this could stop any day now
Nov. 29th, 2022 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaidenit's official, i have the plague. it only took 32 months :/
currently it's like a really bad cold. i especially hate the part where i am exhausted and fall sleep and then cough myself awake. fortunately C is doing well now and can pick up my slack.
i'm really out of it; yesterday a scammer nearly got me. the call woke me out of a sound sleep and my first mistake was to actually say that i was ill and the call woke me up. dude must have been thrilled to get someone already disoriented. apparently this is a long-running thing - i didn't get the identity theft version but i did get the "pay a fine" version. in hindsight i can pick apart everything, but the dude was good enough for sick me - he used real information about me and about the local court system mixed in with the bullshit, kept me isolated, made me write down a bunch of info, and was playing ACAB to the hilt. fortunately the whole thing fell apart at the fine payment part, where he wanted a direct payment via Zelle (which is a person-to-person cash transfer service in the US that isn't subject to any chargeback protections) for an amount that was less than the stated fine. at that point i noped out and called the actual sheriff's office who confirmed the scam.
the phone number they tried to use for the transaction was a Georgia state area code; i guessed that the dollar amount was about avoiding a felony charge and i was correct. Georgia law: "theft by deception of any property worth more than $500 committed against a person age 65 or older: five to 10 years' incarceration". (i'm not that old yet but i'm sure many of their successes are.)
currently it's like a really bad cold. i especially hate the part where i am exhausted and fall sleep and then cough myself awake. fortunately C is doing well now and can pick up my slack.
i'm really out of it; yesterday a scammer nearly got me. the call woke me out of a sound sleep and my first mistake was to actually say that i was ill and the call woke me up. dude must have been thrilled to get someone already disoriented. apparently this is a long-running thing - i didn't get the identity theft version but i did get the "pay a fine" version. in hindsight i can pick apart everything, but the dude was good enough for sick me - he used real information about me and about the local court system mixed in with the bullshit, kept me isolated, made me write down a bunch of info, and was playing ACAB to the hilt. fortunately the whole thing fell apart at the fine payment part, where he wanted a direct payment via Zelle (which is a person-to-person cash transfer service in the US that isn't subject to any chargeback protections) for an amount that was less than the stated fine. at that point i noped out and called the actual sheriff's office who confirmed the scam.
the phone number they tried to use for the transaction was a Georgia state area code; i guessed that the dollar amount was about avoiding a felony charge and i was correct. Georgia law: "theft by deception of any property worth more than $500 committed against a person age 65 or older: five to 10 years' incarceration". (i'm not that old yet but i'm sure many of their successes are.)
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Date: 2022-11-30 08:33 am (UTC)Glad you caught the scam in time!
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Date: 2022-11-30 02:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-30 05:17 pm (UTC)Also glad to read you were able to catch the scammer in time. It's sickening to read/hear how they target folks. My mom nearly gotten taken in by one after one of her chemo sessions. She was so disoriented that they nearly tricked her into giving away banking information but luckily, because Mom was so disoriented, she gave them the wrong information so it didn't work.
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Date: 2022-11-30 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-30 06:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-01 12:06 am (UTC)Sickness & Scammers would be a really unpopular tabletop RPG.
I hope you're feeling better soon.
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Date: 2022-12-01 04:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-01 07:02 am (UTC)Also, dang, fuck those scammers. I really wonder how they live with themselves. (I'm guessing they just don't think about it.)