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Today I received an email confirming my order for $240.00 worth of Greek Squid. If I had any questions, I was told to click on the link below. I do like squid, but I hardly have room for that amount. It is a scam, I am sure. It was an interesting choice of product to make people click. What strange messages have you received by phone, email, or post?
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Hmm, we know where that will be leading!
Delete, delete.
Be warned!
I received a similar email (some months ago) from - apparently - a lay minister attached to the parish next to Our Place, apologising for having lost their voice (hence the lack of a phone call), and asking if I used Amazon.
I didn't reply, but deleted it immediately.
Last week I got a call at 10:30pm from one of the numbers and I picked it up and said "It's done but there's blood everywhere." and hung up.
Have not been troubled since.
If anybody comes around asking I'll tell them that I thought the call was coming from the pest control I had hired to trap the rats in my basement.
AFF
And I’ve found that gmail is generally very good at filtering out scammy email. My aggravations are the occasional text messages, but they’re equally obvious and easily deleted.
Thank You, Good reply.
My Dad was very deaf and could honestly say “I can’t understand you, please write to me if there is anything I need to deal with. If you are genuine you will have my address.”
Mind you, his practice of answering the phone in Welsh meant most cold callers hung up!
I don’t get many cold callers but I do get scam. emails
That said, the occasional dud gets through, but (as I'm sure you know) can often be spotted by the unlikely-looking and/or mis-spelled sender's address.
You can get landline-style phones (with either rotary dials or buttons you press) that take a SIM card, so they have a mobile phone number but work like a landline phone without needing a literal landline - I know these work very well for elderly relatives in supported housing or other housing where they can't install a landline.
'How are you doing? Let me know when you receive this message, I'm unable to speak over the phone due to a severe throat pain caused by laryngitis. I need a little help from you.
Awaiting your response.
Love J xxx'
Hmm, J would never sign off, 'Love J xxx'.
Definitely spam!
Oddly enough, I had something very similar (some weeks ago) from someone purporting to be 'L', a Lay Minister at Our Place's next-door Place, only she didn't sign off 'Love etc.'
In this case, the sender wanted to know if I'd ever used Amazon...not at all something the 'real' person would ask me, so I deleted it as spam.
The email address looked OK, but could well have been hacked. Like you, I have a very suspicious mind.
One person, I think, replied to say that they did. They were then asked to buy Amazon vouchers to help their friend, who was in need of some kind at that point.
Fortunately, the purchase of a quantity of Amazon vouchers triggered a security enquiry from Amazon. And an explanation that this was a common scam.
If you have a way of contacting L, other than by email, it might be a kindness to let them know that their email account may have been hacked.
It sounds as though the message received by @RockyRoger might be another of these scams.
Well, Mr Zelenskyy is rather easy on the eye ...
So is Mrs Zelenskyy, and it is ladies of that age-group and appearance who feature on the associated adverts on YouTube
I, of course, did not investigate further. At this point (as they say) our reporter made an Excuse, and left.
I'm still worried about the Greek Squid. It raises SO many questions. And why particularly Greek Squid? The temptation to press the "if you have any questions" button would be almost overwhelming. And also, how much Greek Squid does one get for 240 dollars???
Based on the latest exchange rate and a few calculations I've worked out that the original offer was for 7.38 kilos of squid if one shops at Tesco's (16 and a quarter pounds) or 7.58 kilos (16 and nearly three quarters of a pound) if one shops at Waitrose. Which just goes to show that Tesco's is not always cheaper.
Why no, no I am not procrastinating. Excuse me while I go and google the etymology of "procrastination".
Why procrastinate today when you can procrastinate tomorrow?
Edit: fixed coding - Arethosemyfeet, Heaven Host
I collect ephemera - postcards, railway tickets, maps etc - relating to my village. I have set up E-bay to notify me if anything with my village name comes up.
There must be a Japanese word which sounds like the name of my village, because I get notifications of items with the name in them, but I can't work out what the word can be. Today I got two notifications. The first was for a set of clothes for a plush toy, and the second was for a manga poster of a well endowed, very muscular young lady wearing a very small bikini; a manga cartoon of a very pretty, very young female bodybuilder. I can't think of a word which connects those two items.
The name of the river on which the Ark is moored is 'Medway'. This is rendered in Japanese (using Roman letters) as 'Medou~ei'.
Latin: Pro - for, cras - tomorrow