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[–]FellasImSorry 135 points136 points  (8 children)

I think they’re offering to forge documents.

[–]Start_button 58 points59 points  (7 children)

This is exactly it.

Want THIS dockument need for in-com w tx verifier in pa wit chec. stu the titles the card for utiliti-insuranc contact if you want more info on how to go about assistance. this is not an under-statement.

Translation: Need any of these documents? (Fake) Income (paystub) with tax info for PA, utility bills, insurance. Contact (the number) if you need more info. This is not a joke.

[–]olliegw 26 points27 points  (6 children)

Is that just poor translation or some modern thieves argot?

[–]endlesstrains 73 points74 points  (4 children)

It's probably mangled to avoid getting flagged or removed by automated processes - same reason there are lines through some of the text on the image.

[–]Just_tappatappatappa 18 points19 points  (3 children)

It is meant to get around key word scans. There are lots of ways to do this and some crime rings do use specific codes to advertise as well for the same reason.   

Hilariously the first way I learned about this was through bootlegged Broadway shows.  

Being live theatre and most shows unrecorded, even if you wanted to purchase them, there’s a strong bootleg market for broadway. Of course those videos get pulled if you put in a search for ‘bootleg Legally Blonde the musical’.  So people get creative and list them as tutorials. 

That’s some pretty unconcerning stuff overall, but the same theory applies across basically anything you can buy/sell that isn’t legal. 

Tons of ‘templates’ out there available to download fake utility bills or bank statements.  Once you’ve got fake statements, you start opening accounts and applying for credit cards or lines of credit etc and boom, crime. 

[–]PMmeifyourepooping 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Oh shit now I want a bootleg legally blonde the musical. I know all the words (because it has some bangers) but I’ve never seen the show lol I’ll keep an eye out

[–]Just_tappatappatappa 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Bet you’re a fan of slime tutorials too.  How crazy would it be if you searched  that up as a combo with legally blonde the musical…

[–]Randommcrandomface2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I watched a really awesome YouTube tutorial on how to make yellow-haired lawyerly slime just the other day! It’s amazing how many instructional videos for making singing slime there are out there. You could make the vast majority of Broadway and West End-style slime if you search hard enough…

[–]hooliganeyes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t know, but I think I had a stroke while reading it.

[–]aquoad 34 points35 points  (0 children)

They're selling fake/forged legal documents, and it's written like that in order to evade filters that are meant to find exactly posts like that.

[–]MirthandMystery 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Phone number leads to an older guy in Oregon, but might be posted to spam him too. If it's legit posted him he's phishing for peoples info via replies or trying to sell fake documents.

I see others doing that a lot on Cl- offering fake car titles or temp tags, some are legit but stolen from the DMV.

If it seems like a scam it likely is, just flag it. 👍

[–]OohShananigans 25 points26 points  (3 children)

I have seen better ones posted, so what these typically are for, those w/o privilege. They are for a single mom who just got a job after being pregnant and they want to get a house but she’s working 55 hours a week at a BS place that she needs the job but is only a month in. She can fake the stubs and info that way her family isn’t on the streets!

Or the guy who didn’t graduate but needs a diploma to work at local what ever place because they stipulated that you must have that. He has a slightly better paying job so not to loose his family’s footing in life.

Maybe you need to get a new license from the DMV and your a a domestic violence survivor who is in a shelter with your four kids. And every night your EX’s sends you texts about how he is getting closer to finding you! So you get fake utilities and such to get a new ID to jump on a train to move five more states away! To work at a random diner!

Idk……

[–]Jonesy-1701 -5 points-4 points  (2 children)

Lose, not loose.

[–]OohShananigans -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I have little control over my spell checker it’s corrupted since the updates for iOS! Thanks for catching it.

[–]JenzieBoi 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Roughly translating it looks like a service for forging documents, and would be useful for those trying to get some sort of a credit line, overseas people trying to get jobs within the usa, or for undocumented immigrants.

[–]SouthernSassenach97 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's a foreign scammer (obviously) attempting to apply for federal government assistance. The phone number at the bottom of the list is associated with the Dept for Health and Human Services out of Pasadena.

The linked image was created in a generic photo-text app as a checklist for the documents that were needed by the government office to complete the application, with the white 'dashes' or 'tick-marks' to show which docx had already been obtained. (Since a pic/screenshot of the official correspondence received by the scammer probably contained identifying or traceable information....)

Whether this person is legit trying to fraudulently received govt benefits or attempting to steal personal information from those who respond with pics of their legit papers....idfk.

But if ANYBODY is dumb enough to put their legal info in a reply to THAT AD....they are prolly used to learning sh!t the hard way!!

[–]FUNCSTAT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks like it was written in an English Creole/Pidgin, which are spoken widely in Nigeria and other places in Africa, the Caribbean, etc.

[–]jlbd783 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All I seemed to understand when I read that was something about wanting documents for income tax? It reads like a 3 year old wrote it.

[–][deleted] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

No clue. It looks like a load of gibberish. Are they selling other people's information or trying to get documents? It's vague, but with scams being what they are these days...

[–]Farting_Champion -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Of fucking course it's a Portland area code