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[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 49 points 6 months ago

Seems like it would have taken less effort to earn $250 and just pay the thing off...

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 39 points 6 months ago
[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago

The "payment" is the writing at the top?

[-] wesker 37 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes, the words are actually magic legal spells and incantations.

[-] Lenny@lemmy.zip 18 points 6 months ago

In©antations

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Yep, they call this a negotiable instrument.

I love how they invent their payments completely out of thin air, but then don’t fully pay off the balance 🤣 

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Love how they took the picture in a weed grow tent.

[-] viking@infosec.pub 30 points 6 months ago

So you just write some random bullshit on top of an invoice and call it a day? They can't really think it's that simple, can they?

On the other hand, I can see how some frustrated clerk with the power to write off balances below a certain amount would just give up arguing with stupid and be done with it, which might appear as if this crap actually works.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 20 points 6 months ago

Capital One is a big company. This is not the first or last person to try this strategy. There was no frustration for the clerk.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Amazingly they do think that.

[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 18 points 6 months ago

ELI5 please?

I read the thing twice but nothing...

[-] thisbenzingring 35 points 6 months ago

Sane people cannot explain crazy

basically they think they can wordsmith and gotcha their way out of legal obligations

[-] TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago

I wonder if their belief in these magic words is more soft magic system or a hard magic system.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 months ago

By writing magic words in the paper, they think that when the credit company doesn't return the letter that they've accepted the magic word paper as payment.

Then they word saladed at support people until they bounced them to someone who wrote off a chunk of the money because tying up support staff for hours quickly exceeds the $200 this seems to be about.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

They believe that returning the bill with writing on it looking like an endorsed check somehow serves as a 'negotiable instrument ' which draws upon the secret 2 million dollar trust the government established in your name when you're born.

Yes I am serious.

[-] chalk46@fedia.io 10 points 6 months ago

reads like AI-generated nonsense
why the hell would you discharge your own account if you're the debtor?
affidavit of fact from who? about what?

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I've never tried AI but I'd like to see what it comes up with for sovcits.

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah, can someone who fucks with AI have it write what it thinks a sovcit would say about income tax and outstanding debts? I’d like to see that—but don’t want to make an account or get involved with any AI site myself.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I asked ChatGpt to sing me a song about a sovcit.

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Hahah shit that’s pretty good

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

It also wrote me a song in honor of Jon Bon Jovi on the day of his birthday.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Always some crazy shit on here, but this is the first one I've seen of one of these losers fighting a $66 bill. LOL, shoot your wad for a house or car or something.

When I was (much) younger, $28 in 1990 money wasn't a huge burden. How bad off is this dumb shit?!

(BTW, this is an easy way to compare dollars to years: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/)

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