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First, she was called by Amazon. First full stop -- these companies don't care about you enough to call you. Second, they transferred her to an investigator wi
by mattw2121 3y ago
First, she was called by Amazon. First full stop -- these companies don't care about you enough to call you.
Second, they transferred her to an investigator with the FTC? Then they transferred her to someone with the CIA? Then that CIA agent said, "Withdraw 50,000 in cash, put it in a shoe box, and put it in a car that pulls up in front of your house."???
I know we aren't supposed to blame the victim, but Charlotte Cowles has no business being a "financial advice columnist".
- SamoyedFurFluff 3y agoI disagree with the latter. A victim of financial crime is exactly the sort of person who knows how to get to the people that most need advice on handling potential financial crimes. They lived it, they can speak to the fear/shame/anxiety/etc. m
- suddenclarity 3y agoAmazon has called me on three different occasions. The third time I didn't pick up so they sent me an email saying they couldn't reach me. So getting a call from them isn't out of the ordinary. Everything else though...
- UncleMeat 3y agoI find it interesting that the software community tends to be so big on things like blameless postmortems and root cause analysis that understands that "just train somebody not to fat finger a SQL query on prod data" isn't nearly as effective as actual systems that prevent bad things from happening yet the response here can be "wow this person is just too dumb to live."
- mattw2121 3y agoI'm not saying "wow this person is just too dumb to live." I'm saying this person shouldn't be giving financial advise to anyone.