Last year my mom asked me to read a letter that said she had won $250,000 and all she had to do was call the number and make arrangements for the money to be delivered.  I knew it was a scam immediately, but I read the letter and found the catch.  When the money was delivered, she was supposed to give the person her check for $3,500 as the delivery fee!  These people even called her several times to set up the delivery and couldn't understand when she said she wasn't interested in receiving any money from them.  You really have to be so careful, especially in these hard economic times.  Steve and I lost all of our savings a few years ago in a scam that sounded so legitimate but was really just a smaller scale pyramid scheme.  There was even a class action suit but no one got anything.  Live and learn.

Lynell, your Rev story jogged my memory, I had a great aunt, who suffered from crippling rheumatoid arthritis, she was the sweetest lady in the world, always with a smile despite her pain.  She sent lots of money to Oral Roberts for a healing, sometimes her entire SS checks, even went there to one of his meetings and he told her the reason she was not healed is because she did not have enough faith!   This lady had more faith and love in her heart than anyone I know and it saddened me that so many of the elderly got caught up in that money scam.

Barry, the more I think about it may not have been on 20/20 but on the CBS worldwide news, if my memory is correct.  I believe they keep the stories on line so if any of you want to check it out, it is worthwhile.  I was amazed at the copy machines that do have the capability, it is a small hard drive that most do  not even know that is there and it is accessible to those who know how to retrieve the info.  Just one more thing to be cautious about when you copy important documents. 

Just another FYI moment, saw this on 20/20 the other night.  It seems that copier machines keep all those copies made in their system, hard drive too, yes they have one.  They found information from police stations, hospitals, anywhere you copied personal data for yourselves or hospital records copied and sent along with your SS# and other information, it is all held in that hard drive of the copy machine that anyone can get hold of. Very scary, especially when they reservice these machines and send them overseas etc.   You never know where your info is going these days.   Companies could fix this problem where it would erase the info with a $50.00 attachment, but they seldom do.   Now that is scary.

You really are blond aren't you!! 

Ooopps!  I thought I was on my GB & that's the moniker I use there.  Sorry Lynell.  Ginger, John is the one who started calling my SNL & I too thought he was trying to tell me I reminded him of Sat Night Live!!  Come to find out . . .  those are my initials!!!   

TNX for info Char, I must hve missed the part abt copying & pasting the URL.  I know they didn't get my info from FB bec it's current & this is very very old!  Later ya'll ....