Well, no matter how you look at it: in any case, it doesn't take much to belong to the other half. 😄

Watching a Live Scam Baiter on YT (https://www.youtube.com/@ruckfobocalls)

Actually got a scammer to "chat" with him.

Located in Pakistan

If you are "arrested" corruption is so bad that 1kg of rice to the arresting officer will get you free!

His comment "Americans are so dumb, they deserve it!" , other Countries targeted depending on shift / timezone.

Over US$100 Million per week from their Scam Centre alone! 

They do "all" the Scam types! (Paypal / Amazon / McAfee / Nortons etc)

msukiwi:

 

Watching a Live Scam Baiter on YT (https://www.youtube.com/@ruckfobocalls)

 

Actually got a scammer to "chat" with him.

 

Located in Pakistan

 

If you are "arrested" corruption is so bad that 1kg of rice to the arresting officer will get you free!

 

His comment "Americans are so dumb, they deserve it!" , other Countries targeted depending on shift / timezone.

 

Over US$100 Million per week from their Scam Centre alone! 

 

They do "all" the Scam types! (Paypal / Amazon / McAfee / Nortons etc)

 

That is a ton of money. 

Handsomedan:

 

msukiwi:

 

Watching a Live Scam Baiter on YT (https://www.youtube.com/@ruckfobocalls)

 

Actually got a scammer to "chat" with him.

 

Located in Pakistan

 

If you are "arrested" corruption is so bad that 1kg of rice to the arresting officer will get you free!

 

His comment "Americans are so dumb, they deserve it!" , other Countries targeted depending on shift / timezone.

 

Over US$100 Million per week from their Scam Centre alone! 

 

They do "all" the Scam types! (Paypal / Amazon / McAfee / Nortons etc)

 

That is a ton of money.

So with the Pakistan Rupee for rice at between PKR 85.71 and PKR 142.86 per kilogram (0.50c to 0.84c) Therefore US $100 Million is PKR 277,000,217,00 which would be average PKR 100/kg = PKR 2.77 million kg of rice. Very rich policeman. 😀

(think I did that right - not good at maths 😀)

msukiwi:

If you are "arrested" corruption is so bad that 1kg of rice to the arresting officer will get you free!

A website with a captcha after a payment step. How many bots are actually paying for things??

Behodar:

 

A website with a captcha after a payment step. How many bots are actually paying for things??

 

Plenty, that is how people get in demand tickets and other things.

Also, often buying things is a way to test card details are valid so its frequently scraped too. 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/jul/06/lewis-hamilton-backs-peaceful-just-stop-oil-protest-at-british-grand-prix 

Memory is a funny thing.

Back in 2011, the game Dark Souls was released. I had the Xbox 360 version on launch day, and one of the first characters you interact with tells you to ring two bells. One is up above in the church, he says, and the other is down in the Undead Burg. This was wrong. The lower bell was actually near the lovely place called Blighttown.

I remember talking to a friend about it at the time, saying I couldn't find a bell in the Burg. "It's not there," he says, "and they fixed the dialogue in a patch." Sure enough, with the update installed, the character now says "the other bell is in the ruins at the base of Blighttown".

All was well, until recently, when I felt an urge to replay the game. For various reasons I ended up playing the original 1.0 version... and the character still says the "ruins at the base of Blighttown" line. Huh? I then started scouring YouTube, even finding a playthrough of the Japanese copy of the game (which came out a couple of months before the English one) and although some other changes exist, it's still this "ruins at the base of Blighttown" line.

It's just really bizarre because even now, more than a decade later, I clearly remember him saying "in the Undead Burg" and I remember talking to my friend about it. Yet it seems that it never actually happened. Memory is a funny thing.

Behodar:

 

Memory is a funny thing.

 

Back in 2011, the game Dark Souls was released. I had the Xbox 360 version on launch day, and one of the first characters you interact with tells you to ring two bells. One is up above in the church, he says, and the other is down in the Undead Burg. This was wrong. The lower bell was actually near the lovely place called Blighttown.

 

I remember talking to a friend about it at the time, saying I couldn't find a bell in the Burg. "It's not there," he says, "and they fixed the dialogue in a patch." Sure enough, with the update installed, the character now says "the other bell is in the ruins at the base of Blighttown".

 

All was well, until recently, when I felt an urge to replay the game. For various reasons I ended up playing the original 1.0 version... and the character still says the "ruins at the base of Blighttown" line. Huh? I then started scouring YouTube, even finding a playthrough of the Japanese copy of the game (which came out a couple of months before the English one) and although some other changes exist, it's still this "ruins at the base of Blighttown" line.

 

It's just really bizarre because even now, more than a decade later, I clearly remember him saying "in the Undead Burg" and I remember talking to my friend about it. Yet it seems that it never actually happened. Memory is a funny thing.

 

What Is the Mandela Effect? Examples and Explanations (verywellmind.com)

False memory - Wikipedia

Behodar:

 

Memory is a funny thing.

 

Back in 2011, the game Dark Souls was released. I had the Xbox 360 version on launch day, and one of the first characters you interact with tells you to ring two bells. One is up above in the church, he says, and the other is down in the Undead Burg. This was wrong. The lower bell was actually near the lovely place called Blighttown.

 

I remember talking to a friend about it at the time, saying I couldn't find a bell in the Burg. "It's not there," he says, "and they fixed the dialogue in a patch." Sure enough, with the update installed, the character now says "the other bell is in the ruins at the base of Blighttown".

 

All was well, until recently, when I felt an urge to replay the game. For various reasons I ended up playing the original 1.0 version... and the character still says the "ruins at the base of Blighttown" line. Huh? I then started scouring YouTube, even finding a playthrough of the Japanese copy of the game (which came out a couple of months before the English one) and although some other changes exist, it's still this "ruins at the base of Blighttown" line.

 

It's just really bizarre because even now, more than a decade later, I clearly remember him saying "in the Undead Burg" and I remember talking to my friend about it. Yet it seems that it never actually happened. Memory is a funny thing.

 

I learned long ago not to trust my memory at all. I would make a terrible witness. I became aware of it when I started to be struck by all the movie scenes I had very clear recollections of that when viewed later were either non-existent or completely different from my recall. At first I assumed that the scenes had been edited, but this has happened so much that I now believe it is just my memory playing mind games. It is like being in the Matrix. Sometimes I wonder how much of the rest of my life is just internal fabrication.

Rikkitic:

 

I learned long ago not to trust my memory at all. I would make a terrible witness. I became aware of it when I started to be struck by all the movie scenes I had very clear recollections of that when viewed later were either non-existent or completely different from my recall. At first I assumed that the scenes had been edited, but this has happened so much that I now believe it is just my memory playing mind games. It is like being in the Matrix. Sometimes I wonder how much of the rest of my life is just internal fabrication.

 

I've thought of another one, also from a game, but not quite as "bewildering" as my other example.

World of Warcraft (2004-2010) had an area called Stonetalon Mountains, and I remember the trek to the summit involving some tricky manoeuvring due to how steep the track was. In 2010 the "Cataclysm" update made extensive changes to the game world, and at the time I was annoyed by the "bulldozering" of the mountains, making the track much more gentle and easy to climb.

When Warcraft Classic launched in 2019 and restored the original game world, I was amazed to find that the track was nowhere near as steep as I remembered, and I'm not actually sure whether it was ever smoothed out in the first place with Cataclysm!

Rikkitic:

I learned long ago not to trust my memory at all. I would make a terrible witness.

We have our very own Mandela Effect, The Thingee Effect.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/22-07-2016/thingee-finally-speaks-the-inside-story-of-the-eye-pop-that-shocked-a-nation