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If this is America... Don't depend on the government for justice.
How recently did you learn not to trust the US government that you think it is news to anyone?
They're asking where you report fraud.
The FTC is where you report fraud.
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Some kid 50 years from now is going to write a paper on the moral dilemma of calling ICE on a scam center.
OP will warn them, and they'll end up charging him with the crime.
Yeah, specially if it's his WiFi they are using.
Even if they do end up busting the scammers, OP can expect being harassed and have some of his stuff confiscated for investigation.
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Forward their info to one of the scam baiters like Jim browning.
This is probably the solution that will actually result in something being done. Give it to multiple in fact. Jim Browning, Scammer Payback, Kit Boga. Increase your chances.
Yeah and I feel like since you control their internet access, you could help the baiters pull off some extra zesty fun
Sounds like a great opportunity to intercept traffic to scam sites and steal their credentials from a site they think they control. Not really legal though.
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If you do multiple, give it time between each.
Might help to know what country you're in, or continent even?
How does anyone expect to get very nation specific advice like this without giving any hint as to where they're from - besides it probably being a country that probably has many English speakers as a second language if not first...
No, no. Didn't you hear? The Internet is just the US.
Hell, I grew up in and currently live in Texas and even I know better than that.
If there's one thing I've learned from working with Texans, it is that they're Texan first, american second.
I mean, you're not wrong. And at one time I felt like it meant something. It meant we didn't push our religion on others. They were free to do what they wanted. If someone was doing something we didn't like but wasn't hurting anyone we just minded our fucking business (usually said about LGBTQIA+ folks). It probably wasn't nearly as true as I felt, but that's the kind of thing I was taught growing up. And everyone wonders why I grew up to be progressive, respecting other people's rights and mistrusting the government as it stands and corporations.
I know quite a few who moved here (norway) from Texas, as they didn't like how the state overall went from being traditionally conservative to radically regressive.
One of them recently got his Norwegian passport and I of course had to accuse him of forgetting the Alamo.
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nonsense there's nothing outside texas
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If they're using your guest network, identify their MAC addresses and log all of their activity. Alternatively, you could also restrict their access or place a password on the guest network.
First, I'd disable the guest wifi so that you don't get caught up in anything. Then report them first to the management / super. Then maybe the gov't.
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Send them a Bomb
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Glitter Bomb I mean
I think this calls for something stronger; corn syrup, powdered sugar, beef broth, etc.
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You could start with calling the police?
Highly unlikely the police are even going to care. Unless they give me confirmed that these guys are actually doing something illegal. And even then the police may not actually care. The better bet would be to call somebody like the FBI who actually has a scam division. Of course that was before Donald j Trump became current president of the United States who by the way if you didn't know also raped children, along with his best friend Jeffrey r epstein.
I have called the police 5 times in my life. Once when someone broke into my car, once when someone broke into my home. Twice when someone was illegally dumping trash on the side of the road, and once qhen a scammer intercepted an 18,000 dollar check. In the 3 cases of theft/B&E i was told there was nothing they could do and given a paper record of what happened to give to my insurance. In the cases of illegal dumping(I was following the people and providing liscense plate number) i was told "we dont handle that, call the county and they will come clean it up"
The police, at least in my area, are fucking worthless. They exist solely to give tickets and fines, while do little to nothing to acrually combat crime or enforce law.
Most ridiculous call ive made was an attempted suicide.
A guy had set up in a local coffee shop, and was going to drink a quart of latex paint, which he planned to wash down with a pint of paint thinner, to prove the paint was nontoxic.
So I called and asked them to send police and ems down to help help stop a suicide. The dispatcher said she wasnt sure suicide was against the law. I told her that it was, it still counted as murder in our jurisdiction. She remained dubious and also wasn't sure that drinking paint would be lethal. I pointed out drinking a pint of paint thinner definitely was.
Finally I changed tack; i said that when this guy went into convulsions, he was sure to make a mess of the floor of the buisness he was in, between the spilled and the vomited paint, and that most assuredly violated destruction of private property laws.
Her entire demeanor changed. She responded brightly with 'oh yeah, you should have led with that, ill have officers and emts at your location within 10 minutes!
Here they're pretty great with welfare stuff.
Once my neighbour warned me about robots with lasers invading or something, and was talking to someone who didn't exist.
I called the po-po, who showed up and talked him into going to the emergency department with them.
I bumped into his mum a few weeks later and she thanked me for calling the police. She said he'd been having a psychotic break or something.
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But did he drink the paint?
We were able to stop him. I convinced him to step outside for a cigarette with me, while we continued talking. He was still talking pretty manicaly, which attracted the attention of a cop on foot, who helped me talk him down until ems arrived.
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Yeah I hear the "you'll be glad they exist when you need them" over and over but the 3 times I needed them they completely let me down. Government thugs is all they are.
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the secret service or FBI.
Call in The Beekeeper.
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