Jun 24, 2022

Gone Fishin'

I believe it was P.T. Barnum who said: “There’s a sucker born every minute.” That was definitely me yesterday when I fell victim to an internet scam that not only compromised the security of my computer, but also my bank accounts.

After a trip to the bank to close our current accounts and open new ones, our money is safe. My compromised lap top, the fairly new Lenovo, is at Staples for a security check up. I still have to get in touch with my other bank, my credit card company, my cell phone company, and PayPal, and then I have to figure out how to set up one of the automatic payments I get again.

Fun stuff. Not!

So I’m taking a mental health holiday for the next couple of weeks. I’ll still be checking my email and Facebook (the msi Apache wasn’t compromised), but I’m not going to be blogging. My heart just isn’t in it.

The only good news in all this mess is, because I stubbornly refused to sync my devices, the Lenovo is the only one that was affected.

Who knows, maybe I’ll finally get Magickal Mayhem finished while I’m on my break.


1 comment:

Ann Bennett said...

A break can do us all good at times. I did the same thing several years ago. Luckily, the laptop I used was new and I had only used a credit card on it. I turned off the internet in my home as I hung up the phone. I shut down the computer. Then I called the credit card company and got a new number. What I did was so stupid. But they were so slick too. I'm glad you weren't synced.