The phone started ringing about 10:30 AM and didn’t stop for an hour. People I haven’t heard from in years where calling. They were calling because they got an E-mail from me stating that I was in Wales. While there my cars was broken into and everything in it was taken. So I was asking my friend for some help.
The first person that call was an old banker friend and he was sure the E-mail was a hoax, but just wanted to make sure. He said after reading the E-mail the second time he was sure I didn’t write it. My friend told me that I the E-mail said “I came down to Wales.” There were other things that did not add up to me writing the E-mail.
Here is the funny part. Fred the one who first call about the E-mail Scam was glad I wasn’t in Wales. Then said he would read it to me and he started right off even before I could say that’s alright you don’t have to. As he got more into to the letter something very strange happened, he started sounding like he was a Brit.
As he kept read using a British accent I was laughing my head off. Here the people that sent this scam E-mail were reportedly from Wales and I am hearing the E-mail like the Brit that wrote it was reading it to me.
Finally he stopped and I let him know he did a great British accent. To my surprise he told me that he was raised in Australia. So now I knew why it sounded so real, it was real.
That was only the beginning of the phone calls. A friend of mine from California called and was glad to hear I wasn’t in Wales. He said in reality he didn’t think I was, but he wanted to call to make sure. He did send a reply to the E-mail asking if the person remembered the project we did on our fraternity house. My friend got a reply stating that he was in such bad frame of mind he couldn’t remember anything.
There were two instructions AOL gave me to stop this. One, change my password, which I did. Two let everyone that might have receive the scam E-mail to check their computers for viruses.
The good thing that happened was I got to talk with some of my friends that I haven’t spoken with in years and the re-enforcement that people really do care. You know there is always some good that comes out things like this.
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