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Anatomy of an Internet Scam

Next Meeting:
Friday July 1st
1:30pm Cantina Quilting Rm

I’ve talked to many people here in the Village about avoiding online scams.  But the reality is that it never happened to me.  Now that’s changed.  Almost.  Cindy and I got *real* close to handing a stranger $7800 until we (well me actually) wised up and did a little sleuthing to figure out the scam in all it’s complexities, redirections, and confusions.

While it was fun for me to prove something certainly was too good to be true I know things about the internet that most people don’t – and I used *ALL* of them to proved that what we were trying to buy was a fake.

If you want to be amazed at the effort people will go to fleece you out of money then come to the meeting and be amazed.