Tag Archives: Scammers
You Don’t Suppose…
I haven’t had a Nigerian scam email for years now. Either people are being more careful online or scammers are getting more sophisticated. Which do you think it is?
The Solicitation
He said it wasn’t a sales call. I knew he was lying. Any call on my landline is automatically suspect. these days people call my mobile phone. I’d get rid of the landline, but it is part of a bundle with my internet and it would cost me more to cancel the service than to […]
Offering Me Money
Are you getting them too? Emails from a financial institution offering a line of credit? When the first one came last month, I ignored it. Not only was it from some lender I had never heard of, but the line of credit was being offered for my business, Lorne A. Martin Excavation. Do you see […]
She Wouldn’t Listen To Me
I received a phone call, supposedly from my internet provider. The young lady was very concerned. Apparently they have noticed unauthorized access to my IP address, and I needed to shut that down. My system was compromised. Hackers could have access to my information. I said I was okay with that. She didn’t listen, just […]
Phone Fun
Do you ever have days when you just feel uninspired? Me too. In fact, yesterday was one of them. So today, instead of the post I had planned, I’m rerunning one of my favorites, this time from five years ago. “Mr. Anderson, this is the Traffic Department calling. We are calling about a claim regarding […]
The Phone Call
I didn’t recognize the voice when I picked up the phone and heard “Hey grandpa!” Having just become a grandparent, I figured it was one of my friends calling to congratulate me. But I wasn’t sure which one. So I continued to talk, hoping i would be able to figure it out without the embarassment of […]
I’m A Winner
I’d been working for a few hours, so the timing was good – I needed a break. The phone scam was new to me, so I played along. The caller told me I had won $85,000 from some online gaming board. I should have been taking notes – much of what was said I didn’t […]
The Scam
One of the things I have missed during my stay in Germany is the telephone scammers. I don’t know if it is because Germans are too smart to be taken in, or the crooks don’t speak the language, but in four years I haven’t received one call from a dubious person trying to separate me […]
Would You Fall For This?
It was in my email spam folder, a note from the chairman of one of the world’s biggest philanthropic organizations. I should count myself lucky – I had been chosen to receive $5,300,000. I didn’t click on the link. It seemed strange that I would never have heard of such a prestigious organization, so I […]
One Every Minute
Nineteenth century American showman P.T. Barnum is usually credited as saying “there’s a sucker born every minute.” Certainly there’s a new one in India. Barnum didn’t actually say the words attributed to him, but he was not averse to a bit of fakery in his exhibits. He knew people were happy to buy illusion, even […]
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