Sunday, January 26, 2025

Scammer shot down fast

Nice. Got a message to order a beaded bracelet. They don't do payment links. Fine, how do they plan to pay? Oh, pay through a online wallet. OK, here's the QR code to my account. They need my email to send payment. Next, got a weird email from a gmail account to "Dear customer" explaining since "thbuyer" put in a business label and my account isn't set up as a business, I have to deposit $500 to upgrade my account to business to receive payment. This person messages back telling me to call the customer service number (that is a 319 area code) cause they also got an email. Checking my online wallet for the payment pending and nothing appears. No, that email is scam and this conversation is over. They want this bracelet, then they pay through the payment link. Wonder if my business email connected to the online wallet will get hacked and end up on the dark web too. My regular email has been hacked twice been on the dark web for years. My email travels around the world like an astronaut and travels more around the world more than me.

Well that was interesting. Heard a racket downstairs with roomate yelling. He comes upstairs and shows me his bloody hands covered in scrapes. He announced that he got mad over his video game he was playing and smashed up his TV he received from his car buddy he kicked out twice. I replied, Don't break my TV, Wash your hands and there should be antiseptic cream in the medicine cabinet. Girlfriend was up here sniffling and he apologized for scaring her. He asked if I wanted to see the smashed TV. I said no. Got to work on laundry now. I saw him throw the TV in the trash bu not the screen. I don't need to see it.

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