A Facebook friend asked me to blog about this. At first I was reluctant. What would I say, "Scams, and the perpetrators of said scams, blow dead goat."? "Scams are bad, m'kay?".
A couple of days after the suggestions, I received a check for $25.50 from the Texas Physicians Health Group. Who the hell are these guys? I never heard of 'em. Toll free number to call... Oh, but I got it on a Friday night and will not be able to know a damn thing til Monday. (Turned out to be a over payment reimbursement - FROM SEPTEMBER 2011!!!)
There was a time (Yes... I am an old bastard), when I would get a check like that and it would be cashed before you could say "Something difficult and tongue twisting that would make you sound like a dork" five times real fast.
But this was before two cards, one my debit card and the other my main credit card, got hacked within thirty days of each other. Target, you cheese eating, surrender monkey, French bastards, THANKS! Granted, I will continue to shop there. I will pay a tad extra to NOT go to Wal-Mart. I am saddened that the windfall of 25 buckaroos is met with a healthy dose of skepticism.
I have also noticed that cell phones are getting inundated telemarketing type calls. I think it was 2006 or so when the No Call List legislation went into place. It seems that they are creeping back into the mix of things. This is an unwelcome development. I got rid of my land line in 1999 for just that reason. Like some people get a P.O. Box to avoid junk mail. Some calls still got through, but the majority were thwarted.
The main reason I don't contribute to campaigns? Because I will get blasted by the greedy bastards wanting more. Obama's peeps, in one fashion or another, sent me about 34,460,073,421 emails since 2007. Granted, I still think my 50 bucks I tossed in was worth keeping Palin out of the White House. Dodged a bullet there, you betcha! *wink*
The other scam I recently heard about was a "758" area code, or something to that effect. The gist is that your phone rings once or twice. No message left. And if you answer, it hangs up. When you try to call the number back, it is an area code off shore, and a $20 international connection fee gets added to your bill and it is like $9 bucks a minute.
Lesson to be learned - If you get weird call from number, before calling right back, Google that shit!
Ah... Another scam, of sorts... Before posting or reposting disaster porn or foreboding stuff on Facebook, please take two minutes and Google or Snopes the allegations or claims made.
On another forum, a guy claimed that the opening ceremony of the Olympic games in Sochi had a secret shout out to Hitler from Putin, because a snowflake did not turn into a ring...
This, according to the genius, was a definitive representation of the Audi logo... of four rings... And Hitler told Audi to build a fast car... So this was all intentional by Putin... Never mind that the Audi logo is four rings aligned horizontally, not staggered...
And if it were three rings, would it mean that Putin is after Disney money because it would look like Mickey Mouse? If it were two rings, would be for boobies? Putin does love being topless. If it were one ring, would it symbolize that Putin is actually Sauron from the Lord of the Rings and wants his Precious?
Stuff like this relies on the weak minded and gullible to "marvel at the insight".
In the end, alls I can say is that scams, and the perpetrators of said scams, blow dead goat.
Scams are bad, m'kay?
d
P.S. - I know the title may or may not relate, but it is a nice play on words... Deserves a title, dontcha think?
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