Honey, I Finished The Internet

4 Replies to “Honey, I Finished The Internet”

1. Wow. Just retribution is delicious. (But it’s bitter to think how many utter low-lifes there are out there preying on honest and trusting people.)

2. He has been doing a great job targeting ‘porch pirates’ these past years with his constantly upgraded machines. In those videos, I was often amazed at how nice the homes were that these lowlife thieves were exposed to be living in.

   I thank him for taking some swats at some other insects, too.

3. A couple of years ago I visited with a 90 yr old lady who was in the midst of one of these calls, just as I walked in. She was quite hard of hearing so had turned the sound up really loud and when I heard what was going on, I paid attention. This scam was the “you’ve won a lottery and need to pay a small fee to receive the money” one. She was being instructed to write a cheque for $750 and to mail it to an address in Prince Rupert. The scammer was telling her to get it to the post office right away and he would call her back in an hour to see if she’d done so. I gently took the phone away from her and hung it up. And then hung it up again when the scammer called back again and again until he quit. Then I explained to her what was going on, but I wasn’t sure she believed me. I told her not to write any more cheques until she had checked with her daughter. I immediately contacted her daughter to tell her about this (hopefully interrupted) scam. I had written down the name and address of the “mule” that she was supposed to send the cheque to, and gave it to the daughter, suggesting she contact the police and give them this info. Later I googled the name of the “mule” and was amazed that it was a real person at a real address, and there was even a real phone number. So if she did contact the police, they could easily have located the “mule”, if they wanted to.

4. Those two guys should be getting paid for their police work.