DesktopDevin
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Yep, Samsung has a real mess on their hands. Now a car fire... Father shocked after Samsung Galaxy Note 7 torches his family car
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Note 7 Explosion Causes House Fire In The USA
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Haha, ahh... No. Btw, no talking about ins. fraud. [emoji23] Not a road we want to venture down, even in jest.
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Sajo
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I hope that these people are not making up stories to try and cash in on Samsung. I feel bad for them if their home, car did catch fire because of a phone. That's terrible. Hopefully they are not just trying to make a buck off of an already bad situation.
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I really doubt it. If it were, these types of "accidents" would be much more prevalent. And for real, what kind of sicko would elect to burn their house down with all their possessions in it? I had that happen to me last December and I can tell you, you never recover from it. We will be remembering things we lost in the fire for the rest of our lives, including my female lap cat, Bridget. She was the best.
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Sajo
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I may have never said this, but sorry about your house fire Fox. It happened to me as a kid and I remember how terrible it was.
I didn't mean that either person intentionally set the fire. I never even thought that. What I hope is that after the fire happened, for whatever reason, they are not instantly jumping on the "it was my Note 7 that did it" idea.
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Are you alluding to the story you linked to being a farce/scam? Why would you assume something like that? He even said he lost thousands due to modifications he made to his vehicle that aren't going to be recouped.
S-pen'd from my Note 7!
It wouldn't be insurance fraud. I'd just only charge it in the car.
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I would hope it isn't, and if that is the case for any of the victims that is a tough thing having my parents having their house burned down 5-6 years ago (the house I grew up in).
But I know that we have people who see other people's tragedies and see an opportunity to try and cash in via scams.
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I don't think he meant that this was an intentional blame of Samsung for a fire that started else wise. However in the article it does say that it was not conclusively determined to be the phone that caused it;
"It’s still not confirmed whether the new smartphone was truly at the epicenter of this vehicular catastrophe, but it’s definitely giving more than a few Note 7 owners some pause."
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My home too, December 12, 2015. Burned to the ground, lost virtually everything. We managed to recover some non-flammable items (jewelry, kitchen utensils, bake pans and such, hard drive from our home computer, etc.) but minimal in the grand scheme.
Exterior and interior walls are still standing because the entire structure to the roof line was cement block, however the full pitched roof was wood, and the attic floor was the original flat roof covered in tar pitch. Once that pitch caught fire it was essentially an oil fire. It burned for almost 5 hours.
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The Stig 04
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You really think in today's world someone wouldn't?......I wanna live where ever it is you do since apparently everyone is honest as can be lol. I'm not saying for sure every case is a fraud but to say there aren't people trying to exploit this trying to cash in on millions is bonkers.
Unfortunately there are opportunists in every society and the lure of larger compensation is too hard for some to resist, even the most honest in other regards. The entitlement mentality feeds into this as well. During a bad economy the best people will sometimes revert to doing things they would otherwise never consider. Sometimes it's simply to survive. Also sometimes people just get caught up in the moment. Looting is a prime example.
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What part of MI? I'm in West and have to always tell myself that 99% of the people here are in their job solely for a paycheck. They don't care about the job or knowledge of that job. So when the first reports came out about it being a 3rd party charger that's all the further research they did.
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