I had a scary experience yesterday when I fired up my Yahoo email to find a missive from a friend:
"I'm writing this with tears in my eyes,my family and i came down here to London,England for a short vacation to visit a resort and got mugged at gun point last night at the park of the hotel where we lodged.All cash,credit cards and cell were stolen off me .I've been to the embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all,our flight leaves today and I'm having problems settling the hotel bills.
The hotel manager won't let us leave until i settle the hotel bills($1700) now am freaked out.Please reply and let me if can you have the money wire to me through western union i promise to pay back as soon as i get back home.
Thanks,
Maureen"
OMG! and at gunpoint! Something seemed a little off about the email but I instantly replied and shortly heard from 'her' again:
"Glad you replied back,i have nothing left on us right now and we're lucky to have our life and passports with us it would have been worst if they had made away with my passports.Well all i need now is just $1700, you can have it wired to my name via Western Union i'll have to show my passport as ID to pick it up here and i promise to pay you back as soon as i get back home. Here's my info below
Name - Maureen
Location - 59 Dan y Coed Road Cardiff,
London CF23 6NE United Kingdom
As soon as it has been done, kindly get back to me with the confirmation number. Let me know if you are heading to the WU outlet now???
Thanks.. I really OWE you BIG
Maureen"
As I had requested that her next email include a telephone number for the resort so I could call, and this email did not include it, I did not rush to Western Union, but re-mailed to "Please! send a phone number." Because I figured I could just give her my credit card number. While waiting for 'her' to email me a phone number, I googled the address in the UK and a blog came up from Tim Ross chronicling a similar situation as a scam and I was really thankful for that. I did not hear back from 'Maureen' and later learned that her email account, Yahoo, had been hacked. So here's my contribution and I surely hope no one gets scammed.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
MISSENSE
If that title isn't a word, it should be!
I have, for years upon years, felt assaulted, surrounded by nonsense, missense, cacophony. In my time I have railed against it. .But, there proved to be too much of it and I stopped railing. Although, just now, 2 minor radio spots stick in my craw and I think I'll let this post react to them.
The latest was t'other morning. It's a radio spot called Focus on the Family. The speaker/writer/preacher went on about a man who had been abused/neglected by his mother to the point that he did not even know what the word, 'love' meant. Then he grew and married an equally unloving woman. Then he went and got a gun and went to the Book Depository in Dallas and killed Kennedy.
WELL!! We HAD all been wondering how on earth a nice man like Kennedy could get himself killed! No mention of Cuba, no mention of LBJ, no mention of Mafia, no mention of 'lone gunman' conspiracy. NO, no no. It all happened because his mother didn't love him! Blame the female, blame the woman. What a crock. And, this is a syndicated crock! This blather goes all over the USA, infecting the minds of those not old enough to remember, not wise enough to look behind the scenes, too busy with the vicissitudes of life to try and glean the truth of history! No, let's make it simple for these morons, , , The WOMAN did it! My mind fails me in the face of such ludicrousness. I am just a lone voice, he is syndicated to probably millions. What a crazy state of affairs exist. There is no combating our devolution.
I could go on and on about it, and about this next bit, but what's the point really.
The second spot that abraded me, was an interview on Coasttocoastam. Art Bell was speaking with his guest about the possibility of 'life on other planets' and how wonderful it would be to advance to the stars and find, finally, alien intelligence!
What 'on earth' does he think this earth teems with!
We are surrounded at all times by intelligences that are certainly alien to us, although they are not alien to the planet. Is there a a cat owner that does NOT think their cat hosts 'alien intelligence'? I think not. Earth teems with life forms that have existed for millenia beyond our relatively short term stay here. And how do we communicate with them? Well, take the cow, how do we use it's intelligence? Got milk? How about the chicken? Or the wholesale slaughter of turkeys? Do they not have intelligence? The do! I wouldn't want to try and play chess with them, but still. Or the grandfather of all survivors, the cockroach! Come on, folks, get your game on! Go try and commune with a cockroach! Heaven knows they aren't all that edible, which is the main thing we long for in 'alien intelligence'.
Again, I could go on and on about the 'intelligences' right here on this planet with which we cannot seem to communicate, lobsters, crabs, pigs, bunnies etc. so why the hurry to find them on other planets? To eat them, or put them to work for us as we do the other species? Yeah.
Anyway, that's my rant, and you're welcome to it.
I have, for years upon years, felt assaulted, surrounded by nonsense, missense, cacophony. In my time I have railed against it. .But, there proved to be too much of it and I stopped railing. Although, just now, 2 minor radio spots stick in my craw and I think I'll let this post react to them.
The latest was t'other morning. It's a radio spot called Focus on the Family. The speaker/writer/preacher went on about a man who had been abused/neglected by his mother to the point that he did not even know what the word, 'love' meant. Then he grew and married an equally unloving woman. Then he went and got a gun and went to the Book Depository in Dallas and killed Kennedy.
WELL!! We HAD all been wondering how on earth a nice man like Kennedy could get himself killed! No mention of Cuba, no mention of LBJ, no mention of Mafia, no mention of 'lone gunman' conspiracy. NO, no no. It all happened because his mother didn't love him! Blame the female, blame the woman. What a crock. And, this is a syndicated crock! This blather goes all over the USA, infecting the minds of those not old enough to remember, not wise enough to look behind the scenes, too busy with the vicissitudes of life to try and glean the truth of history! No, let's make it simple for these morons, , , The WOMAN did it! My mind fails me in the face of such ludicrousness. I am just a lone voice, he is syndicated to probably millions. What a crazy state of affairs exist. There is no combating our devolution.
I could go on and on about it, and about this next bit, but what's the point really.
The second spot that abraded me, was an interview on Coasttocoastam. Art Bell was speaking with his guest about the possibility of 'life on other planets' and how wonderful it would be to advance to the stars and find, finally, alien intelligence!
What 'on earth' does he think this earth teems with!
We are surrounded at all times by intelligences that are certainly alien to us, although they are not alien to the planet. Is there a a cat owner that does NOT think their cat hosts 'alien intelligence'? I think not. Earth teems with life forms that have existed for millenia beyond our relatively short term stay here. And how do we communicate with them? Well, take the cow, how do we use it's intelligence? Got milk? How about the chicken? Or the wholesale slaughter of turkeys? Do they not have intelligence? The do! I wouldn't want to try and play chess with them, but still. Or the grandfather of all survivors, the cockroach! Come on, folks, get your game on! Go try and commune with a cockroach! Heaven knows they aren't all that edible, which is the main thing we long for in 'alien intelligence'.
Again, I could go on and on about the 'intelligences' right here on this planet with which we cannot seem to communicate, lobsters, crabs, pigs, bunnies etc. so why the hurry to find them on other planets? To eat them, or put them to work for us as we do the other species? Yeah.
Anyway, that's my rant, and you're welcome to it.
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