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skua<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aliexpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aliexpress</span></a> global <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScamArtists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScamArtists</span></a> continue their predations.</p><p>They tell me I've got +4 messages from sellers.</p><p>And there is no apparent way of viewing those Messages ( which prob include comms about mislabelled products) in Firefox on Android.</p><p>It's now taken over an hour of my time trying to communicate about getting a refund due to the deliberate time wasting user interface that these <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Shits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shits</span></a> provide.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ConsumingIn2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConsumingIn2025</span></a></p>
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn<p>Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #243: Victor Lustig.<br>.<br>.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scams</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eiffeltower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eiffeltower</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/confidenceman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>confidenceman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trickster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trickster</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scamartists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scamartists</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/alcapone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alcapone</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/paris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/strangebuttrue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strangebuttrue</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webcomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webcomic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uselessfacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uselessfacts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uselessfactsbadlydrawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uselessfactsbadlydrawn</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>We&#39;ll go for the glitter, the fake and phony, any day in the week. It&#39;s built right into our culture, and our religious history absolutely has much to do with this predisposition: those periods of &quot;great revival&quot; which were essentially big tent shows in which people went hog wild rolling on the ground and barking and dancing and babbling &quot;in the Spirit,&quot; with a preacher man or several of them moderating the show and passing the collection plate….</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Vivek" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vivek</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ramaswamy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ScamArtists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ScamArtists</span></a> <br />/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;What’s important about Ramaswamy is not his ideology—he has no coherent one—but how susceptible our political and media ecosystem is to a charismatic phony.&quot;</p><p>~ Molly Jong-Fast</p><p>It says something about us Americans — and about our media — that we&#39;re such sitting ducks for these phony, sham, scam artists-cum-grifters. As Jong-Fast notes, citing Kurt Andersen, look at our religious history, which is full of these types!</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Vivek" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vivek</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ramaswamy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ScamArtists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ScamArtists</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/vivek-ramaswamy-donald-trump-gop-2024" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/vi</span><span class="invisible">vek-ramaswamy-donald-trump-gop-2024</span></a><br />/1</p>
𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒆®<p>👇🇨🇦"Scammers tried to rob this Ontario couple of $9K. Police say more and more seniors are falling prey"<br><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ScamArtists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScamArtists</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/VulnerableSeniors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VulnerableSeniors</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/scams-ontario-rise-grandparent-scam-1.6772033" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sca</span><span class="invisible">ms-ontario-rise-grandparent-scam-1.6772033</span></a></p>
KinoGhoul<p>Scam Artist Pastor Brags About His $45 Million-Dollar Airplane</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/0bUF43aMD5Q" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/0bUF43aMD5Q</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspolitics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/AlonzoBodden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlonzoBodden</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/RebelHQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RebelHQ</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/RHQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RHQ</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/scamartists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scamartists</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/kennethcopeland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kennethcopeland</span></a></p>