Daily Rome Shot 1371

4 Comments

1. Dustin F says:

   6 June 2025 at 4:50 PM

   Magnus lost to Gukesh and said he might never play classical chess again . . . but still won the tournament. Typical.
2. maternalView says:

   6 June 2025 at 7:47 PM

   I think your scam post is important also. It’s easy to get comfortable and assume I’d never get taken. We need reminders.
3. hwriggles4 says:

   7 June 2025 at 1:37 PM

   Fr. Z:

   Thanks for educating your readers. My mother is 87 and there are several “phone scams” going around that target retirees and others who are over 70 because they aren’t as “tech savvy.” I have cautioned my mom to answer the phone when she only recognizes a number (yeah as a child of the 70s crank calls are definitely a thing of the past) and I have pointed out certain scam emails (although my mom doesn’t use email as often as she used to – my 91 year old aunt doesn’t even have a computer anymore) to her.

   I was glad on two occasions the past few years my mom had enough street smarts to identify a scam. There are pros out there that are getting savvy.
4. Thomas says:

   8 June 2025 at 5:59 PM

   I get scam emails from Geek Squad impersonators, but have never used Geek Squad for anything, and have never sent them a payment or had any contact. Still the emails appear every 2 or 3 weeks. There are others, too, which I have never used, or had an account, that claim they are going to bill me if I don’t pay up. Then there was the email that tried to extort me for 6,000 bit coins. The sender had an old simple password that I had not used in fifteen years or more, to try to convince me he could access my computer. Nobody in law enforcement cares about this stuff. Last year someone by texts convinced my at-risk adult daughter to open a savings account, and a week later there appeared $80,000 in the account. As for surveillance, I’m almost positive we have had some agents pretending to be parishioners at our TLM parish. Can’t prove it, of course, but these guys have a certain manner about them, don’t they? And they don’t come every Sunday, but often enough to cause me to be suspicious. There is a lot of skullduggery going on everywhere.