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Subject: Re: Fake Job Offers
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:49:21 -0500
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On 3/17/2025 7:36 AM, zen cycle wrote:
> On 3/16/2025 12:24 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>> What appeared to be a job offer from a CEO was really a 
>> phony counterfeit in which a company was claiming that if 
>> you invested $500 into an AI company they could return you 
>> $5,000 in one month. 
> 
> Gee, ya don't say!
> 
> <snipped self-aggrandizing bullshit>
> 
>> Let's remember that Flunky told us that he has an EE but 
>> he couldn't understand a simple C program that did nothing 
>> but flash lights.
> 
> Let's remember that no matter how many times you tell that 
> lie, it will never become true.
> 
>>  And it was explained in the comments! 
> 
> The same comments which listed the microcontroller and 
> peripheral A/D part numbers, which you were completely 
> unaware was contained in the comments, and couldn't explain 
> why an external 24-bit A/D was used when the 10-bit A/D 
> integral to the microcontroller would have been more than 
> accurate enough for the application.
> 
> Even a technician worth half a shit would have seen that, 
> but it was news to tommy, who allegedly wrote the code.
> 
>> While Frank did hold a useful and necessary position, he 
>> too had problems working a real job. 
> 
> no, he didn't. That's another kunich lie. The person who had 
> problems working real jobs is the guy that has 20 jobs 
> listed over 20 years on his resume.
> 
>> Should we say that these people were better educated than 
>> someone who became wealthy being asigned jobs by PhD's who 
>> managed them?
> 
> And who would that be? The same guy whose been claiming make 
> over $10K a month on a million dollar investment for the 
> past 5 years that's still only worth a million?
> 
>>
>> We cannot deny that education is the key to success but 
>> education actually worked for is a lot better than 
>> education supposedly received when actually avoiding the 
>> draft and paying not the slightest attention to anything 
>> that he hadn't already taught himself as a high school 
>> student.
> 
> And who would that be? The same guy that joined the airforce 
> to avoid the draft, didn't "realize" he had enough credits 
> to graduate high school so he took the military GED, then 
> claims to have "read out" three libraries?
> 
>>
>> So I almost fell for a scam but could tell a scam from the 
>> real thing as soon as it was p-laced. Don't let yourself 
>> be conned in the same manner.
> 
> I'm gonna make a general statement and suggest no one in 
> this forum besides you would have even gotten past the point 
> where someone claiming to be a CEO called them with a job 
> offer.
> 

My standard response to spam calls is, "We're happy to help. 
  Can we start with your personal card number and home 
shipping address?".

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971