Showing posts with label phone. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 30, 2025

Beauty scam: lured to Thailand, Myanmar...


A butchering factory floor: fancy call center
A pig-butchering scam
(Chinese 杀猪盘, sha zhu pan [2] or shazhupan [3], literally "killing pig game")[1] is a type of online scam where victims [usually men on dating sites] are encouraged to make increasing financial contributions over a long period, usually in the form of cryptocurrency [4].

Such scams are commonplace on social media and dating apps [5] and often involve elements of catfishing (fictitious online persona scam), investment fraud, and romance scams.



Romance scam: too good to be true
The scammer (usually not the person one is communicating with but people behind her) builds trust with victims through online communication, subsequently persuading them to invest in a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme.

The "butchering" or "slaughtering" of the victims transpires when their assets or funds are stolen [6], taking them for all they're worth.

Danger in Cambodia, too

How could people fall for these scams?
Perpetrators are typically victims of a fraud factory [7], where they are lured to travel internationally under false pretenses, trafficked to another location, and forced to commit the fraud by organized crime gangs [8][9]. More

Belarus, officially called the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an area of 80,200 square miles (207,600 sq km) with a population of 9.1 million. Minsk is the capital and largest city; it is administered separately as a city with special status. More
  • Dark Asia with Megan (YouTube); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Sunday, March 5, 2023

California's Super Bloom gets a HOTLINE

Jo Kwon, Sun Valley, 3/3/23; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly

Flower fans get filled in via wildflower hotline voiced by star
LOS ANGELES, California — Wildflowers are popping up on the hills, canyons, and trails in Southern California. Unsure of where to go to see the blooms? There’s a phone number to call to get the scoop. The Theodore Payne Foundation’s Wildflower Hotline kicks off March 3rd with the voice of actor Joe Spano. He has starred in many movies and TV shows, including NCIS and Hill Street Blues. Every Friday through May, the nonprofit’s hotline is updated with the latest information on where to see the wildflowers while respecting Mother Nature. The number for the hotline is (818) 768-1802, Extension 7. Hotline is also available as a podcast. can also access Spano’s voice and the hotline as a podcast.  

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).

New music this time from the talented Laura Shigihara (open.spotify.com/track/1zOzvy...). Shop the Mark Rober store...

Saturday, September 16, 2017

Phone booth to talk to the DEAD (audio)

Miki Meek (This American Life.org); CC Liu, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly



There's a phone booth in Japan. You can call the dead and talk to them. I heard it on TAL!
I want to speak to the ancestors. I want to show filial piety. I want to say hi to grandpa!
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Words can seem so puny and ineffective sometimes. On this episode, called "One Last Thing Before I Go," This American Life shares stories in which ordinary people make last ditch efforts to get through to their lost loved ones, using a combination of small talk and not-so-small talk.

Really Long Distance 
This American Life Producer Miki Meek tells a story (22 mins) of a phone booth in Japan that attracts thousands of people, most of them followers of Buddhism and Shinto, who lost loved ones in the 2011 tsunami and earthquake. A Japanese TV crew from NHK Sendai filmed people inside the phone booth, the telephone of which is not connected to anything [except The Dead].


Sunday, May 28, 2017

How to communicate with the dead (audio)

Huff Paranormal; ZEG; William Birnes, Host Dave Schrader, Coast to Coast, May 27, 2017; edited-elaborated by Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly
(Huff Paranormal) The Tesla Spirit Radio: Full D.I.Y. Spirits of the Dead Communication Test
Nikola Tesla (right) was much brighter than Einstein and Edison but gets very little credit.

Mom, I love you! - I know, honey, I'm OK!
Famous American inventor Thomas Edison was convinced that there was an unseen reality invisible to the human eye.

Yet, it is visible to the third eye (dibba cakkhu, ajna chakra, pineal gland). This conviction of another reality led to the last and least-known of his inventions, the "spirit phone."

(Zohar Entertainment Group, Feb. 28, 2017) Tracie Austin (letstalkparanormal.com) The forgotten  Edison "psycho phone" calls The Dead. In the 1920s, spiritualism, Ouija boards, and the slew of new technological inventions from men like Edison were capturing national attention. These converged when Edison told American Magazine that he was working on a device known as a “spirit phone” -- a phone that would let the living communicate with the dead. The result was a national craze. Most of the major newspapers and magazines in the country leapt to cover this astounding new “invention.” The magazine that broke the story received over 600 letters to the editor from people obsessed with the device.

Our pineal gland is the key (Alex Grey).
Edison’s former associate and bitter rival, the world-renown super genius Nikola Tesla, who created the Niagra Falls power plant among many innovations stolen by the American government and reserved for military-industrial complex uses, was also developing a similar device -- a means of directly communicating with the departed, who are not "dead" but alive in another place or dimension.

This device would have established that with certainty. We do not "die" in the sense of achieving oblivion and rest but carry on in samsara (the "continued wandering on" craving for pleasure or fearing pain or being confused), called the Wheel of Rebirth.

What did you see during your NDE?
"Both of them [Edison and Tesla] thought there was a consumer market for talking to the dead," said last night’s Coast to Coast guest William Birnes. He described the rivalry between the inventors, who had earlier worked together although Edison was bitterly jealous of the young Tesla’s brilliance.

He further described how Edison’s own near-death experience (NDE) formed his theory that animate life forms do not die, but rather change the nature of their composition into something else [according to their fruition of their karma, as the Buddha explained].

America in the 1920s saw a revival of spiritualism, with families trying to communicate with dead relatives who had perished in WW I.
  • Spiritualism is the belief that the spirits of the dead have the ability and the inclination to communicate with those still living here on earth. The afterlife, or "spirit world," is seen by spiritualists as one in which we continue to evolve, not as a static place or any "end" of living.
  • (Steve Huff) This communication with the dead is getting intense, more direct, more amazing. Using the wonder box and the new FREE Divination Box app, I have been getting clear replies. They tell me I have been chosen. 
Birnes says Edison believed that "when a body died, that the essence of a person still existed," which could be detected using a light meter that can be used as a communication channel.

Death (Mara) is a tricky jerk. Marley tried to warn Ebenezer Scrooge (Charles Dickens).
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Tesla thought that the secret to communication with the dead lay in detecting the right radio or sound waves to listen to the words of the departed.

Although Edison thought that psychics and mediums were all frauds, he nevertheless hired them to help him with experiments relating to his inventions, which met with little success.

U.S. seances were cool in 1900s.
Tesla’s concepts -- so far as we are told by our government -- never got much further than the planning stage.

On the other hand, Birnes points out, Edison targeted ideas that he believed people would need and "helped invent the consumer marketplace of the 20th century," whereas Tesla was "more ideological" and conceptualized ideas such as devices that would receive radio waves through a narrow band, which laid the work for more recent products, such as the cell phone.
  • [This is because black budget projects with military applications have carried on full steam ahead, and as they advance some aspects are allowed to be exploited for commercial purposes, such as the Internet, cell phones, and other popular devices flooding the electronics marketplace.]
Was the Edsel named after Edison?
Birnes went into detail about Tesla’s death in 1943, after which the U.S. government seized all of his papers and refused to release his suspected notes on anti-gravity theory -- because other governments might get their hands on his amazing  and world-altering discoveries. More + AUDIO
  • NOTE: When asked, Tesla did not claim to have invented his ideas. According to him, they were beamed to him from another planet, wishing to make this planet more peaceful by providing free energy technology so governments and corporations would not fight for finite resources like oil and gas. The powers that be -- GM, the petrochemical industry, and other industries -- could not possibly allow their fortunes to be ruined even if it means ruining the planet, perpetual warfare, and the oppression of most of the population of Earth.
Edison vs Tesla: Battle Over the Spirit Phone
Amazon.com edited by Wisdom Quarterly
Seven middle-class Chicago women discuss spiritualism in 1906. Death used to be familiar, striking every family earlier than expected. Our attachment led us to find ways to communicate (wiki).
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Edison vs Tesla (J. Martin & W. J. Birnes)
Thomas Edison closely followed the alternative physics work of Albert Einstein and Max Planck, convincing him that there was an entire reality unseen by the human eye.
 
This led to the last and least-known of all Edison’s inventions, the spirit phone. His former associate, now bitter rival, Nikola Tesla, was also developing at the same time a similar mysterious device.
  • [So the goof who writes the nightly Coast to Coast summaries is so lazy that s/he just copies Amazon descriptions for the text?]
Edison vs Tesla examines their quest to talk to the dead. It reveals:
 
Edison’s little-known near-death experience formed his theory that animate life forms do not die, but rather change the nature of their composition [from dense flesh to more ethereal matter of the deva and ghost realms]. It is this foundational belief that drove him to proceed with the spirit phone.

Tesla monitored Edison’s paranormal work, with both men racing to create a device that picked up the frequencies of discarnate spirits, what today are called electronic voice phenomena (EVP).

Both men were way ahead of their time, delving into artificial intelligence and robotics.

Although mystery and lore surround the details of the last decade of Edison’s life, many skeptics have denied the existence of this mysterious spirit phone.
 
The dead are not resting. See for yourself.
Authors Joel Martin and William J. Birnes have researched both Edison’s and Tesla’s journals, as well as contemporary articles and interviews with the inventors to confirm that tests were actually done with this device.
 
They also had the full cooperation of the Charles Edison Fund, affording them access to rare photos and graphics to support their text. Edison vs Tesla sheds light on this marvelous invention and demonstrates the rivalry that drove both men to new discoveries. More

WARNING: Some spirits are very not-good


You Tube TV(You Tube TV) Destination America, "Paranormal Survivor," Season 1, Episode 6, "When Spirits Talk" July 5, 2015

    Sunday, May 13, 2012

    The Aware Life Teleseminar (FREE)

    Lisa Garr, TheAwareShow.com
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    Wednesday, May 9, 2012

    "The Aware Life" (FREE teleseminar series)

    The Aware Show; AuraColors.com, eguidedmeditation.com; Wisdom Quarterly
     
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    Oslie can be heard on June 22, 2012 at 1:00 pm PST. Everyone will be sharing amazing information about how to live "The Aware Life" getting the best out of every moment by turning intentions into actions.

    Sunday, February 26, 2012

    Fear of losing my cell phone (Nomophobia)

    Amber Dorrian, Wisdom Quarterly; Mashable.com


    No mo' (mobile phone) pho-bia: We have been so well marketed to that most of us now suffer from a new condition -- a phobia over being left phoneless even for a little while.

    This was already happening over our Internet link. Now that the Net is being accessed mainly through smartphones and tablet devices, we are trembling in our high boots about the inevitable. They don't make them slim, chic, sleek, and super slippery so we will hold onto them. If they don't fly out of our hands, pockets, and purses, we have to wonder how we'd ever let go.

    But as soon as they are out of fashion -- no longer chic -- we can't replace them fast enough. They're better than cigarettes for looking cool. And we are actually desperately fearful of feeling alone (disconnected). After all, any kid under 35 has just been rebranded "Generation C" (connected).


    Afraid of Losing Your Phone?

    Samantha Murphy (Mashable.com)
    If you know the panicked and disconnected feeling of leaving your mobile phone at home, you might be one of the many suffering from nomophobia.

    A recent survey by U.K.-based mobile security service provider SecurEnvoy conducted among 1,000 people found that two thirds (66%) of respondents fear losing or being without their mobile phone... The phobia also includes the anxiety someone feels when not in the range of a cell tower to receive optimal reception.

    • Is there are pharmaceutical for it yet? Sure, we can re-purpose any of the SSRIs for off-label prescribing, or try the new generation of toxins.

    Not surprisingly, nomophonia is on the rise -- up 13% from just four years ago -- as more consumers become strapped to their smartphones. However, women (70%) worry more about losing their phones than men (61%). More

    Tuesday, May 24, 2011

    New Studies Confirm Cell Phone Hazards

    Mark Huffman (ConsumerAffairs.com, May 23, 2011)


    "Stunning proof" ignored in USA, scientists say
    Since the days when cell phones were the size of bricks, there has been debate over the safety of these devices, which use radio waves to transmit voice and data.

    A number of studies, stretching back more than a decade, have suggested extended cell phone exposure increases the risk of tumors and can harm human reproduction. The industry staunchly defends the safety of mobile phones, saying the studies' conclusions are unfounded.

    "Stunning proof"
    Now a group of international researchers meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, has released what they call “stunning proof” that confirms findings from the Council of Europe:
    • pulsed digital signals from cell phones disrupt DNA,
    • impair brain function, and
    • lower sperm count.
    A meeting convened by Environmental Health Trust, with the Turkish cancer society, and Gazi University, revealed the new research that the scientists say shows damage to DNA, brain, and sperm.


    Nesrin Seyhan -- an advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) and NATO and head of the Biophysics Department and Bioelectromagnetics Laboratory at Gazi University in Ankara --presented findings that he says confirm the warning that just four hours of exposure to cell phone radiation disrupts the ability of human brain cells to repair damaged genes.

    “We are deeply concerned about what this could mean for public health,” Seyhan said.

    Prof. Wilhelm Mosgoeller from the Medical University of Vienna, who has led European research teams, said he found that the cell waves induce DNA breaks. Despite industry claims to the contrary, he says DNA breaks are real.

    Insect studies
    A research team at the University of Athens said insect studies have demonstrated that acute exposure to GSM (Global System for Mobile) signals brings about DNA fragmentation in insects’ ovarian cells, and consequently a large reduction in the reproductive capacity of the insects.

    Further studies, they said, demonstrated that long exposures induced cell death to the insects in the study.

    Other researchers said throughout a gestation period, exposure to radiation for just six minutes a day affects the bone formation of fetuses. The researchers also worry about the effect of cell phone use on children.

    At higher frequencies, children absorb more energy from external radio frequency radiation than adults, because their tissue normally contains a larger number of ions and so has a higher conductivity.

    The researchers strongly suggest limiting cell phone and cordless phone use by young children and teenagers to the lowest possible level and urgently ban telecom companies from marketing to them.

    The researchers call their findings “thought-provoking” and say they have never been investigated in North America.

    “The evidence justifies precautionary measures to reduce the risks for everyone of us,” Wosgoeller said.

    The meeting was sponsored by Environmental Health Trust, The International Commission on Electromagnetic Safety, Gazi University and Athens University. Source

    Thursday, February 24, 2011

    Wis. Gov. phone pranked by journalist (listen)

    Michael Calderone (Feb. 23, 2011)

    Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker had a 20-minute chat with David Koch, the billionaire financier and backer of conservative causes. Or so he thought. Walker was actually talking to Ian Murphy, a journalist and editor of the Buffalo, New York altweekly Buffalo Beast. On Wednesday [Feb. 22], Murphy published the phone call, in which Walker speaks at length about his ongoing battle with unions... During the call, Walker said that he recently spoke to state Senator Tim Cullen, a "reasonable" Democrat who might be able to influence his colleagues in the Democratic caucus -- who fled the capital so as to block a vote on Walker's plan -- to return to the state for a vote. Walker also said the Wisconsin attorney general's office is looking into possible ethics violations against Democratic state senators in the event that unions are paying for any of their food and lodging... Listen to the actual two-part conversation. More>>

    Tuesday, May 12, 2009

    Mobile Phone Magic

    Four things you didn't know your phone could do
    Public Service Annoucement by dotconnectoruk.blogspot.com


    (artsandopinions.com)

    There are a few things a cell phone can do in an emergency. Mostly it just causes brain cancer (tumors corresponding to use showing up years later), weakens one's protective aura, distracts, and consumes one, as well as dooming migratory birds. But a mobile can actually be a survival tool on top of being a cute fashion accessory. Here are four unknown things plus an ATM tip:

    1. Hidden Battery Power
    Imagine your battery gets very low from over use. There's an an emergency. To reactivate, press the keys *3370# and your phone will restart using reserve power. It will show a 50% battery increase. This reserve will get charged when the phone is recharged.

    2. Worldwide Emergency Number
    The emergency number worldwide for mobile phones is 112. If you find yourself out of your coverage area network and there is an emergency, dial 112. The phone will search any existing network and establish the emergency number. Interestingly, this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked.

    3. Locked your keys in the car?
    Does your car have remote keyless entry? Your phone might come in handy if you do. If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their mobile phone. Then hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock.

    4. Disable a Stolen Phone
    To check your mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 #

    A 15 digit code will show on the screen. This number is unique to your phone. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. If your phone gets stolen, call your service provider; give them this code. They will then be able to block your phone so that even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You may not get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can neither use nor sell it. If everybody did this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.

    ATM-PIN Number Reversal
    If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your PIN # in reverse. For example, if your pin number is 1234, then you would put in 4321. The ATM system recognizes that your PIN number is backwards from the ATM card you placed in the machine. The machine will still give you the money you requested, but unknown to the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to the location.

    This information was recently broadcast on CTV by Crime Stoppers. However, it is seldom used because people just don't know about it. Pass it along.