#scam text

[geezerwench]

Okay, folks. Take note. I got a #ScamText on my phone. I know it's a scam because ALL the deliveries can find us, and the mail lady knows us very well and would come knock on the door if she wanted something.

#TextScam #USPSscam

[jackscratches]

really hope i scared the hell out of this scammer

[adotonawalk]

I like to get creative when I bully scammers.

[selenekallanwriter]

John Oliver gets it, as usual. AI Slop is one of the best episodes of Last Week Tonight I've seen so far. Gen AI is theft. Those who use it are not authors or artists, they're grifters profiting from real creatives.

[spaciousreasoning]

Another Bridge Trip

We woke up with clear blue skies and bright sunshine this morning, after a low last night of 38 degrees. The clouds began moving in after noon and the high got up to 62, but the rains did not begin until well after midnight.

Today is the first night of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting, prayer, reflection, and community. Tomorrow is the Last Sunday after the Epiphany in Anglican and Catholic churches, which also means that Ash Wednesday occurs this coming week, kicking off the season of Lent. Preceded by Shrove Tuesday, also known as Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday.

This morning’s blood sugar was back up a little bit, to 160. The increase was likely due to the many cashews eaten too late last night. They were part of a package of nut products that Kathleen left for us to enjoy.

Nancy and I had our coffee and played the usual brain games. Kathleen helped Nancy cancel her WaPo subscription last night, so two of the games we play will be coming to an end next week. Then we had French toast with some leftover bacon for breakfast.

After stopping for coffee at Old Crow, we set out on a road trip to see the only covered bridge in Polk County. The Ritner Creek Bridge was built in 1926. The creek and bridge were named for a pioneer, Sebastian Ritner, who arrived in Oregon in 1845. Some of his descendants still live in the area.

In 1974 the bridge was declared structurally unsafe and scheduled for removal, but the children of Pedee School, along with the citizens in the Pedee area, rallied to its support with a “Save our Bridge” campaign. The campaign was successful, and the covered bridge was moved to an adjacent site. The new bridge on Oregon State Route 223 parallels it.

Several picnic tables are now located inside the bridge structure. Sitting on one of the tables was a“gift” consisting of placemats, paper plates, and napkins with a graphic design. We briefly considered taking it with us, but we decided to leave it behind for someone to use along with the picnic tables.

Ritner Creek, a tributary of the Luckiamute River, begins near Bald Mountain in the Central Oregon Coast Range and flows to meet the Luckiamute southwest of Pedee and north of Kings Valley. The confluence is 31 miles upstream of the Luckiamute's mouth on the Willamette River.

While we were on the road, Nancy got a text that claimed to be from the rector at St. Thomas, where we attend church. It turned out to be a scam, asking her to purchase a gift card. I got a similar text around the same time. Other scam texts have been sent to members of the church, and the administrator has sent out emails with warnings a couple of times recently.

We finally got home after 3 p.m. A nap followed, then we did some social media catching up and reading. Dinner came a little later. We looked through the leftovers in the fridge and selected the lentil curry and orange chicken to finish off. We put the others back and hope we can remember to eat them before they go bad. We shared another of Kathleen’s brownies for dessert.

We did some catching up on our streaming, since we had fallen behind this week. We started with Colbert’s Thursday show, with guest RZA and a musical performance by Father John Misty. We followed that with the most recent episodes of “Death in Paradise” and “Reacher,” then we finished the evening with another episode from the third series of “Resident Alien.”

Tonight’s low will only reach 43 degrees, but tomorrow’s high is only supposed to get up to 50, thanks to the rain ending before sunrise. The forecast had included rain throughout the coming week, but it looks now like it will skip Monday and return on Tuesday, followed by a dry Wednesday and a sunny Thursday.

[just-another-anonomus]

Is it safe to send scam texters the middle finger emoji?

[hiswifesghost]

lord please take all the Palestinian people’s pain and suffering away and give them to these scam bots pretending to be them and robbing donation money from them

[8pxl]

PSA 🗣️ another scammer using genAI without disclosing it

mixlgirl (used to be pixgirl) has been posting generated AI (targeting fandoms) without disclosing it, passing it off as their genuine art and has apparently scammed at least one person into ‘commissioning’ them. this is a public PSA so yall can block them, and not interact. please do not harass them!

it’s incredibly shitty to be disingenuous while posting AI but even shittier to scam people with it 🤢 stay diligent yall

[angelcake10023]

That’s his DAUGHTERRRR 😭💖💖💖💖✨

That’s her Dad 🫠🫠🫠

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

[smashorpassgilf]

Hey guys, new scam alert. Remember, Tumblr will only email you for such issues, and to never click links from people you don't know.

Edits!!!!!!

Disc: [ID: an anonymous asker pretending to be tumblr support team, contacting you through your asks to confirm your email through a suspicious link. end ID]

Shut up about Palestine on this post. Shut up. Shut!!! Up.

[bribearoh]

THIS IS A SCAM

This is specifically for Ohio, but applies elsewhere (I had a customer show me one they got allegedly from the Michigan DMV.):

THIS IS A SCAM.

Do not click on any links in the text or reply to it. Select “Report Junk” or whatever your phone’s equivalent is and move on.

Several ways you can tell:

1. The return phone number starts with a country code (in this case 63). Any phone number from a US source is likely to just start with the area code.

2. They mix up the use of BMV & DMV. Ohio has a BMV - Bureau of Motor Vehicles. They get the initials right at first, but call it the Department of Motor Vehicles immediately before. Then, later in the message, they call it the DMV again. (Above)

3. They try to hide the fake web address by using one that looks like it belongs to the .gov domain. [gov-tollbillr{….} .cyou.] Legitimate .gov links will end with .gov or .gov/ (examples: ohiobmv.gov or irs.gov/forms). This web address actually ends with .cyou.

4. Their own bullet point #4 makes no sense. What are they going to transfer to a toll booth? Are they going to magically send you there? And then charge you 35% to send you back? If they had that capability, they would be so rich they wouldn’t need to scam you out of your money! {They would probably be scamming you some other way.}

[taffywabbit]

dude. guys look. I just got an ad for REAL x-ray glasses?? like it wasn't a joke, they were really unironically claiming they work?? the footage was edited so the glasses made people's clothes disappear and showed them in swimsuits and everything, like a damn cartoon. they really will just let you advertise anything on this website huh

[way-too-obsessed-gamer]

Kremy may have given that girl a tent out of the kindness of his heart (or to try and get more props) but he also may have done so to live out his "oh no there's only one bed tent!!" Fantasy

[kyra45]

Additionally, sodelusiontyphoon is also not a verified/vetted account. They are the same scammer pretending to be a Palestinian person in aid. They can not, like the other person I’ve mentioned in previous posts, prove their legitimacy in any fashion.

Seems like the scammers latest tactic is claiming they’ve been vetted/verified since they see actual accounts doing it. Unlike those real accounts, these scammers never can be verified because they’re always changing their names and stories and will block anyone who asks too many questions and searching their asks should show they have been using this insulin scam for a while now.

So basically, they have not been verified by any Palestinian accounts.

Always search the usernames of accounts and see if there are any posts listing them as a verified account or a vetted fundraiser. Usually it takes only a few seconds. There are lists of official sources to check if you look around.

[dragonpyre]

Scam caller: Hi, I'm here to talk to you about your medicare plan

Me: *meows like a cat*

Scam caller: *hangs up*

Me: quitter