Ok I’ll start... Well I was going to start but there have been so many responses already... WOW!
Someone in my immediate family (who shall remain nameless)
fell pray to the IRS scam Tuesday and lost $2000.
At the time it was a very frightening experience but now they
feel bad for getting duped, in their defense they were
really exhausted after leaving work and not concentrating.
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A long time friend (since we were fresh faced 16 year olds), Suzie, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Found early, had a lumpectomy this week. Waiting on pathology to determine what course of radiation will occur.
A prayer for the family of Mike, a sweet older gentleman with whom I talked about Sooner football at work. He was working in the yard. Said he wasn’t feeling great. Went to rest. His wife went to wake him and he has passed.
I was just sitting across from him at our quarterly meeting and Secret Santa gift exchange 2 days before. Gutted.
Thank you for starting this thread. Prayers up for those who have asked for them!
This time of year can be rough.
(((HUGS)))
Rule of thumb, if someone is asking for money over the phone, ALWAYS hang up. No matter whom it may be from.
My father (RIP) actually got boondoggled a couple years ago. $7000.
These bastards called claiming to be lawyers who were trying to get my nephew out of jail. I don’t know why I allowed this to go on, myself partly believing it (all I had to do was call my bro in CA - FAR from VA they claimed his son was in jail in which we had no clue he had moved so close to us; but I heeded the “don’t talk to ANYONE” garbage). My mother was livid and dying to give them piece of her mind, but my dad (post-heart) had fibs over her resistance to the point of ER level and I sided with him.
She was right all along, it was a total scam.