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@Lensflare Great idea.
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@cafecortado imagine that the scammer missed and he is paying for the mortgages...
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It is not whether you are on a list anymore. It is: how many lists in how many countries are you on?
I honestly think a lot of these scam emails are connected to government agencies. I had to transfer over 10K into my account to pay for taxes a few years back. That same day I got a bunch of fake emails saying stuff about my bank account. Enough that it felt like they knew about my transfer. I was actually shocked. I found out that any time you transfer over 10K the government is notified by the bank. So someone got the notification, had already associated my email with my bank account, and sent me scam stuff in response. This tells me the government fraud link is way worse than I imagined.
I used to be suspicious that government turned a blind eye to scams and fraud. As a way to antagonize the population into compliance with passing laws. This event makes me think they are profiting as well.
Found this in our codebase, apparently one of my co-workers had written this
So apparently I own land in dubai. Like three separate mortgages based on the email I received.
Your request (Mortgage Registration)
with request number xxxxx / 2024
has been completed
and you can print your issued certificate from this [link]
I've stripped out the numbers and link.
After confirming it was safe I followed through on a old spare cellphone, and yep, I own three mortgages for properties in dubai.
Except obviously I don't.
Someone used my name, an american, to register mortgages in dubai. *Nice* properties according to the pictures.
What started out as a scam email, or what looked like a scam email, went to an actual government of dubai website, with real mortgage registrations.
How in the fuck does that happen?
The only thing I can think of is someone committed identity fraud, and/or an alphabet agency went through the list of known political dissidents, set up a bullshit mortgage in a questionable territory, and are now using that as a pretext to monitor 'extremists with foreign ties.'
All that for some guy on the west coast that hasn't attended a political rally in his entire life.
Must have been that sign I held at sixteen years old by the side of the road that said "bush lied us into a war, and people died."
or maybe it was that time I told a really enthusiastic obama supporting police officer that it amazed me obama had time to win the nobel peace prize what with all the bombings he carried out against foreign civilians.
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