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Proof: https://ift.tt/3IRwUNX people play golf on the weekends. I hunt con artists. But it wasn’t always that way. I used to think I could never get scammed. I’m way too smart for that. I’ve got a degree from journalism school and I read tons of newspapers and books. I know what’s going on in the world. There’s just no way a scammer could outsmart me. Right? Wrong. Because con artists don’t outsmart you. They ‘out-feel’ you. They use your emotions to gain entry into your life so they can rob you blind. In 2017 I became the victim of a professional con artist. A woman named “Mair Smyth” who very quickly burrowed deep into my psyche and systematically scammed me out of almost $100,000 using a sophisticated series of confidence tricks. I’m a gay man. So she couldn’t use sex to ensnare me. Her lures were much more creative and sinister than that. I would end up falling for one of the oldest cons in the book: The Inheritance Scam. But this scheme wasn’t cooked up by some fictional Nigerian prince soliciting me through email. I fell under the spell of an immensely lovable woman who inserted herself into my life and became my best friend for four years. Unfortunately, she was also an international con artist on the run from the authorities in the UK while hiding out in my apartment building.After I realized I got taken, I spent the ensuing two and a half years bringing my con artist – kicking and screaming – to justice. While uncovering 45 of her other victims all over the world who she scammed out of more than a million dollars. My story got tons of press. I even produced a podcast about it for iHeartRadio called “Queen of the Con: The Irish Heiress”Soon, hundreds of victims of other con artists – inspired by my story of triumph and vindication – began contacting me through my website asking for help bringing their con artists to justice. So I started helping them. It’s become a hobby of mine. Kind of a pastime. Really… an obsession. I’m now investigating a few dozen cases circling the globe, involving some of the most despicable con women and conmen ‘working’ today. And at this point I’ve learned one thing: professional con artists are all pretty much the same. They use the same playbook. The same age-old set of scams. The same architecture of lies and manipulations. Only the names and places change. But if you know what the signs are early on, you can avoid falling into their trap. And if you don’t. You won’t. “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” That’s a line from ‘The Usual Suspects’ a 1990’s caper about an ingenious conman-thug who gets caught, and then miraculously talks his way into getting released by enthralling police with fully-formed, whimsical – but believable – stories about the ‘real’ perpetrator they should be looking for. Keyser Söze. Who of course is made up. But police get taken in by the conman’s stories and end up letting him walk free.  Con artists are in fact everywhere. And if you don’t believe that, you’ll be their next mark. They’re living amongst us. Cleverly and convincingly masquerading themselves as a new boyfriend or girlfriend in your life. A new neighbor or coworker. A new best friend.They look just like regular people. But they’re not. They’re the devil incarnate.Below is a list of red flags common in every con I’m currently investigating. These were also the red flags that my con artist waved at me with reckless abandon – that I completely missed. Red Flag # 1 – Too kind. Too quick. If someone new in your life is insanely kind and giving. Always offers to pay for things. Gives you gifts. Always tries to help you for no apparent reason other than they’re just really nice… you’re probably being set up for con. Let’s say a complete stranger on the street asks you to drive them to the airport. You obviously would say no. But if a friend asked you, you would probably say, “Sure!” And that’s the con artist’s first mission. They need to become friends with you. Fast. So you’ll do things for them one day that you wouldn’t do for a stranger. Red Flag # 2 – Drama. Drama. Drama. Look, bad things happen to everyone. People get cancer. People have children who suddenly die. People have crazy family members who are out to ‘get them.’ People get drugged and raped at a bar. But all those bad things don’t happen to the same person at the same time. Unless they’re a con artist making up all this drama in their lives to manipulate and prey on your emotions. To suck you into their craziness and exploit your kindness and good nature. If there’s a new person in your life broadcasting a steady stream of soap opera-esque drama. Change the channel.Red Flag # 3 – Legitimate day jobs. Most professional con artists have, or had at some point, a legitimate day job. And they use the reputation of those jobs to give them the patina of legitimacy in their scams. They’re mortgage brokers. They work in the mayor’s office. They’re investment analysts. They’re foreign exchange traders. They’re travel agents (mine was). They work for a giant cell phone company. You think, “There’s no way they’re con artists. They have amazing jobs.” And THAT’S their plan. For you to think that. And let your guard down. And believe their lies. Don’t. Their day jobs are just a cover. A side hustle. Their real job? Is conning YOU. Red Flag # 4 – Isolation  For a con artist to successfully scam you, they need to be able to lure you away from people who might talk you out of going along with their con. And it’s remarkably easy to do. My con artist tricked me into believing my neighbor was a criminal on the run from authorities in Canada. So I avoided her like the plague. She then convinced my neighbor that I was mentally ill. So my neighbor avoided me. Enabling my con artist to scam us both using different stories. And we were none the wiser. Until well after the money exchanged hands. And con was played. So if someone new in your life doesn’t want you talking to this person or that person… don’t go along with it. Anyone telling you not to talk to someone – is about the biggest red flag there is. And it’s a very effective tool for a ‘working’ con artist to isolate you.   Red Flag # 5 – Technology The next time someone shows you a text or an email and claims it’s from so-and-so. Be suspicious. Con artists scamming in the digital age create google voice accounts and email accounts in other people’s names to text and email themselves – so they can show you those texts and emails to get you to believe whatever story they’re laying out. My con artist tricked some of her victims into believing she was best friends with Jennifer Aniston using this technique. I’m a TV producer in Los Angeles so it’s very possible that someone in my circle is actually friends with Jennifer Aniston. My con artist cleverly made it appear that Jennifer Aniston was always texting her. And she’d show the victims those texts in a, “Look what Jen is texting me now.” kinda way. Sometimes she’d even appear to be annoyed by it. And all her victims bought it. By using this digital spoof, a working con artist can convince a victim they’re friends… with anyone and create a believable story around it. Red Flag # 6 – Wires My con artist tricked a couple real estate investors into wiring her $60,000 because her daughter needed life saving surgery after a late stage cancer diagnosis. In another case I’m working on, the victim wired her new boyfriend hundreds of thousands to help him out of a jam when a foreign government was holding his property hostage. Long story short… Never. Send. Wires. Period. If someone asks you to wire them money, there’s a good chance it’s a scam. Red Flag # 7 – Beak Wetting In a lot of investment scams and a lot of love scams, the con artist will actually give you a little money up front. They’ll let you “wet your beak.” My con artist paid me back the first $4,200 I ever loaned her – the very next day. And that gave me confidence to loan her more. And that was her plan. The very term ‘Con Artist’ is actually short for ‘Confidence Artist’ because they gain the complete and utter confidence of their victims – and then weaponize it against them. If I knew then what I know now, I would have never gotten scammed. I would have seen all the red flags waving briskly from a mile away and I would have crossed the street when I saw my con artist coming.The problem was, I never really believed con artists existed. I mean, yes I knew there were tons of email scams and phone scams where people in Nigeria try to trick you into sending them money. But real people in my life who are con artists? I didn’t believe that could ever happen. But I was wrong. Don’t make the same mistake I did. via /r/IAmA https://ift.tt/3pYiVgP

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I didn’t even make it to my workstation.The hiring process for Amazon was the most confusing and unprofessional thing I’ve ever seen. I had applied for two separate locations just to increase my chances at a job. I went into this already dreading it because I don’t think it gets much worse then Amazon.But I get an appointment for one location. I get there and do the usual stuff. Identification, drug test etc. the guy doing all this notices I have an appointment for the 2nd location. I explain why it’s there and he asks if I wanna cancel. At first I was hesitant because I didn’t know if the appointment I was at was officially good to go. But he convinced me to just have that one canceled. No biggie. I leave and am ghosted for days but I keep getting emails for the other position to do the things I’ve already done.I battle phone menus and customer support for two hours. I find out he had canceled the appointment I was actually at, but also they never issued my background check. The representative was able to find out I was indeed in attendance at my appointment. He also said the other one that was supposed to be canceled was not so that looked bad cuz I don’t go. But there was also a mystery third appointment that I never scheduled. I get that all cleared up and have to redo everything I just did. I make sure they did the background check.45 minutes later I get home and get a call that they forgot to mark me in attendance. And that I have to scramble through the process again to book another appointment for that day so she can mark me as there. If not I have to go back a third time. I was supposed to start on the 15 of Nov. I had it all lined up from exiting my previous job. But because of the shit show on their end, I didn’t start til the 5th of Dec.So the 5th rolls around and I start orientation. I sat in a chair from 9-5 and my adhd was wreaking havoc on me. It wouldn’t have been so bad, but no one at orientation knew what they were doing. One hour was spent trying to make the surround sound work for endless power points. Another hour was spent by HR basically gloating about how proud she is about catching people faking reasons for time off. This woman literally was so proud about how she will literally call funeral homes to make sure the person you said died, is in fact actually dead. She was so arrogant about it. It really disgusted me.Next the safety guy came in and said a few things, only to leave without an explanation. Then they have us log into these iPads. They’re wondering why we can’t. We never received login information to do so. That took another hour. I tried logging in with the info i had for the recruitment website but that didn’t work. They gave up.Then three more HR reps come in and they have absolutely no idea what they’re doing. Like it was comical. They handed out packets and spent another hour setting up their laptops to the speakers. In the packet we’re tests for certain videos we’d watch, but some of us straight up didn’t have some of those tests in the folder. They’d stop class to go make copies multiple times.They also said no phones, but half of the class required you to have your phone. So everything leading up to this point has been a disaster. I go home absolutely drained and i didn’t even do anything. I wake up with the worst existential dread I’ve ever experienced. I cried for an hour straight. Not because amazon specifically, but for the broader state of labor in general.Sometimes id rather die then suffer until I die from an illness inevitably. I power through my break down. Leave for work to drive through a horrible storm. I ended up being a single minute late. I already get one point against me. Then I’m told if I’m not at my station by 7:05 I’ll get another point. I was never told where to report to. So I asked. In the rudest way possible they say they don’t know. I walk a little bit. 7:05 hits. And I just turn around and go home.I did everything I was supposed to do but got shit on before I even officially hit the floor. From the time I applied to when I walked out. I tried so hard to be optimistic, but that was the worst experience I’ve had getting a new job. I can’t help but feel disappointed with myself. I’m not in a good financial situation, and my girlfriend is not going to be happy. But with it being a shit show the entire time I just don’t see how that was gonna work, especially at a company like amazon. via /r/antiwork https://ift.tt/3DAKW2w

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I didn’t even make it to my workstation.The hiring process for Amazon was the most confusing and unprofessional thing I’ve ever seen. I had applied for two separate locations just to increase my chances at a job. I went into this already dreading it because I don’t think it gets much worse then Amazon.But I

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Did a jumanji marathon with the kids. Forgot how creepy and dark the original was.First of all it plays much more like a horror film in the beginning. It honestly feels like a goosebumps or are you afraid of the dark episode in the beginning. They did a good job of teasing you with the game before really letting loose.It also features:*Dead parents *A more realistic depiction of a person trapped in a jungle in isolation for 20 years. * a little girl dying from poison * body horror elements with the boy turning into a monkey.Most of all there is a real sense of danger. Everything in the new films are played for laughs, i enjoyed how marginally serious the original takes it self. The kids were far more on the edge of their seats for the action sequences in the original.Some of the jokes in the newer films make them easier to watch as an adult but it made me hope they still make live action kid movies as dark at that. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/31jqEOd

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Hello, I’m on the hunt to figure out the best chips in Canada. Canada has some of the best chips I’ve ever had. Some of these things are straight up crack!So far I’ve triedRuffles: All Dressed,Sour cream and Onion,BBQ,Original,Salt and VinegarNo name: Salted ripple,BBQPresident’s choice: Loads of Cheddar Jalapeño ,Loads of All dressedCheetos: Puffs,Cheddar JalapeñoMiss Vickies: Original,Salt and Vinegar,sweet chilli and Sour cream ,Spicy dill pickle,JalapeñoLays: KetchupWould love some other recommendations!So far Ive loved Miss Vickies the best! And Ruffles All dressedEdit: Forgot to add ketchup chips. Had those tooEdit 2: Yall keep reminding me I’ve had some of these flavors already! I’m going to keep adding them to the post when I see them. via /r/ontario https://ift.tt/3DnkE3T

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