Good evening, 919 Gang. The Rebers are
going to take a week off. We have rented a house in Avalon, and the kids and
grandkids will help us explore Catalina. Nine Rebers in one house makes for a
lively week. We’ve done this twice before and it is a very popular vacation
with the young’uns. With the old ones, too. Mary doesn’t have to cook and there’s
nothing I need to mow.
I will try to file Sunday, June 30,
but Monday, July 1, probably is more realistic.
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RAY HUARD writes:
On Friday, I got three of the Social Security scam calls on my
cell phone that David Farmer wrote about and my noble spouse said she got a
couple on her cell phone and one on our land line. Friday was a busy day for
the scammers. One even left a voice mail message on my cell phone. At least one
of the calls on my cell was from a D.C area code, which makes it look even more
official. This is an old scam but it's scary how many people still fall for it.
REBER: Our police officer son tells us about all the scams people fall for,
and then they come to the police in hopes of catching the scammers.
I thought a bit about security today. We were on the road
about eight hours, using a GPS unit. So, my question: If the GPS satellites can
trace my movements with such great precision, can the UFOs reported over Kansas
do the same? Am I a candidate for alien abduction?
Tonight I checked my PayPal account. I use PayPal to send
money to people and people use it to send money to me. The minute I got to the
login page, PayPal recognized me. My username was filled in. Also my password. Then
it displayed fragments of my phone number and asked if that was my phone. Well,
of course it was. Next, PayPal said it had sent a seven-digit code to my phone
and that I should enter that code in the space provided.
Not going to happen. We’ve played this game before, and I never get
the code. I have a vague memory that about 1961 I told Verizon I did not want
to receive text messages.
One more hurdle: PayPal wants me to send a scan of any
document that shows my name and my street address. Also not going to happen.
Such a document does not exist. Everything goes to the post office box. Mary
even bought a little medallion that I wear on a chain around my neck. It says, “If
found, please return him to P.O. Box 2239.”
To recap, PayPal signed me in itself – no effort on my
part. Then I ignored the question about the seven—digit code and the request
for that document. And I went right to work doing what I needed to do on
PayPal. Some security.
Now that you know the secret, you may be tempted to break
into our house some night, fire up my computer and drain all our money out of
PayPal and the checking account and two credit cards linked to it.
A warning: We water at night, so if you break in with larceny
on your mind, you darned well better not track mud into the house. You don’t
want to face Mary in that circumstance.
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REBER:
A bunch of birthdays before I return. Happy Birthday to Anita Palmer, June23;
Lisa Petrillo, June 27; Mitch Weinstock, June 30; and Henry Joseph and Gordon
Murray July 1.
P.O.
Box 2239
Ramona,
CA 92065-0938
United
States
