TIL In 2014 a Jamaican phone scammer threatened to kill a retired American man named William Webster when he wouldn’t fall for the scam. The scammer didn’t know Webster was the former director of both the FBI and CIA. He was arrested when he flew to NYC in 2017 and sentenced to 6 years in prison.

    • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      I blocked him from my client to see how different the sub looks, and personally everyone else seem to be posting a lot more interesting things (to me at least).

      Also I miss when people posted about things they themselves actually learned that day, sometimes leading to fun conversations in the comments, rather than just Googling for generic facts and copy/pasting them in.

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      3 months ago

      He doesn’t just cut off the titles, he is also acting weird if someone makes fun about it. Has anyone really been far ev