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glennPattonWork3 wrote: That point when 'do it next year' is reasonable
The 2nd of January? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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βThat which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.β
β Christopher Hitchens
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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From CP newsletter.
Interpol operation arrests 3,500 cybercriminals, seizes $300 million[^]
"Another emerging scam tool is AI and deep fake tools to generate synthetic content that appears realistic to the targets or even the voice of a person close to them."
I have gotten a couple of calls where a person claims to have been arrested and they need bail.
Now there is no way I am going to fall for the gift card and meeting on a corner somewhere since I know exactly how bail works. But still if I know the voice on the other end that is going to get complicated. Since other scenarios where gift card and corner might apply (like a claimed kidnapping.)
I would probably still call the police.
But perhaps time to look into a 'key phrase' for the relatives. Or at least the ones that I would give money to in the first place.
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Someone recently tried to phish me, and they had a human at the end of an 800 number as part of the scam.
Someone is paying for that number, so I reported it to the FBI.
It was pretty convincing if you missed a minor detail in the originating email, the same detail that got it through the google filters, and that was that it originated from a gmail address.
I don't want anyone falling victim to them, that's why I reported them.
/snitch
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fbi? good luck with that circus
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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They make it pretty easy actually.
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I'm sure they make it easy to submit stuff. What they do with it is completely up to conjecture.
It's a corrupt organization.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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They've had a few times I think that they have either hacked and patched vulnerable machines or hacked the hackers and stole money back.
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jschell wrote: look into a 'key phrase' for the relatives
When my daughter was little, we had a phrase we taught her. If she wasn't with us (visiting a friend, school, etc.) she knew she had to hear that phrase before going anywhere or doing anything with anyone else. We never actually needed it, but she still remembers the phrase (she's 32 now  ).
Software Zen: delete this;
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Is she married and did you teach it to the husband? Otherwise, she failed.
Iβve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
Iβm begging you for the benefit of everyone, donβt be STUPID.
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Hmm. I'm going to assume you're making a joke here, and not insulting my daughter's intelligence. She's a smart one, and will ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) your *cough* stuff *cough* up.
Software Zen: delete this;
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You didn't see the Joke icon on the post?
I'm a programmer, it doesn't take much skill to my stuff up.
Bad knees, nerve impingement in the left shoulder, my 3 yr old granddaughter can mess me up.
Iβve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
Iβm begging you for the benefit of everyone, donβt be STUPID.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: You didn't see the Joke icon on the post?
Nope. Sorry if I sounded testy. It doesn't take much to make me go full-bore Papa Bear  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Hopefully she did so she and her husband can teach it to their children.
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I got a text message that I owed the "Well Care" walking clinic some moola with a link to pay. I called the clinic directly to confirm that it was a legitimate text message and the amounts matched. While convenient, frankly, I wouldn't even trust a bill if it came in the mail nowadays!
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One doesn't know their "relatives" that well if one needs a "key phrase". "Who was there" or "where did we", etc. seems more reasonable and more fluid.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Other people can potentially discover 'historical' things though.
They won't 'crack' the inanity of "The lazy fox jumps over the big brown hog at midnight in ballet slippers before foie gras with the fellas...."
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I've heard on other social media of AI voice-alike scams. But I had a learning experience last week, (the learning being not to be so stupid). Got a text from an unknown number "Hi Dad, I broke my phone, lost all my contacts; this is my new number". I assumed my son (my daughter doesn't usually do stuff like break her phone) so I texted back "OK; weren't they backed up?" Got a reply "I thought so, but seems not". At that point I actually deleted my son's old number and added the new, then wondered "Maybe it's my daughter?" so stupidly texted back "are you Adam or Beth?" (I used their real names, not Adam/Beth). Got a text back "Adam". So all seemed very normal, not suspicious. Told my wife who immediately called "Adam" on his old number, and had a perfectly normal chat, no prob with the phone at all. Stupid me.
Anyway, if I ever get something like that again, I'll just call back on the number I have for them.
Also had emails recently saying "We have a delivery for you today - will you be in between 1 and 2pm?" Well... that's too blatantly stupid for even me to fall for! 
Take care, folks!
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