The URL has been spoofed to look like a legit amazon URL. It's a scammedy scam scam scam.
I'm eleven hundred and twenty years old! Just gimme a friggin' beer!
Anya ,'Storyteller'
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TomW - Dec 12, 2005 7:48:38 am PST #5958 of 10003
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Vonnie K - Dec 12, 2005 7:52:34 am PST #5959 of 10003
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
The link Tom gave has the essentially the same message as the one in my email. Whew. Thank Jebus I asked here first before hitting "send", 'cause I started filling out the reply before realizing that this sounded fishy.
Consuela - Dec 12, 2005 8:19:43 am PST #5960 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I always assume any email that asks me to go somewhere and punch in information is phishing.
So far nothing bad has happened as a result of this position.
Fred Pete - Dec 12, 2005 8:47:05 am PST #5961 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Coming in late (returning from lunchtime walk) to say it's a scam.
Trudy Booth - Dec 12, 2005 11:18:37 am PST #5962 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I'd be happy with it just doing my homework for me.
I'm sure your current iPod is a mere attachment away from writing "as above as above as above".
Nutty - Dec 12, 2005 1:01:29 pm PST #5963 of 10003
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Exciting thermostat news! Okay, not that exciting.
New thermostat is not compatible with the old heating system. (Relay valves are the confounding factor.) Old thermostat seems to have chosen an extremely inconvenient time to give up the ghost, so no amount of endless rewiring would have made that work. Currently have the raw wires hanging out of the wall, completing a circuit, which I have on a kitchen timer so that I'll remember to separate them before the house becomes an oven. (We might have attached the wires to a light switch I had, but it was a 3-lead switch, so Stupendous Eric the electrician decided against it.)
Aforementioned Stupendous Eric is calling up Honeywell to bitch them out on my behalf, and to find a model of thermostat that is compatible with elderly valve systems. Yes, until then (hopefully no later than tomorrow), I will be closing and opening the "please heat my house" circuit manually. Hence the kitchen timer.
The cat is giving me grateful looks, now that the walls are gurgling again.
DXMachina - Dec 12, 2005 1:43:37 pm PST #5964 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Yikes.
dcp - Dec 12, 2005 2:47:08 pm PST #5965 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Has anyone received emails like this from Amazon?
I got a similar phishing e-mail a few weeks ago and tried to report it to Amazon. Their process was tedious, and in the end didn't work -- several attempts over the course of a day got me only "We're sorry, that feature isn't working just now, try again later" messages, so I gave up on them.
At least ebay and paypal make reporting easy. Dunno if making the report really does any good.
Fred Pete - Dec 12, 2005 4:31:03 pm PST #5966 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
I've been spammed for paypal. Also about my non-existent account at Bank of America.
DebetEsse - Dec 13, 2005 6:16:29 am PST #5967 of 10003
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I'm trying to figure out what model my old laptop (which lives in another time zone) is.
I know it's a Dell from 1999. Anybody have any ideas of sites where I could find a history of the Inspiron line or somesuch?