this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 204 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Lol. kids these days would post their bank info online if the banks didn't prevent them from doing so.

[–] T156 164 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You say that like A/S/L wasn't a thing back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 year ago (3 children)

19/f/Cali was the only acceptable response

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Depends, could I have talked some vanilla WoW gold out of you?

[–] assembly 11 points 1 year ago

As I put on my robe and wizard hat…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] edwardbear 5 points 1 year ago

puts on wizard’s hat

[–] time_lord 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even back then we were told never to reveal that sort of stuff online. How many of us do you think were telling the truth?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

You think someone would do that?

Just go on the internet and tell lies?

[–] mookulator 23 points 1 year ago

Lol yeah but we were 12 back then and we still understood the internet better than anyone else 🙃

[–] sauerkraus 10 points 1 year ago

Yall remember those “your stripper name is the street you grew up on and your pet’s name” challenges? Literally phishing for password recovery keys.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] ickplant 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Flagrant System Error

Computer Over.

Virus = Very Yes

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't want to shame anyone, but I've had people sign up give me their full DoB and offering to show me their ID. I know of people who disclose their id to get access to nsfw discord communities.

[–] RivenRise 6 points 1 year ago

DUDE MY GIRLFRIEND FUCKING DID THAT AND I JUST LOOKED AT HER AND ASKED HER IF SHE THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA. In hindsight no, thankfully she's gonna be moving soonish. This was from before we were together, otherwise I would have warned her not to do that. It was the same discord she got a cyberstalker from, thankfully the stalker wasn't a friend of the owner because otherwise he totally could have gotten her address and irl info.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Wasn't there a twitter account that retweeted people posting photos of their credit cards?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am your grandpa

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

So would a significant portion of the population of all ages