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Old 06-15-20, 05:46 AM   #30
Platapus
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She didn’t pay attention to the URL, she said

Strike One. Always check the URL in a link before you click on it



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assumed that the social media site had vetted the ad.


Strike Two. Trusting Social Media to vet things is naive at best, downright stupid at worst.


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Bass said she typically reads customer reviews

Strike Three. Online reviews have lost all credibility with me. With people being hired to either place poor reviews or worse posting good reviews to make companies look better, online reviews are not worth the binary digits it takes to store them. Yet another example of something that started out good but became perverted by businesses.



Sounds like this lady really needs to learn about the Internets Tubes and how it is an ugly world out there.
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