LITTLE SCAM COULD TURN INTO BIG SCAM…..BEWARE

Our computers besides being helpful and providing pleasure are the tools of thieves who can do and are doing significant harm to us economically. They are getting into our bank accounts, etc. more than ever.

One of the recent and popular thievery tools involve toll charges for highway usage. Florida, as with many states, has done away with toll booths on certain major highways. Not a problem for me in Key West. No toll booths here or anywhere till somewhere near Miami. Also, the last time I drove to Miami or north was Hurricane Irma time. Irma occurred in 2017. All the way north through Florida to other states till I arrived in Birmingham, Alabama. I had a card on my window showing how I paid tolls at the time. So my tolls were automatically paid.

My hospital trips to Miami early last year were by ambulance or Corey and Lisa driving me.

Since Irma, Florida has done away with toll booths. Toll charges are automatic by something above as we drive along. If a person does not have a credit card with the State, you are billed automatically somehow through your license plate.

Note again my car has not been out of the Keys since Irma.

A few months ago, I received a text I owed $6.99 as a toll charge. Could not be. Ignored it. Two days ago, I received an  email indicating the same. I ignored that notice also.

This morning I learned on NBC news that there is a scam involving these $6.99 charges. Phony. Be warned not to open or respond. They want your bank info so they can steal from your account. Thieves skillfully at work. I was almost induced to pay by the email because it said if I did not pay there would be an additional $50 charge.

NBC said a toll charge scam. It claims a small unpaid toll. Text and email use a program  which originated in China. The Chinese sell it to thieves who ae now utilizing it to get their hands on our bank accounts.

Beware!

Most of what I shall be writing today will involve Trump. He has consumed big time the news. What he is doing must be understood by everyone. Unless you have no concern about perhaps being screwed in some fashion.

Trump said yesterday he was considering doing away with FEMA. States should be responsible for helping people re natural disasters, not the federal government. Stupid! The federal government has been responsible because states have nowhere near the monies required to provide natural disaster assistance.

Me thinks Trump wants to cut federal taxes wherever and whenever he can so there will be room for him to give a significant tax reduction to the rich in due course.

There was a U.S. Senate vote yesterday re Pete Hegseth. Sort of a test vote on whether to approve his candidacy for Secretary of Defense. The vote was 51-49 to do so. Two Republicans voted against him. Murkowski and Collins. The for real vote is expected to be taken this evening. Hegseth can lose 2 more votes and still win. Vance as Vice-President would step in and cast the tie breaking vote.

Trump is doing too much at one time. He is leading us into destabilization. His signing of all these orders is showmanship. He is creating a spectacle. As he progresses with them, will stabilization occur at some point. I doubt it. Chaos will result.

The rich will somehow benefit. I think much of what he is doing is to make them happy. Another group will cheer him, also. The know it alls who know nothing. The smarty pants people who want to tell the rest of us how to live our lives.

Trump’s big time immediate attack on climate change and the environment will backfire. He is pulling out of the Paris agreement, opening federal land for drilling, and has declared an energy emergency. There is no energy emergency. Only the one Trump creates with his mouth. The U.S. is producing more oil and drilling more than ever before. We lead the world in oil production. Trump lies to support his contrary position.

Note that Russia has come out opposing Trump’s position on climate control big time.

Marco Rubio is on his way to Panama. Then some other Central American countries.

Rubio disappointed me in his acceptance comments to State staff monday evening. I believe Cabinet members support a President, but also advise a contrary position to him if they disagree. Rubio’s position was clear. He will do what Trump wants. Who needs Rubio under those circumstances? I thought he would make a good Secretary of State. I now question my initial thoughts.

The rumbling is beginning. Down the road, Trump will seek to cut Social Security and Medicare. A disaster for a majority of elderly Americans. Trump will merely be doing it as another method of reducing federal costs so he can cut taxes for the very rich.

Beware!

Help me. I have not seen a Bess Levin article since mid December. Researched her lack of writing. Her columns appear in Vanity Fair. I came up with nothing. If I missed something or you know why her writings have not been appearing, let me know.

Enjoy your day!

6 comments on “LITTLE SCAM COULD TURN INTO BIG SCAM…..BEWARE

  1. Some guys on the “dark web” will sell you a “ransomware” program that allows you to jack somebody online and not get caught.
    Gotta love the Internet.

    • Yeah, another one of those “day one” promises he was unable to accomplish!

      Too busy getting the “Gulf Of Mexico” renamed. A far more important issue than anything to do with the price of groceries or state of the economy.

  2. Trump is merely the “messenger”. The people you know, friends, azzociates, family and neighbors who elected him, THEY did all of this, gleefully.

  3. Waiting for Trump to get rid of the “Deep State”.
    Oh wait, weren’t they were all around him on the stage during the Inauguration?

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