2023.05.17 17:12 Allons_a_Lafayette RE: QR code "scam" in downtown Lafayette parking lot
![]() | This makes no sense. Local news is adorable. submitted by Allons_a_Lafayette to Acadiana [link] [comments] I have so many questions. A few: Did the scammer order $788 worth of merchandise from Walmart and have it delivered to the victim? Why didn't the news team ask the owner of the parking lot about this? Was there a surveillance camera showing the scammers placing the fake QR code on the sign? Was there even a fake QR code on the sign? www.klfy.com/local/lafayette-parish/woman-receives-788-walmart-charge-after-scanning-qr-code-in-downtown-lafayette-parking-lot/ Woman receives $788 Walmart charge after scanning QR code in downtown Lafayette parking lot by: Dawson Damico Posted: May 16, 2023 LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) – A woman claims to have received a charge from Walmart after scanning a QR code to pay for parking in downtown Lafayette. Martha Gale’s daughter, Kinly, came to the parking lot in downtown Lafayette near the intersection of Buchanan Street and Garfield Street to park her car and enjoy an event in Parc Lafayette. She got out her car and walked to a QR code sign to pay. Everything seemed okay until the next morning when she got a large delivery from Walmart that she never bought. “I see a boat load of merchandise from Walmart, then I checked the app on the cell phone, and it was a purchase for $788 which I did not purchase,” said Gale. With no other reason for this to happen, Gale believes her credit card information was stolen after her daughter scanned the code on the sign in the parking lot. “I absolutely think we were scammed,” she said. “That was the last purchase that occurred at the pay lot and then the Sunday morning receiving these products at the door.” News 10 spoke with the president of Better Business Bureau, Chris Babin, who said this is a scam the organization is familiar with. “Scammers are trying to use those codes (to) lure consumers into going to websites, submitting payment information and giving their payment information away to scammers,” Babin said. Babin believes a scammer may have created a QR Code that goes to a website that mirrors one where you would potentially pay for parking or makes it look legitimate. “You scan the QR code thinking you are paying to park, but you are submitting payment information on a scam website that’s going to a scammer providing them with your card information,” Babin said. Babin advised if you pay to park, make sure the lot requires payment using a QR code. He also advises people to take an extra minute to look at the website you are sent to before entering your payment information. https://preview.redd.it/bly97qin6n0b1.png?width=748&format=png&auto=webp&s=9e77ecf8f02eaff08fce0f5414e87a60ed9060c5 https://preview.redd.it/cvrikhyhnm0b1.png?width=598&format=png&auto=webp&s=8453ed85ae0d7fd10a04f90988a91af61de8575c EDIT Here's an update: https://preview.redd.it/ixz19iye6n0b1.png?width=634&format=png&auto=webp&s=043712755532e5a80d6d4b753e9f8638fa02214b |
2023.02.03 02:25 codym4 Came across this fools live the other day. What a damn mess. But is this news article about peaches? https://www.klfy.com/local/lafayette-parish/man-allegedly-scamming-people-in-lafayette-via-social-media-app-tik-tok/amp/
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2023.01.10 13:28 DoodooMan9000 Caddo Commissioner Arrested on Felony Warrant
2023.01.06 00:33 GOGETAJOB1 other news sites and radio stations are picking up on the story now...fox 95 wntz also reposted the news story as well
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2022.12.14 19:26 Idolmistress [Megathread] Southern US Severe Weather Discussion - December 14th, 2022
2022.11.29 19:37 Delmer9713 [Megathread] Southern US Severe Weather Discussion - November 29th, 2022
A regional tornado outbreak still appears possible from northern LA into central/northern MS and potentially into western AL
SUMMARY...Marginally severe hail will be possible with elevated storms early this afternoon. No watch is expected for this activity. More intense activity is expected later this afternoon/evening.MD 1978 - Northern LA, extreme southeast Arkansas and into central MS
SUMMARY...A PDS tornado watch will be needed by 19z/1pm CT for portions of northern Louisiana, extreme southeast Arkansas and into central Mississippi. Tornadoes, a couple potentially long-track and strong, large hail and damaging gusts will be possible into the evening hours.MD 1979 - Southeast TX
SUMMARY...An isolated thunderstorm or two may produce hail and gusty winds across southeast TX this afternoon. A watch is not expected at this time.MD 1980 - extreme southeast MS into southwest AL
SUMMARY...A brief supercell or two may pose a severe threat the next couple of hours. However, coverage and aerial extent of the threat is expected to be low, and a watch is not anticipated in the short-term.MD 1981 - northeast LA into central MS
SUMMARY...Increasing potential for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes exists across northeast LA into central MS over the next few hours.MD 1982 - Parts of northern and central Alabama
SUMMARY...A downstream tornado watch is likely for parts of northern/central Alabama as severe storms move out of MS.MD 1983 - for portions of far southeast Mississippi into far southwest Alabama
SUMMARY...A severe threat may increase across southern portions of Mississippi and Alabama over the next few hours. The more intense storms may support hail/tornado threat. Conditions are being monitored for the need of a Tornado Watch.MD 1984 - for northern and central Louisiana northeastward to northern Mississippi
SUMMARY...Severe-weather risk continues across the WW area, with greatest risk for significant tornadoes evident with supercells crossing northern Louisiana at this time.MD 1985 - for portions of southeast Arkansas into northern Mississippi and Middle Tennessee
SUMMARY...A large hail threat may persist with ongoing storms over the next several hours. Conditions are being monitored for the need of a WW issuance if storms can intensify further.MD 1986 - for northeastern Louisiana to western/central Alabama
SUMMARY...Severe/tornado risk continues across portions of WW 573/574/575.MD 1987 - For southern to east-central Mississippi
SUMMARY...Tornado risk appears likely to be maximized in a narrow zone from southwestern to east-central Mississippi over the next hour.MD 1988 - for portions of southeast Mississippi into western and central Alabama
SUMMARY...The severe threat continues across Tornado Watches 573 and 574, and is expected to continue into the overnight hours. A new Tornado Watch will be issued before 05Z to replace watches 573-574 and cover additional area downstream into central Alabama.MD 1989 - for central and southern Mississippi into western and central Alabama
SUMMARY...Severe/tornado risk will continue across portions of Mississippi and Alabama over the next couple of hours.
2022.11.28 23:04 BerlinLoveLobster Sylvia Masters KLFY Lafayette, LA
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2022.11.25 18:15 BerlinLoveLobster Sylvia Masters KLFY Lafayette, LA
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2022.11.24 16:14 Informal-Wallaby7329 Sylvia Masters - KLFY10 - Lafayette, LA
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2022.11.09 04:57 WordySpark Once Again the Uninformed Masses Have Spoken
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2022.11.07 22:59 FortioriAbHinc Blueline, cop, police Predators/Sexual related arrests October 2022 Roundup
2022.08.29 07:26 AdministrationOdd847 Absolutely sick.. story in comments.
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2022.08.02 02:02 BPB-Attacks AUGUST 2022 - LIST OF PIT BULL ATTACKS/FATALITIES (ongoing)
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2021.10.13 00:15 Nearby-Complaint What happened to Sally Hines?
2021.09.03 11:46 H25azbxwyz Over 100 men stranded on ship in Gulf, rode out Hurricane Ida's 80-foot swells
2021.08.15 03:58 theaviator172 The District Event Center - Restraining Order against Emergency Closure by Police????
2021.07.08 05:16 gjohnsit Haiti's crisis has arrived, and the U.S. reverts to Banana Wars mode
Prime Minister Claude Joseph said a group of people attacked the president's private residence and killed him, calling it an "odious, barbaric" act. "Haiti has lost a true statesman who was committed to progressing our country's democratic transition and fighting corruption," Joseph said.None of that is true, except that the president was killed. He was corrupt. He was a murderer. He personally caused many of Haiti's current problems. If anything, there is a small chance that this could turn out to be what Haiti needed.
Unrest on the island nation of Haiti — especially after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse — has La. Rep. Clay Higgins concerned about the state of U.S. rice shipments to the country. Higgins sent a letter to the U.S. State Department’s Acting Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor “calling for increased assistance in securing U.S. rice and other food shipments in Haiti,” according to a press release from Higgins’ office today. “Haiti is the top market for U.S.-grown milled rice and has been a loyal and growing market for many years, and the people of Haiti have a strong demand for our product,” stated Higgins in his letter. “In recent years, we have shipped about 450,000 metric tons of rice valued at more than $200 million to Haiti annually. Unfortunately, the unrest has made unloading rice shipments in Haiti difficult and dangerous. Because of the value of rice as a staple food in Haiti, shipments are prioritized as targets by local gangs and even hired, armed security is unable to prevent theft. These armed robberies often result in the shipment not being delivered to its intended destination.”There are two BIG ironies in this one statement. First of all, the murder of President of Haiti Vilbrun Guillaume Sam by insurgents in 1915 was just the excuse used for the U.S. invasion of occupation of Haiti 1915-1934. The real reason was Wall Street greed.
In 1914, National City Bank and BNRH began to plan the destabilization of Haiti in order to pressure the United States to intervene. John H. Allen of BNRH stated that if the United States permanently occupied Haiti, he supported National City Bank acquiring all shares of BNRH, believing that it would "pay 20% or better"... United States Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan relied on an executive and lobbyist of National City Bank, Roger Farnham, for information regarding Haiti. Farnham persuaded Secretary Bryan to have the United States invade Haiti during a telephone call on January 22, 1914.So American businessmen asking for yet another invasion of poor Haiti because the American-supported president of Haiti got himself killed by being way too corrupt, is way too familiar.
A leading aid agency has called on the United States to stop subsidising American rice exports to Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, because it says the policy undermines local production of food. Former US President Bill Clinton, one of the architects of the subsidies to US farmers - and who is now, paradoxically, the co-chair of Haiti's earthquake recovery Commission - is quoted by Oxfam as saying that the policy was "a mistake". "It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked," said Mr Clinton, a frequent visitor to Haiti. "I have to live every day with the consequences of the lost capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people, because of what I did." The aid agency says the $434m (£274m) paid annually in domestic US rice subsidies is more than the total US aid to Haiti of $353m. The Oxfam report said subsidies paid to American farmers meant the rice they export to Haiti - known locally as Riz Miami or "Miami Rice" - is cheaper than locally produced rice. The foreign rice that is "dumped" in Haiti therefore exacerbates the rural-urban drift that has seen the population of the capital Port-au-Prince balloon out of control as farmers who cannot feed themselves move to the city in search of employment.To use our rice exports to Haiti as an excuse to invade and occupy Haiti yet again is just criminal.
2021.06.04 12:01 autotldr Louisiana police officer was fired over a Facebook comment that said it was "unfortunate" more black people did not die of the coronavirus.
A Louisiana police officer was fired over a Facebook comment that said it was "Unfortunate" more black people did not die of the coronavirus.
The chief of police in Kaplan, about 87 miles southwest of Baton Rouge, said Officer Steven Aucoin commented under a local news station's live feed of the governor's coronavirus news conference on May 15.
"Well it didn't work," Aucoin wrote, "How unfortunate," according to screenshots shown by KLFY.The police department said in a statement on its Facebook page that it was made aware of Aucoin's comments.
Aucoin had worked previously for the department for eight months and had been back on the force for about three months before he was let go, a spokeswoman for the police department told NBC News.Hardy said the department does not tolerate such behavior.
"There were some other comments further up that was also not suitable for a police officer to be putting on Facebook," Hardy said.
Aucoin's firing was welcomed by many commenters on the department's Facebook page.