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motogon
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| donwh wrote: | That isn't a giveaway today, there are plenty of Ankers and bot moters for sale on Craigslist (no kidding)  |
Yes, that is correct. People don't spell good anymore, they don't use commas and dots, specially when they texting.
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capetonian
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 9:31 am Post subject: |
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| I got a bunch of scammer emails today from ballackmuller7@gmail.com. His English is much improved, but there were enough clues that he was a scammer, such as "Is the item still available". If they don't know what they are buying then its a scam. |
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johngullotti
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I got the bogus IRS phone call. It was so funny I wish I could have recorded it. They called twice. Still funny. |
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isobars
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| Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 8:46 am Post subject: |
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| johngullotti wrote: | | I got the bogus IRS phone call. It was so funny I wish I could have recorded it. They called twice. Still funny. |
The humor subsides after the tenth call from them.
Think of the fear it instills in naive victims. |
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isobars
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| Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 9:04 am Post subject: |
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| starik333 wrote: | | donwh wrote: | | That isn't a giveaway today, there are plenty of Ankers and bot moters for sale on Craigslist (no kidding) |
Yes, that is correct. People don't spell good anymore, they don't use commas and dots, specially when they texting. |
This is just one more way in which laziness or sloppiness impacts one's credibility. Who's going to hire an office worker whose resume is full of tweet abbreviations? The only TV show I've ever seen that knew how to use the proper pronouns (e.g., him and me vs he and I) was "Roseanne". Virtually NO ONE gets "its" and "it's" right despite its simplicity, and I still can't figger out this "was" vs "were" stuff so I just wing that one.
Much worse than grammar or spelling errors IMO is criticizing others for theirs as an excuse to avoid discussing their MESSAGE head on and as a means of putting them down.
Don't think Spellcheck will save our butts, either. Beside often being dead wrong, it will allow certain legitimate typos. From experience, I always watch closely when typing my last name or the word "count".
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shreddbob
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I once ended up randomly with a license plate that read "667-FVK" Had to get rid of that one  |
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RobertT
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| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 10:39 am Post subject: |
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| capetonian wrote: | | I got a bunch of scammer emails today from ballackmuller7@gmail.com. His English is much improved, but there were enough clues that he was a scammer, such as "Is the item still available". If they don't know what they are buying then its a scam. |
Is h.g.kropf2015@gmail.comf another or the same one? They both sound the same. |
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isobars
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| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 11:55 am Post subject: |
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| I see at least 15 indications in Kropf's message that scream SCAM to me. |
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