Pat Gaudette

A few days ago I wrote about the email I received from “Amazon.com” regarding an order placed with them. Of course the email wasn’t really from Amazon although I’ve ordered from them in the past month. Today this email came in, cancelling my order: More »

The woman caller wanted to speak to the owner of the business or his wife. When I asked what she was calling about, she said it was a personal matter and asked if I was the owner’s wife. I asked again what the call was about and she said she needed to talk to the owner. I hung up on her. The call came from phone number 904-725-6043, with a caller ID of ”Security Center.”

Two hours later, the same woman called again. This time she spoke in a particularly perky voice and asked to speak to “Donny.” When I said no Donny worked here, she laughed and said “of course not, I forgot the owner’s name – giggle – can I speak to him?” I asked what the call was about — although now I’d done research online and found the number reported as a spammer for a plumbing company — and she disconnected the call. She was a little slow on the disconnect and I heard her mutter “bitch” just before the line went dead.

No doubt she will be taking the challenge to get through the “gatekeeper” to the real owner and I will continue to log her calls as they occur.

I told myself I wouldn’t do this but it’s hard not to give an opinion about Tiger Woods’ “apology” and his many mistresses who feel it just wasn’t good enough.

Maybe I’m old-fashioned about marital fidelity but apologizing to a wife who has been betrayed is, in my opinion, more important than having any empathy whatsoever over the “suffering” of the other woman — or in Tiger’s case, the other women — who choose to have sex with a married man.

I could rant on but let’s just leave it at that.

Oh, what the heck! I hope Elin Woods makes the decision that’s best for herself, either stay or go. If she stays, she certainly knows just what type of man she’s married to. As far as the mistresses — well, gee, who cares?

Like millions of other online shoppers, I buy from Amazon.com. So, receiving an email confirming an order doesn’t set off any red flags… except when the email is sent to an email address that I don’t use for online shopping. More »

Who thinks these scams up?! Really! Do I even need to say that the attachment that came with this email was deleted by my anti-virus program? More »

First of all, who in the U.S. has ever heard of a “Tax Commissar”? And, secondly, who in the U.S., in the past couple of years, has actually made enough money to move to a higher tax bracket?

So far today, I’ve received three of these emails. The link (which I’ve left out of the email), goes to the domain “rep073or.kr” or a variation thereof. More »

I just got this email from “VISA” regarding my VISA card: More »

Every year I get  Directory Listing Order Form “invoices” in the mail that, if I was working in a large corporation’s accounting office, might get paid if I didn’t take the time to read the fine print. The mailings appear to be billings for my current yellow pages listing. They are frauds or what I term “spam scams”. More »