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    Default Public service announcement

    Be aware there is a scam out there posing as a car or truck for sale through Ebay motors. The scammers get people to buy Ebay gift cards and give them the pin numbers while posing as Ebay. Ebay motors does not use gift cards for sales.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eagle_Eye View Post
    Be aware there is a scam out there posing as a car or truck for sale through Ebay motors. The scammers get people to buy Ebay gift cards and give them the pin numbers while posing as Ebay. Ebay motors does not use gift cards for sales.
    I heard that those gift cards end up being cashed in by ActBlue, EE.

    ActBlue is undeniably the cash cow of the "progressive" movement, boasting over $6 billion raised for favored candidates since 2004.

    The organization funneled more than $1.5 billion to leftist candidates in 2018 alone, and has moved almost $900 million to assist "progressives" thus far in 2019 and 2020.

    Most of these contributions, according to ActBlue, come through gift cards of $100 or less.

    It does not have to reveal donor names when processing its gift cards, as is normally required for virtually all online transactions.

    This allows ActBlue or a mega-donor to easily break large donations down into smaller gifts to avoid campaign finance laws and Federal Election Commission scrutiny — once an individual donor or third-party organization has given $200 or more to a candidate, for instance, their information is supposed to be added to a public FEC database for the sake of transparency.

    ActBlue’s structure allows illegal donations made online to be broken down into smaller gifts from claimed U.S. sources with little chance of exposure.

    ActBlue’s design allows large donors to exceed contribution limits without even triggering the threshold for public reporting.

    4.7 million of the 9.7 million ActBlue donors are reported to be unemployed. That’s a whopping 48.4% of all ActBlue donors in 2019-2020.



    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/09/16/actblue_raises_millions_in_suspicious_gift_card_do nations_144208.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eagle_Eye View Post
    Be aware there is a scam out there posing as a car or truck for sale through Ebay motors. The scammers get people to buy Ebay gift cards and give them the pin numbers while posing as Ebay. Ebay motors does not use gift cards for sales.
    So many scams, so few non-gullible ppl.

    One of my friends got scammed out of her camper last week. A young woman with two small kids came to her door in tears, begging to buy the camper because they were homeless and had no place to go. Friend told her that it was for sale for $3,000. Young lady cried some more and said that she only had $1,200. So friend felt sorry for her and accepted that. A couple days later friend saw her camper for sale on Facebook Marketplace -- for $3,000. It even still had the same pic of her cat hanging over the couch.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    So many scams, so few non-gullible ppl.

    One of my friends got scammed out of her camper last week. A young woman with two small kids came to her door in tears, begging to buy the camper because they were homeless and had no place to go. Friend told her that it was for sale for $3,000. Young lady cried some more and said that she only had $1,200. So friend felt sorry for her and accepted that. A couple days later friend saw her camper for sale on Facebook Marketplace -- for $3,000. It even still had the same pic of her cat hanging over the couch.
    Horrible

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatFowlWoman View Post
    One of my friends got scammed out of her camper last week. A young woman with two small kids came to her door in tears, begging to buy the camper because they were homeless and had no place to go. Friend told her that it was for sale for $3,000. Young lady cried some more and said that she only had $1,200. So friend felt sorry for her and accepted that. A couple days later friend saw her camper for sale on Facebook Marketplace -- for $3,000. It even still had the same pic of her cat hanging over the couch.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasist View Post
    Horrible
    Naturally, you believe it, imbecile.

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