Buddy's Blog

From the comments it looks like lots of us have had run-ins with those SOB scammers. Our world is absolutely full of criminals. Years ago Frau G’s Uncle gave somebody over the phone his bank account info. They took $20,000 which the bank covered. I trust nobody these days.

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Frau G just discovered a scam on her debit card. Somebody in England was using it in small amounts over the past month. There were several payments to a phony company called Eat Fresh. The total was only about $80. Our bank refunded it. The point is always check your bank statements.

Also a friend of mine who was a grad student when I was doing research received an email from our old major professor asking for money to help him buy a new IPhone for his wife. They wanted him to photograph the front and back of his credit card. Over the next couple days he received a bunch of other scams via email claiming to be our old major professor who is 90 years old.

Which reminds me of a certain Zerblat story. It’s a pretty good one. I’ll make a note and post it next month.

My old friend Ron Evry posted this on Facebook:

Time for another tune-up

Here’s that poetry story someone asked me for

Happy Mother’s Day!