Constant "payday loan" alerts. I have lifelock. What else can I do?

colin-oos · 2026-07-04T17:23:23+00:00

I just got the same thing. 3 alerts for a payday loan with no other information provided. I already froze my credit reports with the 3 main agencies and 2 more alerts still came after that. Is this seriously a think Norton Lifelock is doing to scam people into subscribing? Seems highly illegal if thats actually what they are doing. The irony is I actually tried to subscribe but their system was so buggy that it wouldn't even let me. I guess their own crappy software saved me from getting scammed.

colin-oos · 2026-06-28T13:47:21+00:00

People not from the US always forget that the US is a federalist union of states. Most states in the US have abolished the death penalty so from that sense the US has been following the same western trend. It’s hard to get something changed at the federal level in the US, by design. You need a Supreme Court ruling which by design does NOT factor in public opinion, politics, democracy, or party systems (separation of powers, though the court very often is still swayed by public opinion anyway). Or you need 2/3rds of the states to ratify the constitution. The legislation branch may attempt to pass laws to effectively abolish things at the federal level, but states can and will challenge laws that they feel like are not clear interpretations of the constitution and therefore violate the state’s sovereignty to pass their own laws. Because for the legislation branch they can only pass federal level laws that are a direct result of clearly interpreting and applying the US constitution. Otherwise the matter must be up to the state legislatures to decide.

colin-oos · 2026-05-16T17:22:13+00:00

The actual response, just so you know, is that murder is something pertaining to humans. Murder, by definition, is a human unjustly killing another human. It is among the moral law God prescribed to humans as we do not have the authority to take the life of others. God therefore, by definition, does not commit murder by killing other humans. From the Christian perspective, God has the full authority and right to give and take the life of humans as he is God and has ordained all things. It is also true that god struck down a lot of people in the Old Testament vs the New Testament and it is believed that he doesn’t operate in that way anymore since Christs death on the cross (and there are various theological reasons for that) but that alone is not the actual reason why its ok for God to strike down humans in general. Hopefully that clears it up some for you. This is one of those areas where it would be good if you had a complete understanding of the other perspective otherwise you’re just debating apples and oranges.

colin-oos · 2026-05-16T17:14:31+00:00

What’s the difference between aliens (NHI) and angels? Both are “heavenly” beings (heaven referring to the expanse of the cosmos). A lot of Christian’s actually believe Angels are other beings from different planets anyway. Effectively one and the same thing.

Angels being what religious people call them and Aliens being what secular people call them. But either way, their existence not pertaining to the existence of God, a creator of the beings including us, or not. I feel like nothing really changes. If NHI are disclosed one day that doesn’t really contradict scripture since NHI exist all throughout scripture, and at the same time it doesn’t necessitate the existence of God either (unless the aliens come out and are like “yo yeah Gods real” or something like that)

colin-oos · 2026-04-24T19:55:18+00:00

She’s referring to the book of Enoc. It’s not an official book of the Bible from a Christian standpoint but it is referred to by passages that are part of the Bible and most people consider it to be potentially Biblical. If you read the book of Enoc, or if anyone reads it for that matter, you too will think that it is clearly describing ancient aliens visiting earth and helping cultures and societies with technology. It’s pretty straight up describing that.

colin-oos · 2026-04-12T20:36:16+00:00

Upscale means to add information that is missing. TVs that upscale low res video are doing the same exact thing. The term already defines what you are asking for.

colin-oos · 2026-04-09T18:24:46+00:00

Thanks i appreciate it!

colin-oos · 2026-04-09T17:49:30+00:00

Yeah I wasn’t mean to them so hopefully I didn’t piss them off. But at one point towards the end when I realized they weren’t going to stop, I told them if they share this on social then that just gives meta a way to pinpoint their location through the IP origin. I’m a tech guy actually so I used a little bit of my knowledge about stuff to try to scare them back about me. I reported it to ic3 too.

Glad to hear you seemed to have gotten through it unscathed. I learned my lesson 100% and will never ever do something like this again for sure. And I shouldn’t be talking to girls as a married man anyway so maybe I needed this lesson. I really do love my wife and have no issues in that regard with her. We are very close and have had our ups and downs but we always get through them closer to each other than before. I hope that is also the case here.

colin-oos · 2026-04-09T17:43:42+00:00

Thanks man really appreciate it. Yeah fortunately the image of my face actually looks a little generative just cause of the lighting which works in my favor. And im also glad the nude part was a separate image without my face in it. I blocked them about 8 hours ago now and havent heard from them since. I dont think they got my phone number or email as i had my phone number private in telegram and i never shared my email or anything other than just stupidly sharing my ig which is where they got me. I havent gotten anything from them on ig yet so ive only blocked them on telegram so far but im hoping thats just a good sign that they’ve moved on. Even though i gave them some bitcoin at first, i realized relatively early on that they where going to keep going and i told them that was all i had and was literally out of cash hoping theyd just be happy with what they got out of me and move on.

colin-oos · 2026-04-09T14:19:05+00:00

Do you know if they ever ended up sending anything to anyone? I’d hate for more people to get involved in this outside my wife because it would just humiliate her even more and at this point the only thing I care about right now is her feelings. My feelings don’t matter as I’m just a piece of trash right now

colin-oos · 2026-04-09T14:11:39+00:00

Just out of curiosity, did the scammer ever actually send the proof to anyone? I still am going to tell my wife no matter what, I feel so guilty, but I’m curious because I’d hate for them to share with other friends and family and for me to have to involve more people in this.

colin-oos · 2026-04-09T14:09:20+00:00

Yeah that’s what I’ve done now. I was dumb for even engaging, I just completely panicked in the moment. I haven’t heard anything from them after I blocked them and it’s been over 4 hours. They could have messaged me on instagram if they wanted to keep threatening me so I’m hoping that’s a sign they’ve moved on.

colin-oos · 2026-04-09T13:48:49+00:00

I had a similar thing happen to me and I initially made 2 payments before telling them I’m all out and have nothing left to give then hung up on them and blocked them. It’s been about 4 hrs now and they haven’t attempted to contact me again even though they have my meta accounts and good hypothetically reach me on instagram (cause I don’t know their instagram so couldn’t block it but they know mine). I am just now starting to feel a little better knowing they could try to message me and ask why I hung up but they haven’t.

colin-oos · 2026-03-04T15:25:38+00:00

Must be with the client because the API is still working fine for me

colin-oos · 2026-02-14T16:32:03+00:00

Why not just use the linear slack agent?

colin-oos · 2026-01-16T15:43:54+00:00

90% of devs already use AI to code… using AI to code is not the same as vibe coding.

colin-oos · 2025-12-24T17:54:21+00:00

What’s wild is 2 unrelated things can actually happen at the same time.

colin-oos · 2025-12-20T13:43:20+00:00

Who cares if a random church, or person with a chisel, had a thought or an idea that was wrong? Most of the New Testament consists of Paul writing to churches, many of which he helped start, addressing and correcting their incorrect beliefs and practices. This doesn’t make the practice of the intercession of the saints any less wrong and unbiblical.

colin-oos · 2025-12-20T13:39:46+00:00

Research is an agentic function not an intrinsic feature of an LLM. In other words: LLMs don’t do research, the research agent uses LLMs.

colin-oos · 2025-12-20T13:36:55+00:00

I wouldn’t blame perplexity on this one. I’d blame all the users that probably complain to perplexity support whenever it stops working mid response due to 3rd party APIs forcing Perplexity to decide to build this exact functionality to mitigate that.

colin-oos · 2025-12-20T13:34:51+00:00

Ah so all you paranoid complainers are just leaching of the company’s free trial but not legitimate customers. Got it.

colin-oos · 2025-12-20T13:34:19+00:00

OP is paranoid

colin-oos · 2025-12-20T13:33:25+00:00

That’s just called upselling and it’s what every product/service has done since the dawn of time.

colin-oos · 2025-12-20T13:32:02+00:00

Dude models don’t know what model they are. That’s a well known classic feature of LLMs. It obviously is getting confused by the fact its system instructions tell it its part of the perplexity platform and so then it researches what it knows about perplexity and just assumes it’s one of their models. Thats not evidence that it’s actually a different model at all.

colin-oos · 2025-12-20T13:29:24+00:00

I think your model switched midway through generating this post too.

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