Random Thought Thread

[Murphjd25]

Friggin a/c recharge hose

I couldn’t find anything else in a pinch

 

[Moorik]

Sorry guys, but from now on, if I buy something from you, I'll ask you to record a video message addressed to me and do some fun TikTok dance of my choice.

Otherwise, I might get scammed by the AI version of you

 

[XtianAus]

Does anyone have a pic of the deleted behemoth photo?

 

[SpyderPhreak]

Well dang, i thought i had a discerning eye but apparently not! What about the ECAM?

Look between the two upper scale screws. It's not layered right, things are overlapping oddly, which wouldn't happen in the real ECAM. It's nicely layered and well-compressed. That dark splotch on the spine of the scales near the butt looks odd too.

 

[SpyderPhreak]

Does anyone have a pic of the deleted behemoth photo?

 

[XtianAus]

Thanks SpyderPhreak

Give it a year and we wont be able to tell anymore. Scary stuff

 

[SpyderPhreak]

To me, the blur of the table texture looked really suspicious to me around the paper. I didn't keep my earlier accusations since I didn't have proof, but the number 2 had a loop and was written differently than the previous sale posts.

You can see the handwriting style in previous posts.

I hadn't looked at the handwriting differences, but seeing both pics I posted above, it's obviously not the same. The "N" is totally different between the 2 notes too!

Thanks SpyderPhreak

Give it a year and we wont be able to tell anymore. Scary stuff

Yeah, it's not good. But then again, everything that can be used for good, can be used for bad too.

 

[jlauffer]

They ran into the problem of: they finally made the software right and a person can buy it and have software that works. Without bugs or missing features or other problems compelling you to upgrade to a new version.

Unlike a car that wears out, the only way for them to continue to make income is with new users and there's a limited number of people who want high-end CAD CAM. There's a finite amount of growth that can occur in that industry.

So, other than packing up their bags and saying "yep, we finally finished the best CAD CAM program out there, we're done, we're going to go move on to something else now" they had to make it a subscription service or they would be toast.

I bought some software, it works for me. I don't want to buy new software. "You have to buy the new software we will go bankrupt!"

State of the art software from 2010, that cost as much as a new car, still works. I don't think I want to replace it

Just like Big Pharma...why sell a cure to a disease when you can sell a way to "manage" it?

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

They ran into the problem of: they finally made the software right and a person can buy it and have software that works. Without bugs or missing features or other problems compelling you to upgrade to a new version.

Unlike a car that wears out, the only way for them to continue to make income is with new users and there's a limited number of people who want high-end CAD CAM. There's a finite amount of growth that can occur in that industry.

So, other than packing up their bags and saying "yep, we finally finished the best CAD CAM program out there, we're done, we're going to go move on to something else now" they had to make it a subscription service or they would be toast.

I bought some software, it works for me. I don't want to buy new software. "You have to buy the new software we will go bankrupt!"

State of the art software from 2010, that cost as much as a new car, still works. I don't think I want to replace it

What do you use?

 

[bluemax_1]

Update...The Good and The Bad

Thanks to Nate and Jo, (especially the prettier of the two), the real NUTRAMAC was contacted via info they had in their files, and he reported that he hadn't been on in a good deal of time, and that he lost access to his account...which we now know was hacked.

The good news is that it wasn't the person that many here on this forum knew from the past...the bad news is that one of our members was taken for $3000.00 when he struck a deal with the scammer for four CPKs...for which he provided a tracking number, but nothing ever was processed at UPS.

Thanks to the members that stepped up and notified us of the suspicious (AI) renderings in the Exchange, without which, we'd have not known what was going on with either of the two most recently listed sales, let alone the sale arranged by DM which is where the fraud was committed.

Glad to put this to rest. I've been working on this since 8 a.m.

First off, thanks for all you do, E.

2nd; scammers need to burn
(So this a-hole was able to spoof his old IP address, too?)

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

Wow well done. What made it suspicious enough to check?
I cannot see any

The knife was being sold below cost

 

[SharpBits]

First off, thanks for all you do, E.

2nd; scammers need to burn
(So this a-hole was able to spoof his old IP address, too?)

More likely he had access for a long time before he started running his scams.

 

[XtianAus]

The knife was being sold below cost

Ahh...

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

Sorry guys, but from now on, if I buy something from you, I'll ask you to record a video message addressed to me and do some fun TikTok dance of my choice.

Otherwise, I might get scammed by the AI version of you

The AI version of me is afraid I'll find it again

 

[Jsega51]

Look between the two upper scale screws. It's not layered right, things are overlapping oddly, which wouldn't happen in the real ECAM. It's nicely layered and well-compressed. That dark splotch on the spine of the scales near the butt looks odd too.

The laptop looked very odd to me, it’s about as thin as an envelope with a piece of mail in it.

 

[bluemax_1]

A stark reminder to make sure multi factor authentication is turned on in your BF account AND your email account. Never use the same password twice.

Literally every one is a target these days so don’t believe you’re too small of a fish for them to target.

The recent data breaches (including the one a couple years ago that compromised 2 BILLION US records) have compromised a LOT of personal data/info.

I have LifeLock (came with the Norton subscription), and about 2 months ago, received an email that found some of my info on the dark web. Fortunately, it was an old password.

Don’t just avoid using the same password for multiple accounts: Change your passwords every so often. Yes, it’s a PITA. It’s even more of a PITA if your accounts get compromised.

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

Looks like the scales are all cracked up

 

[SharpBits]

The laptop looked very odd to me, it’s about as thin as an envelope with a piece of mail in it.

Certain Macbooks and high end Windows laptops can be that thin.

 

[bluemax_1]

Wow... Nice work.

That sale hurts though, I hope the member has some recourse they can follow to recover.

If they paid via PP F&F, they’re in a quandary.

If they paid via CC, they can TRY to do a chargeback, but PP will lock their account and flag them (and potentially file collections).

With F&F, you also can’t tell PP, “Well, I got scammed trying to buy some things that were never delivered”.

 

[SpyderPhreak]

The laptop looked very odd to me, it’s about as thin as an envelope with a piece of mail in it.

Some are pretty thin these days. But what is spilled on it?

Looks like the scales are all cracked up

Yeah, that photo was stupid obvious! So many problems!!! Where's the tip?

And Mr. Scammer, I'm sure you're reading this. Go take one of your fake knives and chop your hand off. Please and thank you!