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I get a rando / unsolicited text.
"Work from home"
As y'all know, I haven't been on a roof since the wreck in early November '24.
I'm curious but also suspicious.  $ Is tight & I only have a functioning L hand.  A legit "work from home" would be very beneficial.
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https://alcor-bpo.com/

Thoughts?


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Posted
1 hour ago, Gene Parmesan said:

Sounds like a great opportunity.

It has an excellent corporate structure, and they give you the tools to be your own boss.

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Its how pig butchering and other scams start. Every other week I get some random text message that only says hi. I wouldn't even interact with them. Just delete and move on. 

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17 hours ago, UTGrad98 said:

Its how pig butchering and other scams start. Every other week I get some random text message that only says hi. I wouldn't even interact with them. Just delete and move on. 

Every other week? I must have made a list of suspected morons as I get those texts daily. "Hey. I'm at the restaurant, where are you?" or "why haven't you responded to my last text?"

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The scam is most likely that they want to send you money to "buy your own equipment" but they'll send you way more than you need and then you send them back the rest, except the check was fake and you're on the hook for all of it.

That's what I learned when my wife was between jobs.

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The WSJ had an article about elderly scams. You know the one where they use your family members’ public social media to learn that a teen is in Mexico? And then they have someone call the grandparents, claiming to be the kid and needing a few thousand $$? Evidently AI is making the voices more realistic. The article suggested having a code word for kids to say to let family know it’s really them. 

Posted
21 hours ago, baboso said:

You're smarter than this, Mark.

To be fair, it's much easier to believe it when you really want/need to be true.

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It's just a fact that old people, often in mental decline, and their money are soon parted. Many scams take place in person. Scammers see a house needing repairs and knock on the door to see if the homeowner needs help. An old person answers and the scammers may offer a deal if the homeowner agrees to same-day work. The scammer only needs $1000 to go buy the materials from Home Depot. Even non-old folks have fallen for this scam.

Always tell old people in your life to reach out to you whenever money is involved.

I knew an retired person that bought a car over the internet. The scammer asked for a down payment to hold the car before the buyer flew to their city to finalize the deal and transfer ownership. My friend said the hell with a down payment, I will send the full amount. smh. There was no car and no one met him at the airport. He was out the full amount.

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I just assume everything is a scam. 

Toll road violation texts? Scam

Job offers to work from home and make $3k/month? Scam

Offers to buy my house? Scam

Friends want to hang out? Scam

Save the whales? SCAM! 

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33 minutes ago, Js1 said:

I just assume everything is a scam. 

Toll road violation texts? Scam

Job offers to work from home and make $3k/month? Scam

Offers to buy my house? Scam

Friends want to hang out? Scam

Save the whales? SCAM! 

So you’re really not a marine biologist?  

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On 5/7/2025 at 12:24 PM, Js1 said:

I just assume everything is a scam. 

Toll road violation texts? Scam

Job offers to work from home and make $3k/month? Scam

Offers to buy my house? Scam

Friends want to hang out? Scam

Save the whales? SCAM! 

Damn right. 
 

“This is XXXXXX and I’m running for office. Please send $$$$ so I can represent you in the way you expect and deserve.”

SCAM

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On 5/6/2025 at 11:43 AM, baboso said:

You're smarter than this, Mark.

As the thread is titled, 

 "If you think it's a scam..."

 

While we're here, can you write some code to make that "¼ penny rounding error" slide into my account? 

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With my job I have to answer my mobile even when an incoming number isn’t in my contact list. Most of these calls are telemarketers or scams. In the past scammers always have some thick accent. Lately the scammers have zero accent. Either they’re teaching American accents across the world now, or we’re onshoring the scamming business back to America.

Or perhaps it’s an AI voice.

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3 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

With my job I have to answer my mobile even when an incoming number isn’t in my contact list. Most of these calls are telemarketers or scams. In the past scammers always have some thick accent. Lately the scammers have zero accent. Either they’re teaching American accents across the world now, or we’re onshoring the scamming business back to America.

Or perhaps it’s an AI voice.

AI

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I received a call the other day from a guy claiming to be with Oncor demanding payment within the hour or the electricity will be shut off at our office. Not the first time I've got this call. I called him out as a scammer because Oncor only provides delivery in my area and my bill is paid through another service. He got offended and said F*** You and hung up. 

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On 5/7/2025 at 12:24 PM, Js1 said:

I just assume everything is a scam. 

Toll road violation texts? Scam

Job offers to work from home and make $3k/month? Scam

Offers to buy my house? Scam

Friends want to hang out? Scam

Save the whales? SCAM! 

True story:

Brisketexan, circa 1992, setting up my shitty but new Packard Bell 386 before law school.  Opens CD-Rom for this outfit called "Prodigy."  Read the literature with it.  I consciously recall tossing it all into my trash, saying out loud, "'Internet?'  Sounds like a scam."

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You missed all those AOL chats...  

You could have been a "cyber" pioneer.  For those too young, cybering was typing in your sexual desires mutally with another poster, whom you assumed was a supermodel, or at least cute, on the other end of the line.  It wasn't.

Posted (edited)

Anything you get via text and email offering some kind of opportunity is a scam. When im bored i fuck with them, string them along then send pics of horse cocks. 

If they are still game i know its legit.

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I just got a text from someone who said they were from Indeed and had a job offer where I could work a couple hours a day and make 900 a week.
 

Some might find it odd that they texted instead of messaging me inside of their own app, that they didn’t address me by name, or that they didn’t identify themselves by name. Or that I had to call a number instead of go to a link, again to their own job app.  
 

what do you guys think?

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Wife got a call from "Costco" with something about refused deliveries on her account. 

1. We've only ordered two things delivered from Costco and neither were refused. 

2. All other times we buy from Costco, we do it in store. 

3. My wife does not suffer anything that might even potentially be perceived as a slight, so the scammers' pressure tactics/negging backfired spectacularly. 

4. This is even worse for you if she's tired, which she was, having been sick since the weekend. 

If you felt a disturbance in the Force, like a thousand scammers cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced, now you know why.

17 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I just got a text from someone who said they were from Indeed and had a job offer where I could work a couple hours a day and make 900 a week.
 

Some might find it odd that they texted instead of messaging me inside of their own app, that they didn’t address me by name, or that they didn’t identify themselves by name. Or that I had to call a number instead of go to a link, again to their own job app.  
 

what do you guys think?

Very common scam.

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On 5/28/2025 at 3:14 PM, MissingInAction said:

 then send pics of horse cocks. 

 

Are you gonna try & use this thread as part of your defense when questioned about the contents of your phone?

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I routinely get texts from s spoofed phone # with scammers who say they have a property for sale (or recently purchased) & need [ insert remodeling services here ] & are "out of town for ___ months."
I check the address via MLS & track down the listing agent to notify them their property is being used as part of a,scam & forward screenshots. 
The scam involves sending "added money" to "!nowhere contractor that is owed money for other work" or "You asked for $ 5,000⁰⁰, here's $ 6,000⁰⁰ for any possible overages & send me back the extra."
This has been going on for a decade or more & when it was a new / unknown scam, I ONE TIME site inspected a low value roof E of 35 / S of Stassnety (Austin) & called the realtor on the sign out front to discuss... that's how I recognized this was a fresh scam idea.
I had recently done 4 roofs within the prior 6 months & in the same ½ mile radius... initially did not suspect there was a problem.

Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, ROFL BOX said:

I routinely get texts from s spoofed phone # with scammers who say they have a property for sale (or recently purchased) & need [ 8nsert remodeling services here ] & are "out of town for ___ months."

I check the address via MLS & track down the listing agent to notify them their property is being used as part of a,scam & forward screenshots. 

The scam involves sending "added money" to "!nowhere contractor that is owed money for other work" or "You asked for $ 5,000⁰⁰, here's $ 6,000⁰⁰ for any possible overages & send me back the extra."

This has been going on for a decade or more & when it was a new / unknown scam, I ONE TIME site inspected a low value roof E of 35 / S of Stassnety (Austin) & called the realtor on the sign out front to discuss... that's how I recognized this was a fresh scam idea.

I had recently done 4 roofs within the prior 6 months & in the same ½ mile radius... initially did not suspect there was a problem.

You're doing 2 hours work of worth for 2 seconds of common sense 

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55 minutes ago, UTPhil2006 said:

You're doing 2 hours work of worth for 2 seconds of common sense 

The dude only has one functioning hand, he can barely even jerk off, and you want to take away his sole source of mild amusement 

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1 hour ago, elfenix said:

The dude only has one functioning hand, he can barely even jerk off, and you want to take away his sole source of mild amusement 

Not my monkey not my circus 

Posted
10 hours ago, UTPhil2006 said:

You're doing 2 hours work of worth for 2 seconds of common sense 

By notifying a realtor their listing is being used as part of a scam?

Posted
18 minutes ago, ROFL BOX said:

By notifying a realtor their listing is being used as part of a scam?

I mean good on you but you're fighting an uphill battle with a public number. Speaking from experience 

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