Posted on December 29th, 2006 by Scraps.
Categories: Stuff, Untruths.
Today at my temporary reception gig, we received a junk fax that's apparently very common. It has no headers -- a federal violation in addition to the federal ban against unsolicited advertising faxes -- and pretends to be a memo from Human Resources, notifying employees of a "company vacation package". It's a scam, of course. What astonishes me is that anyone, anyone at all, falls for the transparent bogosity of the pitch. Who calls these alleged people and gives them a credit card number without, well, at least checking with Human Resources?
I amused myself for a little while tracking down information about these crooks, and discovered an excellent resource for dealing with junk faxing scum, where you can either learn how to spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to get these bastards to stop, or spend a little bit of time giving information to this guy who is apparently obsessed with stopping them (and thank god obsessives like him exist).
One of the more discouraging developments of the information age has been discovering just how many con-man wannabes there are out there. It used to be you needed at least a bit of charisma and a good line of patter. Now all you need is a computer.
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