So we have to warn each other.
Tag: scams
This scam leveraged the expectation of technical failures and stuff that doesn’t work.
ATM cash trapping involves a criminal installing a physical barrier, similar to skimming devices, but to prevent cash coming fully out of the ATM, leading people to believe their cash simply didn’t come out of the ATM, when it’s hidden behind a barrier which later the thief comes back to retrieve.
Don’t ever move money to protect it. That’s the sign of a scam.
As usual, seniors are being targeted by scammers, but there are patterns to warn people about.
AI slop science fraud.
More evidence to say that you really really shouldn’t just believe hype on the internet because it sounds like science and some fancy outlet is doing PR for example.
Pennsylvania has DLCs not DMVs, don’t believe DMV scammers.
Pennsylvania doesn’t have DMV offices, only DLCs.
Ghost health insurance plans.
Spread the word about sketchy health insurance! You never know who in your life might be buying health insurance and walk ass-backwards into one of these hustles. Health insurance plans tied to fake jobs. Self-employed, small business owners and people in the gig economy are getting ripped off when they think they’re buying health insurance […]
Another data center project sprung on people by surprise in Missouri by politicians who signed NDAs.
When a big decision with serious ramifications is rushed, that’s a big big red flag for scams and fraud. People are right to want to slow down and allow stakeholders to engage in critical thinking.
Universities should disclose if students paying exorbitant tuition are getting AI slop.
People don’t go into life altering oppressive debt to go to a university to get served chatbot garbage that may or may not even be accurate.
Pulling back the curtain on fake testimonials.
“More Google Review Extortion” because this channel has multiple examples of evidence of extortion operations using google reviews.
Monarchists and magnates, sticking it to us on things like healthcare, automation and AI; it’s all connected.
No kings means rejecting automated monarchist systems.
Avoid scams targeting people looking for remote work.
“Don’t pay for the promise of a job. Honest employers will never ask you to pay to get a job. Anyone who does is a scammer.”
Check it out before you send a check – or cash app, or whatever.
Beware new exciting people bursting onto your internet scene with an uncanny amount in common with you…
We need public information campaigns on scams.
There’s a public library making video content on this, but we need more. There should be robust funding of libraries to be able to do this, and also just public figures being sent out to warn people about how scams are perpetrated.
PA news outlet is reporting on data centers so boondoggles must be imminent in the state house.
Spotlight PA’s newsletter headline: AI data centers are fueling electricity demand.
The headline we should be seeing: Two cryptocurrency selling regimes in the Americas join together to leave world health behind and form their own bs wellness organization.
Unfortunately the media isn’t doing a great job with this one.
Nothing efficient about blockchain, so when someone invokes the blockchain to defend crypto, it’s also a trick.
Cryptocurrency is bad, and it’s not bad despite “the blockchain” but also because of the blockchain, which is actually not some great newfangled thing after all.
Maybe a lot of stuff called AI can be called just another quack pseudoscience snake oil.
Pseudoscience pushing unproven medical remedies and health treatments with no basis also usually has some “maybe in the future” assertion.
The “Genius Act” is financial corruption.
The pseudoscience eugenics apparent in the idea that crypto tycoon profiteering is a sign of genius is horrendous. The New Republic – Jeff Hauser / May 16, 2025 Are Some Dems About to Cave to Crypto? It Wouldn’t Be the First Time As the Senate considers a GOP-backed stablecoin bill, it’s a good time to […]
We all need to get up to speed on what AI really is AND what it ISN’T.
“What we have right now are self-driving cars that are monitored remotely in Mexico and get confused if you put an orange cone on their hood.” – Emily Bender on the podcast Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast, AGI: “Imminent”, “Inevitable”, and Inane, 2025.04.21 We need to pull back the curtain for everyone on the […]
RFKJr connected anti-vaxxers have been profiteering from the Texas measles outbreak.
WIRED – By David Gilbert Apr 17, 2025 11:35 AM Anti-Vaxxers Are Grifting Off the Measles Outbreak—and Claim a Bioweapon Caused It Activists affiliated with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are selling a “measles treatment and prevention protocol” for hundreds of dollars, including supplements supposedly formulated by AI. Anti-vaccine activists with close ties to US health […]
Tricksters trying to sign people up for inappropriate hospice via a Medicare fraud scheme.
The commercials for Medicare beneficiaries advertising “free stuff” are often sketchy or outright fraud attempts.