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@ Mr Penguin
2025-03-06 04:05:10
If you ever thought law enforcement did good think again. Law enforcement has been pressuring businesses to take greater steps to stop stop scammers. Initially scammers would threaten little old ladies with jail time if they didn’t pay their back taxes immediately and would then proceed to direct them to purchase gift cards and similar products like AT&T prepaid wireless refill cards. So stores put up signs warning customers that government employees would never demand payment of back taxes in gift cards. This of course didn’t work with people this stupid. So now when you need to purchase prepaid refill cards (you pretty much always need more than one) you get met with skepticism from cashiers at checkout when you try to purchase enough refill cards to activate a new phone and obtain the 1-year discounted plan from AT&T. OK, so now you need to go back the next day to purchase the 4 additional $30 refill cards you need. Well, that worked yesteryear, but now AT&T itself has put a limit on how many cards you can use at activation. It’s 3. No, it’s not a dollar amount, it’s 3. How this is suppose to hinder scammers I do not know. What you now have to do is find a store that sells the variable denominated refill cards that you can get in amounts from $10-100. Then get 3 of those and activation is still possible for the $300 1-year plan that is available at a discounted price. The scammers have no problem directing their little old ladies to particular stores to obtain the variable amount refill cards. What does this mean? Scammers 1, government 0, the public and particularly the poor -1.