It wasn't the best idea to give her all the information. Wait and see if you suddenly get hundreds of spam emails and calls .... If that happens change both. It's a hassle but chalk it up to a learning experience. Good luck :-)
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nattie
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I just got a call from a 662 numbsr said i won a $100 gift card for saiding if i like my phone service.ask me for my name and address.but ack like thay couldnt here my address information and i hung up my phone.
anyone here know how to post in the actual English language? Did anyone here actually get past 2nd grade? These posts are horrendous and basically unintelligible.
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TheOnlyKat
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Illiteracy is rampant due to the failing school system. I'm all for new ideas, like these. Anything is better than what we have now.
Stop the rants. Half of the US population is of below average intelligence. Those of us who use English correctly on this website have far above average intelligence, and also communicate more in writing than most US citizens. Some of us are also more long-winded ... hee hee ... there I go bragging about myself ...
I am not surprised by the bad spelling and odd phrasing in some of these posts. Many people who speak fluently do not have good writing skills.
"The failing school system" is a "dog-whistle" phrase. It's a cliche that causes cranks of a certain type to go on the offensive.
There have always been a large percentage of children who do poorly in school. When I was a kid in the 1960s, my grandmother had a book in her little library titled "Why Johnny Can't Read". She was a teacher in the grades 7 to 9. She told me that she got grief from parents who were angry their kid got bad or failing grades, particularly the ones that were obsessed with football and less for the other sports. She said she was fortunate the adminstration always backed her up because the majority of parents supported her. The gist I got from her was that some kids simply did not want to learn the subject material.
I remember obnoxious kids - mostly males - in high school who hated being there, and those were the ones I knew not to trust, as they were involved in things not legal. I wonder how many of these guys end up working for scammer operations ... like the debt collectors in the US who make the threatening phone calls.
I remember a big guy in my grade who flat told me he hated class, he did not care what grades he made, he was only there because his parents made him be there, and he would rather be driving a tractor in the fields. Most of the farmers in that area raised sorghum or cotton, a few had a small herd of cattle. Good work ethic, but just didn't see the connection between learning and working; not all work is grunt work, sometimes a guy has to work smart too. Learning the hard way is slowwwwwwww.
As for the content of that article, bleah. Some students will do better in smaller education environments. Some parents have special-needs children that cannot fit within most schools. Some public schools are just too large for some children; they are overwhelmed by the crowds. Large student populations means more bullies.
"I'm all for new ideas...." There are no new ideas. What is new is each student - for every child, everything is new to them.
"Anything is better than what we have now." There are many public schools that are working well. There are a few that are not. Your "dog-whistle" phrase shows you are not involved enough in the school system to help make it better with your volunteered time.
Now, what does any of this have to do with 800notes ?
Criminals are attacking every US citizen with unwanted phone calls, trying to trick each called person into giving up money, or give up personal information that the criminal can use to exploit the banking system. The criminals might or might not have completed high school and college. The owners of the "legitimate" debt collecting businesses probably have college educations. Their lawyers certainly have and use their high intelligence in very wrong ways.
But back to the fact that most of the US population is of below average intelligence. Their written communication skills are poor, they don't document things, they have poor to non-existent math skills, and they barely understand contracts. Most US citizens assume when they get a call the caller is legitimate. The criminals are exploiting this with their lies. The above-average intelligence people, who do to their continuing self-education, tend to figure out they are being lied to quickly and put a halt to the attempts to rip them off. The below-average intelligence people don't learn, and if they have monetary problems they are even more gullible to offers of money.
For the tl;dr crowd - summary - the people who rant on this site about "stupid people who write badly" are themselves ignorant of the big picture. "Educational reform" is NOT going to solve the problems these scammers cause.
Appears to be a shill for the fraud here - all lies, of course. This is a fraud, likely operating out of India. Once you provide a card number, your account will be drained.
i was called n am so stupid for going along with it. they said theyd charge 2.95 n id get $100 walmart gift card with other special offers n the mail. i kindly said i was not interested after stupidly giving my info and they assured me i would not b charged. bs!! i was charged $1. its only a dollar but how do i no they wont go in n take it all so i had to deactivate my card and im waiting 2 weeks to get a new card. i always no if its too good to be true then its a scam. they caught me on a bad day. the charge shows up as smartshopper and the number is now disconnected. thank goodness my brain kicked in n i got it taken care of before they got more than $1. beware theres no one good out there anymore n my mind theyre all a bunch of [***] scammers and it doesnt matter if ur poor or rich theyll take what they can get from whoever they can get it from!!!!!!
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The $1 is to test if your card is valid. Most of the time the $1 shows up in your pending section. Then boom the big bill shows up. You were smart to cancel your card ASAP. Quick action is always a smart thing to do. Good luck :-)
I located at phoneix AZ Yesterday I got a phone call from this type of company.....a girl was telling me that I won 100 dollar wallmart card She taken all my Information.... My Visa card having bal. of more than 2000 dollar I think I m too gonna scam😭 Pls somebody help me of this [***] scams
I should have been more specific. It was my credit card company (BOA) that had emailed with a choice of cards to choose from since I am a customer and I selected the one I wanted. Unfortunately, they sent the wrong one and I called the customer service number on the back of my credit card to speak to a representative. I am not a shill. I am very aware of the frauds that go on and I never answer any calls from unfamiliar numbers and any emails I receive are scrutinized to make sure they are legitimate. Those that are not are forwarded to the proper fraud and abuse departments.
I know it sounded strange but it was legit. I received, in error, a Starbucks card, which they told me to keep anyway and then they sent the correct one requested, which was a Target gift card.
No one called me for any personal information. Any calls concerning the matter were made to the customer service number on my credit card.
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