Spammed

If you live long enough you will eventually be hustled or scammed by someone.

Everyone has,

even though no one likes to admit it.

I am also pretty sure some of you will email,

message,

or text me saying that you have never been duped by anyone,

ever.

Maybe even someone out there will be brave enough to leave a

Comment

here on this

Blog

saying how he

or she has never been swindled.

Let me ask you this.

Not even by your

Parents

to get you to do something when you were little?

Okay,

enough of an introduction.

My point is,

I was taken advantage of last summer.

Over the course of this blog I have stated where I have handed out free meals to the homeless on

Thanksgiving,

handout one dollar bills to most of the people holding up cardboard help me signs on street corners when it is safe to do so,

and donate clothing & furniture for the poor at the

Pala Mission Church.

So last year I thought I would go a bit further

and went online to sign up with

Greenpeace International.

I gave them one of my lesser used email addresses (I have 6),

because I know I will be getting a lot of spam as most businesses sell this information.

Even the

Federal Government

does it.

How do you think all that junk mail gets to your house with your name on it. Don't believe me?

Read the

EULA 

sometime on any website you visit,

program,

or app you download.

Here is where I made a grave mistake though.

And I should know better since I worked with computers for twenty years before retiring in 2008.

On the online form I filled out I put down my real phone number so they could call me

and set up an appointment so I could be assessed on how I could help.

They also sell this information,

read your EULA.

It only took two days before my phone was spammed with texted messages saying they were from my cell phone company,

Amazon,

FedEx,

Social Security,

tax preparers,

and links to nude pictures of women who said they knew me.

Yes,

the spammers have my name too!

Because

Greenpeace

also gave them that information.

 Of course I block every text message's phone number I get after I,

first,

text my spam message to my phone company at

7726.

This text number is an universal number.

So whichever cell phone company you have it will go directly to them.

Second,

I go to the website

ReportFraud.ftc.gov.

Click on

Report Now,

then

Something Else,

and follow the instructions from there.

 

This is,

Saying We All Get Spammed Eventually

Jim Hauenstein

 

And,

 

“When you sign up for Instagram, you are agreeing to their terms of service. When you put content up, you agree that while you own the content you are giving them rights to it as well. This did not go into effect recently. This is common place for many social sites. And you can not post a picture with a statement saying that you do not agree to the agreement you have already agreed to by using the site.”
- Loren Weisman -

 

 

 That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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