IS BLOGGER FUCKED UP OR IS IT ME?
My blogger Reading List is repeating post. I have four post from Yellowdog Granny and they re all the same, Three post from She Who Seeks - The titles are different but they are all the same post. On every post I follow all new and old post are identical to .
Any one else have that problem?
the Ol'Buzzard
Maybe it is
because I am in my eighth decade; but I receive an average of five to six
robo/unsolicited telephone calls a day.
Many of these calls come in on my caller-id with local Maine numbers and
town names, but if I answer they are recordings or someone from Mumbai or Peggy
from Russia – so now I don’t answer, and let them go to record.
Three times
over the last year a man has identified himself as ‘a law enforcement officer’ and
stated his ‘badge number’. He says I am being investigated and unless I
return his call immediately a warrant will be issued for my arrest.
Another
caller identifies himself as ‘with the IRS’.
He says that a problem has been
found in my tax return and if I do not call back immediately $3,256 will be
deducted from my checking account within the next three days. I have had him three time so far this year.
My weekly
caller is from India; he has a heavy Indian dialect but identifies himself as
calling from Medicare. He also
identifies himself as calling from Microsoft, sometimes he says there is a
problem with my credit card. Often, he
just says ‘hello, hello, is William there?
Back when I
answered the phone, before caller-id, I would receive calls from a young man
that would begin, ‘Grampa, I’m in trouble.’
He evidently stayed in trouble,
because I received his calls about twice a year over three years.
And then
there are the recordings.
These calls
are annoying, and I think they are ridiculously funny; but I can’t help but wonder
how many old people are actually taken in by these scams?
There are
vulnerable older women whose husbands took care of the finances, and now alone
are easy targets; and old men with onset of dementia… Emptying people’s bank accounts is bad
enough, but when it is aimed and the elderly, it is an additional sin.
So now my
answering machine states: Because I have received so many unsolicited
telephone calls, I no longer answer my phone.
Leave your number and name and if you are a legitimate caller, I will
return your call.
the Ol’Buzzard
