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  • VIDEO: Growing Skepticism Over $50,000 Scam Story by Financial Advice Columnist

    02/21/2024 9:20:58 AM PST · by PJ-Comix · 29 replies
    Rumble ^ | February 21, 2024 | DUmmie FUnnies
    VIDEO A lot of people are amazed at the story of New York Magazine financial advice columnist Charlotte Cowles who claims she was scammed out of $50,000 by someone supposedly from Amazon who called her up about unusual activity in her account and then turned her over to an FTC official who finally put her in touch with a CIA guy. Who knew that the CIA is involved in domestic activities down to the level of Amazon account activity. To make a long story short she was convinced by the wild stories concocted by this group to go to her...
  • Electric buses are sitting unused in cities across the US; here's why

    01/29/2024 10:42:10 AM PST · by george76 · 52 replies
    FOX Business ^ | January 29, 2024 | Breck Dumas
    Cities coast-to-coast grappling with broken-down e-buses that cannot be fixed .. Between the federal government, states and municipalities, untold billions in taxpayer dollars have been spent adding electric buses to transit fleets across the U.S. in an effort to reduce carbon emissions. However, cities from coast-to-coast are grappling with broken-down e-buses that cannot be fixed, are too expensive to fix, or they have scrapped their electric fleets altogether. Officials in Asheville, North Carolina, recently expressed frustration that three of the five e-buses the city purchased for millions in 2018 are now sitting idle due to a combination of software issues,...
  • $5 million loss for Asheville as flawed electric buses sit idle

    01/21/2024 10:18:27 AM PST · by george76 · 93 replies
    WLOS - News 13 ^ | January 18th 2024 | Kimberly King
    ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The city of Asheville's purchase of five electric buses in 2018 has turned into a multi-million-dollar loss. The buses have been broken or unable to run because of software and/or mechanical issues, making them an expensive and disappointing purchase, according to city maintenance and transportation staff. ... Currently, three of the five buses are idled, with one that has had a broken double door since July. “We haven’t been able to get new doors,” Asheville's interim transportation director Jessica Morriss said. “There's no third party that makes a door. We'd have to get custom-made doors.” Each of...
  • NJ wedding photographer allegedly scammed dozens — including own family — out of $1M

    12/14/2023 2:05:30 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 9 replies
    NY Post ^ | 12/14/2023 | Larry Celona and Priscilla DeGregory
    A New Jersey wedding photographer scammed dozens of people, including his own friends and family, out of $1 million in a sham investment scheme — and instead used the money on an Audi, gambling and travel, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday. Vincent Villafane — a photographer and graphic designer from Ford, NJ — allegedly tricked his victims into investing tens of thousands of dollars each into scarce computer graphic cards for gaming laptops, claiming he could sell them for more than double what they were purchased at, federal prosecutors said. His victims included elderly people, public employees like police...
  • Fresno lost $400,000 to a phishing scam in 2020 and never told the public (california)

    03/13/2022 4:59:21 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 15 replies
    Fresno Bee ^ | 3-10-22 | BRIANNA CALIX
    The city of Fresno lost about $400,000 in 2020 after falling victim to an electronic phishing scam, and former Mayor Lee Brand’s administration failed to disclose the loss to the Fresno City Council and taxpayers, The Fresno Bee has confirmed. Furthermore, the Fresno City Attorney’s Office in December 2021 rejected a public records request from The Fresno Bee seeking city communications regarding the fraud. The city told The Bee no records were located. However, The Bee recently obtained emails that existed prior to the records request. The electronic fraud was disguised as an invoice from a subcontractor working on the...
  • Scammed: Must read for Orly and Sheriff Joe supporters

    02/22/2014 3:24:08 PM PST · by westcoastwillieg · 19 replies
    amazon.com e-book ^ | Jacques Evans
    A new action/adventure novel with a political twist, Scammed, will be free on the Kindle Store this weekend (Feb. 22, 23) only. If you don't have a Kindle, there's a free Kindle Reading App available from Amazon. Scammed is a novel about a former air force pilot, a retired marine and a disabled ex-army doctor who team up to uncover a scam artist—the current occupant of the White House. When the miscreant behind the greatest Ponzi scheme in history was exposed his name was plastered on the front page of every newspaper in the country and heard on television ad...
  • I Was Scammed by a Homeless Person... and Other Stories

    12/01/2012 5:13:46 AM PST · by LoveUSA · 125 replies
    Personal Experience | LoveUSA
    Just yesterday I was leaving the food store with my 83 year old mother in my car when we encountered an old woman holding a piece of cardboard that said "homeless" (quotes were included). This old woman made eye contact with me and her scraggly gray hair, her worn clothing, and her pathetic help me expression really stirred up my sympathy. When I stopped at the stop sign near where the begging woman was standing I said to my mother, "Let's give her some something, it's Christmas". We came up with a five dollar bill and my mother waved it...
  • Help! My Hotmail Account is Blocked!!!

    04/18/2011 4:56:30 PM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 73 replies · 1+ views
    Self | April 18, 2011 | PJ-Comix
    Help! I went to sign in to my Hotmail account and I got a message that it was blocked because it was sending out spam emails. Then it asked from my mobile phone number to send me a code. I did that but no code sent. I tried other methods to unblock my hotmail via web research but each method requires me to sign in to MSN which is blocked to me.Phone support is not available to me since I don't have a paid account. Okay, so how do I regain access to my blocked hotmail account without having to...
  • “The danger to US is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him.....

    07/27/2010 5:40:54 AM PDT · by MindBender26 · 53 replies · 2+ views
    Prager Zeitung ^ | June 30, 10 | A reader of Prager Zeitung
    <p>“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president."</p>
  • Don't Get Scammed

    04/26/2009 8:30:33 AM PDT · by george76 · 46 replies · 1,877+ views
    wsj ^ | APRIL 25, 2009 | JONNELLE MARTE
    A distraught twentysomething woman called the Better Business Bureau in Louisville, Ky., one day last month. She'd wired $21,000 to a scam artist who had requested the money as "collateral" for a low-interest $100,000 college loan. Crying hysterically, she told her story but then hung up before giving her name or before anyone could help her. "The odds of her getting her money back are pretty much zero," Many young consumers have lost cash to scams... a quarter of people ages 18 to 34 admitted to losing money in a scam in the past six months. Other research suggests that...
  • McCain-Obama Meeting Set in Motion by Graham

    11/14/2008 10:45:47 AM PST · by rabscuttle385 · 74 replies · 2,017+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | 2008-11-14 | Michael D. Shear
    The upcoming meeting between President-elect Barack Obama and his one-time rival, Sen. John McCain, was set in motion during a phone call over the weekend between Obama and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), McCain's closest friend. In an interview Friday, Graham said that Obama requested the meeting during a 20-minute phone call that the South Carolina senator described as a "pleasant" discussion about how they could work together effectively. "We just talked about the desire to find something meaningful to work on," Graham said. "He was very nice to me, said that he considered me a serious, reform-minded senator that he...
  • Worst Employees of 2007

    12/10/2007 1:43:13 PM PST · by restornu · 30 replies · 301+ views
    , CareerBuilder.com writer ^ | Dec 2007 | By Rachel Zupek
    They cheated, stole, scammed and assaulted. They lied, got arrested, used illegal drugs and committed lewd acts. No one is perfect – workers included – but even knowing that, you’ll be surprised at what you’re about to read. Here are some of the crazy stunts employees pulled throughout the year to make our list, “Worst Employees of 2007.” This year’s most awful employees… Sell drugs at work The founder of a California pot-lacing food factory was arrested on drug charges for conspiring to manufacture and distribute marijuana. He originally said he made his products for medical marijuana clubs in...
  • Smelling the Coffee: Looney Left laments $$/emotion spent on Bev Harris e-vote conspiracies

    03/10/2005 9:31:10 AM PST · by dukeman · 48 replies · 1,115+ views
    3/10/05 | Deluded libs
    In the fevered early days after their world spun off its axis and raced off to deep space, the Looney Left desperately sought to explain W's re-election. Most of them screamed "election fraud!" and many of those fell under the spell of one Bev Harris. This blogging Pied Piper claimed credentials sufficient to expose the insidious right wing plot to hijack the country forever through rigged electronic voting machines. She made big promises and convinced many to contribute funds to the effort to "save" democracy. She didn't deliver. It's no surprise these red meat lefties would fall for this charlatan....
  • Intended eBay Scam Victim Turns Tables On Scammer

    05/15/2004 9:39:15 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 22 replies · 416+ views
    An American Ebay seller realises a European bidder is trying to scam him out of a Powerbook (fake escrow site, hijacked ebay account), so he sends him something far better, a P-P-P-Powerbook! Now, for you non-techies here, a factory model p-p-p-powerbook weights half what it's competitors weigh, comes with an A4 screen, the latest in internet adventure software, zero boot time, a fullsize keyboard (often with Key RedundancyTM) and a state-of-the-art laser bluetooth mouse. This is technology. The seller posts to a forum and amongst the chatter people follow the package via the the Fedex tracking page and some even...