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I'm intrigued by the message "I drenched my grandma in seaman." I wonder who the sailor was – and was he a willing participant?
Every day for the past several weeks I've gotten many emails from a scammer at Majoritage.com, which may or not be a legitimate website. It has a few links to New York Times news stories and nothing else. Today I got an email saying "You have a direct deposited of $13000." Well, that certainly sounds legitimate! I opened the email. Here is what it said. They got my email address wrong – and I did not click the tab that says "Confirm Her."
| Congratulations thomps2525! |
| A balance of $13000.00 is available for your Account |
| This transaction may only appear on your account after validate your info. |
|
One of our local newpapers, the Crescenta Valley Weekly, often prints stories of people – mostly elderly – falling for these scams. One of the most common scams is someone phoning or sending an email and claiming to be from a bank or the IRS or, in one case, claiming to be a grandson. The caller will either ask for persoinal information such as a credit card number, debit card number or social security number or ask for money to be sent by Zelle. Transactions made via Zelle are usually irreversible. Today's paper includes this warning:
www.crescentavalleyweekly.com
’Tis the Season to Be Scam Aware - Crescenta Valley Weekly
www.crescentavalleyweekly.com
Sometimes I get emails that look like they come from Chase Bank or Bank of America. They say there is a problem with my account and I need to click a link so I can verify my information. Of course this is a scam. I can hover the mouse over the link and see where it really goes. It is never the bank.
I get those from time to time too. I’ve gotten the Amazon delivery scams, EBay unrecognized purchases, US Postal delivery, and tons of fake past-due notices and urgent invoices that they want you to click to dispute.
The questions to ask are always; were you expecting this, do you know the sender, is it time sensitive?
Never click the links if you do do business with the company. Always navigate directly to your account to see if there are bogus transactions or notifications.
I said do-do…..
The questions to ask are always; were you expecting this, do you know the sender, is it time sensitive?
Never click the links if you do do business with the company. Always navigate directly to your account to see if there are bogus transactions or notifications.
I said do-do…..
Dec. 21 is the darkest day of the year, right? Not so fast
It might surprise you to learn the earliest sunset of the year is not on Dec. 21, the winter solstice and the “shortest” day of the year.
www.boston.com
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbet is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
That paper won't show me the article as I refuse to allow it to show ads. Too bad. So sad. My dad made what I assume are the same observations when he charted sunsets and sunrises for a whole year.
I can see it without anything popping up, but maybe that's because I said yes to allow things many years ago. Anywho, here are the highlights:
The honor of the earliest sunset actually goes to Saturday, Dec. 7, when the sun will set at 4:11 p.m. and 37 seconds, per meteorologist and Boston Globe correspondent Dave Epstein. “Our sunrises will continue to get later and thus the gap between sunrise and sunset continues to shrink until after the winter solstice in a couple of weeks,” Epstein explained in a Globe forecast earlier this week.
But in terms of what most people actually experience with daylight, early December is the darkest time of the year, Bob Berman, astronomer editor for The Old Farmer’s Almanac, explained in an article last month.
“Since far more people are awake and aware of things at 4:30 PM than they are at 6 in the morning, in a very real sense, you can forget about the solstice and the official ‘shortest day of the year’ in terms of daylight,” Berman wrote.
The latest sunrise comes in early January, about two weeks after the solstice, Berman noted. Epstein offered an explanation for this phenomenon in a 2020 Globe article: “Sunrise and sunset are asynchronous over the course of the year and don’t change equally. This means although the shortest amount of overall daylight is Dec. 21, that day is neither the latest sunrise nor the earliest sunset.”
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbet is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Hayley Mills reflects on meeting Walt Disney, marrying a filmmaker 33 years older than her: ‘I fell in love'
Hayley Mills' new memoir titled "Forever Young" explores how the daughter of British screen star John Mills came to America and found fame in Hollywood with iconic films like “Pollyanna” and “The Parent Trap.”
www.foxnews.com
Fox News: You met director Roy Boulting in that film. At age 20 you married him when he was 53. What was the biggest lesson you learned from that experience?
Mills: I learned that even though there was a great disparity in our ages, we understood each other on a personal, spiritual level. We understood each other and we were quite alike. I always felt that he was emotionally vulnerable. That’s one of the reasons I fell in love with him. I never felt age was a barrier to friendships or love or anything like that. It’s such a unique, individual thing.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbet is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
States without their first letter. Dago and Assachusetts. And a little creative liberty on Alabama...