patrick_g
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Tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Funny!!!!!!!!!!!!
The dog pix are precious.
Pat
The dog pix are precious.
Pat
Leadin on a scammer..
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Travelover
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patrick_g said:
The beauty of it was that he got multiple people to kick in $1 each to pay the $80 or so FedEx shipping and cost the scammer over $500 in import duties on a worthless package. KaChing!
daTeacha
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Law enforcement is just that -- enforcement after the crime has been committed. It cannot protect you from a crime that someone is thinking about until they actually begin doing something illegal.
Telling someone you will sell them your $15,000 car for $1000 is not a crime, even if you are lying through your teeth. Taking their money and not delivering the goods is. Emailing back and forth about a supposed sale is not a crime until funds are exchanged and the goods do not change hands. Law enforcement cannot do anything until after you have suffered a loss, unless the perpetrator can be shown to have victimized someone else.
If you want to be protected from crime happening to you, you need to plan to do it yourself by whatever means you are comfortable with. If you want someone punished after they have harmed you in some way, call the police. You can be pretty sure they will not be able to arrest someone who is thinking about breaking in to your home, but they might be willing to look for them after the fact.
You need to accept the fact that the law is simply a set of guidelines more or less defining which actions will result in attempts at governmental punishment. Protection of person and property from being victimized is up to the individual, with the law being relegated to attempting capture and punishment.
Telling someone you will sell them your $15,000 car for $1000 is not a crime, even if you are lying through your teeth. Taking their money and not delivering the goods is. Emailing back and forth about a supposed sale is not a crime until funds are exchanged and the goods do not change hands. Law enforcement cannot do anything until after you have suffered a loss, unless the perpetrator can be shown to have victimized someone else.
If you want to be protected from crime happening to you, you need to plan to do it yourself by whatever means you are comfortable with. If you want someone punished after they have harmed you in some way, call the police. You can be pretty sure they will not be able to arrest someone who is thinking about breaking in to your home, but they might be willing to look for them after the fact.
You need to accept the fact that the law is simply a set of guidelines more or less defining which actions will result in attempts at governmental punishment. Protection of person and property from being victimized is up to the individual, with the law being relegated to attempting capture and punishment.
dynasim
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MikePA
I thought name calling wasn't allowed. I have heard the word
"Sophistry"
used (never about me), and I have attempted to understand its use. I think I understand its definition, but the users are typically way off base. I could be wrong.
Perhaps you could give me an education.
Visit Singapore, and one comes to understand the effectiveness of deterence.
Chris
I thought name calling wasn't allowed. I have heard the word
"Sophistry"
used (never about me), and I have attempted to understand its use. I think I understand its definition, but the users are typically way off base. I could be wrong.
Perhaps you could give me an education.
Visit Singapore, and one comes to understand the effectiveness of deterence.
Chris
MikePA
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Please point out where I called you a name.dynasim said:
Sophistry - a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.dynasim said:
The topic is escammers and why local police departments choose to focus their money and time on solving other crimes.
The reasoning from your post is as follows;
- Toleration leads
- to acceptance
- to propogation {sic}
- to degradation
- to the the end of civil society
- to a socialist government
From 'toleration' of escammers to the end of civil society and a socialist government is reasoning I find fallacious, ergo, sophistry.
Bedlam
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