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Open AI GPT updates -- what's next? Any ideas?
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FUCK LEETCODE
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Please accept Indians. I can’t go back. 🇺🇸🙏
Scams like the Norton Refund Scam that I fell for are complex operations carried out by what are effectively multinational scam corporations. First, there is an acquisitions department which is responsible for buying emails. Next, a tech department sends out scam emails to those email addresses to bait victims into calling the scammer’s fake tech support number to uninstall Norton and get a refund. Then a large call center org in India takes the calls from victims to scam them into buying gift cards for the scam operation. There is a tech team involved with each call in order to get inside the victim’s computer and download data. Once the victim buys the gift card and sends the numbers over to the scammer, a merchandise team uses the gift card number to redeem the gift card and buy expensive goods inside a store within half an hour. This merchandise team works in the US. After this, a delivery team delivers the expensive good to a warehouse and finally a sales team puts these goods up on Amazon to sell. Once the good is sold, the scammers get money. To pull tougher this large and complex operation requires nothing short of a company complete with HR, research, and management. There is also recruiting, career progression, performance evaluation, and finance. In some of the countries where these scam companies operate eg India, the company may even be formally incorporated and pay taxes on its ill gotten gains. Leading such a large and complex scam company requires real talent and funding. I wonder who is enabling them?
Need the beekeepers in real life
OP, my 71 year old father who didn't graduate high school didn't fall for this scam. I can't believe the current state of tech companies and their staffing
We shouldn’t shame people who were victims of scams. The shame is weaponized by scammers, making victims keep shut.
Damn, looks like The Scam LLC has some real good team work 🤝
They have a high bar for new hires
>Describes how company makes money "who could be funding them?"
So complicated, just buy some personal information from meta and feed to chatgpt, save 80% effort and cost🤭
It’s mostly enabled by dumbos who fall for it. So many red flags, and people still don’t get it? 🤦♂️
Like OP 😂 he had to go validate himself that he fell for some mastermind scheme to not feel dumb
But the scam operation really is complex and smart though.