#fraud

digit@iviv.hu
waynerad@diasp.org

The tech industry is locked in an "enshittification" cycle where companies are incentivized to enable rather than prohibit scammers, says Cory Doctorow. Google, Amazon, the company formerly known as Facebook ("this is 'going meta,' so naturally, Meta is doing it too"), delivery app companies (Doordash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats), hosting companies (Wix), etc. Even financial companies (Visa) don't care?

"On Wednesday night, a friend came over to watch some TV with us. We ordered out. We got scammed. We searched for a great local Thai place we like called Kiin and clicked a sponsored link for a Wix site called 'Kiinthaila.com.' We should have clicked the third link down (kiinthaiburbank.com)."

"Search Google for carpenters, plumbers, gas-stations, locksmiths, concert tickets, entry visas, jobs at the US Post Office or (not making this up) tech support for Google products, and the top result will be a paid ad for a scam. Sometimes it's several of the top ads."

"Kiin Thai has a Google Business Profile, and searching for 'kiin thai burbank' brings up a 'Knowledge Panel' with the correct website address -- on a page that is headed with a link to a scam website for the same business. Google, in other words, has everything it needs to flag lookalike sites and confirm them with their registered owners. It would cost Google money to do this -- engineer-time to build and maintain the system, content moderator time to manually check flagged listings, and lost ad-revenue from scammers -- but letting the scams flourish makes Google money, at the expense of Google users and Google business customers."

"Now, Google has an answer for this: they tell merchants who are being impersonated by ad-buying scammers that all they need to do is outbid them for the top ad-spot. This is a common approach -- Amazon has a $31b/year 'ad business' that's mostly its own platform sellers bidding against each other to show you fake results for your query."

"Wix also has platform-scale analytics that they could use to detect and interdict this kind of fraud -- when a scammer creates a hundred lookalike websites for restaurants and uses Wix's merchant services to process payments for them, that could trigger human review -- but it didn't."

This is your brain on fraud apologetics - Pluralistic

#solidstatelife #fraud

nowisthetime@pod.automat.click

https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c/Project-Veritas-and-the-Virus:3
#virusScam by the evil ones has fooled the fools
18th February 2023 - "It’s hard to believe that we are now over three years into the #COVID-19 #fraud. We have exposed every aspect of #virology and it is clear that the #virus model is not supported by the scientific literature. However, belief in the “virus” is necessary to achieve control of the population and this is maintained through one distraction after another. Project #Veritas have produced the latest nonsense that unfortunately keeps people trapped within the fraudulent virus and contagion paradigms.
Belief in viruses is as deadly as the belief in the authority of the state. Many of the freedom community don’t seem to realise that changing the actors won’t free them from the plantation. The good news is that team “no virus” continues to gain more traction… "
https://drsambailey.com/resources/videos/viruses-unplugged/project-veritas-and-the-virus/

psych@diasp.org

Here's an interesting and well-written glimpse at #GQP / #TrumpVirus cult 'thinking' (about exit doors?) vis-a-vis TFG...

Trump's idiotic 'trading cards' are the last straw for Republicans

Not only a case study of 'group-think' among the Trump once-faithful, but an excellent compendium of historical facts, one horrid act after another, serving as an excellent list of reasons to re-think there being a modicum of anything positive ever, in Drumpf-world.

#cults #cult #deprogramming #CognitiveDissonance #Crime #fraud #sedition #TaxEvasion #Emoluments #TeflonDon #Jan6

kuchinster@hub.hubzilla.de

Tale of the Holodomor. Kiev region. Part 5

In previous posts there were reports of the Kiev regional government about the delivery of meat in the first and second quarters of 1933. This report is interesting because at the height of the famine, that is, at a time when all the dogs were to be eaten, in the Kiev region there are tens of thousands of tons of cattle for delivery. Which had to be fed all winter and kept somewhere..... The amount of feed needed to keep pigs, I think, all imagine?

There were also sows, milk producing cows (reports on milk yield in the first half of 1933 are also given in the previous post), egg laying hens, sheep for wool etc. (you can also find those reports in the previous post).

Well, in order not to say that after the delivery of meat in the first quarter of 1933 the peasants had nothing left, here is the report of the Kiev regional administration on the delivery of meat for August 1933

https://pikabu.ru/story/skazka_pro_golodomor_kievskaya_oblast_chast_5_7722712

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Which shows that in August 1933, the peasants of the Kiev region, "finishing the last dogs", gave another 20418 quintals of live weight of livestock

And now the answers to the most common comments...

As I did not warn you about "...and my grandmother told me..." today it is one of the most frequent arguments against the Holodomor.

I respect all grandmothers in the world, and what they tell, but if these words are not documented (at least something) they remain stories.

If we believe the words, then let's believe everything they tell us.

"One in two hundred women in the U.S. claims to have gotten pregnant without sex."

http://0s.o53xo.ozsxg5djfzzhk.cmle.ru/article/1921779

Aliens were inducing a man to have an intimate relationship with a monster

http://0s.o53xo.nz2hmltsou.cmle.ru/novosti/345458/

  1. Regarding the fact that not all areas were equally affected by the famine.

First of all, according to the official statistics, the human losses in Ukraine (USSR) alone were 7 million (!) people. Seven million out of 28 million people lived on its territory. And Kyiv region (again according to official statistics) is one of the most affected

  1. Regarding the fact that Soviet statistics are unreliable and lie....

Which of the above reports do you consider fake? Again, if there are other versions of the report of the regional government of the Kiev region, for example, on the delivery of meat, then feel free to put it out...

  1. Well, about these terrible photos used as confirmation of the Holodomor

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then, again, for the umpteenth time, "check everything they put in your ears!"

ALL these photos were taken by F. Nansen in 1922 in the Volga region.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Голод_в_Поволжье_(1921-1922

Of the more than 10,000 photos of those times, there is NOT ONE photo confirming the mass starvation of 1933.

More in the next post

#Russia #ukraine #famine #holodomor #fraud #manipulation #russian #history #USSR