Saw a post on FB. It is a classic like collection scheme. The page offers a scam offer, people like and follow the page to try to ‘win’, then the page or attention is changed and sold.
How do we know it is a scam?
- Too good to be true. Every single person? No cap on the amount this would cost Costco if it was real. This is why companies give away a few prizes to a few winners.
- No official mention from Costco’s real page or blog or social media.
- Typo in the text. CEO is Jelinek not Jelinekand they missed a space.
- Error in the content. Costco was found 37 years ago not 35.
- Page was created less than a month ago and the name was changed.
If you look at page transparency you can see this.
You can cook a frozen turkey, but it is easier if you thaw it in your fridge.
Dsco is an Inventory Networking Platform that helps with connecting, seeing and selling retail inventory. They target enterprise retail.
They help Enterprise Retail do drop shipping.
CommerceHub helps the world’s leading retailers and brands expand product selection through high-volume drop-ship programs, and find the right marketplaces.
They also help enterprise retail do drop shipping.
Terms of the deal are not public.
From LinkedIn:
“We’re thrilled to announce that Dsco.io is now part of CommerceHub. Our two powerful platforms will work together to deliver the digital supply chain that retailers and brands need to succeed.
United we are stronger and fully committed to your ecommerce growth. Our customers remain top priority and we will continue to provide our services as normal to ensure a successful 2020 peak season.” …
Edit HTML makes it simple to make anyone ‘say’ anything
If you see a screenshot of a tweet/post, always ask for the source link.
You can easily edit HTML to make it look completely legit that anyone said anything.
Here is a 1 minute video I made that shows you how.
Examples of scams people try with this technique
- People trying to sell your courses will do this to show their ‘bank balance’.
- Political arguers will do this to ‘show their person is good, your person is bad’
- Scammers will do this to show you a ‘post from your friend stuck in a foreign country, send them money now!’ etc.
If you see a screenshot, ask for the source link.
That is it. That is the whole story.
If you can’t connect to public wifi, type in neverssl.com into your browser.
Since it uses an unencrypted, unsecured connection (normally a bad thing, but in this case good) the wifi can serve you the login page you need.
What are recounts, when do they happen and what is the usual result?
Q: What is a recount?
A: A recount is a repeat tabulation of votes cast in an election that is used to determine the correctness of an initial count. Recounts will often take place if the initial vote tally during an election is extremely close. Election recounts can result in changes in contest tallies. Errors can be found or introduced from human factors, such as transcription errors, or machine errors, or misreads of paper ballots. Alternately, tallies may change because of a reinterpretation of voter intent.
So basically when a race is close or someone asks for it, the will go through and count all the ballots again. …
Here is the super short how to:
- Sign up for a developer SF account
- Use Mockaroo to create fake accounts and opportunities. Or you could just download my files here (https://gofile.io/d/Xco83Y and https://gofile.io/d/WgaUns)
- If you created your own in Mockaroo, add a column of account IDs, in the opportunity table
- Use dataloader.io to insert all those records
- Done.
If you have searched for budget power tools on Amazon lately you have come across Tacklife.
They make a lot of products.
Search interest has been increasing over the last year.
They are whitelabeling their tools, did some research to find out who was behind the brand.
It is https://www.aukey.com/
They make USB items, now they are making power tools.
I don’t have a recommendation about if you should get them or not, just know that they are not a dedicated tool company.
We will update this story as we get more info.
A tweet popped up on my Twitter feed that floored me.
Ryan Smith quote tweets Adrian Wojnarowski, that Ryan and the Millers have entered into an agreement to buy the Utah Jazz.
ESPN just posted the story:
Screenshot for posterity.
Smith has been a big supporter of the Jazz for a while.
We don’t know the terms of the agreement yet.
Jazz will remain in Utah
The Jazz and their stadium are part of a Trust to ensure they stay in Utah.
https://www.nba.com/news/utah-jazz-transfer-ownership-larry-miller-group
It is anticipated they will remain in Utah.
Social Media is Buzzing
The report caught everyone by surprise from the Jazz subreddit, to…
There is a story that keeps getting passed around about how focusing on quantity will increase quality faster than focusing on quality will.
The story is a pottery or ceramics teacher gave the class a choice. Get your grade for the whole class based on 1 perfect piece, or get graded on producing 50 lbs of pottery (or number of pieces produced etc, the story mutates but 2nd option is always about quantity)
Story says 50 lbs people had better quality than the 1 perfect piece people.
This story is not real. It is a parable. The pottery parable comes from the book Art and Fear. …
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