It’s been a busy time wot with one thing an’ another. Anyhoo, here’s a possibly unnecessary ‘warning’ to y’all.
Recently, I’ve been receiving an Email from LinkedIn with the same subject line, every two or three daze. No idea. Just delete. Then, out of the blue, I got an Email
from an almost forgotten buddy I worked with a very long, long time ago asking for help stating he was very ill and unable to use the inter-web thus asking if I’d go up that big river online shop and purchase a phone
voucher for an equally ill relation of his. He’d send details of where to send voucher details and he’d reimburse me right away. Yeah, right. Delete. Had one of those? Be on your guard; after a quick search on
Giggle I got some details here.
Then a phone call from my neighbourhood energy advisor. Yet another yeah, right.
Damn! Is anything safe these daze? Do you have to think through every call and mail
you receive? Consider every clicky thingy you’re about to do? Short answer, yes... Suspect phone call asking questions? Never answer and never, never answer ‘Yes’ as they record all and can edit calls and
possibly use ‘yes’ for other nefarious purposes.
Net result? Just in case, It all brought forward the annoying, time consuming, various critical password changing task.
Quote; Frank Stallone.
“Curiosity pulls people into the scam.”
4 comments:
My cousin almost fell for the voucher scam, this one was Amazon gift cards supposedly on behalf of a friend. He bought them but fortunately couldn't contact the friend so decided to take them round personally.
The friend of course knew nothing about it so my cousin managed to get his money back from Amazon. He's older than I am and not very familiar with internet issues.
A K Haart,
Very lucky. As I say, it's cruel times indeed when you have to be on your guard before making a move on the phone or keyboard. And the older one gets...
I'm glad to see you are still around and of course it makes sense to be prudent about filtering stuff. My email hasn't changed but I missed your Xmas cheer so am trusting all is well since yeah, were all churning up the notches, or rather nurning up the crotches
Admiral Nelson,
Quite a phew on the Xmas list reported none receipt of my Xmas greeting. No idea wot went wrong.
Yes, I’m spending less and less of wot little time I may have left tapping on the tap-top.
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