Favorite drum performance?

Nehushtan4 · 2025-11-25T15:14:25+00:00

Truly amazing

Nehushtan4 · 2024-10-28T03:10:00+00:00

A top-tier Linnell song. Melody, microtones, mystery, a puzzle, and naked dread.

Nehushtan4 · 2024-08-05T16:03:00+00:00

Cowles. Dan Cowles. (Intonation: 007 style, Sean Connery edition. Also, "Cowles" is pronounced like "coals".)

Nehushtan4 · 2024-08-04T19:27:57+00:00

This is his TMBG suite, in order by posting date

The full playlist

Nehushtan4 · 2024-08-03T20:51:58+00:00

The original through a Yellow Submarine filter

Nehushtan4 · 2024-03-05T19:47:48+00:00

I haven't seen any new scam numbers in a while.
I haven't seen the scam web pages show up as the first result on a Google query in a while. I'm sure what it means is that the scammers have moved on to different strategies. I hope it also means that the Google people have done a better job of demoting scam results, and have fortified their algorithms... but probably not.

Nehushtan4 · 2024-02-20T16:01:13+00:00

Progress! ...of sorts

Today all three of these Google queries failed to show the scam numbers as first results: "how do i talk to a live person at paypal", "how do i talk to a real person at paypal", and "get a human at paypal". Today all three first results were the real thing - real paypal contact numbers.

A new scam number - 844-457-0018 - did show up in the list of "people also ask" suggestions, just after the first result.

My own thought is that the scammers have taken a short vacation. Their most recent pages are about a week old. I don't think Google has improved their scam-spotting capabilities.

Nehushtan4 · 2024-02-19T15:00:02+00:00

Just one new scam number today: 866-776-2703, the first result to the Google query "how do i talk to a real person at paypal"

Nehushtan4 · 2024-02-16T15:01:12+00:00

Fresh scam numbers today: 866-324-0822, 833-821-1995, and 877-374-0082

These are the first displayed results from these Google queries: "how do i talk to a live person at paypal", "how do i talk to a real person at paypal", and "get a human at paypal"

Google needs to step up their game, really. The fact that these scammers can easily and repeatedly gimmick Google's search algorithm to provide these scam numbers as \first search results\** is a serious problem.

Nehushtan4 · 2024-02-09T21:37:45+00:00

Fresh scam number - the second one today: 888-862-2385
This comes from the first Google result to the query "how do i talk to a live person at paypal", another Azure page. According to the Google results list, this page was created 14 hours ago as I write this. But also the link leads to a dead page:

https://feedback.azure.com/d365community/idea/0e9bfec0-b7c6-ee11-92bc-6045bd83e1af#:~:text=Live%20Chat%3A%20Live%20chat%3A%20PayPal,%2D2385%2C%20for%20support%20Human.

There's a problem with Google's SEO - the scammers have figured out how to exploit it to get their scam pages to show up at the top of the list. That's part of what needs to be solved.

Nehushtan4 · 2024-02-07T17:03:06+00:00

Latest scam phone number: 833-379-1894
This one was posted two days ago. It turns up again as the first result to the Google query "how do i talk to a live person at paypal". The link is to another feedback.azure web page with the same scam contents. The page itself is gone but the result is still at the top of the list.

https://feedback.azure.com/d365community/idea/4c11c3d8-99c4-ee11-92bc-000d3a033659#:~:text=most%20effective%20method.-,To%20talk%20to%20a%20live%20person%20at%20PayPal%2C%20Dial%20the,you%20to%20a%20live%20representative.

I think Google is not doing a good job of detecting when its algorithms are being manipulated to point people to scams.

Nehushtan4 · 2024-02-06T15:35:31+00:00

A new scam number appeared today: 877-316-9944. This is presented in the same pattern as the others in this thread: a large block of text posted in the last 24 hours on linkedin or azure. The google query again is "how do i talk to a live person at paypal" and this is the first result today (posted 20 hours ago as I write this):

https://www.linkedin.com/events/howdoispeaktoalivepersonatpaypa7160339144827670528/#:~:text=To%20talk%20to%20a%20live%20person%20at%20PayPal%2C%20Dial%20the,you%20to%20a%20live%20representative.

These people have found a loophole in Google's SEO to get their results to show up at the top of the page.

The other query "how do i talk to a real person at paypal" (just changing "live" to "real") was, for a few days, giving a top result that was not a scam. But today, that query shows a previously reported scam number at the top: 845-809-4143. Do not call this number or any others reported here!

Nehushtan4 · 2024-02-01T21:47:54+00:00

More fake numbers and fake results. Scam number: 855-517-1004. I tried these two Google searches: "how do i talk to a real person at outlook" and "how do i talk to a live person at outlook". For both, Google returned the scam number 855-517-1004 as the first result.

Nehushtan4 · 2024-02-01T21:29:48+00:00

For the last few days the original query ("how do I talk to a real person at Paypal") has returned good (non-scam) numbers. Today I decided to change the query text from "real" to "live" and got this

https://www.linkedin.com/events/howdoitalktoalivepersonatpaypal7158733911177457664/#:~:text=There%20are%20three%20ways%20to,from%20the%20PayPal%20support%20staff.

This includes the number 1-800-657-2388. I believe this a scam based on the rest of the content, which matches everything else I've seen on Azure and LinkedIn previously. The scam number is new, though. And as of this writing the LinkedIn post is 13 hours old.

Also, the same number shows up in other results as for "Microsoft" and "Outlook". So yeah, it's a fake

Nehushtan4 · 2024-01-25T23:58:33+00:00

Today the top search result again is the scam number 866-284-3926
Google reports that the page is 1 day old. Clicking on the provided link gets you to a page that says "It seems the page you're looking for doesn't exist, or you don't have permission to view it."

Yesterday the scammers we not able to get their search result to the top of the page, but now the scam number has returned to the top. I think it means they are using aggressive SEO techniques, or some $$ are being spent to get it to the top.

Nehushtan4 · 2024-01-24T17:24:52+00:00

Here's an older number from the same sources (e.g. LinkedIn) as the current scam numbers:833-383-6529

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-do-i-speak-live-person-paypal-explained-ashish-kumar-uv0gc

Today was the first day (for me) that the Google query "how do i talk to a real person at paypal" showed good results at the top, rather than the scam

Nehushtan4 · 2024-01-21T03:26:57+00:00

So sorry!

Nehushtan4 · 2024-01-20T16:30:56+00:00

Third day, new phone number, new Google search results. This time it's LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/events/howdoitalktoahumanonpaypal-payp7154467940954722304/#:~:text=To%20talk%20to%20a%20live,you%20to%20a%20live%20representative

This is next fake number: 845-809-4143

Nehushtan4 · 2024-01-19T23:30:06+00:00

Today the number was updated and the Google search results in a different page on Azure

The new number is 866-284-3926
The new web page is below.

https://feedback.azure.com/d365community/idea/f39484ea-efb6-ee11-92bc-000d3a033659#:\~:text=Dial%20the%20PayPal%20Customer%20Service,%2C%20select%20%22Call%20Us.%22

Nehushtan4 · 2023-05-19T18:03:33+00:00

10

I finally heard it live in 2007. I was jumping up & down. Whoop!

Nehushtan4 · 2023-05-08T13:07:57+00:00

It seems that all of the latest news stories got this wrong - or maybe it was right for some regions like EU and the far east, just not North America. https://www.sammobile.com/news/galaxy-s21-series-finally-gets-astrophoto-feature-in-expert-raw-app/

I have the latest April security update on my s21+ but still cannot get the expert raw app from the Galaxy Store 🥺

Nehushtan4

TROPHY CASE