The following is pulled from my instant messenger:
(6:59:11 PM) spitinacopsface: AAAAAAHHH!
(6:59:14 PM) spitinacopsface: I fucking
(6:59:18 PM) spitinacopsface: went to a government website
(6:59:29 PM) spitinacopsface: for assistance paying bills for the poor
(6:59:32 PM) spitinacopsface: and I clicked on a link
(6:59:56 PM) spitinacopsface: and it told me that I can get a gift card for $250 worth of food if I fill out this survey
(6:59:58 PM) spitinacopsface: so I did
(7:00:01 PM) spitinacopsface: and I am an idiot
(7:00:11 PM) spitinacopsface: so I told it my credit card number for my paypal debit card
(7:00:20 PM) Sigma386: Oh God...
(7:00:22 PM) spitinacopsface: and apparently now I spent $96 on a MagicJak.
(7:00:24 PM) spitinacopsface: Yeah.
(7:00:29 PM) spitinacopsface: From a fucking government website
(7:00:36 PM) Sigma386: Wow....
(7:00:37 PM) spitinacopsface: to MagicJak
(7:00:43 PM) spitinacopsface: makes no sense
(7:00:44 PM) spitinacopsface: but
(7:00:45 PM) spitinacopsface: I think
(7:00:53 PM) spitinacopsface: I am never typing my debit card number to anyone again
(7:01:18 PM) spitinacopsface: How do you go from government assistance to a fucking company's product purchase order in one click?
(7:01:33 PM) Sigma386: Good question.
(7:01:54 PM) Sigma386: I mean why would the government need sponsors?
(7:02:06 PM) spitinacopsface: Well I haven't paid my electricity bill in months.
(7:02:16 PM) spitinacopsface: And April is the month when they can turn off the power on you.
(7:02:24 PM) spitinacopsface: So I've got to get this paid somehow.
(7:02:30 PM) spitinacopsface: I thought this government grant would do it.
(7:02:33 PM) spitinacopsface: But what the fuck.
(7:02:39 PM) spitinacopsface: It is sponsored by taxes.
(7:02:44 PM) spitinacopsface: It says right here on the government site.
(7:02:48 PM) Sigma386: Yeah...
(7:02:57 PM) spitinacopsface: That tax dollars pay for a grant that they use to give money to people like me.
(7:02:59 PM) Sigma386: So why the hell do they need to advertise 3rd party services?
(7:03:13 PM) spitinacopsface: And then they said that there are also grants available for other things, like groceries.
(7:03:19 PM) spitinacopsface: So I was like "cool, I need groceries."
(7:03:32 PM) spitinacopsface: And I clicked on that, an then they were asking my name and shit.
(7:03:51 PM) spitinacopsface: An they want to make sure I am the head of the household so I had to electronically sign that I am over 18 and a bunch of shit
(7:04:01 PM) spitinacopsface: an then they asked me a million more questions
(7:04:15 PM) spitinacopsface: and one was my bank account that I use to pay bills
(7:04:27 PM) spitinacopsface: and I told them paypal instead
(7:04:36 PM) spitinacopsface: and then I hit "submit,"
(7:04:47 PM) spitinacopsface: and then it says "thank you for buying MagicJak."
(7:04:56 PM) spitinacopsface: And now $96 is gone from my PayPal account.
(7:04:56 PM) Sigma386: What the Hell is MagicJak?
(7:05:01 PM) spitinacopsface: a phone
(7:05:11 PM) Sigma386: A fucking phone!?
(7:05:26 PM) Sigma386: And it was from a link for groceries?
(7:05:57 PM) Sigma386: Oh my God.
(7:06:03 PM) spitinacopsface: I am back at the main site, and it talks only of government stuff, not MagicJak. No corporations or anything.
(7:06:09 PM) spitinacopsface: Fucking liars ...
(7:06:14 PM) spitinacopsface: Maybe it is a fake government site.
(7:06:24 PM) spitinacopsface: It is a .com, not .gov or org or anyhting.
(7:06:25 PM) Sigma386: What is the website?
(7:06:30 PM) spitinacopsface: I bet they're pretending to be the government.
(7:06:38 PM) spitinacopsface: familyfinacialhelpus.com
(7:06:46 PM) Sigma386: Yeah, be careful like that, government sites always, ALWAYS end in .gov.
(7:06:57 PM) spitinacopsface: Yeah, I wasnt looking at the URL until now.
(7:06:59 PM) Sigma386: .com indicates a commercial site.
So let this be a warning to all the people who are looking for financial assistance, be sure to stay away from this site, they are a SCAM! They will steal your money, like they did to my friend here. They will pretend to be a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, when all they really want is to sell you a phone.
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Anyone reading this, beware of anyone offering you anything. I thought it was in the name of the government, and I trusted it because of how insanely bureaucratic the questions they asked me were. They asked about my household size, how much I spend a month on this and that, etc. It was exactly like my food stamp application until it asked my credit card number. I don't know why I was absent-minded enough to think that the Department of Health and Human Services would need my debit card number and CCV2, and I didn't notice the ".com" as opposed to ".gov," but people out there know exactly how to misrepresent themselves as government, because I have answered so many of the government's questions in order to apply for aid, and it looked exactly like another one of those. Better to apply for benefits and stuff in person. Don't trust anything. I still don't get why I bought a MagicJak out of it as opposed to any other product or just having my money go into a nothing, but I called MagicJak, and they don't even have a record of my order, so....
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