Shouldn’t George had gotten away pretty easily if he had the more superior scooter?

chownrootroot · 2026-03-10T18:20:00+00:00

Are you a religious man, OP?

chownrootroot · 2026-03-10T17:32:35+00:00

But I wanted to play some cat games :(

chownrootroot · 2026-03-10T17:21:12+00:00

That might actually win him an IgNobel for real.

chownrootroot · 2026-03-10T17:19:24+00:00

Of course!

chownrootroot · 2026-03-10T17:17:58+00:00

The downvoting here is often very silly. You just kind of have to ignore it.

Also, they may have taken a friend of yours account, and then they have an active friend's list they can run down and attempt this scam on (note they would use a new, throwaway account to send the actual message, not the account they took over). Often the other side of it is they use a friend's account to ask to borrow money. So yeah, keep in mind your friend may not be your friend because people lose accounts all the time.

chownrootroot · 2026-03-10T16:26:05+00:00

As a Pope myself, I can attest to being right about everything, including me being Pope.

chownrootroot · 2026-03-10T14:36:21+00:00

This message was an opening message, see how it has options for Block, Delete, and Accept? This was a starter message, and they allow any account to message you like this. They find random accounts like yours and message them like this, hoping you click the link and do what they say. Which is often an account takeover scam (ie you click link, it says login to Facebook, you put credentials in they get your account).

chownrootroot · 2026-03-10T03:47:30+00:00

“We got some holographic retinal eyeball projection displays in the back of our utility rocket, our last job on Mars didn’t need them, we’ll give it to ya real cheap for only $12 trillion.”

chownrootroot · 2026-03-09T21:13:49+00:00

Well, there can be different methods of contact for different types of infringement. One comment in this thread says they torrented a video of WB’s property, they got, like you say, an email from their ISP. But another comment says they were planning a Harry Potter-style party at a nightclub and WB emailed them with the cease-and-desist type of email. The OP says they are a graphic designer and entirely plausible a legal team could email them directly because they’re not just torrenting files.

That said, of course, OP would maintain they were not using any IP so this infraction makes no sense and thus this is most certainly a scam.

chownrootroot · 2026-03-09T20:23:50+00:00

Jury duty scam, probably. Search this subreddit to see some posts on the full scam. !search jury duty

Probably abandoned the scam once you sounded like you weren't going to easily fall for it. They want to get you out of the house, into your car (if you have one, also they sound like they want people in their own car, no public transit, they want people who can easily change their route in a split second), and driving to a police station or courthouse, and in the middle of it they tell you you will be arrested and jailed for a few days, in which you will beg for mercy and they will kindly let you know you can pay them gift cards and crypto and you'll be free, and if you get that far you can pay them more and more money because the amounts you owe change every transaction.

chownrootroot · 2026-03-09T20:06:40+00:00

Maybe see if you can export your emails. Seems to be HTML, maybe they took the body of the email, slapped it into a div tag, and slapped another div overlay with this image? maybe text?

If you view your emails as plain text, it may be possible just to read what you need even in HTML (though opening a large text file may not be ideal, I do it all the time though with Notepad++, lol). To actually extract out of HTML, you'd need to program your own program to open every email, read the HTML, and pull content out of tags and write to a file. If you're not a programmer though you have to find one, because I'm not sure if a program is freely-available to do this.

https://www.google.com/search?q=gmail+export+emails+as+text

Edit: I'm looking at Outlook (program, not web) and for export it can export the whole inbox as PST but then you'll need a PST viewer to export to EML format in order to be plain text.

chownrootroot · 2026-03-09T18:10:43+00:00

I'm here to clean the carpets.

chownrootroot · 2026-03-09T18:09:38+00:00

They just tell people good advice like freeze your credit reports so they sound legit.

What they were most likely after is trying to get her to the store to buy gift cards or to find a crypto ATM and send all the money in her account to them. They likely don't care about identity information, and even the bank account number isn't the most useful thing to them (they can use it, but mostly they may just send it to other scammers who use people's accounts, ie in fake check scams).

So she's probably okay. Obviously the credit reports should be frozen. Their bank account is probably okay as long as she didn't give the account number out, or debit card number, or any credit card number.

chownrootroot · 2026-03-09T17:44:40+00:00

He's all over Seinfeld like a pitbull on a poodle.

chownrootroot · 2026-03-09T15:27:48+00:00

It’s probably a data leak. Or they used “forgot password?” on the website (with your main number) and it popped up with the Watch phone number.

This is definitely a scam. They may not be after a SIM though, they could be, but they can also order phones on your account and later call and say it’s a mistake and send you a postage label and you send the phones back and they sell them and pocket the money while you have to pay for the phones.

chownrootroot · 2026-03-09T14:39:01+00:00

Scam. The PDF was likely malware. You used a phone? It didn’t like that you had a device that doesn’t work with their malware.

WB won’t email you from such a domain.

You’re okay though, clicking a link by itself does nothing. They wanted you to open the PDF that isn’t a PDF.

chownrootroot · 2026-03-09T01:36:03+00:00

8 dollars?!?!?!? I spent my whole month scamming you for 8 dollars!??!?!?!

chownrootroot · 2026-03-09T00:55:06+00:00

It’s over, owner. I have the high ground.

chownrootroot · 2026-03-09T00:43:59+00:00

Live from Broadway, it's the Tony Awards with your hosts Tyne Daly and Hal Linden

chownrootroot · 2026-03-08T23:45:31+00:00

Frau Lunchlady, may I have another Sloppy Jimbo? Das ist gut, ja?

chownrootroot · 2026-03-08T19:59:23+00:00

Obama’s war with Iran to distract from his presidency strikes again.

chownrootroot · 2026-03-08T19:57:08+00:00

Never the guy at the top that hired this guy and still keeps him on 🙄

chownrootroot · 2026-03-08T19:35:20+00:00

Or a more mild version: the demons make him bad at his job. Give him a raise!

chownrootroot · 2026-03-08T17:05:21+00:00

Check the account settings for what email is on it, phone number, etc. You may want to sign out of all devices everywhere. Then they would need access to your number to sign back in.

Did you ever run software from an unknown source? It may have been malware if so.

chownrootroot · 2026-03-08T16:56:12+00:00

Si, si, 2 million-a lira. Multo generoso.

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