[Misc] Why scammers exist and thrive!

[METALMICKY]

So I'm part of a little community site called NEXTDOOR which I believe is a nationwide thing that can be set up for your local area. It does have some some legitimate benefits. One occasional facet is humour to which end I posted this earlier today :

My neighbours are too low income to afford a wifi connection, and too proud to use mine. So I renamed mine Free Council Wifi and told them I had read about it and what the password was. My neighbour is now halfway through an online college qualification and I'm so proud of her!

Imagine my surprise when instead of some witty replies or perhaps even " you're not funny mate " I only had replies along the lines of :

"Well done you!"

"Kindly done. Well done proud to now know you."

"That is great You are a good neighbour and person."

"I wish everyone thought the way you do. What a kind thing to do."

A quick glance at the available profiles for these posters suggest none are little old folks who might conceivably not get the joke but should in all in fact realise the stupidity and danger of such a ' gesture '.

My initial reaction was to laugh but then Mrs Metal pointed out just how shocking it was and how scammers have it so easy.

 

[US Seagull]

Nextdoor's main benefit is finding out which of your neighbors are racists. At least in the US it is.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

?? This has appeared on Fesshole.

 

[Brian Fantana]

?? This has appeared on Fesshole.

I was going to say the same thing. Not sure it is the OP’s

 

[METALMICKY]

I was going to say the same thing. Not sure it is the OP’s

Definitely not mine but I did chortle when I saw it.

 

[Eeyore]

Never used to cease to amaze me when folk responded to Facebook posts that were clearly made up adverts as if they were real. Folk believe any old shit. You only have to look at transfer rumours in NSC.

 

[dazzer6666]

Quit Nextdoor soon after signing up. Online equivalent of a load of curtain-twitching gossips.

 

[METALMICKY]

Quit Nextdoor soon after signing up. Online equivalent of a load of curtain-twitching gossips.

Pretty fair assessment. The only real benefits I've had are for tradesmen recommendations and flogging mainly kids stuff.

 

[Barham's tash]

So I'm part of a little community site called NEXTDOOR which I believe is a nationwide thing that can be set up for your local area. It does have some some legitimate benefits. One occasional facet is humour to which end I posted this earlier today :

My neighbours are too low income to afford a wifi connection, and too proud to use mine. So I renamed mine Free Council Wifi and told them I had read about it and what the password was. My neighbour is now halfway through an online college qualification and I'm so proud of her!

Imagine my surprise when instead of some witty replies or perhaps even " you're not funny mate " I only had replies along the lines of :

"Well done you!"

"Kindly done. Well done proud to now know you."

"That is great You are a good neighbour and person."

"I wish everyone thought the way you do. What a kind thing to do."

A quick glance at the available profiles for these posters suggest none are little old folks who might conceivably not get the joke but should in all in fact realise the stupidity and danger of such a ' gesture '.

My initial reaction was to laugh but then Mrs Metal pointed out just how shocking it was and how scammers have it so easy.

I agree with you except what you posted is a well trodden internet meme that has been doing the rounds for at least the last 3 years.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Quit Nextdoor soon after signing up. Online equivalent of a load of curtain-twitching gossips.

How do I join?

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Our road has a whatsapp group which luckily my wife has joined instead of me.

The latest drama was a petition being sent to the council to stop them spraying our street with weed killer. The 8 vocal people in favour of the petition didn't consider that some of the other 50 houses on the street might actually want the weeds taken care of.

Anyway, literally 2 days later the boys from the council came strutting up the road like the ghostbusters and drenched the place. I gave them a toot and wave as I drove past. Marvellous.

.... Wait is this going to be the new bell cheeses at work thread but for neighbours?

 

[dazzer6666]

Our road has a whatsapp group which luckily my wife has joined instead of me.

The latest drama was a petition being sent to the council to stop them spraying our street with weed killer. The 8 vocal people in favour of the petition didn't consider that some of the other 50 houses on the street might actually want the weeds taken care of.

Anyway, literally 2 days later the boys from the council came strutting up the road like the ghostbusters and drenched the place. I gave them a toot and wave as I drove past. Marvellous.

.... Wait is this going to be the new bell cheeses at work thread but for neighbours?

We’ve got similar going on but with planning permission applied for to erect a mobile phone mast nearby. One of the Nimbys who got a letter (only those in properties that will actually have a view of the proposed mast got letters) has photocopied it and dropped one in every letter box in the area urging us all to object, and our whatsapp group is full of people moaning about it despite the vast majority of houses having no sight of it at all (and it’s planned for the corner of a field). A few of us are quite happy to have a better mobile signal because it’s currently rubbish The planning application on the council website now has loads of (some ridiculous) objections - with each one assigned to the address it came from

 

[Barham's tash]

We’ve got similar going on but with planning permission applied for to erect a mobile phone mast nearby. One of the Nimbys who got a letter (only those in properties that will actually have a view of the proposed mast got letters) has photocopied it and dropped one in every letter box in the area urging us all to object, and our whatsapp group is full of people moaning about it despite the vast majority of houses having no sight of it at all (and it’s panned for the corner of a field). A few of us are quite happy to have a better mobile signal because it’s currently rubbish The planning application on the council website now has loads of (some ridiculous) objections - with each one assigned to the address it came from

The land owner stands to make c£20k a year from it as well.

Cue the objectors walking around with tin foil on their heads.

 

[Peteinblack]

Nextdoor's main benefit is finding out which of your neighbors are racists. At least in the US it is.

Yes, I've stopped using our local Nextdoor site; it's full of local bores blaming all community problems, including pot-holes, on immigrants, Woke, the 'Lib Dum' council, or the 'Liebour' government.

You just know that they're all Farage-worshippers and Phil Mitchell-lookalikes, who think they're being hilariously funny or clever, but are reminding us all, yet again, just how stupid and politically illiterate they are.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

We’ve got similar going on but with planning permission applied for to erect a mobile phone mast nearby. One of the Nimbys who got a letter (only those in properties that will actually have a view of the proposed mast got letters) has photocopied it and dropped one in every letter box in the area urging us all to object, and our whatsapp group is full of people moaning about it despite the vast majority of houses having no sight of it at all (and it’s panned for the corner of a field). A few of us are quite happy to have a better mobile signal because it’s currently rubbish The planning application on the council website now has loads of (some ridiculous) objections - with each one assigned to the address it came from

Councils take no notice of objections nor petitions so they’re wasting their time.

 

[happypig]

.... Wait is this going to be the new bell cheeses at work thread but for neighbours?

Oh I do hope so, I have much to give.

 

[dazzer6666]

Councils take no notice of objections nor petitions so they’re wasting their time.

Yep, makes it even funnier

 

[dazzer6666]

The land owner stands to make c£20k a year from it as well.

Cue the objectors walking around with tin foil on their heads.

The landowner is……the council

 

[Gwylan]

Never used to cease to amaze me when folk responded to Facebook posts that were clearly made up adverts as if they were real. Folk believe any old shit. You only have to look at transfer rumours in NSC.

... or at the number of people voting Reform

 

[Birdie Boy]

Councils take no notice of objections nor petitions so they’re wasting their time.

They did in my street. A friend was looking for approval of a 3 bed house on land on the back of my garden. The planner came round to my garden and others and rejected the permission for among a number of things, their house overlooking ours (which should not be included), parking and access issues.