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Full article title: "A scammer's blueprint: How cybercriminals plot to rob a target in a week."

During a raid on a scamming compound in the Philippines, officials found handbooks that provided detailed instructions on executing scams, typically pig-butchering. Reuters put together this graphic/article describing the process used by scammers to quickly establish a connection and "make sales with a client" (extract money from a victim). Has interesting details about how they build their persona, like using a birthday that coincides with the Taurus zodiac sign because it's most compatible with others, or always saying they have a relative (such as their mother) who lives close to the victi

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I'm planning to install a shade garden near an existing mature River Birch (Betula nigra) and was planning to sheet mulch the area to deal with the well- established grass there. My only concern is that there are surface roots from the tree in that area, and I'm unsure whether the thick mulch layer will be harmful to them. I know mulch against the trunk (volcano) is bad, but does the same apply to the surface level roots? If so, do y'all have any recommendations on how to clear out the grass without gaming the tree?

I've tried searching a bit but haven't been able to find information about this. If you use a bog filter for a pond, will carnivorous plants such as sarracenia or VFT do fine in there? My understanding is bog filters are supposed to remove nutrients from pond water, but we generally don't want nutrients to accumulate in the growing medium. On the other hand, I frequently see people put sarracenia pots directly in their shallow ponds with no ill effects. Those aren't exactly bog filters as I understand them (no water pumped through), but it's close enough to make me think they'd do fine in a bog filter. Does anyone here have experience with incorporating their carnivorous plants in a pond?