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Joe Elliott: Online Imposters 'Really Starting to Piss Me Off'
Joe Elliott interrupted a demo recording session to express fury after hearing Def Leppard fans had fallen for an identity scam in May 2024.
Found a nice job online: Music Reviewer. I applied for that job, got approved. Had to watch a long introduction video, then said I have to pay some $100 bucks to do the training. Do I have to pay for a job I look for?
What a fucking joke! #OnlineJobs#Scams#MusicReviewer
Like counting cards in Vegas, but this one was used to beat a TV game show out of some big 💰:
"After weeks of painstaking scrutiny Michael realized that the bouncing prize selector did not actually move randomly; it always followed one of five lengthy sequences"
The show was in 1984, the article from 2011. Via Hacker News.
People Are Getting Scammed into Buying Seeds of Non-Existent Cat-Face Flowers Generated by AI.
Scammers are always finding new ways of taking advantage of gullible people, and apparently selling seeds of fake flowers generated by artificial intelligence is one of their latest techniques.
A service called Spy Pet is scraping Discord servers, archiving and tracking users' messages and activity, and then selling access to that data.
Spy Pet scrapes more than 10,000 Discord servers, and besides selling access to anyone with cryptocurrency, it offers the data for training AI models or to assist law enforcement agencies, according to its website.
Spy Pet claims to be tracking more than 14,000 servers, 600 million users, and includes a database of more than 3 billion messages.
"Despite the rising usage figures and online interest, the quality of the Marketplace, much like the rest of Facebook, seems to have deteriorated in recent years.
Scottish bank TSB reported that 60% of all purchase fraud cases originated on Marketplace last year. They also found that a third of ads on the site appear to be scams. Vehicle parts, phones, shoes and clothing, and game consoles appear to be the most scammed items."
You know the oligarchs are getting annoyed about something when the Wall St Journal writes about it.
Reminder that if you paid for a copy of Ultramarine Linux, you got scammed. We keep seeing USB and DVD drives with Ultramarine on them popping up on eBay (and now Amazon)
Ultramarine Linux will always be available for free from ultramarine-linux.org, images.fyralabs.com, and FOSSTorrents. Do not pay for a copy of Ultramarine Linux.
"That means that, unbeknownst to the neighbors, a fugitive surgeon in an ongoing criminal proceeding was acting as a landlord on their quiet block for more than a decade." —Bridget Read for Curbed
Do yourselves a good turn and make sure to follow Author Beware by @victoriastrauss
The most recent post is about #CityOwlPress, but there's wisdom that applies to all small presses:
"there is a kind of alchemical process where long-standing strains and stresses within a publisher...abruptly reach critical mass and boil to the surface in the form of a rush of complaints."
Via Writer Beware: in order to avoid scammers, you must understand how your industry actually works. This post tackles the oh, so tempting "we can help you get your book made into a movie!" scam.