I get two or three scam calls a day pretending to be from agents working on a loan I’ve applied for. I have not applied for a loan. My phone number was briefly associated with an account of my mother’s a few years ago, so I got flagged as an elderly mark. My mother got scam calls all the time in the last year she lived alone, and she would always give them her credit card number or bank account information. This is why my number was on her account, so I would receive notifications when things were charged. The credit card account is long gone, but I still get calls from hopeful predators.
I get ads on Facebook for services that claim they can remove your phone number from the lists scammers use. For some fee, of course, possibly even a subscription. I can only assume that they’re all owned by the same billionaires, the same umbrella corporation, the phone scammers and the list scrubbers.
That’s how they get ya.
I find myself thinking “that’s how they get ya” a lot these days. Maybe it’s an age thing, the bitter wisdom that comes from too many years of experience. It’s also the era. When the President of the United States does nothing but run scams day in and day out, it’s hard to believe that anything is real.
I went to the library today to borrow a book. Libraries are real. Books are real. I’m about to eat fish for lunch. Fish is real.
If you don’t hold on to what’s real, that’s how they get ya.
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