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Discuss everything about bogus content, scames etc in this forum. For example topics like: "fixing" wet phones in rice, free energy claims, fake products, dangerous/fake 'life hacks' (like for example gluing an LM7805 to a 9V as 'phone charger') etc. So that you/we can warn others about them.

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