Be careful when you open those emails!
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As the trend grows for added texting and surfing, it enables the world to encroach even where not wanted.
The lesson is to be careful.
Today, I received an email saying it was from “Amin” in the subject line. I mistook it to mean it was from my email administration server.
If I'd been thinking straight, I would have pushed the delete when I spotted a 2007 copyright from under a Mrs. X signature.
The jest of this email is now paraphrased to honor their copyright and to save a lot of heart ache and trouble if you believe what is written.
It seems they had waited a long time for me to contact them, and they wanted me to know I still had a confirmable bank money draft of half a million United States dollars waiting just for me.
Apparently, I had deleted a similar message before, and now they wanted to see if sending an email twice from West Africa would entice me, the second time around.
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Mrs. X even magnanimously offered to pay the little bitty $190 US dollars herself, but “darn it,” the guys holding my money wouldn’t accept it. I was the one who had to do the paying.
Then to make sure all went well, this thoughtful woman wanted me to email her the minute I received my pot of gold making it sound like I would have a check to cash.
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As my Southern Daddy used to say, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
Look at me—I was not seduced to send money, but I did think “Amin” meant Administration and opened an e-mail for a get rich scheme.
A new subject for Dash Off A Memory.
Warn family members to pay attention. Be cautious, not sorry.
So dash off a memory…
- Have you ever been scammed? In what way? What happened?
- Did someone steal your credit card? How? Did you know the person?
- What should you do if someone does steal a credit card?
- How long did it take to straighten out your problem?
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Thanks, Dorothy,
