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Comment Re:Answer the phone (Score 1) 497

It is scam, they lie about whom they represent.

I've had calls claiming I own money to Sky, never had it. BT who don't even offer telephone service im my area, Gas & Electric from utilities companies I don't use. I usually call them out their lie and hang up, but they repeatedly call back at irregular intervals.

Holding the line open doesn't cost them much. They use VOIP and break out companies in your locale who they don't pay anyway.

Comment No suprising... (Score 1) 545

Well known in anti-spam lists.

Here is the typical content of the what is know as the sweetie email


Hello sweetie.
My name is (random girls name), I saw your profile today on (random websites) and was moved and become interested in you, I will like you to send me an email so that i can give you my pictures for us to know more better and see how things will go for us.

I believed we will get to be better friends or even more and remember that color or distance does not matter but LOVE matters alot in life). Reply me back with my email address hope to hear from you soon from ...... reply at (XXXXXX@hotmail.com )

I assumed 419 scam, labelling gullible responders as paedophile is grossly irresponsible!

Comment Misdirection and dilution (Score 0) 197

About once a year I send an email to my paranoid friends which includes a few buzz phrases.

Dear Spooks,

It is once again time for me to provide you with an update on nefarious activities on the Wild Wild Web.

While you are clandestinely surveilling me through your prism of delusion, why not take a moment and stand back and ask your self; is what you are really doing protecting liberty or slow chiselling it away.

Have a good.

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Camael writes: When Joel Spolsky spotted an undeserving Microsoft patent application, he didn't just let it be granted — He killed a in just a few minutes. In short, he found prior art and submitted it, and the USPTO examiner rejected the patent because of it. From TFA :- "Micah showed me a document from the USPTO confirming that they had rejected the patent application, and the rejection relied very heavily on the document I found. This was, in fact, the first 'confirmed kill' of Ask Patents, and it was really surprisingly easy. I didn't have to do the hard work of studying everything in the patent application and carefully proving that it was all prior art: the examiner did that for me." This is all under the umbrella of Ask Patents'.

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