April 21, 2019

Anyone Want A Laptop?

Juuuust kidding.

Last week mrguy found his inbox filled with hundreds of spam emails. He consulted "doctor internet" to see what might have happened, and found a helpful site that directed him to look into each email. Sure enough, he found that one of the emails was from a lending site, confirming his new account.

He figured out that the lender is super loose (all it takes is an email), and called to cancel this spurious account. Then he figured out that the scammer already used the account to buy a laptop that was en route to our address. After more research mrguy learned that the mailing address usually gets changed in these scams. So he kept on top of the shipper, learned that a local UPS store was the destination, hopped in the car, got to the store and beat the scammer to the laptop, which is now headed back to where it came from.

Wow.

mrguy is a stud.

1 comment:

Richard P said...

Wow indeed! I'm surprised Mr. Guy then didn't stake out the UPS Store, wait for the criminal to show up, and do some jiujitsu on him (or a sumo move?) (nahh, wrong physique).

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