<p>I’m on some kind of funny list! A couple of weeks ago, I received a postcard telling me what to do when my student loans come due…ahem…I’m retired! My very small loans were forgiven LONG ago.</p>
<p>But today it got a FUNNY email in my spam folder telling me I qualified for a Pell Grant! Really? I don’t think so! </p>
<p>Anyone else getting this nonsense?</p>
<p>I’ve gotten the same stuff despite the fact I graduated around 15 years ago and the only small loan I took out in my entire undergrad career was fully paid off 6 months after graduation. </p>
<p>Very amusing as I am very fortunate to be able to say undergrad/educational debt is long ancient history for me. :)</p>
<p>Well, I don’t even need a Pell Grant because a deposed Nigerian prince on his deathbed is giving me $23 million to help him get some cash out of the country. Now you’ll have to excuse me while I go give his solicitor all my banking and personal information and transfer $10,000 to him to demonstrate my goodwill. I’m so lucky he found me.</p>
<p>One thing that hasn’t gone awry with YahooMail lately is its very effective spam filter. Every now and then I do peek into my spam file for a few laughs.</p>
<p>^^^^Wait! He promised that to ME!</p>
<p>I have heard of someone who actually fell for one of the Nigerian hoaxes. Have gotten a lot of deathbed offerings of lots of $$$, just for me, whomever I am. </p>
<p>Have gotten spam from a patient who recently died. Obviously someone has hijacked her account.</p>
<p>I routinely get spam offering me ways to increase the size of my…which I don’t have.</p>
<p>The other day I got an email advertising “hot Russian girls.” </p>
<p>I’ve never received any kind of student loan spam, though. :)</p>
<p>Is everyone’s spam picking up lately? I am getting a ton of it all of a sudden.</p>
<p>‘Tis the season.’ The bank advised that the in-person scams are picking up over the holiday season as well–seems like they believe folks are distracted and more likely to fall prey to appeals to charity and/or winnings at this time of year for some reason. </p>
<p>I get lots of ads for Viagra and similar things, as well as ‘hot’ females with various other descriptors; not sure why they think it would appeal, so figure it must be just generic spam. Also get ads to increase the size of anatomical parts I don’t possess.</p>
<p>While I get tons of emails of this nature, for the first time in a long time, I got a physical piece of mail about this newly uncovered relative who was murdered in Africa, but had the foresight to park several million dollars in Hong Kong. Wonder how much Barrister Fung (Esq.) spends on postage, and how much he collects.</p>
<p>I keep getting Christian single website e-mails. I’m married. And Jewish.</p>
<p>Nothing via email. Spam filter.</p>
<p>Interesting how when we moved we told and had to retell some places our new address. Some of the others we figured would disappear still send charitable requests, local store sales and such- such a waste of their money since we are no longer in the sphere of influence.</p>
<p>We also get plenty of phone stuff- we did do the no call list but I wonder if it means anything.</p>
<p>H was going to sell a tablet on EBay. Within 1/2 hour he got a reasonable bid. The catch was a story that the buyer wanted it sent directly to the relative in South Africa. Said buyer would pay the postage and payment from a Florida address. H checked the Florida address (Google maps?) in some panhandle city- seemed to be a vacant lot. He took the tablet off the market and eventually gave it to a friend of mine.</p>
<p>After we had moved some people from H’s former office got an email from him on a (now former) email account about his being stuck in London and needing some money to get back here. H could possibly have traveled but certainly has more money than his office personnel! He also has a wife to take care of him (I’m good at spending his money so he doesn’t need to go to stores).</p>
<p>I got an email from my son’s old psychiatrist saying that she was in trouble in Spain and needed money. The scammers knew enough about both her and me to make it sound real. THAT gave me the creeps.</p>
<p>I get spam offering me devices to enlarge my male part, and spam offering me great deals on breast implants. I must appear very needy.</p>
<p>^^^^^lol. :D</p>
<p>I keep getting Christian single website e-mails. I’m married. And Jewish.</p>
<p>hey, they’re trying to be ecumenical…and wild. ;)</p>
<p>I got two phone calls today about “education opportunities”…and the voice was all scratchy. Sounded like they were calling from under a freeway bridge.</p>
<p>Have gotten emails about great auctions and lonely married folks, looking for companionship and ‘fun’ – hmmm. It seems like I get MUCH more spam than legit emails. :(</p>
<p>My main thing is when I buy a book on Amazon, which I do with regularity, I get notifications of new books by those authors (or ones I might also “like”) …</p>
<p>Also just some gift sites where I order stuff once a year and I swear they spam me once a week down to once a day when the holiday season rolls around.</p>
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<p>My mom ordered an item from a catalog for me last year. Now, she gets a catalog in the mail once every couple months from them. I also get one at the same time. </p>
<p>Then there’s another company that I hold a certification through. My dad did last year too. We get 4 of everything. When they send out their magazine, he and I each get two copies addressed to us. Catalogs same thing. He hasn’t read a single one of them… Such WASTE.</p>
<p>Slightly different, but in the past 24 hours, both my girls got email notices from DoE that they missed payments on their student loans. (These come to my email addr.) One’s still in school and the other is on deferment (qualifying grant.) Called DoE and confirmed both are fine, coded properly and never even had billing. Rep said they sometimes send these to inform folks of repayment options. (Huh? First bum thing for us, with these folks.)</p>
<p>Besides Rachel, from cardmember services, we get a call once a month wanting to speak to the person in charge of our Consumers Power account. It doesn’t matter how I explain that we don’t have an account with them, they keep calling. How much do they pay these people?</p>
<p>Today received a call at 6:50 am. from the technical department at Microsoft on the business line. Really? How many businesses answer their phone at that time? After I told them they were crazy, our home line rang.</p>
<p>The neighbor across the street ordered a doll for her daughter but had it shipped here so she wouldn’t see it. I think it was for her fifth birthday. The girl is ow 30 and we’ve been receiving the catalog twice a year since then. I’m sure they’ve reached the price of the doll by now.</p>
<p>My son who hasn’t lived here since 2006 gets more mail than the rest of the family put together. He is on all the lists previously mentioned and some unique ones. I’d love to know what box he checked and uncheck it. </p>
<p>This stuff must be paying off or the companies would stop doing it, but I can’t imagine what it costs and can’t believe it pays off. I just received a free Reader’s Digest in the mail addressed to my oldest son with the name he used in middle school. He’s 34. Asking for us to resubscribe. How many do they need to send to get one person to Pay the $11 they are asking for?</p>