NYPD CRIME PREVENTION ALERT BEWARE OF SCAMS USING GREEN DOT MONEYPAK CARDS - greendot.pdf

Green Dot MoneyPak cards themselves are legitimate products when used for the right purposes.  Once purchased at a participating retailer with cash, consumers can use MoneyPaks to reload other prepaid cards, add money to a PayPal account without using a bank account, or make same-day payments to major companies. Because the cards can only be bought with cash, consumers never need to disclose their personal or financial information to a retail cashier or to make a payment.

While many schemes still involve scammers asking for funds to be wired to them, MoneyPaks have the added benefit of the scammer not having to show up at an office to claim the funds. Anyone with the 14-digit number found on the back of the MoneyPak card can drain the card of funds.

In all of these examples, the intended victims are instructed to buy a Green Dot MoneyPak cards, load the amount of the fine or other money owed onto the card and then provide the number on the back of the card to the scammers, who will then drain the funds from the card .

NYPD CRIME PREVENTION ALERT BEWARE OF SCAMS USING GREEN DOT MONEYPAK CARDS - greendot.pdf

This Ingenious Hoodie Could Save Homeless People's Lives

Normally I am all for innovative ideas that help the homeless, this, I just can't get behind. Many here in the US rail against the wearing of niqab in conjunction with a hijab because we consider it de-humanizing to women. How is this any different? Doesn't covering up someone's face tend to de-humanize them thereby making them easier to victimize? Joseph Merrick comes to mind.

"...[I]t allows the wearer to be in public, and remain somewhat inconspicuous." Ask Tryvon Martin how well that worked out.

Sorry I don't see anything good about this product and not just in regards to use by the homeless.
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When Anders Hsi constructed a hoodie that zips up the front of a wearer’s face, he had in mind a person who values his privacy, like a passenger on an airplane.

But when a homeless man named Joe approached Hsi and was eager to try on the innovative sweatshirt, Hsi realized his product could take on an entirely new mission, Mashable reported.

This Ingenious Hoodie Could Save Homeless People's Lives