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 05:20 pm (UTC)