Readit News> Self-described ‘news’ accounts rapidly spread falsehoods around the perpetrator. One viral narrative falsely named him as “Ali al-Shakati”, a Muslim migrant new to the UK. This was later debunked by the police. Nonetheless, false claims surrounding the attack quickly garnered millions of views online, galvanised by anti-Muslim and anti-migrant activists and promoted by platforms’ recommender systems.
there's a secondary issue here, why in the world would you auto split a monetary value across a numeric decimal indicator? why would you split lines at all for this use case?
So a message intended to be sent by an SMTP client:
DATA
Hello customer,<br>[978 characters] 27.00
Was erroneously formated into:
DATA
Hello customer,<br>[978 characters] 27
.00
.
The period after 27 will be removed. And this is how the html will be rendered.
Hello customer,
[Lots of text] 2700
> He told me to go to the FTC home page and look up the main phone number. “Now hang up the phone, and I will call you from that number right now.” I did as he said. The FTC number flashed on my screen, and I picked up. “How do I know you’re not just spoofing this?” I asked.
> “It’s a government number,” he said, almost indignant. “It cannot be spoofed.”
Completely insane that we continue to allow caller ID and number spoofing, it's so effective for these fraud scenarios.
One day a few months ago I woke up to a missed call from a verified number. I had been in a car crash the night before, and I was worried I missed a call from the driver's insurance company.
I called them back, and I was told that I was talking to a civil engineering firm; the receptionist was polite, but she sounded even more confused than I was. I had googled the number while I was on the phone, and yup, it belonged to a civie firm.
At the time I just assumed some engineer fat fingered my number by mistake, but I guess I missed a call from "Amazon" or "your insurance company" or some other nonsense. Funnily enough an insurance scam might have gotten me in the state I was in.
The icing on the cake is when these frauds retract their papers, NOTHING happens to them. Nothing.
But the United States as a whole had a reported ≈325k[2] sexual assaults in 2021. That's 0.09% of the population.
Are you really over 60 times more likely to be sexually assaulted in the military than in the general public? And are over a fifth of sexual assaults in America happening between military personnel? Somebody please tell me what I'm missing because I must be making a serious logical mistake.
[1] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11994
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/642458/rape-and-sexual-a...