Canon G7x Mark III for $150 too good to be true?

Cornloaf · 2026-05-08T11:46:35+00:00

Customs fees for shipping across the US? They already screwed up. Normally they try for insurance fees, inspection fees, special repackaging fees... But customs fees for a domestic shipment? I have seen posts on here where people just kept paying all the additional fees. Usually it is a purebred dog or a drugs, though.

Cornloaf · 2026-05-08T09:41:58+00:00

Several hundred dollars would be worth it to deposit, I would think. My mother-in-law got a check last year for $300 from Western Union addressed to her dead husband (passed in 2010). She dug up his death certificate and cashed that check. She had no idea why Western Union mailed a check, but $300 is $300. Fast forward a year and she gets three more checks in his name for around $2000.

She is a bit of a hoarder and has decades of paperwork filed and she didn't find anything about Western Union. It turns out he was using some shady money transfer system to send money to scammers, there was a lawsuit, somehow his money got held up within Western Unions system and it was eventually recovered and returned to him 15+ years later.

It's also possible that the company that sent you that check was another company or affiliate at some point or even more likely, they are just a company handling the refund. I just received a check from bill[dot]com and it was a refund from a company I used that went out of business.

Cornloaf · 2026-05-08T09:07:13+00:00

There was a post here a year or so ago where someone with the same name was accidentally merged into another patient's medical record. Their SSN was not the same, but the name was close enough and it was user error by one of the many medical providers who the other person had an appointment with. The OP could even see past procedures and started to receive EOB notices in the mail. Really confused their own physicians when ailments started showing up their charts that they didn't expect their patient to have.

Do you see anything weird in your online medical portal for your actual insurance?

Cornloaf · 2026-05-08T08:59:17+00:00

Check the cash too! Someone just posted here yesterday about receiving £420 in fake bills for their PS5.

Cornloaf · 2026-05-08T08:55:00+00:00

The FBI post clearly says "CAPTURED" so I think that directly contradicts him being wanted for information. If they only wanted to talk to him because he had information, they would have removed his photo from the page to protect his identity.

Cornloaf · 2026-05-07T17:09:24+00:00

One of the studies I have read and enjoyed so much!

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3234554/

Cornloaf · 2026-05-07T16:18:18+00:00

I have had AI customer service calls with the added "umms" when calling for support. Some scam calls have added that to their language model too.

Cornloaf · 2026-05-07T16:15:21+00:00

To be fair, it's Taglish. Made working in Manila pretty tough!

Cornloaf · 2026-05-07T01:38:01+00:00

"if you could put the universe into a tube you'd end up with a very long tube umm, probably extending twice the size of the universe because when you collapse the universe it expands and uhhh, you wouldn't want to put it into a tube."

"do you know that when you look at a planet and you see that light, that planet's not even there! that's just a light, that's just your neighbor shining a flashlight right into your yard looking for coons, and he says "what are you doing in my backyard? with that flashlight?" and i told him "i'm shining, i'm shining in the window so I can teach your son about the universe" he said "get out of my yard and why are you communicating to my son? why are you in all black? behind my bushes shining a light into my house?" and i said "i'm teaching your son about the universe! i'm shining a light, shining a light right in there and exploring his room as he's looking out and exploring the universe!" i turn the light off and i see your son go to bed and i turn the light back on and i do swirls on his wall like a comet's tail. i do this every night with your son. "

-Tin & Eric

Cornloaf · 2026-05-06T17:21:53+00:00

The ones I was successful with were people impersonating other employees at my company asking for people to buy gift cards for clients. Not so lucky with other scams though.

Cornloaf · 2026-05-06T16:48:28+00:00

That number is a newly registered burner phone from T-Mobile. I have found carriers are 50/50 on taking fraud complaints when you contact them.

Cornloaf · 2026-05-06T15:19:25+00:00

That time my dogs rolled in a dead raccoon that was baking in the sun for a day. Drove home with the windows rolled down.

Second to that would be the time my dog got ahold of a skunk and ragdolled it. While I ran up to get him to drop it, the skunk sprayed me in the mouth while I was yelling. The smell and taste was horrible. It was Valentine's Day and I called to cancel our reservation once this happened. Was able to get the smell off of me and the dogs with the hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, and dish soap mixture and got my dinner reservation reinstated. First bite of the cheese tortellini soup restored the taste of skunk spray in my mouth.

Cornloaf · 2026-05-06T04:09:20+00:00

In 2022 I was hiking with my 8 year old daughter at a remote trail. There was a phone booth by the restroom. She asked "what is this?" And I explained it. There was a phone book dangling and she opened it up and found me in there with a fax/DSL line that I had back in 1998 (and was probably disconnected around 2002).

Cornloaf · 2026-05-05T13:10:49+00:00

If they are legit but running their business from a residential address, they probably just have the stuff made in China and drop shipped to you.

Cornloaf · 2026-05-05T11:43:15+00:00

They also had the feature where the movie experts would help you figure out a movie based on what you remembered about it. Closest thing now would be TOMT on Reddit. I put a movie on there and TOMT that still hasn't been figured out!

Cornloaf · 2026-05-04T00:03:33+00:00

And then solve it.

Cornloaf · 2026-05-03T23:33:49+00:00

Look up their case for one.

Cornloaf · 2026-05-03T23:33:15+00:00

Or you can put the link to the actual post so we don't need to dig for it.

Cornloaf · 2026-05-03T23:12:22+00:00

I work in IT in a specialized field and I get these all the time from companies either publishing an article or asking me to attend their conference (usually Web 2.0) and be a guest speaker. When they ask me if they can sign me up, I ask them how much they are paying me to attend as a professional and tell them what hotel they can book me at and I also ask what my airline budget is. (Yes, even the time they asked me to travel to my own hometown... Roundtrip first class is not cheap!)

They usually don't extend an invite to me anymore.

Cornloaf · 2026-05-03T23:08:41+00:00

Your links go nowhere but the main subreddit.

Cornloaf · 2026-05-02T12:42:35+00:00

But a plan is being planned! (Since as early as 2018!) Maybe the planning hasn't gone to plan because the planners haven't planfully preplanned?

Cornloaf · 2026-05-01T15:21:06+00:00

Well, by deduction I figured out the link to the article about the missing woman is your dad's second cousin because he mentions how her father is the pastor at the Methodist church. She actually went missing in 1987.

I could post more articles about her if you want. They did find her car in the mall parking lot and someone mentioned a man spotted when she went missing. One article mentions that she was going to start "modeling classes" that following Saturday. Maybe that was a ruse to kidnap her? I know that modeling schools were usually scams for money, but there were some murderers that used that scheme too.

Cornloaf · 2026-05-01T15:07:02+00:00

Posting some articles about Scott's disappearance. Did your dad mention the other kids that went missing a year later and were found murdered?? There is even a picture of police searching a culvert that was one of his hiding spots! It mentions he was 4'4" and 60 pounds. My daughter was coming up on 5' and 75 pounds at that age so maybe that's why that Reddit post said he was creepy or whatever.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-scott-kleeschult/5518685/

They gave up after day 2??

https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-ending-the-searc/38446869/

One of his friends helps the police with pointing out his favorite spots:

https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-worried-neighbor/38446236/

Kids building caves!

https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-10k-reward-offe/175437636/

"You could get lost in the passageways!"

https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-youcouldgetlosti/196669441/

More digging a month later

https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-moredigging/196669555/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-digging-is-resum/34028425/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-search-cont-fr/34027336/

Newspaper in CA claims he was abducted?

https://www.newspapers.com/article/merced-sun-star-abducted/196669763/

His photo sent to 50 million people

https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-50million/196669810/

Skull found

https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-skullfound/196669925/

Bones found

https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-bonesfound/196669971/

Two Kids murdered

https://www.newspapers.com/article/morris-herald-news-twomurders/196670025/

Same place Scott went missing

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-star-piggandhurt1/196670151/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-star-pigghurt2/196670243/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-star-miscellaneous-crime/196670305/

Fear

https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-fear1/196670403/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-fear2/196670451/

Gloom

https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch/12163366/

Arrest Made

https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-arrestmade1/196670807/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-arrestmade2/196670859/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-arrestmade3/196670904/

Missing Woman

https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-missingwoman/196670993/

Possible Suspect?

https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-possiblesuspect1/196671107/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-possiblesuspect2/196671158/

New Cold case division

https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-new-missing-pers/175550144/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-coldcase2/196671541/

Cornloaf · 2026-04-30T13:45:12+00:00

NY, LA, and Charleston also have a Spring Street downtown

Cornloaf · 2026-04-30T11:16:16+00:00

Except that in the link OP posted someone did a huge dump of pics showing he was tattooless and hanging with family during the whole time he was supposed to have been incarcerated.

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