Thread:Chillilala/@comment-33611550-20191102174230/@comment-33611550-20191105103314

How lovely to have a granddaughter and having your family over visiting. Also lovely to know that you’re going to have 3 months in Snowland.

On the BBC here they have a programme running called “For Love or Money” and it is a real eye opener how sophisticated the love scams are. One man today got duped into opening a bank account for this so called female American soldier to carry out money laundering. I fail to understand how anybody can be so stupid as to pay someone large sums of money when they haven’t even met the person but I suppose the old saying “A fool and his money are parted!” is true.

Also it’s not a good idea to post too many pictures of yourself on Facebook or any other social media because your photos could be catfished (your photo(s) copied and used in a scam to create a genuine looking profile). In all cases the photos had been catfished from someone else.

Before I met my present partner of over 13 years through Internet Dating, I was contacted by a pervert. I won’t go into everything here but the penny dropped when he didn’t turn up and arranged another meeting. I wish I had known about reverse search then to find out who the photo he had sent me really was and to warn that person that his photos were being used for scams.

I had to quit my secretarial job due to ill health and now find that jobs are hard to come by because everything is online now and the recruitment agencies are not as proactive as they used to be. All the young solicitors or whoever can practically touch type themselves so there is no call for secretaries anymore. Coupled with this fact is the fact that jobs always dry up over the winter period and will only pick up after our new tax year on 6th April 2020.