Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/24

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Playpal scam
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon Jan 24 13:54:33 2005

the email starts off "Dear Valued Customer" or some similar
> version
> it's bogus.  
> Never, never click a link imbedded in an email.
> 
> jm
> 
> 
I've gotten countless such fake emails from supposedly Playpal, eBay, my
bank and every other bank in the known universe plus my ever loving lost
uncle from Nigeria who keeps my posted on the million bucks he needs to keep
in my bank for awhile after I suppose I send him a couple grand bank holding
fees.

So how have the real emails I think and hope have somehow managed to make
themselves self evident and gotten through and answered?

It has gotten to the point however that when you send an email to an old
friend and they don't email you back it's not because you had said the wrong
thing or otherwise offended them.
It's because they've inadvertently trashed or otherwise blocked your email
with the thundering throngs of scams and spam's.
So I don't get all personally hurt until they slam down the phone on me.

We even have the government doing something about it despite the fact that
it might conceivably be construed as somehow bad for business. Smart because
we're all out here voting and getting spammed, scammed and called during
dinner every day. They made great progress in the hearts and minds of the
American people with this national tele-soliciting call register thing.
The phone is no longer ringing off the hook.

I have a secret theory that the reason Nixon was impeached had nothing what
so ever to do with Watergate Plumbing tools or Scotch or his dog's ears or
the Enemy List or the Cuban trust fund.

It was because he lowered the speed limit.

You can't hurt us where we live.

Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/





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