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more on Mom
Dec. 11th, 2017 01:10 pmGood: Mom is talking to me, if crankily. At my request, she forwarded me some emails from the putative Publishers Clearing House - after I spent fifteen minutes teaching her how to do that. She used to know how to do that all by herself.
Weird: The emails appear to be legitimate, if sleazy-looking. There's nothing funny in the SMTP headers or the HTML, and they're hosted by AWS, like pretty much everybody else. They're essentially advertising a kind of lottery. I've forwarded them on to Good Sister.
Why are these emails legit? Because they don't say she has won; they say she could win. I think Mom is failing at reading comprehension as she is at so many other things lately.
Bad: Mom seems to think she's getting gifts when she's really buying things. I'm still not clear about what happened when because she got scammed a few months ago. Remember, none of the three sisters are on the ground there anymore and our main source of information is increasingly addled, hence my request for the emails.
Weird: The emails appear to be legitimate, if sleazy-looking. There's nothing funny in the SMTP headers or the HTML, and they're hosted by AWS, like pretty much everybody else. They're essentially advertising a kind of lottery. I've forwarded them on to Good Sister.
Why are these emails legit? Because they don't say she has won; they say she could win. I think Mom is failing at reading comprehension as she is at so many other things lately.
Bad: Mom seems to think she's getting gifts when she's really buying things. I'm still not clear about what happened when because she got scammed a few months ago. Remember, none of the three sisters are on the ground there anymore and our main source of information is increasingly addled, hence my request for the emails.
