Hopefully
I’m on time here this week—despite how unusual that is these days. I’m still
busy with the edits to my second book in my upcoming K-9 Crime Solvers series
for Harlequin Romantic Suspense. But life goes on, and my time is often
interrupted by things both important and not so important.
Earlier
this week, I had to spend a long time resetting a password for a Yahoo email
account. My husband and I received an invitation to a neighbor’s party that
required putting some information on the site to RSVP. We checked with the
neighbor, and she said it was legit, so I went ahead and entered the info—only
to be told by the neighbor that she’d been confused and there was no party. The
invitation was apparently a scam to get information that otherwise wouldn’t be
provided, which I’d unfortunately done. I had to delete and change some
information without knowing how to do it, so I had to contact a Yahoo
person—very nice, and he walked me through fixing the issue.
But
that was time-consuming. Plus, frustrating, since I’m always assuming things
are scams and therefore avoiding them—but not this time.
Okay
then, it’s hopefully fixed, and now I’m back to my edits, feeling somewhat
foolish for falling for that scam.
Oh,
well. At least all seems okay now.
7 comments:
Computers and social media. Our enemies and friends. I think it will get harder as AI becomes more and more common. We just need to keep our wits about us which is hard at times.
I"m 72 and I think back to high school where I learned to type....badly. My typing teacher Mrs. Byman would be so proud of how I keyboard today. I wonder what it will be like for people 50 years from now. I can't even imagine.
It is so frustrating having to waste time fixing some computer thing. It's bad enough when it is something legit, but worse when its connected to a scam. The good thing is that you succeeded in fixing it.
I'm hoping things get easier as AI becomes more common, Sally, but you're probably right. Maybe AI would have advised me not to follow up on that invitation--or not. And these days, typing badly would certainly make a lot of things in our lives more difficult. You're right, although there are times I suspect I'm not keeping my wits about me!
You're right, Betty. Yes, it took some time to resolve the difficult situation, but at least I ultimately did resolve it. Computers, in so many ways, have become so important in our lives!
With all this AI stuff and all the hackers throwing up things it's hard not to be suspicious. Glad you were able to fix things. I look forward to reading about Molly Pink and friends. It's my favorite crochet series.
Yes, being suspicious can definitely help sometimes, Sandy. And I don't write a crochet series. Check with Betty!
I'm so sorry to hear about the scam but I am glad you got it fixed.
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