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To: Grampa Dave

“This is why any link we go to wants me to sign in to view it, I don’t.”

I’m amazed that people order stuff, do banking, etc., on their cell phones. I refuse to even get email on mine. And we don’t do any social media (except FR — is that social media?) at ALL.

We have one PC dedicated to financial things — paying bills and shopping — and don’t ever do emailing or net surfing on it. Supposedly hackers invade a system through email most of the time. We get on and get off ASAP. Another PC is for email and surfing.

I figure there’s a way they can burrow in some way, but we try hard to be careful.

We’re looking at Consumer Cellular old-timey flip phones.


29 posted on 08/01/2020 4:29:57 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (If 100% of us contracted this Covid Virus only 99.997% would be left to tell our story.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

My wife’s cell is a typical grannie cell for emails and texting.

She never buys anything on it.

I may use my cell phone about once a day to text and never emailing nor ordering anything.

She has a smaller chromebook for her visits to our hmo and kindle unlimited. That advice came from our family wizard a sophomore engineering.

All of our banking, credit card ordering/paying is done via a Chromebook. We use passwords to get on it and for each site..

I have another chromebook for emails, FR and genealogy. Yesterday on that/this chromebook, I supposedly had an email order from Amazon on it from Maggie at Amazon on Yahoo. I was to call a so called security # to cancel the order. Of course they were looking for my credit card # to cancel the spoof.

It was a classic spoof. The real Amazon people are all over it.


40 posted on 08/01/2020 5:23:51 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does anyone know of any Democrat, who does the right thing today?)
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