Category: Fraud Alerts & Scams Targetting Senior Citizens –

Wednesday, July 1st, 2020 – Canada Day –

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-Wednesday, July 1st, 2020 —> +18˚C/ +68˚F – grey and cloudy @ 10:45 am in Atlantic Canada on Canada Day & Martha Sturgeon’s Birthday ?-

- Volffe standing Night Watch on Lovers' Lookout Hill -

– “Vollfe standing Night Watch on Lovers’ Lookout Hill.” – Looking North of North East at Del-Vahria from Keltic Vale. –

— The above screen shot shows the only thing I did in the past couple days here – Volffe planted weeds amid the ‘summer grass’ on Lover’s Lookout Hill – then stood there all night watching the clouds roll overhead.

— There is just a little bit of lag here – possibly due to the number of ‘assets’? and maybe the lag is a lot worse for builder characters – who probably carry a lot of memory with them – Shrug – I know there is a lot less lag when a character comes in opting to ‘play’ instead of  ‘edit’.

— I started totally rearranging my office here – disconnected all the computers and moved the heavy schnarr around – & I have been aching pretty much all over.

— I haven’t moved everything I moved out of the office back in – I’m not satisfied with a couple things and right now I’m waiting for Cathi to wake up { She’s on vacation all week, plus today is a Holiday up here & she’s a night person to begin with and is enjoying her much deserved rest. }

— And I got alerts telling me that a couple of my WordPress blogs ( This is one of them ) were messed up – & I think that was just a nasty marketing ploy to try to con me into paying premium prices for stuff that has been free for as long as I can remember – “Dangit!” — A conspiracy watch dog type warned me that the next thing they might do would be to deliberately mess things up bad to convince me that I need to pay like $30.00 a month for their protection scam ‘security’ schnarr- If that happens I’ll be writing to self publish and, “So screw them…”

— One interesting thing – other — more highly visited and written to blogs – don’t show their twitter feeds and freeze the left and right ‘Widget’ columns – even give up trying to load the widgets, especially when there’s a weather widget in the mix – but here, with this blog, there isn’t a problem –  “hmmmmm-?”

— Sigh, I was going to do my Pranayama and meditate at 11:00 am but I suddenly and rapidly became ‘blehhhh’ – { felt nauseous } and realized I better eat something – so I did, and now I gotta wait until 5 pm to do my Yoga stuff –

————— Love you guys!

~~~~~ Jim

Sunday – And my stomach is upside down.

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Sunday, April 15th,  2018 —> +3˚C / +38˚F & ‘clear’ @ 6:08 pm in Atlantic Canada —

gradual snow melt in driveway and up the wall.

– WebCam shot around 12:30 pm today –

— Got up around 9, waddled to the washroom + back into the office – checked email and made sure my computers hadn’t blown up over night. –  I was going to exercise and meditate at 11:00 am —

 

— But – as 11:00 am approached – I felt my stomach flip over and it was so weird I thought something awful and major had happened on the world stage – so I ate some instant oatmeal and parked in front of the television and there was nothing that drastic in the news. – Nothing very positive either.

 

— I forget when Cathi got up,  but I fell asleep and woke up with Justin Trudeau trying to justify demanding that the proposed new Kinder-Morgan oil pipeline out west go through B.C. from Alberta – and his arguments sounded like the big business oil baron elites bought and sold him. He belabored the same stupid points over and over. He did not show the map of all the pipelines all over Alberta that make one more look like the world’s most intense maze. He tried to convince everybody that Canada will go bankrupt { some idiot said the price of gasoline will go up by $2.00 per liter if we don’t put that pipeline through} – { Bull Chips! }

 

— He tried to say that this new pipeline will generate lots of good paying jobs for nice Canadian workers.  I have noticed that any time a politician opens his mouth and  “Jobs” comes out –  you might as well stop listening because nothing like the truth is about to follow. In other words = “Bull Chips!”

 

— Many times more jobs are generated by renewable energy resourses and the manufacturing and service industries that surround renewables. It’s like fourteen times more jobs are generated by renewable technologies than those monopolistic big oil b.s. jobs.

 

— “We can’t depend on our long time best business partner – the ‘USA’ – because, well you’ve heard the news – we have no idea what they’re going to do next.” —> So he wants to get in bed with the Chinese??? Gaaa! { The Chinese people I know are wonderful. Their mainland government is nuts. }

 

So yeah, blehhhhh – I’m still feeling uneasy here – there may yet be another shoe about to drop.

 

— blehhhhh —,

~~~~~ Jim

Canada Revenue Agency { Canadian version of the IRS ? } Has a Page Alerting People to Fraud —

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Wednesday, February 7th, 2018 —> -18˚C / -1˚F & Sunny & Clear @ 9:09 am in Atlantic Canada —

CRA Fraud Alert Page.

– Canada Revenue Agency’s Fraud Alert Page –

— The above is a screenshot, Don’t try to click on any links –

— A close friend told me yesterday that some evil scammers were calling senior citizens in Canada and telling them that the Canada Revenue Agency has a warrant out for their arrest and they better call an “800” number to resolve this immediately.

— Apparently, a dead give away is the fact that the telephone messages do not begin with the name of the person the CRA is supposedly attempting to contact.

— Another dead give away is the Caller ID with some of these calls – begins with a foreign country’s identification code number before the ‘800’ number.

— My friend told me he received a call from a distraught 80 something year old senior citizen telling him he’d received a call on his generic answering machine { with a robotic voice saying “Please leave a message” and nothing more } claiming the CRA had a warrant out for his arrest for Tax Fraud and Tax Evasion and threatening legal action and jail time *** But – the old guy was sharp enough to realize the phone number didn’t look right – it began with “011-855- [ xxx-xxxx ]” The old guy wondered what the extra numbers meant and what he should do, and repeated several times that he ( this senior citizen ) had never committed any ‘Tax Fraud’ and/or ‘Tax Evasion’ that the call accused him of committing. The “011” prefix means the call originated outside of Canada, probably in the USA – and when asked, the old guy said, “No – they never said anything like “This is a call to ” [ Name ] ” – it just started telling him, “The CRA has an arrest warrant out for -‘you’- [ …. etc. ].”

— My friend told his older friend that the call was a scam, made by somebody who is trying to scare anybody they can into calling the number they told them to call at which time they would try to scare anybody who called them into giving them private information, maybe even giving them a credit card number with the ‘secret code’ on the back – so the scammers could charge the limit on that card and hope they were untrace-able and could get away with that kind of fraud. My friend told his older friend to erase the message and ignore it.

— If it really was the Canada Revenue Agency, their caller ID would say “CRA” and maybe more –  and if there really was an arrest warrant out for him they would have been knocking on his door, not calling him on the phone like that.

— [ *** But – on the CRA Fraud Alert Page – farther down below the above screenshot – there is a warning that a Caller ID display can easily be ‘spoofed’ into saying anything. ]

— And apparently the senior citizen is losing sleep over this anyway, terrified he’ll be dragged out of his home in handcuffs and locked up somewhere.

— Schnarr!

~~~~~ Jim