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Post by Toad on Nov 23, 2009 12:16:11 GMT -5
LOL: www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1942119,00.html?cnn=yes Who knows how this case will turn out, but I love when insurance investigaters turn this kind of thing up. |
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Post by texaswoodie on Nov 23, 2009 14:56:55 GMT -5
I've never understood Facebook or Tweeter or whatever it's called. Put your whole life out there for people to see and you're going to get burned.
My nephew has a used car business. He puts GPS units on all his cars so he knows where they are and he can go get them if they don't pay. The problem is if the battery is dead, the GPS doesn't work. Such was the case with a car he had the other day. So he looks on Facebook and yep, there the guy is with his location. My nephew went over and picked the car up. ;D
Curt
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Post by Toad on Nov 23, 2009 15:10:16 GMT -5
LOL, love it, Curt.
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Post by Bikerrandy on Nov 23, 2009 16:40:18 GMT -5
Facebook can definitely burn ya, if you have a reason to be burned.
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brent
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Post by brent on Nov 23, 2009 17:06:47 GMT -5
If your dumb enough to put every detail of your life online....you deserve to get burned. Don't write anything down that you don't want everyone to see....because they probably will...lol.
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Post by Woodyrock on Nov 24, 2009 3:11:58 GMT -5
Here, I though everybody knew that anything that goes on the web NEVER goes away! Plus, you can be assured that any and all information about you is very carefully filed away by some government computer boffin for just in case 'they' need the information one day.
Woody
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goldfinger1
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Post by goldfinger1 on Nov 24, 2009 8:47:17 GMT -5
That's good. Another scam uncovered...
Steve
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chassroc
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Post by chassroc on Nov 24, 2009 15:52:16 GMT -5
Unfortunately....many job seekers also find out the hard way that their past can come back to haunt them. Just remember, anything you say (or do) can be held against you....
Cahrlie
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Post by Tonyterner on Nov 24, 2009 16:03:43 GMT -5
Well Facebook is private if you choose it to be. Only a moron would allow anyone access to their photos. Mine are restricted to friends only. I doubt the woman's depression anyway. She claims she was doing these things to forget her problems. Major depression isn't caused by problems its in imbalance in the brain. Sounds like she was the typical slacker trying to work the system.
I have a couple of friends who are detectives for insurance companies and their day consists of trying to take hidden photos of people who the company believes are scamming them. They catch more than enough to justify their salaries.
Curt I think that would be illegal. Once he sells the cars they are no longer his. I hope he doesn't get caught or he could go to jail for invasion of privacy.
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Post by texaswoodie on Nov 24, 2009 18:40:33 GMT -5
You may be right, but I'm thinking the car is still his until it's paid for. He is a pretty smart cookie and I would think he knows what he's doing.
Curt
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Post by Toad on Nov 24, 2009 20:04:03 GMT -5
It belongs to whoever holds the paper on the loan.
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jcinpc
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Post by jcinpc on Nov 24, 2009 20:29:13 GMT -5
Well Facebook is private if you choose it to be. Only a moron would allow anyone access to their photos. Mine are restricted to friends only. I doubt the woman's depression anyway. She claims she was doing these things to forget her problems. Major depression isn't caused by problems its in imbalance in the brain. Sounds like she was the typical slacker trying to work the system. I have a couple of friends who are detectives for insurance companies and their day consists of trying to take hidden photos of people who the company believes are scamming them. They catch more than enough to justify their salaries. Curt I think that would be illegal. Once he sells the cars they are no longer his. I hope he doesn't get caught or he could go to jail for invasion of privacy. Tony, I was an insurance fraud investigator for 4 years and believe me I can tell you stories about film I got and people I busted. They waste more time trying to collect instead of working |
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Post by Tonyterner on Nov 24, 2009 20:33:18 GMT -5
I don't deny that he CAN do it. Its that he's doing it without informing the buyer that I believe crosses the line. What's next. Here's taking it to the next level. Someone who works at the company carrying your car loan needs to take some trash to the dump. He goes into his computer and finds you live near by and have a truck loan with them. He goes and takes your car to do it with the argument that you don't own it the loan company does. lol OK that was just silly but if I bought a used car and I found it was bugged without me knowing it the car would end up in a river and I'd stop paying the loan. ;D
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Post by Woodyrock on Nov 25, 2009 2:13:30 GMT -5
Now, if Woody found the GPS unit, he would attach it to something like a long haul truck. OK, I am devious.
Woody
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rockhound97058
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Post by rockhound97058 on Nov 25, 2009 2:31:10 GMT -5
The thing that's just amazing to me is the amount of things a person can collect disability on! A buddy of mine some years ago had a girlfriend who was diagnosed by a DR. with an illness called "chronic fatigue" simple words too tired to work. It never stopped her from partying all night though!  But yet someone who really needs it for true reasons has to fight tooth and nail for coverage. I'm gonna start my own scam though! - I'm a natural redhead and it's a odd color so there for I fight I am a minority LOL - Obama's gonna be paying me the big bucks soon! ;D |
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Post by texaswoodie on Nov 25, 2009 6:50:10 GMT -5
You guys may have a different story to tell if you had $10,000 invested in a car that the guy wasn't paying for and no way of finding the car.
Curt
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Post by Toad on Nov 25, 2009 7:40:55 GMT -5
If he holds the paper on the loan, then I don't see any problem with what he is doing - it's technically his car. But if the loan is through an outside bank/credit unioun, then it's not his to worry about, right?
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Post by texaswoodie on Nov 25, 2009 8:01:41 GMT -5
Yup Todd, he carries the notes.
Curt
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Post by Toad on Nov 25, 2009 8:15:18 GMT -5
Then it is his property - and it is always good to know where your property is, just good business sense. Do you see this different, Tony? Kind of Big Brother-ish. But if you don't like it, pay cash.
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agatemaggot
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Post by agatemaggot on Nov 25, 2009 10:31:13 GMT -5
If I found something like that in my car, I would hook it to a small battery and send it to Bernie & Claudia in Patagonia. If they would drive around with it for a couple months down there it would REALLY mess with his head !
I DO pay cash !
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But yet someone who really needs it for true reasons has to fight tooth and nail for coverage. 
Gotta lick those rocks to see if they shine!!
