Showing posts with label email scams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label email scams. Show all posts

Friday, August 19, 2022

How phone scammers get caught (video)

Mark Rober, March 18, 2021; Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Glitterbomb trap catches phone scammer (who gets arrested)
(Mark Rober) I glitterbombed my way up the scammer chain of command. Come join me in my Creative Engineering class (Monthly.com/MarkRober).

If you suspect that you or a loved one have been the victim of fraud, you can call or visit the National Elder Fraud hotline (stopelderfraud.ovc.ojp.gov) at (833) 372-8311 and report it to the FTC by visiting the agency’s website (reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/) or calling (877) 382-4357.


Go watch Jim’s video to see how he located the scammers and subscribe to his channel (youtu.be/Xvjjpzyiig4). Go check out Perog's version here too (youtu.be/J4mkZU2Y0as).

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Thursday, January 5, 2017

Glenn Greenwald: Russia and WikiLeaks

Glenn Greenwald, Amy Goodman (DemocracyNow.org, Jan. 5, 2017); Wisdom Quarterly


Mainstream media disseminates fake, deceitful news about Russia
S glenn wapo splitGlenn Greenwald, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of the founding editors of The Intercept, has a new article headlined: "Wash Post is richly rewarded for false news about Russia threat while public is deceived."

In it, he writes, "Any story that bolsters the prevailing D.C. orthodoxy on the Russia Threat, no matter how dubious, is spread far and wide. And then, as has happened so often, when the story turns out to be false or misleading, little or nothing is done to correct the deceitful effects." More

  • There's a "dearth [lack] of evidence" linking Russia to WikiLeaks release of DNC emails Greenwald: The Senate Armed Services Committee holds a hearing on alleged Russian cyber-attacks, and top intelligence officials are briefing Pres. Obama on a review of evidence that Russia hacked the email servers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). President-elect Trump will be briefed on Friday. This comes as he is supporting statements by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that Russia was NOT the source for the mass leak of emails from the Democratic Party. More
Who cares now? I got a memoir book deal!

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Party split: Sanders supporters reject Clinton

Pat Macpherson, CC Liu, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; AP; Jen Sorensen; Anon News
"Hill no! We won't vote for Hillary" even if Sen. Sanders has caved in to pressure (AP).
(Anonymous News) Lying, scandal-magnet, war hawk "Hillary Clinton Exposed" full documentary

(DN!) Delegates Walk off DNC Floor in Protest of "Rigged" Primary Elections The DNC is full of protests. Hundreds of Bernie delegates walked out of the convention soon after Clinton stole the nomination. "They did not listen to the people," explained Felicia Teter, a NH delegate:

We reject the corrupt RepubloCrats!
"Bernie supporters are staging a walkout at the DNC because we were never welcome here. We were never wanted here.

"And no matter what we have said and what we have shown, and what the media has said and what the media has shown, and what WikiLeaks has said and what WikiLeaks has shown, still the people’s voices are not being heard. And still the people’s votes are not being counted.

Felicia Teter and other protesters (DN)
"And so we are going to show the Democratic Party that if they will not have us and they will not welcome us into their party then we will leave, and they will lose to Trump.

"And it will not be our fault. It will be their fault because they did not listen to the people. They did not listen to the person who came from the bottom and got to the top. They simply ignored us. They shut us down. They did not just ignore us, but they fought against us. So now we are leaving. And they will have to beat Trump by themselves."
- Felicia Teeter, NH Sanders delegate at the DNC, speaking for us and others

Sanders fans warn of party split after Clinton steals nomination
Silencing dissent at the DNC, taking away our voice. No to Hillary! No to TPP! (AP)
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PHILADELPHIA - Sanders loyalists warned that the Democratic Party could rupture over the [stolen] nomination of Hillary Clinton after a volatile night that saw a large group of Sanders delegates and supporters exit the party's national convention to [protest] at a nearby media tent.

Anonymous News
Anonymous?
They rejected Sanders' call for unity even after the Vermont senator took the symbolic step of [prematurely] declaring Clinton the winner of the state-by-state delegate count inside the convention in Philadelphia.

Protest at RNC: Say no to Trump! (AP)
"I suspect we are witnessing an event that will fundamentally change American politics," said Cory James, 22, a college student from Flint, Michigan, who expects the Democratic Party to break apart over Clinton's victory.
 
Thousands of activists have taken to the streets during the convention this week to voice support for [a revolution behind] Sanders, a liberal U.S. senator, and his progressive agenda.

"Bernie was cheated" and so were we (AP).
The "Bernie or bust" brigades that have marched across the sun-warped city threatened to disrupt Clinton's moment as the first woman to be nominated for president by a major U.S. political party.
 
"We all have this unrealistic dream that democracy is alive in America," said Debra Dilks, of Boonville, Missouri, who spoke as a protest broke up near Philadelphia's City Hall. She said she wasn't sure she would even vote in November.

I'll run this country like Kissinger.
"Hillary didn't get the nomination. The nomination was stolen," Dilks said. At the media tent protest, some had their mouths taped shut, while a few others spontaneously sang, "This land is our land." They said they were holding a peaceful protest to complain about being shut out by the Democratic Party.
 
Feel the burn I promised: vote for Hillary.
On the streets outside, Sanders supporters who had spent the day protesting began facing off with police. They started scaling 8-foot walls that blocked off the secure zone around the arena parking lot.

Police and the Secret Service immediately arrested four protesters, who will be charged with entering a restricted area. They're scheduled to appear in court Wednesday.

I support war, Israel, fracking, big banks...
Protests continued into the night as Sanders supporters and an anti-police brutality group joined together. Later, another protester set an Israeli flag on fire as people chanted, "long live the intifada [uprising for freedom]."

Others then came together for a candlelight vigil. Earlier in the day, activists held a midday rally at City Hall, and then made their way down Broad Street to the convention site.

Vote for REAL change: Jill2016.com
By early evening, a large crowd had formed outside the subway station closest to the arena. The crowd consisted of an assortment of protesters espousing a variety of causes, but mostly Sanders supporters and other Clinton foes on the left.
 
"I think people were hoping we could sway the delegates and show that there really is a movement here," said... More



The most hated presidential candidates in American history (AP/Getty Images)
    For more corruption, vote for the first first lady to be criminally indicted (AP).
    First Bernie Madoff, now Bernie Sanders -- betraying trust to work in the system.
    Even if our favorite Jewish comedian calls us "ridiculous," we still say: Never Hillary!

    Don't vote for "the lesser of two evils." Vote for good: vote Green, vote Dr. Jill Stein

    Tuesday, June 14, 2016

    WikiLeaks to publish Clinton emails: Assange

    Mark Tran (TheGuardian, 6-12-16); Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly
    See, I told you, Hilly. It's not a vast right wing conspiracy: everyone hates you. - Shush, W.
    .
    The Brain of Julian Assange (meltybuzz.fr)
    New release likely to fan controversy and provide further ammunition for Republican presidential rival Donald Trump

    Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has said his organization is preparing to publish more emails Hillary Clinton sent and received while US secretary of state.

    Julian Assange says it is unlikely the US attorney general would indict Clinton [even after the FBI builds a solid case].
      
    Julian Assange
    Julian Assange (Dominic Lipinski/PA)
    Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is under FBI investigation to determine whether she broke federal law by using her private email in sending classified information.

    A new WikiLeaks release of Clinton emails is likely to fan a controversy that has bedevilled her campaign and provide further ammunition for Donald Trump, her Republican presidential rival, who has used the issue to attack her.

    My admin isn't going to indict her. She's in.
    Assange’s comments came in an interview on ITV’s Peston on Sunday. “We have upcoming leaks in relation to Hillary Clinton... We have emails pending publication, that is correct,” Assange said.He did not specify when or how many emails would be published.

    The 50,547 pages of documents are from 30 June 2010 to 12 August 2014, and 7,570 of the documents were sent by Clinton, who served as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
    Where's Wikileaks? US worried citizens see it.
    WikiLeaks launched a searchable archive in March of 30,322 emails and email attachments sent to and from Clinton’s private email server while she was secretary of state.

    Assange, a trenchant Clinton critic, said she was receiving constant personal updates on his situation. More
     
    Bill, don't fib - No, buddy, really, a vast right wing conspiracy. Ask Kenny Starr.

    Monday, June 6, 2016

    The truth about Hillary Clinton (video)

    CC Liu, Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY); Ellen Snortland (PW)

    Where does the "moving to the right" arrow come from? Hillary's Goldwater campaign (WB).
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    "Security review" was another lie
    Editors, Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)
    The euphemism "security review," as used by soon-to-be-indicted candidate Hillary Clinton, really means "FBI investigation and grand jury indictment."

    The head of the FBI has publicly stated that they don't perform "security reviews." They perform criminal investigations.

    I'm supposed to be president not Velcro!
    Not only is Clinton implicated in numerous crimes and scandals, such as the murder of Vince Foster and "Whitewater," she is the only first lady to ever be criminally charged. Benghazi, a word that as liberals we reflexively roll our eyes at, is a minor problem compared to the crimes committed surrounding Clinton's emails and destruction of government records.

    She has repeatedly lied saying she only destroyed Chelsea's wedding photos or emails to Bill, who has publicly stated he steers well clear of for fear of getting caught red handed in yet another scandal of his own.

    Guess Hillary really is the Republican "Goldwater Girl" she always said she was (DS).
    How many logos did Hillary reject to copy Republican candidate Goldwater? (DS).
    .
    What was she covering up? Her lesbian sexting with personal assistant and mistress Huma Abedin, who herself is embroiled in questions about financial misdeeds related to profiting from the Clinton Foundation "charity."

    Say it loud: "Hillary for PRISON 2016"
    The problem with Hillary Clinton is that she is a right-moving war hawk (notice how her H logo points right.

    She is a promoter of the prison-industrial complex doing tremendous harm to black citizens by painting them as "super predators."

    She is an inveterate liar who hates people while desperately craving power and influence. (At least predatory former POTUS Bill Clinton likes people).

    Columnist Charles Krauthammer predicts that current candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be “either indicted, or there’s a criminal referral somehow squashed by the higher ups” for her email practices. Krauthammer said [with relevant remarks at around 4:20], “The ultimate irony is that the reason she embarked on all of this was to hide her communications from the world, from the Freedom of Information Act, from the Congress. That was the point. There’s no other point in doing this. It’s meant to evade subpoenas, inquiries, congressional committees. And now it’s all over the — I mean, everything is out there. We know that 22 of these were extremely highly secret.”
     
    She is the establishment's dream candidate who will keep everything rolling the way it is and continue Bush-Cheney-Obama era policies, like the nominal Democrat actual moderate Republican current president.

    She is a corporate lawyer, who sat on the board of Walmart, and who continues to defend the rich and corrupt (at one time serving as a lawyer for a drug kingpin, whom she could not successfully defend in court so she got her husband Arkansas Gov. Clinton to pardon him).

    Judge Napolitano explains what the FBI has in store for Clinton: Emails, Benghazi,
    financial relationship Huma Abedin had with State Dept. and Clinton Foundation.

    She is a war criminal who squealed with delight and exuberance at the murder of illegally deposed Libyan leader Qaddafi. It should come as no surprise since she idolizes the brains behind many atrocities, Henry Kissinger. Furthermore, she fully backs American complicity and support for ongoing war crimes in Israel.

    We're friends, good friends, suckers.
    She is a hypocritical lesbian who fought against same sex-marriage until it became politically convenient to switch, and she is an attacker of women who dared to accuse her political partner and philandering husband of sexual assault (even the cheating he has admitted to). Trump will bring more of this out along with investigator Roger Stone after the primary race is done.

    She uses people, engages in financial crimes like Whitewater inside trading, enriches herself through fraud such as the fake charity the Clinton Foundation, and wants for nothing higher than personal power and immunity from prosecution for crimes and misdemeanors, which the Obama administration will likely grant her even if she is indicted. But Obama is likely to go further and prevent formal indictment as he has protected Bush administration officials.

    Then there's the email scandal again, leading to federal indictment for the destruction of government records to cover her tracks as a cabinet official.

    We need a change. Bernie Sanders offers hope. Green Party candidate Jill Stein has asked him to join her. Vote Andrew Basiago, or go way out and vote Libertarian. We say #ANYBODY BUT HILLARY.

    Clinton is so bad that we would sooner vote for Trump. Yes madman Trump, as bad as he is, is far better than Clinton. Let the Republicans have lying criminal Hillary.

    Facebook = Fightbook in campaigns against Hillary Clinton
    Ellen Snortland (pasadenaweekly.com, June 2, 2016)
    As a gung-ho “Hillary Ho,” I have been asked why I am so quiet about my Hillary Ho-ness on Facebook.

    I don’t ordinarily engage in comment flame wars, although I have sometimes commented in a private IM [instant message] or two. Some friends have said stereotypical things about Hillary supporters, and I’ve had to let them know that they splashed me with some of the mud they were slinging.

    I inform them, “No, I don’t vote with my vagina. It can’t hold a pen all that well…yet.” Who hasn’t wished they had more than two hands? More Kegels — attagirl!

    My reluctance to get into nonstop altercations on Facebook is logical. It’s the same reason I don’t attach raw meat to my body when I’m swimming in the ocean with the word “chum” tattooed on my back. I’ve told my friends I don’t have the time or the stomach to comment-fight.

    There are people I like, love, and am even related to who are Sanders, Trump, and Clinton supporters that regularly make eye-rolling statements on Fightbook. All of us are doing it!

    If I were to spend my time explaining, arguing, and countering these [anti-Clinton] comments, I would absolutely not have a life. My adrenaline would be pumping so hard I’d have to go to rallies and yell insults at opponents! More

    Thursday, June 12, 2014

    NSA: Greenwald to speak in L.A. (June 19)

    Sponsored by Haymarket Books, The Center for Economic Research and Social Change, Metropolitan Books, and KPFK FM (Pacifica Free Speech Radio, Los Angeles).



    Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State
    bbc.com
    • Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 7:00 pm
    • Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC)
    • 244 S. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 See map
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    Glenn Greenwald
    In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet a source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels.
     
    Read a chapter free (truthdig.org)
    That source turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA spy, teacher, and Booz Allen Hamilton (mole) contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency’s widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security and information privacy.

    As the arguments rage on and the government considers various proposals for reform, it is clear that we have yet to see the full impact of Snowden’s disclosures.
     
    Best pres we never had: Emperor 0
    In April 2014, Greenwald and his colleagues at The Guardian received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. See Greenwald live and in-person as he puts all the pieces together, recounting his high-intensity 11-day trip to Hong Kong but more importantly examining the broader implications of state surveillance detailed in his reporting for The Guardian, and revealing fresh information on the NSA’s unprecedented abuse of power with never-before-seen documents entrusted to him by Snowden himself.

    Greenwald will be signing his new book, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. Coming at a landmark moment in American history, No Place to Hide is a fearless, incisive, and essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S. surveillance state.

    Wednesday, April 2, 2014

    Trying to escape the Surveillance State (video)

    Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; author, researcher, and journalist Julia Angwin with Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh, Juan González (democracynow.org)


    Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin visited Democracy Now! to discuss her new book, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance. Currently at ProPublica and previously with The Wall Street Journal, Angwin details her complex path toward increasing her own online privacy as a private citizen.

    According to her research, the private data collected by East Germany’s Soviet-era Stasi secret police at its height of abuse pales in comparison to the information revealed today by an individual’s Facebook profile or Google search history, which is never erased by Google even when we clear our history. It is used by the government for unconstitutional unwarranted spying on Americans, by police to give everyone a police record, and by advertisers to target individuals. More