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Sometimes one makes typos. I'm hoping you'll all remember that if I ever
let this book out that I've worked on. But I just got one of those
good-looking PayPal notices where they're really fishing for your information. I
was thinking they'd done a good job of impersonating PayPal (thought I was still
going to send it on to the spam police), until I came to this part:

-=-

Dear PayPal client,

      While performing it's regular scheduled monthly billing address check
our system found incompatible information which seams to be no longer the same
with your current credit card information that we have on file.
-=-

its, not "it's"
and should be
seems, not "seams" (which only exist in sewing and shipbuilding and such
endeavors)

Am I bad to have thought that "real" official information should have been
written by someone hired to write, and proofread before it went out?
Spelling's not everything, but if any of you aspire to criminality, remember that
prejudice is natural and you'll catch more flies with well-spelled scams.

And this, later in the same paragraph:

-=-Choosing to ignore this message will result in to a temporary suspension
of your account within 24 hours, until you will choose to solve this unpleasant
situation.-=-

WHAT!?
Now I would have to address prejudice against foreigners, and that's just not
nice.

So let me amend my earlier advice. Scam artists might want to get native
English speakers to proofread.

But at least there was an apology:

-=- We apologies for any inconvinience this may caused you-=-

I apologize for any inconvenience caused by my bringing this to the
unschooling discussion list.

Sandr


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michele oquinn

Sandra,
YOUR TO FUNNIE!

--- SandraDodd@... wrote:

> Sometimes one makes typos. I'm hoping you'll all
> remember that if I ever
> let this book out that I've worked on. But I
> just got one of those
> good-looking PayPal notices where they're really
> fishing for your information. I
> was thinking they'd done a good job of impersonating
> PayPal (thought I was still
> going to send it on to the spam police), until I
> came to this part:
>
> -=-
>
> Dear PayPal client,
>
> While performing it's regular scheduled
> monthly billing address check
> our system found incompatible information which
> seams to be no longer the same
> with your current credit card information that we
> have on file.
> -=-
>
> its, not "it's"
> and should be
> seems, not "seams" (which only exist in sewing and
> shipbuilding and such
> endeavors)
>
> Am I bad to have thought that "real" official
> information should have been
> written by someone hired to write, and proofread
> before it went out?
> Spelling's not everything, but if any of you aspire
> to criminality, remember that
> prejudice is natural and you'll catch more flies
> with well-spelled scams.
>
> And this, later in the same paragraph:
>
> -=-Choosing to ignore this message will result in to
> a temporary suspension
> of your account within 24 hours, until you will
> choose to solve this unpleasant
> situation.-=-
>
> WHAT!?
> Now I would have to address prejudice against
> foreigners, and that's just not
> nice.
>
> So let me amend my earlier advice. Scam artists
> might want to get native
> English speakers to proofread.
>
> But at least there was an apology:
>
> -=- We apologies for any inconvinience this may
> caused you-=-
>
> I apologize for any inconvenience caused by my
> bringing this to the
> unschooling discussion list.
>
> Sandr
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>




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