won't get me to respond, though.
The first call had me spun up, as I thought my bank account got hacked or my debit card compromised. However, as I researched both the number listed and the brand name they gave for the headset, I started to think it was a phishing scam, to get me to call about an unauthorized charge and get personal data from me. The message was all computer generated, never used my name and had weird phrasing, like it had been translated. It also gave a brand name of Delta Quest, but I can't find any listing for such a brand. There is Meta Quest and Occulus, but the only Delta Quest I could find was a book series and some game materials, but not a tech brand.
It wrecked my sleep for the night, but a trip to the bank this morning revealed no unauthorized charges or pending charges and my balance matched my records. I was pretty convinced it was a phishing expedition, before going to bed; but, it nagged me, until I could confirm it, at the bank.
I have had a spate of spam calls recently, after getting very few calls, at all, on that number, since Barb died. A couple of messages have been election-related, which I immediately deleted. I suspect there is more f that going on and will subside after November. The rest seems to be the usual crap and fraudsters. I have also dealt with energy company salesmen, trying to do the equivalent of phone slamming, with my electric utilities, since my local area deregulated it and opened it up to other companies providing the power, with the normal utility continuing the billing. I've had two salesmen here, claiming they were from my company and had to see my bill to verify I was getting charged at the correct rate. I told them to verify on the back end and they weren't viewing anything with my personal data, especially since they didn't verify my name.
At work, we have seen an increase in elderly people being scammed for large amounts of cash, to be shipped overnight, for earliest possible delivery. We cannot ship currency (Federally mandated) and ask if the shipment contains currency, which the people are instructed to lie. We can usually tell, because of the way the customer responds to the questions and the urgency in shipping. We bring up the scams, with calls in the middle of the night, allegedly from grandkids in need of bail money. We had one, not long ago, like that and alerted our security department that we thought the package was suspicious and it was held up and eventually found to contain nearly $30,000. We also see phony text messages that say they have a package being held, with postage due, with links to follow, which are not generated by my company. The ease at which some people seem to fall for this astounds me, especially when they say they weren't expecting a package. So why did you think it was legit? if it sounds fishy or too good to be true, it likely is. The cash scams also amaze me, though the ones who seem most vulnerable to it also seem to have either memory issues, or a real lack of awareness of fraudulent activity on the internet and via phone calls. If a relative needed bail, it would have to be posted through a bail bondsman and the court, not just ship cash to some address, fastest way possible. Or a money gram or wire transfer, from a bank. My first question would be, how the hell did you get arrested and why aren't you calling a lawyer? I'd also be calling the kid's parents to verify their whereabouts. I don't think I am that much more cynical and suspicious than average; but, I have a pretty good BS meter and usually start asking a lot of questions, before I had personal info, credit card numbers or large wads of cash over to people, who do not have guns pointed at me.
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 25, 2024 12:50:33 GMT -5
I’m sorry you went through that. I know what it’s like to lose sleep when fraudsters attempt to defraud you (and sometimes succeed).
On scams, it does seem to be getting worse (ActionFraud has reported on this here). Awhile back on Twitter, a woman, who looked middle-aged, revealed she had been scammed by impersonators pretending to be Royal Mail - who had sent her a text telling her they needed to charge her in order to redeliver a parcel. So she handed over details. I feel nothing but sympathy for her, but if I’d known her personally, I’d have said something like, “After many years of living, you really should know that Royal Mail NEVER charge to redeliver a parcel.” People pay to send parcels. You may be required to pay import fees at a Royal Mail sorting office, but you’d be informed of that and pay at said office. They’d never charge to redeliver a parcel that they didn’t successfully deliver first-time round.
Some vermin rang me once, claiming to be from DHL. I had ordered something - and DHL are often used here - but he was insistent on having the numbers on my debit card and the security code before delivering. Yeah, as if a courier would need those things. What a waste of space people like him are.
I’ve had calls claiming to be from my bank. On one occasion, I asked the caller which bank that was, and his reply was, “I can only tell you which bank and what the purpose of the call is if you confirm some security details.”
The craziest one was someone knocking on my door years ago, claiming to be official, and saying they’d received information that burglars would be targeting addresses, including mine. They wanted to come in and check my place was secure (it was a man and a woman). Oh, okay, you know burglars are gonna target my address. How? Did the burglars take an ad out on a billboard or something?
Fraud is horrible.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 25, 2024 17:56:03 GMT -5
You have to understand that no legitimate institution calls or emails you. You should have called their 800 number to have them freeze your account. People are getting text messages about mail which makes me laugh. The post office doesn't text anyone.
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Post by driver1980 on Sept 26, 2024 7:45:10 GMT -5
The Royal Mail scam gets me because the real Royal Mail would NEVER contact you. I’ve never had an e-mail or text from Royal Mail.
They deliver parcels (as do Parcelforce, which I think used to be part of Royal Mail). If you’re not in when they try to deliver, and it can’t fit through a letterbox, they will leave a calling card and ask that you either visit their sorting office to pick it up (with ID) or they will re-attempt redelivery. It’ll go out either in the next postman’s bag or on a van if it’s quite big. There’d be no reason on the face of this earth to text anyone and ask for money, yet the “Royal Mail scam” seems to be the one that gets a lot of people here.
Christmas is often a scam period. Every Christmas, without fail, I’ll get a text from some scammer who claims to be from DHL, UPS, Royal Mail, Parcelforce, etc. There’s often a link with a non-UK domain code on. It frustrates me for people that they lose money on these scams. I feel for them, but I really don’t know how it’s possible not to fall for them.
But then it seems to have been that way for a long time, even before mobile phones and the internet. Did read about something that had occurred in either the 70s or 80s, where some bogus coppers had taken money from a guy for a parking violation. Personally, I would have always presumed no cash ever enters a police officer’s pocket, and that any parking fines are paid to the council within a designated period, but there were apparently some people handing over cash to what they thought were coppers.
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Post by Rags on Sept 26, 2024 21:14:59 GMT -5
Anyone in Florida? Be safe....Helene is a monster. My in-laws aren't in immediate danger but still taking precautions.
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