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  1. #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by pomtzu View Post
    Yeah - I get banking updates and notifications that I have requested, but never telling me click on the provided link and yadda-yadda-yadda. It's common sense IMO that something of that nature is phishing and theft of personal data. Too many people just don't think before they click.......
    I mis-read Pomtzu's post - I thought it said, "I get barking updates..."!

    Today I got a spam e-mail offer inviting me to respond to ... uhmmm ... add three inches I get a lot of weight loss spam (try garcinia cambogia! try hoodia! try guar gum!) too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cassiesmom View Post
    I mis-read Pomtzu's post - I thought it said, "I get barking updates..."!

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    LOL. I get those too - but it has nothing to do with emails and spammers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Catty1 View Post
    Your bank will not email you. Ever.
    NOT true. My bank will email me. They emailed me that they were giving me a new debit card because of the Home Depot hack. However, I did log on to my secure messaging in my account and sent them a message. They verified it was legit and I did receive a new debit card.
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    Your bank will email you only if you have given them your email address! The first thousand or so times I got spam for "First Third Bank" I had no idea it was even a real bank!

    I also get emails claiming to be from Walgreens, thanking me for me recent visit! And while I drive by 3 different ones on a regular basis, I cannot eve remember the last time I was in one!
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    It still annoys me when I get those "Cure Diabetes" ones - they are still sneaking through. So many people deal with diabetes, and suffer horribly with it, and the Alzheimers cures - do people really think a cure for Alzheimer's, or a way to reverse its effects would not have made the major news on nearly every outlet available, from print to web to television?

    I am also getting so many CVS spam emails, that I have missed a couple legitimate ones! Those are pernicious, as they use similar subject lines ...
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    I keep getting dodgy posts on my Facebook feed how you can cure diabetes, etc. They are just cruel; they say pharma is hiding the cure. Grr.
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    Well, I've recently become a very popular lady. For years now -- according to my e-mail -- African American women and Asian women have been dying to date me. Now, Brazillian babes are wanting to hook up. Almost makes me wonder if I should "switch teams".

    Ever notice the SPAM for men are for products to make them larger and the products for women are to make them smaller? (Well, except in one or 2 areas).
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    Quote Originally Posted by kuhio98 View Post
    Well, I've recently become a very popular lady. For years now -- according to my e-mail -- African American women and Asian women have been dying to date me. Now, Brazillian babes are wanting to hook up. Almost makes me wonder if I should "switch teams".

    Ever notice the SPAM for men are for products to make them larger and the products for women are to make them smaller? (Well, except in one or 2 areas).
    I get a lot of "xyz type woman wants to meet you!" emails too. Funny thing is, I've been married longer than I've had my current email address!
    A funny thing happened on my Facebook ad feed before I discovered adblock. On the top, an ad for some sort of dating service. On the bottom, an ad for catheter supplies. Good game, Facebook. Way to make me feel unloved AND self conscious!

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    Okay, today is a banner day for the inaccuracy/cluelessness of spammers! Things that made it into my inbox today included:

    1. "Burial insurance for the cost of your coffee" - Ya mean it is free? I don't drink coffee 99% of the time!

    2. "Repair your Hearing" - um, guys, it's nerve damage. It's permanent. There's no fixing my right ear, and my left ear is perfectly fine, thank!

    3. "Glasses are ruining your vision" - Um, guys, if it weren't for my glasses, I couldn't read your stupid spam! Been wearing them since I was 8, and dad noticed I was "reading the funnies with my nose" ... it's genetics, folks!
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    And, spammers of the world, I do not have a child - so do not need to send him or her a Santa letter, don't need to know who or what out there wants to date, marry or flirt with me - happily married, thanks, and do not care what any celebrity theoretically used to lose weight, or why you think white beans are suddenly magical!
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    And spammers, I do not have a garage floor, have not since leaving my parents' house 20+ years ago. So I do not need to protect it, update to or organize it!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Karen View Post
    It still annoys me when I get those "Cure Diabetes" ones - they are still sneaking through. So many people deal with diabetes, and suffer horribly with it, and the Alzheimers cures - do people really think a cure for Alzheimer's, or a way to reverse its effects would not have made the major news on nearly every outlet available, from print to web to television?
    Karen, I think the problem here is that some people will actually fall for these come ons. The greatest thing to me would be to never have to take another insulin shot ever again but the time isn't now. These claims can be so cruel at times.
    Recently I posted about a scam phone call I received telling me the Treasury Department chose me to receive a few thousand dollars. I don't recall the specifics but I did report it to the police. A few nights ago I got another call from this group or whatever they are. The woman started with the same Treasury Department speach - my response: "I already got this call. I know you're a scam and you've been reported to the police." All I heard was a click as she hung up the phone.
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    I got the court summons one today; replied to say I was onto them. It bounced, surprise, surprise.
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    I keep getting one in my email from some chick who clams she saw my pic on Facebook and is dying to know me. This has gone of for years. Odd that she saw my pic since I have no Facebook account and no photo of me anywhere on line.

    The other day her email said she was having trouble finding friends. HELLO IT'S BECAUSE YOU ARE BLOOMIN ANNOYING!!! I just keep deleting them hoping she will go away some day or die of old age. sheesh
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    My big laugh yesterday, was an email from Barack Obama. Yup - I'm being charged with money laundering (the scam said money laundry - LOL) and terrorism. He has issued an order for me to be arrested Thursday morning if I don't pay the $688 to get my certificate so that my millions can be shipped to me. If I don't, he said I will pay with my life, and I'll really be in SOUP. I haven't deleted that one yet, since I get a good laugh every time I read it.
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    To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
    Ecclesiastes 3:1
    The clock of life is wound but once and no man has the power
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    Now is the only time you have, so live it with a will -
    Don't wait until tomorrow - the hands may then be still.
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