Egads! Gadzooks! and OMG, No!
One of the first things I do each day, after I wake up enough to use a keypad / keyboard, is check my email. Thanks to my hosting service, all of the accounts load into one place, so I don't have to login fifty times on twenty servers. Usually, there's nothing overly exciting, but every now and then - Egads! Gadzooks! and OMG, No!
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Today's messages brought one of those heart-thumping, panic-inducing, four-letter-word-inspiring shocks - confirmation of an order for a $1,327 notebook computer (with $50 second-day shipping) from buy.com. Given my current cash flow and no-$$$-no-order house rules, I was pretty sure that this was a hoax / spam / phishing expedition. Yet, June 2010 has just been filled with Egads! Gadzooks! and OMG, No! moments - the USPS / PayPal fiasco starting the whole isn't-this-month-over-yet nightmare.
Taking a deep breath and a large cup of coffee, I started investigating this 'confirmation' message. Sure enough, none of the links went to buy.com. Instead, they went to a site for The First Assembly of God Church, in Gainesville, Florida - which, by the way, has been taken down by their hosting service. Apparently, they got hijacked a while back, or God said, "Thou shalt steal!" and they got busted.
Although that did make me feel a little better, I still had to check with buy.com. Turns out - oddly enough - that I don't seem to have an account with them. Another sigh of relief.
Currently, I'm waiting for them to respond to my inquiry into this mysterious order. Just in case.










