As I age, I"m a couple of weeks short of 86 now, I get inundated with scam emails.
Now I'm not just getting ones that say they are from Amazon, my bank, UPS, other retailers, and payment services they are claiming to be from the Social Security!
The first thing I do is look at the address...
I just received a message saying it was from Social Security. I looked at the sender's address, and it said...
SocialSecurity.gov, followed by rmradcliffe@cox.net
I searched for rmradcliffe@cox.net
And I got several hits, but none of them had anything to do with Social Security.
The message...
Long story short, a while ago, I bought and returned a hard drive that still had sensitive information on it including social security number, passwords to online accounts, etc. At the time, I thought that I removed all the information on the hard drive because I quick formatted it a few times...
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Just wanted to let you know, I received my 2011 Social Security Stimulus package today. It contained two watermelon seeds, cornbread mix, a prayer rug and 10 coupons to KFC. The directions were in Spanish.
Hope you get yours soon.
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Dwma needs to return a dead hard drive to the manufacturer, and asked the Answer Line forum for a way to first remove sensitive data.
Hard drives almost always contain some potentially compromising information, such as credit card and social security numbers. You should always...
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