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Ah, it never ceases to amaze me. The scammers will call any day or night, hoping to get me hooked into purchasing some extended vehicle warranty that’s worthless, or they’ll try to sucker me into a vacation to the sunny shores of Utica. One of the tactics these scammers will employ is to have a…

It was less than a month ago when someone contacted me, claiming that I had poached some of their photos for my blog. Upon a little careful discovery, I found that this “person” was a scammer, who was trying to fool me into clicking on a link that would have installed horrible ransomware on my…

I’m telling you, scammers must either think I’m dumber than a bag of wet mice, or that someone in the quality control department at Scam Central must have been on a bathroom break when they sent out this latest blast. This came to me via a text message. Now, my BlackBerry KEYone is smart enough…

Cold-call scammers are in my Top 5 of people that I can do without. They are the usual ilk of “Your car warranty has expired,” or “We have an exciting travel offer for you,” or “Hydroxychloroquine can be the new Viagra, let me tell you about the possibilities.” So when I started receiving cold calls…

So yesterday, through the crisis and chaos of the Trumpian terrorists who staged an insurrection into the Capitol … in the middle of all that … I got a call from a scammer. And it’s a repeat call. How do I know? Well, on Monday, this scammer asked me about what car I drove and…

At the suggestion of one of my blog readers, cp retiree, who thought yesterday’s blog post was of good quality, he suggested that the next time these phone scammers call and ask about purchasing an extended vehicle service contract, I should tell them that I own a luxury car. Specifically, a Lamborghini Gran Turismo Omologato.…