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susandennisThis feels like the 4th of four Sundays in a row. I like Sundays but mainly because they are different than the other days. When you get four in a row they are no longer different. This is exacerbated by the heat of Summer. Blah, blah, whine, whine.
Today started off with a cyber jolt. My main credit card recently hit its expiration date and I got a replacement. Then I had to go all over the web and change the expiration date. I know I haven't gotten everywhere so when I got the email from PayPal this morning that my information was out of date, I wasn't surprised. I thought I had changed it on PayPal but maybe not so I clicked. I logged in with my email and password and then started filling in answers to questions when it started to dawn on me that this was not smelling good.
I looked up to the URL and it was an ip address. PHUCK! I was being PHISHED!! I backed out and logged into PayPal via their URL and changed my password. They now have real, solid, password requirements -- stronger rules than any other site I use and, for once, I am very grateful.
It woke me up, that's for sure.
The baseball game is at 10 this morning and the pool opens at noon. I did find another pool - about 20 minutes from here - that opens at 11 on Sundays. It's an option but I think, I'll go to my regular one today.
My brain is dulled by 4 Sundays in a row. I'm ready for a Monday. I think it's the curse of the retired.
Today started off with a cyber jolt. My main credit card recently hit its expiration date and I got a replacement. Then I had to go all over the web and change the expiration date. I know I haven't gotten everywhere so when I got the email from PayPal this morning that my information was out of date, I wasn't surprised. I thought I had changed it on PayPal but maybe not so I clicked. I logged in with my email and password and then started filling in answers to questions when it started to dawn on me that this was not smelling good.
I looked up to the URL and it was an ip address. PHUCK! I was being PHISHED!! I backed out and logged into PayPal via their URL and changed my password. They now have real, solid, password requirements -- stronger rules than any other site I use and, for once, I am very grateful.
It woke me up, that's for sure.
The baseball game is at 10 this morning and the pool opens at noon. I did find another pool - about 20 minutes from here - that opens at 11 on Sundays. It's an option but I think, I'll go to my regular one today.
My brain is dulled by 4 Sundays in a row. I'm ready for a Monday. I think it's the curse of the retired.
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Date: 2013-07-07 04:32 pm (UTC)(My normal is to go to yoga on Saturday and then put in a half-day at work afterwards, because of Insanity At Work... so that half wednesday is a Saturday, then the slack Friday is a Saturday...)
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Date: 2013-07-07 04:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-07-07 05:21 pm (UTC)If your email and web-browser programs cannot do this (show URLS before clicking on them), start using ones that can.
In the scenario above, it sounds like there actually was a brief window of time where the bad guys could have done some damage. I hope you got there before them.
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Date: 2013-07-07 05:24 pm (UTC)My point was that even those of us that understand how the game is played can get caught when they aren't careful (or just woke up and are undercaffenated).
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Date: 2013-07-07 07:33 pm (UTC)Glad you figured it out in a timely manner.
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Date: 2013-07-07 08:18 pm (UTC)