What skills or lessons have you learned recently? Didn’t I just write about instincts recently? Did I learn to trust them? I guess I did this week! A person says, “I’ve met someone,” and shows you her picture—and alarm bells go off. You see a flashing red light. Someone yells, “Captain to the bridge!” inContinue reading “Trust Your Instincts!”
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The Scammer’s Handbook
Wouldn’t you like to get a glimpse of The Scammer’s Handbook? Well, now you can! All you need to do is look at any scam/spam email and you see a part of what they must circulate (I imagine a 3” 3-ring binder) in order to try to entrap their victims. The amazing part for meContinue reading “The Scammer’s Handbook”
Bye Bye, Scammers, Bye Bye!
Well, some of them anyway. Frequent readers of this blog have seen my mentions of the scammers who start with an innocent text, such as, “Hello, Lisa, it’s Grace, we met at the conference, would you like to meet for lunch?” The recipient is supposed to reply denying being the intended recipient, so the senderContinue reading “Bye Bye, Scammers, Bye Bye!”
Trustworthy, Loyal, Brave, and True?
Tell us one thing you hope people say about you. Isn’t that the motto of the Boy Scouts? Of course, I mean the scouts themselves and not those predators who, under the guise of guiding young boys, led them astray. My, it sounds too much like members of the Catholic clergy! If people were toContinue reading “Trustworthy, Loyal, Brave, and True?”
Scam Whoops!
The text messaging began like other scammy ones that preceded it, and so I played along. During that conversation I googled salons in SF and decided a Sutter Street address sounded right. Unfortunately, the next day, I accidentally sent a text intended for someone else (who’s doing the recording for the audiobook version of myContinue reading “Scam Whoops!”
An Uninspiring Scammer
This is another in my series of improvs with scammers. They send me a message, then claim it’s a wrong number and try to elicit conversation. I thwarted this one immediately by being an attractive Asian woman fashion designer and cryptocurrency dabbler. Because that’s what so many of them claim to be. I guess “she”Continue reading “An Uninspiring Scammer”
And Now, A Third!
Just as I was telling a friend about my texting improv with a scammer, my phone pinged with a third. While the last one was not a good improviser (see previous blog posts for #1 and #2), this one had a little more going for him/her. I decided to get a little more baroque inContinue reading “And Now, A Third!”
Damn Your Spam!
So the scammers started a new thing: they send a text to you asking you a question, but it’s not your name. Oh, no, wrong number! Can we still be friends on WhatsApp? I’m not sure of the endgame, and instead of playing with them, I started sending this message: “How many times I haveContinue reading “Damn Your Spam!”
The Best Relationship Advice Ever
If you want really good relationship advice, don’t look to self-help books or see a therapist. Answer one of those “wrong number” texts and play along. Or maybe you haven’t gotten any of those texts. I get them frequently, and once had three in one hour. The unnamed sender pings you with something like, “Ariana,Continue reading “The Best Relationship Advice Ever”
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