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[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is kinda funny, but extremely fake. I'm a second generation immigrant. I can attest that obtaining a credit card without citizenship is basically impossible, and very difficult even with a green card.

Also, when people from Asia travel they usually have dual currency credit cards that work very well in their country and the west. All the major financial organizations have offices in China. Hell you can get a dual currency card from the bank of China in MasterCard or Visa.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Getting a credit card with a green card is not hard at all, what are u smoking.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It is if your country isn't on the western credit based system.... A recent immigrant isn't going to have a loan or mortgage, and most often are in low income jobs, or even paid under the table.

[–] Socsa 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Nah, my SIL is Chinese with a green card and has credit cards and even a mortgage. Arrived in 2017.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sister in law...... Which means she is married to an American. I didn't say it was impossible, just very difficult for most immigrants.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

how recent do u mean, like sure if u been here less than a year and u dont have a green card probably hard but when u have it its not hard at all, how do u think people exist in this country before the 5 years for citizenship are up or even beyond that if they never get citizenship. also the person in the post studied in the usa they probably lived here atleast 4 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

how recent do u mean, like sure if u been here less than a year and u dont have a green card probably hard but when u have it its not hard at all

I think you are vastly underestimating how hard it is to get a start in a totally new country where you don't speak the language.

how do u think people exist in this country before the 5 years for citizenship are up or even beyond that if they never get citizenship.

Cash....... Most immigrants rely on cash and don't really trust banking institutions. There are plenty of check cashing services that charge predatory amounts of money to cash checks for people who aren't able to utilize or get a checking account.

also the person in the post studied in the usa they probably lived here atleast 4 years.

On a student visa.... You can open a bank account with a student visa passport, and a letter explaining your residency status. If you apply for an individual tax ID number and get assigned a social security number, you can apply for a credit card. But you don't really have any credit history, and they know you're only in the country temporarily.

I went through all this when my cousin came from Korea to go to school, it was a lot easier for him to just use his dual currency card.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

First Gen immigrant here. Credit card obtainment is itself not that hard if you already have guardians or sponsors who are willing to cosign your paperworks. If you don't even have that then it would have been impossible for you to even legally get into this sh*t hole to begin with so I have no idea why you said it was hard.

The hard part is getting a credit line as high as 100k without a stable income and high credit score. Even many US citizens I known don't even have close to that numbers in all their accounts combined fresh out of college. The conman in the post either already have rich relatives who are paying it back or must have lost even more cash withdrawn from China to bankroll his "scam"

Lastly, regardless of how you spent that money, it's still entrapped inside the US economy and thus not enrich his own country at all. Unless they bought gold or cash back to China, of course

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Credit card obtainment is itself not that hard if you already have guardians or sponsors who are willing to cosign your paperworks.

Pretty large "if" for a lot of immigrant communities.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I mean it would be cool if you could do this in a country and then leave and never go back, I think a lot of people would take that deal lol, I would take that deal lol

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wrecked my credit when I was younger.

I am now building it up again to do just this. Except I won’t be leaving the country they can just send me letters for 10 years before giving up again.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

its true. its unsecured debt. they can't take your possessions. they can only send letters, call until you tell them to stop, and get judges to say "yep he owes that" (judgements)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Exactly. The only one to be careful with is government debt like not paying council tax. They’ll take it straight from your wages.

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[–] Habahnow 33 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Assuming this is real, how would this shake out? If they leave the country, would those banks be able to get their money from this person?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago

If they truly never step foot in america again, they just may get away with it assuming China wont play nice with america.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is definitely not real. There’s no way an international student got $140k in credit with no collateral. A tenth of that MAYBE but at that point there’s plenty of Americans doing the same thing anyways.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

They might've done it fraudulently using fake names?

Or they might be able to get that with no collateral if they had a good credit rating, a lot of Chinese international students have very wealthy parents so they could've got a good rating over the course of study...

[–] Socsa 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah the only way this is real is through identity theft, which would be fucked up no matter how much you hate America. More likely it's just a troll post.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Credit rating doesn’t translate across countries. Even the US and Canada don’t share credit rating info (source: I’m a US citizen living in Canada and my credit history in Canada started from nothing), so the US and China definitely won’t. And banks are absolutely not giving favorable rates to students yet alone international students.

In fact if anything because international students get the worst tuition rates and few to no scholarships, then if OP’s story was real they would have spent minimum $20k a year just in tuition over four years, not even counting room and board. So if they did try to abscond with a more realistic credit card debt of like $10k they’d still be way underwater.

The only way this would maybe work is if they had a full ride scholarship, but only top schools like Stanford/Harvard give substantial scholarships to international students and at that point the student would be throwing away 4 years of a top top education for a relatively trivial amount of money, keeping in mind that again they’re never getting six figures in credit.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

Really depends on the country you’d be going to.

If it has these same financial companies in them or any credit bureaus that factor in debt from here then you could run into issues.

If not then from what I remember reading this would actually work if you’re not planning on coming back since typically unpaid debt isn’t a crime and definitely not one a country would extradite over.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

I had an American house mate here in Australia. He maxed out a bunch of credit and got into trouble. Eventually he just left Australia and went back to the States and defaulted on everything.

As far as I know nothing happened to him and the Australian banks couldn't do anything. I mean from their perspective he just dropped off the map with no contact details valid anymore.

This was around 2010.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Also if it starts happening regularly, they will stop giving CC to Chinese nationals

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Outstanding move!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn't they just be able to come after him when he gets to China? Plus I don't think they have bankruptcy as a real option, so....

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That would depend entirely on the Chinese judiciary's level of cooperation. Which probably will be very low unless China somehow stands to gain from it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"Looks at guy suddenly with $140k."

Life, uh, finds a way?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, if it were a random European country it would not fly. China, who knows. They might just donate half to the state, willingly or not and its all good from their end.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Depends whether 140k would be pursued. Honestly, probably not. Would cost hell of a lot more for the banks, legal, government agencies to try and get them to pay.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Can someone straighten this pls thnx x

[–] Aquila 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Thanx babe x

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Same braincell.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Way more readable thanks hun x

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Samsung photo editor

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Can all those people the UK is threatening to deport to Rwanda not do this? Or will they be extradited back to UK?

What a conundrum.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I steal a whole million dollars myself. Your country is bad.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The business of banks is to trap people on debt and make money on interest, so screwing up banks is a good thing in my book.

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