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Hey I almost got scammed by Google

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

23 points by sega_sai 24 days ago · 5 comments

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JohnMakin 24 days ago

Note that there are sites like this that are "legit" in the sense they just forward your request to the .gov site for an extra fee, and you do get your documents later - I made this mistake with a birth certificate request once on one of these types of sites.

quamserena 24 days ago

This is why you use uBlock Origin.

antiquark 23 days ago

Coincidentally, I did a search for "honda generator." One of the sponsored results was a scam posing as a different company!

https://imgur.com/a/3ydKHZe

sega_saiOP 23 days ago

I wonder how much of this crap will also leak into AI training data...

hyperhello 23 days ago

This happened to me. I froze my credit, did a chargeback, and demanded a refund and for them to delete my personal information. Yeah, it’s embarrassing, until you realize what not trusting the government means: everyone’s filter against bad actors gets degraded.

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