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The Subways - Sausage Roll Queen
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Manowar - Blow your speakers
Play it loud don't play it low - Blow you speakers, with sausage roll!
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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 I can't believe I didn't remember that one, classic!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Cannot remember the exact song title, but...
Huey Lewis and the News - The Heart of Sausage Roll is still beating...
that's kind of gruesome 
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Yes, I do.
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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AC/DC - Sausage Roll Damnation
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The more discerning idiot would replace it with "albatross".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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ACDC - Wanna be a sausage roll singer.
Golden Earwig - Assassination D'Un Sausage Roll Star 
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The Rolling Stones - It's only Sausage Roll (but i like it)
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Billy Joel -- It's Still Sausage Roll to Me
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Honey Drippers: There's good sausage at midnight
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One Sausage Roll Too Many -- (from Starlight Express)
Life Is a Sausage (But the Radio Rolled Me) -- Reunion
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We've people calling my office pretending to be [manufacturer/supplier/warranty] people and they ask very specific questions of the staff about the printers we have in house. These scammers then send out fake invoices for service/materials/toner to our purchasing department.
The invoices look good because they've the manufacturer/serial number/make/model of printers that we own.
How could they be fake invoices?
And so on.
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The most common version of this scam is to send toner at an exorbitant price, often quoting the name of the poor sap that gave them the printer model.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Yeah, I believe the name of the company is "Hewlett Packard". Or Xerox. Canon. Whatever. 
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I get the humour, but the scammers make the brand suppliers appear to be bargains. The reason they do it, is that it's then not breaking the law. Sending a false invoice is prima facie fraud. Overcharging and "misinterpreting" the phone conversation as an order might still be dishonest, but it's almost impossible to file any charges. In theory the victim could return the goods (probably still incurring a restocking fee!), but there's a good chance that the toner gets used before the invoice with the crazy price is even seen.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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For a very long time, it's been US law that an unsolicited item received by post is the property of the recipient.
I'm not sure if this is also in effect for the (since evolved) private delivery services. I would certainly be a sympathetic juror if someone claimed they thought it was a gift since it was never ordered.
One could, of course, charge them shipping/handling/etc. fees to get it back - something that works both-ways, but is rarely exercised on the consumer end. Insist upon advanced payment until they establish credit with you . . .
(Certainly, if you never signed for it you never received it).
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Does this apply to business recipients?
In any case, the scam works far too often:
- Unsolicited: "xxx authorized the order, how did we know which printer models you have if they didn't supply the information."
- Signed for: Business are almost certain to sign for all deliveries, not knowing that they weren't actually ordered.
- Office supplies: There's a fair chance that a junior member of staff simply puts the items into storage and another takes them out and uses them.
- Invoice: If an invoice arrives weeks later, there's a good chance that the product has been used and it's not worth the business' time to fight it. Often an invoice is paid without checking unless the business has a robust purchasing system.
Like most scams, they don't have to have a high conversion rate to make it more profitable than a valid business. This particular scam is quite clever in that there's almost no chance of being convicted of a crime. Even if businesses keep the items and don't pay, there are probably enough who do pay to cover the "shrinkage".
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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My experience was receiving an invoice for a magazine subscription. It was made to look like it was payment for a subscription in progress one time, and as a renewal, another.
Definitely, as you say, accounts payable would look at the item and pay it off as though it were an existing item that was already approved (particularly if it looks like a renewal).
Still - the "come and get it if you want it back" is a good tact - for they won't do that any more than a business would care to fight over the relatively small amount.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Of course, the best approach is to make sure that staff never give out information to an unsolicited phone call (unless it's sales information, of course!) The "Can I take your number and have so-and-so call you back" is a good practice to instill when a junior is unsure.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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What happened to the standard business policy of not paying on an invoice unless accompanied by a purchase order. If the company cannot provide a valid purchase order number, the invoice gets returned to the vendor with a request for validation. If they cannot provide a valid matching purchase order number, it's a scam.
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... and what percentage of businesses have a purchase order policy. Clearly the scam works - it's probably the most common one perpetrated on businesses; ask anyone that works on reception for a small/medium business.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Member 10707677 wrote: What happened to the standard business policy of not paying on an invoice unless accompanied by a purchase order. If the company cannot provide a valid purchase order number, the invoice gets returned to the vendor with a request for validation. If they cannot provide a valid matching purchase order number, it's a scam.
Part of the problem can be that for most large corporations, small purchases aren't handled through the purchase order system. In my experience with a relatively large R&D operation the department administrative aides have a corporate credit card in their name, with which they can pay for non-capital purchases that are below a certain amount...but what they order is (like a personal purchase) put on the charge card, and the AA keeps records of what was ordered. A delivery of unordered products stands out like the traditional sore thumb.
An invoice that doesn't cite a matching PO won't be paid on arrival; if it's valid (e.g., a software maintenance renewal reminder) whoever is responsible for it will either arrange for the AA to put it on the corporate charge card, or initiate a purchase order.
And if a vendor doesn't cooperate there are other approaches. My PPOE was a Very Large State University that back in the early 1970s had leased a high-speed (for that time frame) serial printer...but it didn't work. The vendor claimed that it had no obligation to give us a working product but that we still were obligated to pay for it. The vendor threatened to sue for payment, to which our purchasing department responded "we believe that we have more lawyers than you do." The vendor backed down and cancelled the lease at no cost to us other than elevated blood pressure.
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Indeed, this is true.
If they send it with an invoice... And you are confident the person involved did not order it, I would ASK for the PO (even if you don't use PO #s). Their failure to PROVE you placed an order is more than enough for you to KEEP The product.
I have seen this scam. If they ask you to return it, TACK ON A HANDLING FEE that is larger than their invoice, plus shipping, and ask them to pay VIA CERTIFIED CHECK, or you will not return it.
Also, be sure to EDUCATE the employees about these scams.
In most cases, a company MUST pass some form of "Credit Check" before a LEGIT company will ship product with an invoice. And "signing" for the package is NOT agreeing to the terms.
If more companies KEPT the product without paying, they would have to stop!
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The worst part is when somebody else answers the phone and starts telling the person on the other end personal information about all of the employees etc, not realising it's a scam, before you can yank the phone out of their hand
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