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Posted June 12, 2012
First off, this woman scams Oregon out of 2.1 Million in a fraudulent TurboTax return. Luckily she then reported another card(or the same card? The article is hard to follow on this point.) stolen, so she did get caught. Thing is, how did this NOT alert anyone working for the IRS or raise any red flags with TurboTax?
Woman steals LOTS and LOTS of money(from Monkey's Paw)

I do give her "kudos" for her "smart" purchases made before getting caught though.
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Second story features a bomber placing bombs in flashlights. What I don't get is why pick the targets he did(Strip Mall, Salvation Army, ditch.) Maybe he has a beef with those institutions? Or is trying to pick areas with lots of through traffic(But if that's the case why a ditch?)? The article also says flashlights were possibly picked because people instinctively try to turn them on.....but why? Why do people see random electronics laying abandoned and decide to mess with them without much thought, but when most of us see an abandoned vehicle or package we worry more and/or avoid such things while calling the authorities? Have we been socially conditioned to react that way? If so, that explains why people react in such a way to packages and vehicles that have been abandoned, but why are people drawn to turn stuff like flashlights on?

Flashlight Bomber
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Anyone have any opinions on either story? Or got a story of your own to share?
Post edited June 12, 2012 by GameRager
Posted June 12, 2012
D'oh, and here's me thinking 'Tales of Stupidity' was going to be the next Bandai-Namco release :D
Posted June 12, 2012
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GameRager: First off, this woman scams Oregon out of 2.1 Million in a fraudulent TurboTax return. Luckily she then reported another card(or the same card? The article is hard to follow on this point.) stolen, so she did get caught. Thing is, how did this NOT alert anyone working for the IRS or raise any red flags with TurboTax?
Woman steals LOTS and LOTS of money(from Monkey's Paw)

I do give her "kudos" for her "smart" purchases made before getting caught though.
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Second story features a bomber placing bombs in flashlights. What I don't get is why pick the targets he did(Strip Mall, Salvation Army, ditch.) Maybe he has a beef with those institutions? Or is trying to pick areas with lots of through traffic(But if that's the case why a ditch?)? The article also says flashlights were possibly picked because people instinctively try to turn them on.....but why? Why do people see random electronics laying abandoned and decide to mess with them without much thought, but when most of us see an abandoned vehicle or package we worry more and/or avoid such things while calling the authorities? Have we been socially conditioned to react that way? If so, that explains why people react in such a way to packages and vehicles that have been abandoned, but why are people drawn to turn stuff like flashlights on?

Flashlight Bomber
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Anyone have any opinions on either story? Or got a story of your own to share?
Flashlight Bomber = Targeting the poor to get them off government benefits.

I'm too trusting and would mess with anything in a ditch if it looked salvageable.

But thanks for the warning - Have to keep remembering that people are assholes.

As for the Turbo Tax chic - Was the return an accident that she just didn't report or was she hacking? If the former, I'd probably keep my mouth shut too if the government accidentally paid me back a couple of million.
Posted June 12, 2012
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carnival73: As for the Turbo Tax chic - Was the return an accident that she just didn't report or was she hacking? If the former, I'd probably keep my mouth shut too if the government accidentally paid me back a couple of million.
It's tempting, but they DO find this stuff. I've had a few instances with notices from the IRS for returns from previous years. First was my goof (because the process is damn complicated), second was an I-don't-remember but it was nothing serious, and the last, a few months ago, was a clerical error from the IRS on my 2009 or 2010 return (they moved a decimal point two digits to the right; an $822.09 invoice is NOT the same as a $82,209.00 invoice).

Of course, this crap can potentially be solved by changing to some sort of sales tax...
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