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Dave Starsky

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5. Well, 1/3 of this country are willfully ignorant fools.

Reply to DemoTex (Reply #2)

Tue May 14, 2019, 02:21 PM

May 2019

They are ripe for the harvest.

We found out just the other day that "The Wall Crowdfunding" thing was a rip-off scam. You would have to be almost too stupid to live to have fallen for that one.

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Here's how a growing Social Security impostor scam works [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2019 OP

its amazing how gullible some people can be. drray23 May 2019 #1

Watch out for the unknown + phone # if you have caller ID katmondoo May 2019 #3

The scammers can spoof any phone number, including SSA, IRS, your relatives. JustABozoOnThisBus May 2019 #19

Yeah, no kidding! GoCubsGo May 2019 #4

Nice, blame the victim! Nt USALiberal May 2019 #7

Scams have been going on as long as humans have been around. Kaleva May 2019 #12

Yep. That's also how we ended up with Trump in the White House. tanyev May 2019 #18

The con, the scam, and the lie are now ubiquitous coins-of-the-realm. DemoTex May 2019 #2

Well, 1/3 of this country are willfully ignorant fools. Dave Starsky May 2019 #5

This is one more reason why you should never answer a call FakeNoose May 2019 #6

What is this ID of which you speak? zipplewrath May 2019 #9

Most phones are digital these days FakeNoose May 2019 #13

Nah zipplewrath May 2019 #15

I've been getting some ominous sounding calls lately... Wounded Bear May 2019 #8

Sometimes the SS Administration DOES call: Tracer May 2019 #14

I expect they target the dumbest of the dumb. ooky May 2019 #10

Well the SS office is only a block away, so safeinOhio May 2019 #11

I've gotten that call... Xolodno May 2019 #16

got that one about the computers, told them we didn't have any and they said I was lying. demigoddess May 2019 #17