14 August, 2012

Phished on my mobile phone!

Well this is a first.  I have been wireless for a long time.  I got rid of my land line .. gosh, at least 10 years ago, and so nuisance calls and solicitation calls are totally off my radar.  Yesterday morning my phone rang and it was a number I didn't recognize.  But since I'm waiting to hear about the house inspection, etc., I answered and it was a recorded message saying something about lowering the interest rate on my credit card.  I immediately thought this was odd, so I pressed one to find out what was going on, and a woman with a Russian accent comes on the line.   The entire conversation revolved around her trying to get me to tell her my credit card number and me trying to figure out what was going on.  I asked her what credit card she was calling about.   She ignored that question and said she needed my card number so she could check the balance to see if I qualified to have my interest rate cut.  I said she had to tell ME what card she was calling about and my name.  This time she said she wasn't qualified to give me that information because what if I wasn't the cardholder!  And she was getting snippy!  What a scam.  "Ma'am, your credit card number is not useful to anyone without the CVC code".  Really?  Hmm ...... I don't think so.  Credit card companies don't just call you up out of the blue and offer to cut your interest rate in half.  Amazing.

I signed up for the Iron Girl 5K for September 9 and started back training yesterday.  My run was slow, but not painful.  It'll be better today and hopefully I can get out before noon since it is going to be hot again today, and the rest of the week.   I also started a new after work workout and I thought I'd be sore this morning, but I'm not.

Monday night preseason football felt a little weird since it's so crazy hot.  I couldn't pick up any knitting, even the socks, but I did delve a little deeper into the Victorian lace book.  It's fascinating and there are a few things in there I'm thinking of making.  Those are the big, months long projects perfect for winter.  There wasn't anything I wanted to watch after the game was over at 8 which was fine.  I was pretty tired from my day so retired to the bedroom, fan full on the bed, and read.  I've been waiting for this particular book to come out (Vengeance by Benjamin Black) and I was delighted to see it had just been released August 7, so I downloaded it from Amazon and had a nice read.  Amazon sure makes it easy.  One click and it's on my  iPad.  Magic.

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