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No guitar, though. Sorry. My dad just forwarded me a couple of those emails you see where people claim some terrible thing is going on and could happen to you, but turns out to be an internet rumor. Well, for once, these emails are actually true. A quick search on Snopes verified them. The victim will often rightly claim they never received the jury duty notification. The scammer then asks the victim for confidential information for "verification" purposes. Specifically, the scammer asks for the victim's Social Security number, birth date, and sometimes even for credit card numbers and other private information — exactly what the scammer needs to commit identity theft. When you say "No". The caller continues with, "Then we will be issuing a credit to your account. This is a company we have been watching and the charges range from $297 to $497, just under the $500 purchase pattern that flags most cards. Before your next statement, the credit will be sent to (gives you your address), is that correct?" Caller then says he "needs to verify you are in possession of your card. Turn the card over. There are 7 numbers; first 4 are 1234 (whatever) the next 3 are the security numbers that verify you are in possession of the card. These are the numbers you use to make internet purchases to prove you have the card. Read me the 3 numbers." Then he says "That is correct. I just needed to verify that the card has not been lost or stolen, and that you still have your card. Do you have any other questions? Don't hesitate to call back if you do." For those of you who have been afraid of people digging through your trash to find out your personal information, i hope this will alleviate some of your fears. Clearly, the cons are way more sophisticated than that. So, put away your shredders, secure in the knowledge that when they come to steal your identity, it won't be in a way that's so obvious. Con artists have too much panache. By min | October 31, 2006, 8:38 AM | Ummm... Other? | Comments (0)| Link They've finally abandoned whatever remnants of sanity they had on racmu: I'm always looking for good and intelligent individuals like you to My name is Brandon, and I'm in my 20s, am a college student, and as lie The Murders of Our Leaders were Stopped. I can take lie detector and psychological tests. I tell the truth. A >From Congressmen Bill Frist to John Kerry to Dennis Hastert to Hillary Clinton to John Warner to Ron Wyden to Gordon Smith to John McCain to Elements of an organization, not of course the Masons or Skull and I'm not afraid of anything. I'll defend myself to the best of my By fnord12 | October 30, 2006, 3:51 PM | Ummm... Other? | Comments (1)| Link I always thought it was a well-known stereotype that the French are extremely rude and snobby. Apparently, it's not well-known to the Japanese, who, also apparently, have very delicate psyches. We should go mess with them. "A third of patients get better immediately, a third suffer relapses and the rest have psychoses," Yousef Mahmoudia, a psychologist at the Hotel-Dieu hospital, next to Notre Dame cathedral, told the newspaper Journal du Dimanche. Already this year, Japan's embassy in Paris has had to repatriate at least four visitors -- including two women who believed their hotel room was being bugged and there was a plot against them. Previous cases include a man convinced he was the French "Sun King", Louis XIV, and a woman who believed she was being attacked with microwaves, the paper cited Japanese embassy official Yoshikatsu Aoyagi as saying. By min | October 24, 2006, 11:32 AM | Ummm... Other? | Comments (0)| Link When a second man tried to kick him, the pensioner grabbed his foot and tipped him to the ground. At this point, the three men, thought to be aged between 18 and 25, fled, carrying their injured accomplice with them. By min | October 24, 2006, 11:21 AM | Ummm... Other? | Comments (0)| Link The Chinese will do lots of things for appearance. I thought having your makeup tattooed on and your eyelids cut and re-sewn was pretty bad. Both of these don't hold a candle to the newest attempt to look "better". Ten people were reported to have been disfigured after they underwent stretching surgery last year, it added. The operation, which involves breaking the patient's legs and then stretching them on a rack, has become popular among young professionals "desperate to climb up the ladder in the country's height-conscious society," Xinhua said. It is also an important factor in courting, when many Chinese women expect their partners to be over 1.70 meters and men also care about their potential wives' height to avoid short offspring. I guess it's good that i didn't move to China to get a job so i could learn Chinese since i don't meet the height requirement for employment anyway. By min | October 11, 2006, 11:42 AM | Ummm... Other? | Comments (0)| Link I thought last week was fucked up. This week is turning out to be even worse. First the woman who uses her 4 week old baby as a weapon and now this. Glenn thinks it's signalling the end of the world. In that case, what the hell am i doing at work? The 57-year-old was sentenced to 15 years in jail for killing her 29-year-old son with a garden hoe in April 2005 while he was sleeping. Last month, authorities judged her to be in the final stages of cancer and let her go home, where she stabbed her husband in the throat with a knife. "It was established she was in the last stage of cancer, she had it all over her body," said a spokeswoman for the Bourgas regional police. "They presumed she was feeling bad and she would treat herself and rest. But nothing of the kind. She got aggressive and ... she killed her husband." By min | October 10, 2006, 1:42 PM | Ummm... Other? | Comments (0)| Link WTF is wrong with people?
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By min | October 4, 2006, 2:56 PM | Ummm... Other? | Comments (0)| Link What the hell is going on this week? In Colorado, a guy walks into a classroom, take the girls hostage, molests and sexually assaults them, then kills one of the girls and himself. In Pennsylvania, a milk truck driver takes over an Amish school and kills the girls execution style before killing himself. Republican Congressman Mark Foley gets caught sending sexually explicit emails to teenage pages and everyone's standing around mumbling, 'Um...yeah....we kinda knew he was doing that....but, um.....we didn't do anything to stop it." Including the FBI and the House Speaker. Tony Snow, the moron that he is, says they were simply "naughty emails" and nothing to squawk over. Matt Drudge, not to be outdone, blames the teenagers for "preying" on the good congressman. To top it all off, i hear the media are doing their part to help muddy the situation by conflating homosexuality and pedophilia. It's prolly the best strategy for the Party of Family Values to preserve their severely tarnished reputation. Blame the gays. And as if that weren't enough, North Korea is nuclear testing. You know why? Because the only way to protect yourself from getting invaded and overthrown by the U.S. is to arm yourself with nuclear weapons. If Iraq had had nuclear weapons, they wouldn't be in the mess they're in now. That's the lesson the world's learned from our "mission to spread democracy" over in the Middle East. Too bad nobody saw that one coming - oh, except for the liberals who kept saying we shouldn't invade Iraq, but they're a bunch of pansy-asses, so ofc nobody listened to them even if they are always right in the end. Good job, assholes. I sure feel safer now. The one almost good thing that happened is this: Right. Prison authorities have no idea how it could have happened. Or how that picture could possibly have found its way to the interwebs.
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