#creeps

[mostlysignssomeportents]

There’s never just one ant

So there's a great Thai restaurant in my neighborhood called Kiin. Yesterday, I searched for their website to order some takeout. Here's the Google result.

That top result (an ad)? It's fake. It goes to https://kiinthaila.com, which is NOT the website for Kiin.

The *third* result is real: https://kiinthaiburbank.com

Fake site:

Real site:

I got duped. I placed an order with the fake site. The fake site then placed the order - in my name! -  with the real site, having marked up the prices by 15%. Kiin clearly knows they're doing this (presumably by the billing data on the credit card the fakesters use to place the order). They called me within minutes to tell me they'd cancelled the fakesters' order.

I could still come pick it up, but I'd have to pay them, and cancel the payment to the fakesters with Amex. Actually, as it turns out, I have to cancel TWO payments, because the fakesters DOUBLE-charged me.

Here's what that charge looks like on my Amex bill. See that phone number? (415) 639-9034 is the number for Wix, who provides the scammers' website.

How the actual FUCK did these obvious scammers get an Amex merchant account in the name of "KIINTHAILA" by after supplying the phone number for a website hosting company? What is Amex's KYC procedure? Do they even call the phone number?

And why the actual FUCK is Google Ads accepting these scam artists' ads for a business that they already have a knowledge box for?! Google KNOWS what the real KIIN restaurant is, and yet they are accepting payment to put a fake KIIN listing two slots ABOVE the real one.

To be fair to these scammer asshole ripoff creeps who are trying to steal from my local mom-and-pop, single location Thai eatery, they're just following in the shoes of Doordash and Uber Eats, who did the same thing to hundreds (thousands?) of restaurants during lockdown.

Doug Rushkoff says that the ethic of today's "entrepreneur" is to “Go Meta” - don't provide a product or a service, simply find a way to be a predatory squatter on a chokepoint between people who do useful things and people who use those things.

These parasites have turned themselves into landlords of someone else's home, collecting rent on a property they don't own and have no connection to.

There's NEVER just one ant. I guaran-fucking-tee you that these same creeps have 1,000 other fake Wix websites with 1,000 fake Amex merchant accounts for 1,000 REAL businesses, and that Google has sold them ads for every one of them. Amex and Google and Wix should be able to spot these creeps FROM ORBIT. Holy shit do we live in the worst of all possible timelines. We have these monopolist megacorps that spy on and control everything we do, wielding the most arbitrary and high-handed authority.

And yet they do NOT ONE FUCKING THING to prevent these petty scammers from using their infra as force-multipliers to let them steal from every hungry person patronizing every local restaurant.

I mean, what's the point of letting these robber-barons run the entire show if they're not even COMPETENT?

ETA: Dinner was delicious

[classycookiexo]

Please reblog, this could really help someone

[mega-gaymer-party]

[tiredpeaceofhuman]

I'm sure Jack hates combing his hair.

[sxphora-creepingaround]

Rejoining the fandom with clocky

[jstor]

An open access book on JSTOR

Creep: A Life, A Theory, an Apology is a timely meditation for our strange and creepy times. In this provocative and engaging book, Jonathan Alexander interweaves personal narrative and cultural analyses to explore what it means to be a creep. Calling this work a critical memoir, he draws on his own experiences growing up gay in the deep south, while also interrogating examples from literature and popular film and media, to approach the figure of the creep with some sympathy.

Ranging widely over contemporary culture, especially the ever-creeping presence of nearly ubiquitous surveillance, Alexander confesses his own creepiness while also explaining to us what being creepy can show us in turn about our culture. He also resurrects some famous “creeps” from the past, such as J.R. Ackerley, to explore what makes a creep creepy, and how even the best of us succumb at times to being creeps. Ultimately, Alexander argues, a study of creepiness might offer us critical insight into the fundamental perversity of how we live. 

[trapdoornumberthree]

Am I just too blind to see? I know the sucker in the mirror staring back at me

[i-drop-level-one-loot]

Let's Fucking GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[ellzilla]

Creeps panel redraw because I realized I've uh. I've liked these characters for a bit over 10 years now.

[onebadnoodle]

horror show

[circero]

Next up in the Creeps cast is the new mini ref for my take on Laughing Jack! 🌈🖤🤍🤡

As mentioned prior, my Jack has a plush toy like quality to him, mainly his arms! He also almost wears a permanent smile.

Cake Topper will be next!

[classycookiexo]

Period, it’s too many creeps out here

[glassartpeasants]

Creepypasta Tweets pt.3

[jester0jpeg]

Instagram killed the quality so I’m posting this here. My comfort ship.

[rubyafton]

My cookies gonna be slaying this year.

[blocklists-just-4-u]

Blocklist; don’t message minors 1/?

Don’t be creepy, don’t be weird and don’t fucking message minors!

I woke up to an @ on this account and thank god I did check; thanks to those who tag me in posts like this!

Op in this situation is @ax-y10 who is a minor and displays so on their profile, op was recently bombarded and harassed by a series of clearly displaying-the- are-adults adults.

Below are the examples they showed including screenshots

These users are @west-ddaddyy , @tiktaktyler and @aspeunattimoprimadelse who were all knowingly messaging a minor

Below is OP statement on the situation

Thanks for reading and block creeps