Yet more scammers on the loose - PayPal

[rwm]

I'm fairly sure the phone companies and ISPs could improve on this but it would cost them money and they see no compelling reason to do it.

 

[savarin]

Virtually all my phone scams are run by Indians, their accents are strong so easy to pick out.
I use google translate to to translate the most offensive sentence I can make into their language.
Google translate will play the sentence till you get the sounds correct.
Then I draw them along till I get fed up and ask if I can ask a question.
They always say yes so then it comes out.
Their reactions are priceless I laugh my head off and hang up.
It feels good

 

[pontiac428]

Virtually all my phone scams are run by Indians, their accents are strong so easy to pick out.
I use google translate to to translate the most offensive sentence I can make into their language.
Google translate will play the sentence till you get the sounds correct.
Then I draw them along till I get fed up and ask if I can ask a question.
They always say yes so then it comes out.
Their reactions are priceless I laugh my head off and hang up.
It feels good

I think I'm out of my league here. How do you pronounce that? Wait, Punjabi or Hindi, which to use?

 

[RaisedByWolves]

This is the war on crime we should be fighting. Make the penalties severe enough and the policing aggressive enough and we'll begin to see some progress.

The problem with that is these are mostly coming from overseas.

 

[pontiac428]

The problem with that is these are mostly coming from overseas.

It's not so much about where the come from. The real problem is they're not coming up to my front door so I can escort them back to the curb with a revolver while practicing my favorite Clint Eastwood lines.

 

[sdelivery]

Tell me, Do you feel lucky, Punk

 

[Charles scozzari]

This is the war on crime we should be fighting. Make the penalties severe enough and the policing aggressive enough and we'll begin to see some progress.

The problem is these scams that originate in other countries that are just as lawless as the scammers. I think there are laws in the books already.

 

[RJSakowski]

The problem is these scams that originate in other countries that are just as lawless as the scammers. I think there are laws in the books already.

There are laws on the books but they're not vigorously enforced. While many of the scams originate offshore, there are also many homegrown. There seems to be little incentive for law enforcement to track down arrest and prosecute the scammers. Penalties are not severe enough.

From a criminal's perspective, it's a business. When the rewards exceed the risks, it's profitable. A scammer can steal hundreds of thousands from some unsuspecting marks and if caught and convicted face a few years in prison. Not a bad return. Unlike an armed robbery, the prospect of physical harm coming to a scammer is virtually non existent Make the risks great enough and the crime rate will go down. No cushy prison cell with thre squares and cable TV. If tey're going to prison, they should earn their keep. Multiple year sentences making gravel out of boulders with a sledge hammer come to mind. Perhaps the Muslims with their "cut off a hand" penalty would be in order.

 

[alloy]

Yesterday I received an email from paypal saying they needed to verify my identity. I figured it was a scam so I forwarded it to paypals spoof address.

Then last night I tried to buy something off Amazon and my payment was denied. If figured it was a glitch so I used my secondary payment method.

Then I was bidding on an ebay auction and I won, then my payment couldn't be processed and I lost the end mills to the next highest bidder.

To say the least I was ****** off. Called paypal and got some kind of crap about my account being locked. I had to verify my identity. Had to give ss #, dob, pin #, take pics of my license, and do facial recognition with my phone. Took multiple tries to get it to work. Damn system kept freezing up. I came very close to telling paypal to kiss my butt and cancel my account.

I asked them are you gonna replace the end mills i lost because of this crap? i didn't get an answer.

 

[Charles scozzari]

There are laws on the books but they're not vigorously enforced. While many of the scams originate offshore, there are also many homegrown. There seems to be little incentive for law enforcement to track down arrest and prosecute the scammers. Penalties are not severe enough.

From a criminal's perspective, it's a business. When the rewards exceed the risks, it's profitable. A scammer can steal hundreds of thousands from some unsuspecting marks and if caught and convicted face a few years in prison. Not a bad return. Unlike an armed robbery, the prospect of physical harm coming to a scammer is virtually non existent Make the risks great enough and the crime rate will go down. No cushy prison cell with thre squares and cable TV. If tey're going to prison, they should earn their keep. Multiple year sentences making gravel out of boulders with a sledge hammer come to mind. Perhaps the Muslims with their "cut off a hand" penalty would be in order.

leave the hands, just take the thumbs off and the tongue out