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Cory Doctorow gets scammed (pluralistic.net)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be from my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just got a 'group' SMS this morning trying to phish multiple people at the same time, it is never ending.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I get those about once a week. "Your package cannot be delivered" Come on over here you spammy bastards, i'll deliver a package of my goddamn BOOT up the side of your arse! That's what I say. It helps me feel better, because why not feel better?