1367 Scam-genuity

Seems like not a day goes by that we don’t hear of some privacy invasion or security breach from Facebook. And yet people continue to use it without concern. Perhaps proving the Facebook founder’s assertion that privacy is dead.
There’s a new Facebook thing that lets other people add you to their group without asking you. Some electronic wag added the Facebook founder to the National Association of Man Boy Love just to show him what a good idea that was.
A privacy foundation recently found that apps on Facebook, like Farmville and others, were harvesting private data—actual names and addresses—and sending them to third parties and advertisers.
They know your buying habits, they know your friends. Facebook forces you to turn the other cheek and bend over too.
A security expert recently pointed out there are millions of pictures of children and moms on Facebook. With names. When those kids grow up and think their mother’s maiden name is a great secret password, look out.
So it’s refreshing to get an old-fashioned scam once in a while. The other day I came home to a hand-placed “Delivery Notice” sticker stuck on my door. It said there was a package waiting to be delivered to me. The notice had the attractive murky yellow and brown colors of UPS. And an 888 number. I almost called.
Then I read a little closer. The sticker was actually telling me they wanted to deliver a “promotional package.” And it wasn’t from UPS. It was from Coastal Aire Concepts. A condo presentation deal.
Ah, scam-genuity.
Still, it was refreshing. In this day of wholesale electronic spam laziness, they actually went to the physical work of putting a sticker on my door… to stick it to me.
America, ya gotta love it.