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    Image of Shadowlayer Shadowlayer
    01:11 AM

    In reply to Scam-Brokering CEO Dissed His 'Bullshit' Ethics Class
    Seems pincus here has sent a whole bunch of "friends" to spam the place...
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    11/25/09

    In reply to Demonize the Homeless Long Enough and No One Will Notice You Moved Back Home
    I used to get upset at these folks and the kids claiming to sell candy for their basketball teams, until I realized something: There really has never been a point in history anyone begging has been honest about it. I mean outside of the Salvation Army, can anyone think of a street group that is regularly outside that does spend the money the way they claim to spend it?

    I think the only time I have ever felt 100% secure in knowing what I gave to someone was something they used/ate was when my mom made cheese sandwiches she'd give me to give to Bill, the neighborhood acid casualty who always told me "You're mom is a very nice person!"

    I miss Bill.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/24/09

    In reply to Demonize the Homeless Long Enough and No One Will Notice You Moved Back Home
    I only support freelance homeless, because as much of a pinko as I am, I'm more of an anarchist.
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    11/24/09

    In reply to Demonize the Homeless Long Enough and No One Will Notice You Moved Back Home
    I know a girl who put herself through college shaking jugs so people would give her money. It's nothing new.
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    11/24/09

    In reply to Demonize the Homeless Long Enough and No One Will Notice You Moved Back Home
    Another weird thing about moving in with Mom and Dad is that whenever they call you, the call

    is coming

    from inside

    the house.
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    Image of Sergio Hernandez Sergio Hernandez
    11/24/09

    In reply to Demonize the Homeless Long Enough and No One Will Notice You Moved Back Home
    I used to feel bad for ignoring that jug guy outside the Starbucks on Spring Street...

    but then I remembered I'm an organ donor, which is basically a lifelong "good deed" credit anyway, right?
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/24/09

    In reply to Demonize the Homeless Long Enough and No One Will Notice You Moved Back Home
    Bowling for dolors.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/19/09

    In reply to Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads
    In the brick and mortar world, it's often been the state attorney generals or the FTC who first step up about misleading recurring charges scams (see Trilegiant or Joe Francis), but what may have slowed the appropriate actions in this case have been the online community's idea, Facebook should do the policing.

    I mean, whenever someone calls to sell me a recurring charges scam, I don't cry to the phone company.
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    Image of PontiusPirate PontiusPirate
    11/19/09

    In reply to Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads
    I hear Farmville's customer service team has been offshored to Nigeria, where the locals are very adept at running these types of operations.
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    Image of katekate is squared katekate is squared
    11/19/09

    In reply to Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads
    Cue 10,000 "they were stupid for falling for it!" comments.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    11/19/09

    In reply to Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads
    Here's the thing: even if it takes a certain amount of naivete/stupidity to fall for these scams? It's still the scammers who should be ashamed of themselves, not the people being scammed. The scammer committed an immoral act; the scammed at worst were stupid. It's not even the kind of stupidity that involves greed on the mark's part, like 419 scams; it's just a mistaken belief that people aren't quite as larcenous as the more skeptical of us know them to be.

    The fact that every time something on this topic is posted so many people leap to beat up on the people who were duped and not the people who took advantage of them makes me sad about the general state of people's values. Meanwhile, no one remarks on the stupidity of thieves who leave a blazing electronic trail straight back to the hideout. That, my friends, is seriously dumbass.
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    Image of Z und Vielpunkt's chick Z und Vielpunkt's chick
    11/19/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: I'd heart you again, if I could. It pisses me off that that's the reaction. Nobody deserves to be the victim of a scam, just like nobody deserves to be the victim of a crime.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    11/19/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: I hugely agree, and that fucking attitude is not limited to e-trolls, either. You get grown men and women who are supposedly solid citizens saying "Well, you know, caveat emptor and all that." Fuck that noise. Caveat vendor. If you're going to con people, you deserve to be fined and publicly humiliated. The fact that you're conning the credulous or the dim makes it worse, not better - you're taking advantage of people who can't defend themselves for your own fiduciary benefit, which is evil by definition.
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    Image of PontiusPirate PontiusPirate
    11/17/09

    In reply to Investors Punish Online Scam Trafficker with $15 Million
    The bubble's always biggest before it bursts. #markpincus
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/17/09

    In reply to Why the Oxford University Press' 'Word of the Year' Is a Huge Scam
    The funny thing is that in Canada, everybody says "de-friend". #lexicography
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/17/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Leave it to the Oxford to fuck up a wet dream. #lexicography
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    11/17/09

    In reply to Why the Oxford University Press' 'Word of the Year' Is a Huge Scam
    I'm more interested in the Pie of the Year. #lexicography
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/17/09

    @BadUncle: The Pie of the Year is YOU. #lexicography
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/17/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: What is the correct accompaniment with Bad Unc pie, I wonder. #lexicography
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    11/17/09

    @BookishLookish: Sweet, creamy larceny. #lexicography
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    11/17/09

    In reply to Why the Oxford University Press' 'Word of the Year' Is a Huge Scam
    I'm from Texas. Maybe "unfried" SHOULD be the word of the year. #lexicography
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    Image of msquared msquared
    11/17/09

    @AzureTexan: Doesn't anyone remember what happened with KFC's grilled chicken? #lexicography
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    11/17/09

    @msquared: Good point. Bring on the chicken-fried steak. #lexicography
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