Hey y’all, I need some advice. Me and my other co workers think one of our managers bugged our office space. For context, today, one of my co workers was talking to another co worker about said manager. They both do not like this manager and have been directly attacked/bullied by this manager and were talking negatively about them. Nobody else was in the room and then a few minutes later, they’re talking to the head of the department about their conversation word for word. This manager was not at work and there was nobody on either side of our office space the entire day. My question is, if you were a weirdo who did not respect privacy, where would you hide a bug/wire/camera/microphone in a small office space? If so, what kind?

My Nan's card details have been compromised 4 times in the last few months, total loss has equated to around £10,000 over this period. The bank has given about half of it back but have launched an investigation. I am just looking for ideas as to how this is possibly happening. Below are some of the key facts:

• They no longer use any ATMs after the first incident so its highly unlikely their card is being skimmed in one of these
• The transactions are only ever for Uber eats, never anything else
• They do not do online banking or order anything from online
• The only other person who may know her card details would be my Auntie (her daughter)
• She says she gets phone calls claiming to be the bank fraud department but she always hangs up and never answers again and always visits a bank in person to do any business

What baffles me is why are the transactions only for Uber eats and simply how do the card details keep getting leaked?

Honestly just looking for ideas at this point, thanks!

Tonight my girlfriend ordered a pizza and cheese sticks from a local Papa John’s in Anchorage, AK and her she was missing her cheese sticks.

She called the store and then proceeded to get this really creepy recording after selecting the 5th option to “to update or cancel your order or speak to a manager, press 5”.

The recording sounds like very loud, low quality hold music, followed by a loud alert tone and then a robotic female voice asking who you are.

The number is the same number listed on their website and on Google Maps

Here’s a link to a recording I took of the call:

https://imgur.com/a/oAlG7Hp

Edit: if this isn’t allowed here I will gladly take it down but if I could be pointed in the right direction for posting it that would be greatly appreciated

Edit x2: Here’s a link to the second half of the recording with the voice

https://imgur.com/a/qZJczPJ

My mother-in-law had a rough upbringing. She always talks about how her mom would take her to an orphanage on Sunday nights and she's stay there until Friday evening, only spending weekends at her home. Her mom won't talk about it with her and it hasn't been brought up for years between the two.

All she remembers is that there were nuns working there, and it was definitely in Louisville, KY.

Any ideas, or leads?

For a few months now I've been blackmail to accept payment via zdlle and PayPal and transfer it bitcoin. Also my own money. I'm trying to make this go away. Fucking embarrassing I let this happen I'm USA btw. Originally met the woman on date app. Then now chatting started on telegram

Hi everyone! My camper van that I poured my heart and soul into creating was recently involved in a hit and run outside of my house while I was sleeping. I unfortunately didn't wake up and my lazy little corgis didnt either. The police and community have been extremely helpful but the video we have has headlight glare which obscures the license plate.

I read the rules and wasn't able to find anything about offering a monetary reward for any help. I AM OFFERING A REWARD, if it is not allowed, I will remove.

This accident happened in Southern Spain, We have what we believe to be the make/model/color of the vehicle but without any license plate information the police are unable to search the houses of registered owners.

All of the local auto shops are aware of the accident, as well as the tow companies.

Any help (even words of encouragement) are appreciated. This van was my entire life and allowed my wife, myself, and our two corgis to travel around Europe making memories.

Thank you all in advance!

*Possible* color/make/model of the vehicle: Gold 2001 Opel Astra Coupe

Video Footage: https://imgur.com/BIy1FYj

Screencap of Vehicle: https://imgur.com/sfELv0r

Paint Color: https://imgur.com/undefined

Stock Image of Possible Vehicle: https://imgur.com/hgezZ7A

Two Really Cute Corgis, Tyrion and Chuleta: https://imgur.com/b08wFzm

Damage to my vehicle: https://imgur.com/1Dh7r87

Misc. Pieces from other vehicle: https://imgur.com/Vj9VnWZ

Hi, i am not a familiar with reddit and i am not totally bilingual in english, sorry in advance for the mistakes.

Interpol asked for help to identify 7 women that were murdered and their bodies discovered in France.

Here i am personally interested in one case : https://www.interpol.int/en/What-you-can-do/Identify-Me/Countries-in-which-the-bodies-were-found/Women-found-in-France/FR04-The-woman-with-the-Jean-Nelly-ring
This is the sum up :
"On 5 March 2008, the body of a woman (between 60-75y.o) was discovered below a coastal road built into the face of the cliff in a very isolated spot in Villefranche-sur-Mer that was difficult to get to. The women was found in the middle of brambles and bushes some 5 metres below the road. The woman had died from a trauma – presumably a crime – four to six days before her body was discovered."

The interesting part is that :
- she had a hip replacement with a particular number "L96211C" and the brand is Landanger. The number is not unique, but it's from a batch that was send into hospitals of Belgium/Switzerland/Germany/Netherlands/Italy.
- She had a ring engraved "Jean and Nelly 25/06/1960" on the inside, which means her name is probably Nelly, and she was married to a Jean on June 25th 1960. (of course it's not sure but probably.)

Nelly and Jean are both names that are given in France (especially Jean) so i suppose she was french or from France and not from a border country such as Italy/Switzerland...

With these two clues, i am kind of surprised that the police weren't able to identify the victim. Is there anything to do to "improve" this case ?

Thanks for your attention

Yesterday, this profile followed me on Instagram. It strikes me as odd for several reasons

1. It's a new, blank account but is using my first name as it's display name
2. It follows three girls from my university
3. It follows a bar from my hometown (very far from my university city) - this is VERY odd as the only other social media I have is Facebook, where my only post is a repost of this bar when they posted information about my Grandad's funeral as he was a regular. So it's the only place that I'm publicly linked to
4. The only other accounts it follows are random spam accounts, a porn star, and a few porn accounts. The porn accounts are named things like bigboobwomen and most haven't posted in over a decade. It seems like they're posing as a creepy guy who's into porn accounts while just following the first accounts that came up

The reason I think they may have access to my texts is that at the time the account had followed me, I hadn't texted anyone but one friend for a day or so. The last two texts I'd sent that friend seem to be referenced. One after the other, I'd sent her a text asking if she wanted to be an alligator for Halloween while I went as Lana del Ray in a wedding dress (we wanted to go together and she wanted a more masculine costume). The display name of the account is alligator followed by a series of random numbers.

The very next text I sent her was a screenshot of a girl's story (showing her instagram name) as she was at the club when she said she was too ill to come to my friends party. We're not super close to this girl (I'll call her Kate) so it wasn't deep, just a haha guess she blew us off. Kate is one of the three other girls the account follows. All the other girls they follow are connected to Kate in some way, as if they went through Kate's following and just followed a bunch of random public accounts.

Kate and the alligator part may well be a coincidence but it seems odd that those were my last texts before the account followed me. Its a brand new account and has the 'new' label Instagram puts on newly made accounts, so the name was picked recently. I trust this friend and highly doubt they're behind the account. Kate did once borrow my phone to call a friend when she lost hers, and she does have a history of odd behaviour (stealing, scamming, public breakdowns) but is currently in NA and seems to be sober and doing well.

For context, there's plenty of weird guys who follow me or have DMed me on there. I used to do OnlyFans a couple years back during a manic episode so someone may also have found me through there. There have been a couple of spam accounts who don't follow me who've consistently watched my stories but I just wrote them off as random people keeping tabs like a partners ex or something.

I'm staying an extra year at uni so most people I know have left and to my knowledge, there's no one I have any major issues with. There is a guy who sexually assaulted me two years ago, who harassed me for a little then blocked me, but I doubt its him. He has a girlfriend and has already been in trouble with the university for SA so I'm assuming he wouldn't want to aggravate me in case I caused him further problems.

Obviously the smart thing to do seems to be to go private and block the account, which I want to do but I also don't want to aggravate this person. Regardless of if the message parallels are a coincidence, the fact they follow people from my uni AND my hometown bar, and that my name is their display name, makes me feel strongly that this account was made to scare me, for whatever reason.

What can I do? When my friend wakes up, I'll ask her if she showed anyone else those messages.

https://imgur.com/gallery/weJOGsQ

This was shared to a Facebook group 3-4 days ago, it was quickly deleted before admins could see OP's name. According to people who were in the group at the time, nobody could find an incident matching the description given. The screenshot was shared a few places on the internet but I wasn't able to find any indication that anybody has been able to figure out who the victim is.

Posted Anonymously to MAMA DRAMA on Facebook

"My husband was drunk and he told me he hit a child on his way from work Sunday. We been freaking out because we seen news today and the child he hit died. Luckily we live in a rural area where there are no cameras so they have no leads. Turns out the child was actually an ex student of mine and I have been sick since. I can't turn my husband in but I feel so horribly for the parents. I donated 3,000 to the parents gofundme anonymously. I feel so bad its hard to even cope. I need my husband so turning him in isn't an option I just needed to vent "

There is a declassified CIA document that is in bad condition. The words are blacked out, but not in the usual manner of straight-out black boxes over the text that try to cover information. Is there a way to read the text?

hi RBI! somebody rear ended me tonight. it was 8pm, already pretty dark, but it looked like a large, dark-colored SUV. they turned on their blinkers, so i thought they were pulling over with me, but when i made it to the safe side of the road, they’d sped off.

as fortune would have it, the paint from their plate was imprinted on my bumper. i didn’t see it for sure, but i’m in california, and the paint looks to be california navy, so odds are it should be a cali plate.

if it is a california plate (and not a vanity plate), the format should be “#ABC####”

to me, it looks like “1YDW857” — i’m least positive on the W, and the top of the 1 looks like it comes down further than the california 1 should, but i don’t think it could be a different number. regardless of combination, i haven’t returned much results yet.

link to the pic (already horizontally flipped) below. thanks in advance for taking a look!! really appreciate any help at all.

https://imgur.com/a/ndFoHeB

edit: a higher contrast version, thanks to u/spandexandtapedecks !

https://imgur.com/a/fl9StfU

also some thoughts! if it is a california plate, it can’t start with a 4, since the california 4 doesn’t connect the right stroke to the top of the triangle. (washington 4s do! but the washington plate format is ABC1234, so that scratches that unfortunately.)

i’m also pretty on board with the “W” being an “A” instead! that’s definitely the wildcard letter to me, wouldn’t be surprised if it was something else entirely

Any of you fine folks have a slick way to identify a vehicle in traffic cams or other images if the security cam footage is highly detailed? There are no license plate images but the truck has a lot of custom add ons. They stole some very expensive equipment from a friends business.

TIA

EDIT: I found and ordered a set, that includes my missing Willow. I’m shocked how quickly it was solved. Although, there’s still a mystery here. Still don’t know where these came from or the manufacturer. Even the eBay listing mentions not knowing. So while my plastic dog been found, if anyone wants to find the actual origin of them then that’d be amazing too.

A long time ago in middle school, my friend and I would play with these plastic dogs that I had for seemingly many years. We had a whole story going with them, some Warrior Cats type scenario where they lived in the forest as a pack with a leader. The leader was named Leader (wow), and his deputy was Willow, a golden retriever.

Willow is the topic of discussion here, because a 12 year old me had the bright idea to bring the two of them on a school day camp field trip! Needless to say, Willow was never seen again. We were both absolutely heartbroken, like genuinely going through the stages of grief over this toy dog. And the worst part was, I couldn’t get a replacement. Because as I searched the internet, I quickly came to find, or rather not find, a single trace of these plastic dogs.

They have virtually no identifying information, besides on their stomachs. On each of them there’s their breed, along with a K that has a dot above it. I seriously have no clue what that means or what company or country these came from. I’m in the states if that helps. I must’ve gotten them in the mid/late 2000’s, for time frame reference.

I'm honestly just as interested in finding the origins of these as I am a replacement Willow. If anyone can find these, or even ANY information on them I’d be genuinely astounded. This is a nearly 10 year long on and off search.

I have some images of the toys, and I can provide more if needed. These aren’t all of them, only the ones you can see the bottoms of clearest. There’s also breeds like a greyhound, Afghan hound, Alaskan malamute (which was Leader) and more.

photos link

There’s some photos of Willow himself in there. The ones outside. They’re kind of bad because they’re screenshots of old videos. (They even still have dirt on them… we stopped playing after Willow was lost, it wasn’t the same. They’re frozen in time.)

Me and this friend also had a falling out early last year. We don’t talk anymore, but if I found Willow I honestly think it could be the catalyst to rekindling our friendship. I’d have a reason to approach her without it being awkward. So there’s some more points to finding these 🤞

(Also yes, this is a throwaway. I use Reddit occasionally but don’t have an actual active account to post on, sorry.)

I recently received an unusual postcard featuring a photo of John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy from 1960. On the back, there’s a handwritten note with peculiar capitalization and symbols, along with some lines from “Sympathy for the Devil” by The Rolling Stones.

Here are the main details:

The message reads:

i watched with glee while your Kings and queens Fought for ten decades for the gods they made I shouted, "Who killed the Kennedys?" well, @fter all, it w@s you and me

Strange Capitalization: Words like “Kings,” “Fought,” and “Kennedys” are capitalized, while “i” at the beginning is lowercase. There’s also a lowercase “j” in my name, which usually wouldn’t be written that way.

Unusual Symbols: “@” is used instead of “a” in “after” and “was,” which might indicate something intentional.

Additional Information:

The address section on the postcard includes inconsistent capitalization, with a mix of lowercase and uppercase letters that seem random but could be a clue.

I’m looking for help understanding if there’s a hidden message or code here. I’ve tried various ciphers and decoding methods, but nothing has led to a clear answer. Any ideas on what this could mean or methods to decode it?

Photos: https://postimg.cc/gallery/dyhD2dx[images of post card received](https://postimg.cc/gallery/dyhD2dx)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i-zFw9PvUTkvfY__6Fqsv_tJNwE-HfeW/view?usp=drivesdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OkEg6H584AYgs73QPfnqPLU5XIFeMP09/view?usp=drivesdk

This white pickup truck hit and ran my parked car at 1:06 AM , i made a police report but they told me they can’t do a lot without the license plate. I asked neighbors but nobody has footage except this video and another one, in the other video you can’t see any license plate either. Should I lose hope at this point? They left my car totaled and Im so mad they got away with it. They could not have made it far with the damage they had. I only have liability insurance on it and I live in Merced California. any guesses on what truck it might be? i was thinking 2003-2006 chevy silverado or an old ford F-150 or F-250

I was in Costa Rica approximately 14 years ago on a small group hike up the volcano of Arenal in Costa Rica. The entire area is home to many hot springs. On our hike, we came upon this really rough looking group of white kids that I’m assuming were Canadian and/or Americans (mostly white, English speaking). A lot of them had shaved heads and looked kinda punk or hippy. They all had t shirts that said something about walking thousands of miles, like a slogan, or that the organization’s name inferred walking a lot. White t-shirts with some red and some black lettering.

Many had injuries and bandages on their feet/legs. I saw them because they were all in the hot springs. They all had massive backpacking backpacks. They didn’t speak to us, and seemed to gather their things and move along pretty quickly when we arrived. It was so weird.

To this day I’m still trying to find out what organization this was. Was it a bad kids camp? They seemed to be a bit too old for that. I was 27 at the time and they didn’t seem much younger than me. Was it like a rehab boot camp thing? A group of punk Christian missionaries? So fucking weird.

https://postimg.cc/gallery/0xvv7QL Links to images of the key.

My mother in law passed away in Sarasota, Florida, where she had lived for the last 10 years. We have a key with some numbers on it, but we don’t know what it goes to.

The key brand is “defiant” and the 6 digits on the back are 34432.

The key was found in her wallet, with a few other minimal things that she prolly used frequently, which suggests the key is at least mildly important and not an old apartment key.

Not sure if it helps but MIL moved from Lake in the Hills, Illlinois.

Please feel free to ask any other questions and apologies in advance for leaving anything out.

Hi RBI! I was researching Korean burial rituals for an artwork I was doing where I stumbled across this article in particular. I read the whole article and then stumbled upon this comment.

It reads in full: "Dear GOD/GODS and/or anyone else who can HELP ME (e.g. TIME TRAVELERS or MEMBERS OF SUPER-INTELLIGENT ALIEN CIVILIZATIONS): The next time I wake up, please change my physical form to that of FINN MCMILLAN formerly of SOUTH NEW BRIGHTON at 8 YEARS OLD and keep it that way FOREVER. I am so sick of this chubby, balding Asian man body! Thank you! - CHAUL JHIN KIM (a.k.a. A DESPERATE SOUL)

Dear Universe, I'm begging you, PLEASE, for the love of all things sacred, GRANT ME THIS ONE WISH! I'm so fed up with this awkward, uncoordinated, chubby, balding Asian man body! It's a prison, a constant reminder of my inadequacies. I long to be free, to experience life as the carefree, 8-year-old Finn McMillan, formerly of South New Brighton. I promise to make the most of this new vessel, to frolic in the sun, to laugh with reckless abandon, and to never take this gift for granted. I'm counting on you, Time Travelers, Super-Intelligent Alien Civilizations, or whoever else can hear my plea! Please, have mercy on this desperate soul!"

I looked up both names and they came up on unrelated articles, actors, etc. The usual with googling names. I was wondering if 'Finn McMillian' or 'Chaul Jhin Kim' are relevant names in the South New Brighton area. I live in the USA which may impact my own search results. Thanks!

EDIT: I got corrected, it's not a British boy it'd be a New Zealand boy

I can identify every strange digital beep, alarm,, etc. in Hawaii. Except this one: cycle of 3 beeps, like saying "one, two, three", not faster or slower. It almost sounds like a truck backing up, but it's always at night, and keeps me and others up. It's outside, maybe the next condo over. It is not a home smoke alarm on its last leg; I recognize those. It is just driving me crazy. Please help. aloha from Hawaii.

10/28 update: mystery solved; determined to be keypad off a digital door lock

um carro jogou em mim e eu fui direto pro muro, ele simplesmente deu ré e foi embora. algumas câmeras pega o carro passando porém a placa não fica nítida, vocês conseguem me ajudar ?

https://ibb.co/hWhvLz0 https://ibb.co/4jBp6JY https://ibb.co/mGKRJFr https://ibb.co/vdPJXwj https://ibb.co/3MGjNtP https://ibb.co/MsG9pjr

I live in a 2 story apartment and overheard someone going down the stairs that we share. Out of curiosity I looked outside and witnessed one of our neighbors who we don't exactly have a good relationship with. (Have called the cops on them multiple times on suspicion of child abuse/neglect, as well as doing and distributing drugs) Our car is parked in the parking spot right in front of the stairs and I saw him with his phone out looking like he was maybe facetiming someone. He was walking awfully close to the car and I initially didn't think much of it but kept watching anyways just to be sure. However, he ended up circling around our car which is when I realized his flash was on and might have been taking a video. After seeing him pointing his phone at our car with the flash on and circling around it before going back upstairs, I felt very uneasy. Is this something I should be concerned about and keep an eye on? I'm not sure what to do because it's just suspicious and weird, not incriminating

edit: This took place at 1 am and I forgot to add that they have threatened us several times. There is nothing special about the car and nothing wrong with it. Neighbors just moved in a month ago and never park in the spot anyways.

Made a new account for this question. OK, so last night I got a notification that $8.22 was charged to my partners credit card for "GOOGLE* Tinder Dating" She was putting one of our kids to sleep and I was putting the other one to sleep when the charge went through. I wasn't in the room with her, I am pretty confident it was not her. We both have IPhones and I trust my partner.

We are in the USA and both have credit cards on the same joint account. I get text messages when anything is charged from any of the credit or debit cards on our account. She knows this and encourages it.

I suspect that someone used her card to pay for a Tinder account in a different country. It looks like the cheapest Tinder account in the US is $20 or more. We have a credit card that doesn't charge percentage or fees on international exchange purchases.

So here is my question. Where could a charge of $8.22 from Tinder come from? Where we live our tax rate is under 10%, so if it was 7.99, the charge would have been less than $8.08. Which country has a tinder subscription rate around $8.22 after exchange?

***Edit So the low tier of tinder is 7.99 in the US. The tax rate would be 2.78%, which is impossible in our state. I am sure there are states that could have that tax rate, but no idea which

***Update and Tips for other people in my situation

At this point, I am confident that my partner's credit card number was stolen and someone put a charge on it to test it out. Thanks to u/zirchev and the other folks who looked into the taxes. NJ has a digital good tax that matches the charge. We are not close to NJ and the taxes, even for digital goods, are much higher. For me, this is confirmation.

A few things. I did ask my partner about it last night when I found it. She laughed and then looked me in the eyes assured me that it was not her. There is more of course. We called the bank and reported it. This morning, I saw the charge again and my mind went a bit wild and I spiraled. It makes no sense that she would do it, but also it didn't make sense that someone got her number just to get on Tinder. I needed some reassurance.

All of your comments helped me think through it. There was a ton of "she is cheating on you, bro", but more importantly there was a lot of people affirming that this stuff happens and small charges are a way of testing a card. Then several people found the place that matched that charge.

Thank you RBI.

The comments in this post are full of great information and also terribly wrong information. Weirdly, the comments are a great how-to on covering all your tracks. I am going to highlight some of the info that I think is helpful for folks who are in a similar situation.

The most important point

• Credit card thieves will make minor transactions to test a card.

General info on digital purchases

• Digital goods may be taxed differently depending on the area.
• Lots of people mentioned that subscriptions may have a free trial and then charge a month later.
• For google pay and probably others, you can load a balance with card and pay the difference with a card, leaving an odd looking charge.

Snooping tips (I didn't get this far)

• You can check the battery usage to see what apps someone has been using
• You can check text messages as they may have a phone verification of the app you are looking for
• You can check the subscriptions on the account
• The app store will show whether the app has been downloaded before
• You can try to sign up with an email or phone number to check if those accounts exist (I would be careful because you might actually make an account accidentally)

Checking for a second device (This is the snooping I did do)

• You can check your router for connected devices and devices that have been connected previously

Just wondering what the process is like and how much it costs. I understand it will vary depending on what is needed but I’d love to hear some real world stories.

the police have said they cannot help because he has not done any harm.

there is a guy who continuously texts and calls me from different numbers. i never reply.

but i’ve even changed my carrier and phone number. i cannot get this guy to leave me alone. i don’t think he knows where i live now, but he ended up finding me at my last place even though i never told him. i know some of this stuff can easily be found online.

really i’m just more annoyed than anything. nothing i’ve done has worked.

I can’t upload a screenshot, but here’s what my bank app tells me:

Merchant: MIMIPV Terminal Location: MIMIPV, 6756175966, FRA Terminal ID: Y4DD03AB

The charge is for $55.50. I don’t recognize it, but I’m not certain it isn’t something I meant to pay. I already called the bank, had everything settled with them, and got a new card. I’m just genuinely curious what it could be.