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celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 7 Apr

The U S Postal Service does a lot more than just deliver packages and sell stamps. For instance, the USPIS or United States Postal Inspection Service is the oldest federal law enforcement agency. Founded in 1775 it protects the...

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The Fraudster Has Begun Again

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 2 Apr

Every spring for the past four years I start getting calls from these fraudsters saying they are a law firm and they have an account I supposedly owe. Immediately this time around I tell them I would do nothing over the phone. If...

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Bank Representative Didn't Do Her Job

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 4 Dec

Back in late October I had reason to call my bank and report fraud on our base account. The one I use to pay most of the monthly bills. The rep who helped me said it would be advisable to stop the use of this card and it would...

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New York Appeals Court Finally Sounds Off About Trump's Debt

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 21 Aug

The New York Appeals Court has kept the ruling on Trump and his families' fraud charge that had been set at $464 Million. They are saying it is too much but are upholding the fraud ruling. So, now I wonder what he will pay. Last...

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People Still Fall for Romance Scammers

Loretta @noni1959 (13017) • United States 27 May 25

I found a documentary called, "Hey Beautiful: Anatomy of a Romance Scam." With all the information out there about scammers, it's amazing men and women continue to fall for the scams. Many of the romance scams go after those...

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Kenya now issuing National Identity Cards with Expiry Dates!

SIDDI KIMPOLE @SIDIKIMPOLE (3480) • Eldoret, Kenya 10 May 25

My country, Kenya recently introduced a new feature on its citizens National Identification Cards; Expiry dates. The card has also been given a new name "Maisha Digital ID" 'Maisha' is a swahili word for "life". New holders have a...

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More Fraud

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 29 Apr 25

It is my daily routine to open my cell and check my emails. I have been getting emails for the last several months from some weird email address trying to get me to update my Cloud account, that I am out of space. Well, first off...

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My bank is rubbish!

Fleur @Fleura (34932) • United Kingdom 22 Apr 25

A couple of weeks ago I made an online donation to a charity appeal. Somehow my details were intercepted by fraudsters who (I later found) attempted to make a series of further payments to some online gambling company I had never...

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Dump the Trump stock

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5216) • Northampton, England 10 Apr 25

Trumps tariffs are crazy for business.If they are designed to bring in huge tax dollars and try and return industries to America then fine ( industries in need of immigrants to do those menial jobs mind) but he has now reduced the...

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Is Amazon shopping safe anymore?

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5216) • Northampton, England 5 Mar 25

I had an Amazon account for 15 years. I was in at the start when Bezoz had hair. Two weeks before Christmas Amazon locked my account, claiming 'suspicious activity' on it, fair enough. Sadly I didn't have the two tier password...

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Brad Pitt and Deep Fake Fraud Case

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 20 Jan 25

Brad Pitt has put out a public warning concerning artificial intelligence scams. There was a recent case of fraud that amounted to a staggering $850,000 where they used a computer-generated likeness of the actor. This woman...

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Duping the public

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381822) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Dec 24

The photo has nothing to do with the post. It’s of two chocolate unicorns a friend gave me. A couple have been charged in South Australia for pretending their son had cancer and receiving $60,000 through government and GoFundMe...

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Scammers are like squirrels!

Fleur @Fleura (34932) • United Kingdom 28 Nov 24

Yesterday I received this email: Hello pervert, I've sent this message from your Microsoft account. I want to inform you about a very bad situation for you. However, you can benefit from it, if you will act wisely. Have you...

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Voter Fraud!

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 26 Oct 24

Earlier today in a deep red county in Pennsylvania officials found 2500 voter registration applications with either the same handwriting or signatures that didn't match what they had on file. I am glad the mechanism they use is...

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HOW TO RECOGNIZE A SCAM

Wendy @jerzgirl (9384) • United States 17 Sep 24

1. I do not own a car. 2. I have NEVER owned a 2014 Ford of mystery model. 3. The ”deadline” to respond was May 1. I received it last week. 4. There is NO business name or address anywhere on this “important” letter. The last...

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Remember George Santos?

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 1 Sep 24

He was a man who served as the U.S. representative for New York's 3rd congressional district. He was expelled after only being a rep from January to December 2022. The news media began reporting about his many lies just six weeks...

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I am Getting Scammed Some More

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 26 Aug 24

Have any of you gotten one of these? I got a letter from a place called Undue Medical Debt about a week ago. It said it was relieving me of a medical debt from one of the local hospitals here. It was from 2016. The only thing I...

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When was the last time you used a paper check/cheque?

Anish Asokan @RevivedWarrior (3853) • India 11 Aug 24

Until a decade, paper checks had huge role to play in finanical transactions. Most of us made our payments or received payments in terms of paper checks. With a number of fraud usage of paper checks , new improvements resulted in...

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All Because of A SUBWAY Sandwich

J.N.R Dutton @jnrdutton (3447) • United States 25 Jul 24

Yesterday, there was a fraudulent charge on my debit card, for a SUBWAY (the restaurant) in Maryland. Who needs a SUBWAY sandwich THAT bad, really? Anyway, I reported it to my bank's fraud department, and hopefully that'll be...

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Ministerial Duty

May Day @HaruLoid (1592) • Philippines 22 May 24

I really don't like how other government offices are given a mere "ministerial duty" to perform its job. I mean if you give the civil registry a ministerial duty to issue birth certificates, any person can just make up the...

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