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Apparently he called the front desk and was even using the name of the guy er) Per Rare Ronee te eae ca Sena a eae ko your card details once they get them though, Seems like it'd be pretty hard to use it for something that wouldn't be traceable back to you. os EO Renta ace eee aaa me ere order one using the stolen card and ship it to your buyers address. Now the only traceable address is the innocent person who made the purchase on eBay. Source: I Pee Rac cna CeCe nic er Say But the innocent person will have your payment details cy Cr ren And eBay a record of the transaction. I'm sure the innocent person will be cooperative with the authorities who investigate the fraudulent purchase. Et Poo po cena een Petes connie) Iwork in IT and the last time that happened to me, I had a blast. Pretended to be a dumb Pea en Me cena Rc un aR Coco between macos and windows, not finding the power button, getting connected to the wifi, couldn't find my own desktop, etc. Got them so annoyed/frustrated after about 30 minutes of playing dumb all the while I knew they simply wanted to remote in and get control. Finally ry r0dsit.comAskRedltlcomments/Tksbalwhat_are_your_computer_ips_and_tricks, that not!441 PM bout? + AskRedet Ss Cs erecerns i an 2 Pend cor c) eo CRC assur ane ee een a he'd get these, he'd boot the Win7 one up. (newest at the time) . let them do their thing, when they'd say reboot, he'd close the vm (restore to snapshot) and open up an /OLDER/ copy of windows and let them back in. (Going from 7->XP->Vista->98->ME->95) and move eo a ue nuance Daa RU Mona tL Thad a boss get that same bullshit call while we were at work in a meeting, Started talking (Some other language) at them, Basically ended with "You have brought dishonor onto Na CUE ee occ erg error ences That is the greatest messing with scammers ive ever read about. They would have no idea what to do when suddenly it boots into a different older OS. DONE ecu kere SCE e Cu s Fry org Just one, and he got clear down to ME before getting a clue shit was up. He says he said "Ever have one of thase days when you're trying to fuck a guy over, that you oe nO U nated Tee ae ae aCe Prem Ne aea lat Err} STE eons In fact, I'm a story bandit and this is now my cool story when I meet people! Ed Poe Pec Poo PO ed Cea It's great right? 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You'll Pease ea ry r0dcit.comAskRedaltlcomments/Tksbalwhat_are_your_computer_ips_and_trcks,that not!441 PM Cece g ered Reply All 103 Long Distance Part I They did an AMA ITN ee Coe tse RAGA CS TNE St eee ts eee Reena tare Ret ae Ra Pts seaisenstntte Another article by The Guardian went deeper from the call center worker's perspective: ‘The scammers gaming India's overcrowded job market Race acti} ‘The Boy Who Heard Too Much Pree Like a comic-book villain transformed by a tragic accident, Weigman discovered at EE ure ue Cn ere He could impersonate any voice, memorize phone numbers by the sound of the buttons and decipher the inner workings of a phone system by the frequencies and Cea eee ae The knowledge enabled him to hack into cellphones, order phone lines disconnected and even tap home phones. “Man, it felt pretty powerful for a little kid,” he says. “Anyone said something bad EOI eee CRC a Matt, it turned out, had spent weeks identifying phone-company employees, PO Ra Re AR Ren Ca Man eRe ae eet Eee ean) SRR aE et ae SE ac ce eee aus Co ce PE eeu aur Tae Ocoee ko Pep eC ase a ka ae a Rei How one man turns annoying cold calls into cash Planet Money Episode 789: Robocall Invasion, Related article; On the Trail of the Robocall King FDERa onda Tee LSS Groner ‘A Real-Life Tax Scam: This Is What IRS Phone Fraud Sounds Like Pane eewie ee eR ee eee Cee] scams that prey on the elderly. The guest host is Frank Abagnale, whose story was the PE g a Nee SOC eects A et ‘This American Life 363: Enforcers - Act One: Hanging in Chad Se Oi Rac ge ee ee EU Rar spend part of each day running elaborate cons on Internet scammers ROORKEE CUR) Den Re Cee ee ce ea Sees ane nce Cie For more on what they did, along with photos, maps and phone recordings, go to this 419 Eater thread, ORCS ry. r0dsit.comiAskRedaltlcomments/Tksbalwhat_are_your_computer_ips_and_tricks,that not! 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If you press F2 you enter the cell with the whole contents highligted so you can edit the existing content instead of putting Cerna? Pets Eo ‘As someone who uses Excel a lot at work, Thank youl! .0k ea ay 6 Also, to make a new line inside your current cell, the shortcut is Alt+Enter. IIRC Ce ea As aR eee will close the window. So just be careful not to close your files. Ce sel Porn Se ee a a Cae Cd Dena occ eae gear) Pe coy Or) I'ma programmer and an Excel wizard and it never occurred to me that line Ce ee he OOS nse ee aa breaks that I typically avoid them unless necessary, but this is godly. eo Pe Pee ee eee ceed Eo 12. days of Christmas guide for keys F1-F12 courtesy of Amateur Transplant: On the first day of Christmas I learnt this in IT, F1 is the help key On the second day of Christmas I learnt this in IT, F2 is rename and F1 is the help key. COCR OR Ree a ecu Bey nothing, F8 does nothing, F7 does nothing, F6 does nothing, AND F5 REFRESHES THE SCREEN, F4 is the URL, F3 finds files, F2 is rename and F1 is the help key! ‘And on the 12th day of Christmas I moved them all around. Now F12's the URL, F11 finds files, F10 is rename, F9 switches the lights off, 8 fires rockets, 7 makes you pregnant, 6 still ry r0dit.comAskRedaltlcomments/Tksbalwhat_are_your_computer_ips_and_tcks, that not!441 PM bout? + AskRedet Ss Cs Cheon S Cotes PEUS coated Cored Pr) if you forget what your password is, but it's autsaved as *****, right click on the asterisks, ee eee Sa ee en ere Denne seer cesed Edit: spelling and HTML not javascript peers rr) Cnr Ears Piteeery DAU ak eae eS eed Pag eres RR Or seas 951 conc CEL! Pets Cees Peete PC ote POT Co The Windows Key plus one of the arrow keys will move the currently active window, depending which arrow you pressed. 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Peg ace ng Oe PUA Rn Mas cen ee eS IT stuff at work but as soon as something requires admin privileges I just say I don't have access to fix it and send them to the help desk co Seer TT guy here... random related story. I worked somewhere that the helpdesk was CO Om a Oak ane ae use a Needing to step in and help all the time as well We fixed it with a simple policy: only team leads could call IT or lodge a request for anything that wasn't an account issue (so “I can't log in’) First few weeks the team ry r0dcit.comAskRedaltlcomments/Tksbalwhat_are_your_computer_ips_and_trcks, that not!441 PM ‘what are your computer tps and Wicks that not everybody Ss ea Ces Crea ae Dee ee ence econ ace ha Re oe a a Peas See ea Ree On aE en eke a ice Re eee css SMe ea ce eka ay they had a vested interest in saying “why the fuck do you not know how to copy paste in excel, you're a fucking accountant?" 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Ctrl alt del* is an interrupt, and will force it to your will unless something is ry r0dcit.comiAskRedaltlcomments/Tksbalwhat_are_your_computer_ips_and_tricks, that not!441 PM bout? + AskRedet Ss Cs erecerns i an 2 centre ene Ra ee eee ae ree er BS ee Rm ae aa It waits for everything to be done, then spam-flashes blue / black / blue / black and probably lands on the Ctrl+Alt+Del screen but might just land on my desktop instead. (I have a black desktop background, by the way.) Far Pend Poot re Ctrl+Alt+Del does send a interrupt/break command, so sometimes it's the way to go. But normally I just do Ctri+Shift+Esc. Prt Poy Poor Pee Cees J eC Ta Dae Oe Tg een Nate 15.8k cera If you don't setup your work email in your phone too!! Eas rad love coming in on a Monday morning and having someone ask me why I didn't respond Cree CC ga eee rary Peet RR RR Ce Ces a re Reo cy DOSES a eae ie ena ac ee shorts. I came in on Wednesday wearing shorts, boss tried to write me up. 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He got pissed and I told him to take it up with HR. 19k ry. r0dsit.comAskRedatlcomments/Tksbalwhat_are_your_computer_ips_and_trcks,that not!441 PM ‘what are your computer tps and Wicks that not everybody Ss ea Ces Crean ae NRCS ea me Tue eae ee Rey on call, they mean give my personal phone number and be available at any time for no extra pay. And then act like I'm the asshole when I say no. oy ee PO Ponte Cte Pore CO ee ee as ae Lee Pca aes oer? ey ecard Thave a separate work phone that I turn on at 8 AM and turn off at 5 PM, and it stays off on the weekends. In fact, was even encouraged to only leave it on during work eee Rss oR aE es ae eee ea phone, and it's great to have absolutely nothing work-related on there. ETT Ce cond Cee acy SC ac a ed CnC oy my phone and I CANNOT WAIT ):):) 408 eon Ijust ignore them unless its during work hours. 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Just pressed space four times (and they were not a programmer ~ this was in essays and shit). 4ak feed Inoticed you said had, congrats on making positive life decisions Faia es RS ecco) 533 ened Coed aT Fun Fact, the Shift key was used on type writers to actually shift the hammer so that the Cres eee ee ee 7 Croan CE Rae Soe el aucun Sc cua eI orca Uae Raa een eC eeaacs ac rr) ees ed Eres) Thad a friend who did that capstock thing as well. We were like 10, and we sat by his computer and he started writing with capstock, and I asked wtf he was doing. So I had to show him how to use Shift. He still uses Capstock actually, because he grew up using it Fre Poors Peony CEL I try explaining cntrl v at work. They always get tripped up with "paste starts with a p not av". PU tema Edit: ctri* not entrl. 'm leaving it because I am in fact a Savage. rr) Peron ed ry r0dcit.comiAskRedaltcomments/Tksbalwhat_are_your_computer_ips_and_tricks, that not! Sd441 PM ‘what are your computer tps and Wicks that not everybody Ss ea Ces \onauee a an 2 erry] rea es Un Sa ect Ru eee eee eed age Pas en See ee ieee eee ee ea ae eet Prd Ente eer Cem ae Ce Ce ae Bord eee THIS just blew my mind. It feels so obvious yet Id never even thought about it. Thank you 2.2k cnet Yeah, it's such a game changer when you get used to using shortcuts. Try these, they eRe Pe ee eee arm CL ar nd ate ea EO a atk eae oe ee ee SC Sask Rack ee ee ec etn cos knee nue a Cat ae tc) fae ee eee en ee ee a ae od quickly) errs oreeeyy Just to add to this, ctri+tab will cycle through tabs one at a time and ctri+shift+tab will Coe ace cat) or ees crs eS See ae ea eC a Ey Ces ros Ree ce a eee Foye panel ry r0dsit.comAskRedaltlcomments/Tksbalwhat_are_your_computer_ips_and_ticks,that not!441 PM Ss Cs erecerns i ¢ icc Not sure what to think right now. 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Pee a Rue asics errs cD] cE cone aed 538 eee Se ered Just sat here and played with these, going "whaaaaat" out loud at work. Now I know where to Pa ue ce cers ca] Same. This is going to change my whole life. reg Pe eC Cece HOLY SHIT. So that is why all my windows close?? I have spent so much time reopening them all at work. I have three monitors so I'm constantly moving things and accidentally shaking 426 eed Erm and Windows + Tab is the alt tab of desktops 369 Onto’ Dreteete ry r0dsit.comAskRedaltlcomments/Tksbalwhat_are_your_computer_ips_and_trcks,that not!441 PM Ss Cs erecerns i ra cravat rd oro reece Po POR nanos Ceres cee Cre After 40 years dealing with computers my top tip is - seriously - try really hard not to need or ‘own a printer of any kind, they're a nightmare. Feather Of A_Phoenix ae ee eee cM Sg Cay serious. Trust me, Please. 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