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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Monday, August 21, 2006 - 2:15 am
Well, my last 4 digits is the same number printed on the letter, so they would know it's my social. Thanks Mims for the info. I had my checks forged last year and it was a disaster. I am very, very careful.
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Faerygdds
Member
08-29-2000
| Monday, August 21, 2006 - 7:59 am
I figured it was a pharmacy audit... my dad is a pharmacist and tells me about all the horror stories of dealing with insurance carriers, etc... of course he has MORE horror stories about the customers and HIPPA! You would be shocked at how often husbands can't understand why they can't know what medication is for and why they have to talk to the patient.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Thursday, September 14, 2006 - 4:58 pm
Is Satellite TV for your PC legit? Anybody have this? Heard of it? Sounds too good to be true.
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Friday, September 15, 2006 - 9:57 am
I know I'm way late on the previous discussion but I wanted to throw in a comment regarding the xeroxed letterhead. The firm I am with has a Word macro which contains our firm letterhead. It saves money on buying pre-printed letterhead bond paper. But it also gives the appearance of being copied onto the paper. That is possibly what the company is doing also.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 1:41 pm
I just got this in email. I don't usually pass on anything, but this one got to me. This one is legit.. I looked it up in Snopes. http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/dustoff.asp This is the email: ____________________________ I guess I'm one of the few who'd never even heard of this so I'm passing it on...UNBELIEVABLE...what our kids can get into these days!!!! If you haven't heard about "Dusting" already - please read this article. If you do already know, then pass it along to every one you love...chances are they may not know about it. "Dusting" First, I'm going to tell you a little about me and my family. My name is Jeff. I am a Police Officer for a city which is known nationwide for it's crime rate. We have a lot of gangs and drugs. At one point we were # 2 in the nation in homicides per capita. I also have a police K-9 named Thor. He was certified in drugs and general duty. He retired at 3 years old because he was shot in the line of duty. He lives with us now and I still train with him because he likes it. I always liked the fact that there was no way to bring drugs into my house. Thor wouldn't allow it. He would tell on you. The reason I say this is so you understand that I KNOW about drugs. I have taught in schools about drugs. My wife asks all our kids at least once a week if they used any drugs. Makes them promise they won't. I like building computers occasionally and started building a new one in February 2005. I also was working on some of my older computers. They were full of dust so on one of my trips to the computer store I bought a 3 pack of DUST OFF. Dust Off is a can of compressed air to blow dust off a computer. A few weeks later when I went to use one of them they were all used. I talked to my kids and my two sons both said they had used them on their computer and messing around with them. I yelled at them for wasting the 10 dollars I paid for them. On February 28 I went back to the computer store. They didn't have the 3 pack which I had bought on sale so I bought a single jumbo can of Dust Off. I went home and set it down beside my computer. On March 1st, I left for work at 10 PM. Just before midnight my wife went down and kissed Kyle goodnight. At 5:30 am the next morning Kathy went downstairs to wake Kyle up for school, before she left for work. He was propped up in bed with his legs crossed and his head leaning over. She called to him a few times to get up. He didn't move. He would sometimes tease her like this and pretend he fell back asleep. He was never easy to get up. She went in and shook his arm. He fell over. He was pale white and had the straw from the Dust Off can coming out of his mouth. He had the new can of Dust Off in his hands. Kyle was dead. I am a police officer and I had never heard of this. My wife is a nurse and she had never heard of this. We later found out from the coroner, after the autopsy, that only the propellant from the can of Dust off was in his system. No other drugs. Kyle had died between midnight and 1 AM. I found out that using Dust Off is being done mostly by kids ages 9 through 15. They even have a name for it. It's called dusting. A take off from the Dust Off name. It gives them a slight high for about 10 seconds. It makes them dizzy. A boy who lives down the street from us showed Kyle how to do this about a month before. Kyle showed his best friend. Told him it was cool and it couldn't hurt you. It's just compressed air. It can't hurt you. His best friend said no. Kyle was wrong. It's not just compressed air. It also contains a propellant called R2. It's a refrigerant like what is used in your refrigerator It is a heavy gas. Heavier than air. When you inhale it, it fills your lungs and keeps the good air, with oxygen, out That's why you feel dizzy, buzzed. It decreases the oxygen to your brain, to your heart. Kyle was right. It can't hurt you. IT KILLS YOU! The horrible part about this is there is no warning. There is no level that kills you. It's not cumulative or an overdose; it can just go randomly, terribly wrong. Roll the dice and if your number comes up you die. ITS NOT AN OVERDOSE. It's Russian Roulette. You don't die later. Or not feel good and say I've had too much. You usually die as you're breathing it in. If not you die within 2 seconds of finishing "the hit." That's why the straw was still in Kyle's mouth when he died. Why his eyes were still open. The experts want to call this huffing. The kids don't believe its huffing. As adults we tend to lump many things together. But it doesn't fit here. And that's why its more accepted. There is no chemical reaction, no strong odor. It doesn't follow the huffing signals. Kyle complained a few days before he died of his tongue hurting. It probably did. The propellant causes frostbite. If I had only known. It's easy to say hey, it's my life and I'll do what I want. But it isn't. Others are always affected. This has forever changed our family's life. I have a hole in my heart and soul that can never be fixed. The pain is so immense I can't describe it. There's nowhere to run from it. I cry all the time and I don't ever cry. I do what I'm supposed to do but I don't really care. My kids are messed up. One won't talk about it. The other will only sleep in our room at night. And my wife, I can't even describe how bad she is taking this. I thought we were safe because of Thor. I thought we were safe because we knew about drugs and talked to our kids about them. After Kyle died another story came out. A probation Officer went to the school system next to ours to speak with a student. While there he found a student using Dust Off in the bathroom. This student told him about another student who also had some in his locker. This is a rather affluent school system. They will tell you they don't have a drug problem there. They don't even have a dare or plus program there. So rather than tell everyone about this "new" way of getting high they found, they hid it. The probation officer told the media after Kyle's death and they, the school, then admitted to it. I know that if they would have told the media and I had heard, it wouldn't have been in my house. We need to get this out of our homes and school computer labs. Using Dust Off isn't new and some "professionals" do know about. It just isn't talked about much, except by the kids. They all seem to know about it. April 2nd was 1 month since Kyle died. April 5th would have been his 15th birthday. And every weekday I catch myself sitting on the living room couch at 2:30 in the afternoon and waiting to see him get off the bus. I know Kyle is in heaven, but I'm in my very own Personal Hell. This Officer is asking for EVERYONE who receives this email to forward it to everyone in their address book, even Law Enforcement Officers.
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Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - 6:55 am
New type of email scam. The formatting is the same as what I got. Hello, My name is Les Matherson and I am an artist. I live in England, with my two kids, one dog and the love of my life. It is definitely a full house. I have been doing artwork since I was a small child when I was in Canada were I took interest in arts that gives me about 23 years of experience. I majored in art in high school and took a few college art courses. Most of my work is done in either pencil or hair brush mixed with color pencils. I have recently added designing and creating artwork on the computer. I have been selling my art for the last 4 to 5 years and have had my work featured on trading cards, prints and in magazines. I have sold in galleries, museums and to private collectors from all around the world. I am always facing serious difficulties when it comes to selling my art works to Americans; they are always offering to pay with a MONEY ORDER, which is difficult for me to cash here in England. I am looking for a representative in the states who will be working for me as a partime worker and I am willing to pay for every transaction,which wouldn't affect our present state of work, someone who would help me receive payments from my customers in the states. I mean someone that is responsible and reliable, because the cost of coming to the state and getting payments is very expensive, I am working on setting up a branch in the state, and so for now I need a representative in the united state who will be handling the payment aspect. These payments are in money order and they would come to you in your name, so all you need do is cash the money order deduct your percentage and wire the rest back. But the problem I have is trust, but I have my way of getting anyone that gets away with our money, I mean the FBI branch in Washington gets involve. It wouldn’t cost you any amount are to receive payments which will be sent to you by FedEx or UPS from my business partners, which would come in form of a money order then u are to cash it and send the cash to me via western union money transfer all western union charges will be deducted from the money. If you are interested, please get back to me as soon as possible. Regards, Les... Now, how do I know it's a scam? 1. There is to "To:" in the heading - first sign of this being sent as a Bcc (blind carbon copy) so you don't see who else is being sent this email. 2. It is not addressed to my name personally. Note that all of your legitimate emails from any services (i.e. Paypal, eBay, etc) will ALWAYS address you by your name in the body of the email. Please be careful when you get email that "looks" legitimate - these are the phishing scams that ask you to log in using the link in the body of the email but that is a redirect which will harvest your personal information. 3. The reply email address "@virgilio.it". If he is living in England, why is he using an Italian server???? Ha! I'm too smart for these scammers.

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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - 7:34 am
Yep ... the way most fraud works is by playing on people's greed. If it sounds too good to be true then it probably is.
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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - 7:43 am
There was an article in the paper not to long ago about that. The MO are phoney. A local person lost like $1800.00.
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Alwayzmovin
Member
11-06-2003
| Tuesday, October 10, 2006 - 8:15 am
Don't fall for it! Counterfeit Postal Money orders are all over.
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 6:27 pm
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp I received this e-mail today and checked it out at the above, snopes.com, and it's legit. In this con, someone calls pretending to be a court official who threateningly says a warrant has been issued for your arrest because you didn't show up for jury duty. The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you protest that you never received a summons for jury duty, the scammer asks you for your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she can verify the information and cancel the arrest warrant. Give out any of this information and bingo! Your identity just got stolen. The scam has been reported so far in 11 states, including Oklahoma, Illinois, and Colorado . This (scam) is particularly insidious because they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving information by pretending they're with the court system. The FBI and the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on their web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 8:41 pm
Thanks Kristy!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 9:28 pm
What exactly does happen if you miss a jury summons? Do they call your house?
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 9:34 pm
If you ignore a real jury summons, you may be held in contempt of court. It really depends on the court and the judge or presiding judge but there have been cases where they sent out US Marshalls (this for federal court) to bring the person in. However, I've always thought if you simply don't reply to the summons, unless they send it registered, how can they prove you even got it. Anyway, in truth, most of the time, nothing happens.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 9:50 pm
No one can legally ask for your SS# over the telephone, and legitimate callers would not ask for it.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 10:28 pm
Whew! I ignored a summons on purpose. It wasn't sent registered mail so they can't prove I got it. I'm sick to death of jury summons. I've lived here 11 years and I've gotten 3. Hubby has lived here all his life and never gotten even one! I'm protesting. F them. LOL
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Saturday, January 13, 2007 - 8:11 pm
I'll serve! I'll serve! I think I've gotten a total four or five jury summonses. One was federal. And I was chosen for a jury -- as the alternate. A very interesting experience. That was in January '91. Wish I'd get called again. My mom got the only summons she ever received (far as I know) at age 88!! She was both physically and mentally unable to serve. We got a doctor's excuse.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 12:33 pm
Anyone know if this is a "good" site? I don't think it is not legitimate, I just wonder if it will result in spam, etc. Anyone opinions? TIA. www.birthdayalarm.com
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Sia
Member
03-11-2002
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 8:33 pm
I'm getting scared: my NIS keeps giving me a high-risk warning that something called "B*D B*l*a*d*e* R*u*n*n*e*r 0.80a" is trying to access my computer through a wide variety of ports. This has happened every time I have tried to view a video on YouTube and each time I have tried to do a google search on the term B*D B*l*a*d*e R*u*n*n*e*r 0.80a, B*l*a*d*e R*u*n*n*e*r, any variation on that phrase! Is this some sort of trojan horse? This is very spooky! Note: there are no asterisks between the letters of the phrase I've been trying to type, but I got the same NIS warning even when I tried to submit this as a post. This is beyond scary. Someone tell me what's going on. If I could find the thread for computer problems as quickly as I found this thread, I'd intended to post this message there. I will still look for the computer thread. Thanks for any info available to you.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 8:44 pm
Sia, I googled it for you. Other people are having problems too. It appears it might be a trojan horse virus. Update your anti-virus and then run a scan. You can also try some of the online anti-virus scans. Here is a good one: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 8:45 pm
Sia, go to http://us.mcafee.com/ about half way down the page you will see Free Services and under that "scan for viruses". It will be the most up to date and no cost or membership. I did a quick search in their virus database for that name you gave and nothing came up. There is a *blade* worm, perhaps thats it? Good luck!!! Nothing worse than realizing how dependant we are on these puter thingies. LOL
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Neko
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 8:53 pm
Found this for you Sia for the Symantec wesbite.
quote:BD Blade Runner 0.80a Severity: High This attack could pose a serious security threat. You should take immediate action to stop any damage or prevent further damage from happening. Description This signature detects Backdoor Blade runner 0.80a activity. Additional Information Backdoor Blade runner 0.80a is a Trojan that opens up a backdoor program that, once installed on a system, permits unauthorized users to remotely control user interface, switch off FTP, browse/edit files, etc. Blade Runner operates over port 5400 via TCP. Aliases: TrojanDropper.Win32.FC.h, TrojanDropper.Win32.Joiner.y Response There are several Backdoor detection programs on the market that are said to be able to scan for and detect a Backdoor Blade runner 0.80a server on your system. Some of the better known AntiVirus vendors have included detection strings in their virus definitions.
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Sia
Member
03-11-2002
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 8:53 pm
Thanks, Rissa. It is really creepy that I'm getting so many alerts tonight. I have tried to search for this virus/threat by name on multiple sites and have been warned by Norton Internet Security every time I hit "enter!" I can't even get www.housecall.antivirus.com to work tonight. Also, I can't search the microsoft.com database under security alerts/threats for this threat by name without getting the same NIS warning. What is happening?
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Neko
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 8:57 pm
From what I've read, the virus seems to block the user from sreaching or using anything with the words "blade, runner, bladerunner etc." There also seems to be "mistaken" alerts if the user is using a dial-up accelerator, howere, seeing you've just been getting these warnings tonight, that doesn't seem to be the case.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, February 08, 2007 - 9:00 pm
There is a lot about it on this page: http://minitutorials.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=350
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, February 09, 2007 - 11:13 am
Heh, and some of the sites say that if you spelled out the name on a webpage, Sia won't be able to read that page. She may not be able to get back here.
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Friday, February 09, 2007 - 11:15 am
But she used asterisks 
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 11:56 am
Is this true? A news investigation on dollar stores (including Dollar Tree and others): They discovered the Crest, Colgate and other brand name toothpastes aren't the same as from drug and grocery stores etc. The toothpastes were manufactured in many other countries and are not approved by the American Dental Association (ADA). There was even some from South Africa and the fluoride is ten times stronger than what we're allowed in the U.S. (prescription strength). They're allowed stronger because they don't have fluoridated water (like we do). So if we (or our kids) use it often and occasionally swallow it, we could be poisoning ourselves.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 12:21 pm
Wow, it actually is TRUE! I don't buy that stuff from dollar stores, but it sure is good to know! http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/toothpaste.asp
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 2:20 pm
Huh! I don't buy toothpaste from dollar stores. For some reason, I always seem to be overstocked on toothpaste. But, I do buy other stuff at dollar stores, and I have wondered if the brand names I am buying are the real stuff. For example, I think the stain remover Zout is a miracle product and will even get out years old washed and dried-in stains. When we were in Texas over the winter, I bought a small bottle of Zout at Dollartree. It did not get out a routine stain, and I was very surprised, made me wonder if the container really had Zout in it. I have some real Zout at home and some more stains. I think I will run my own amateur tests. Or I could go hog wild and slop red wine on everything I own tonight. Yes, I think I will do that.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 2:38 pm
i find that de-solv-it works on every grease stain known to man. it even got out my husband's car oil he got on his shirt and pants.
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