Bed and Breakfast Scam
A friend owns a B&B and they have had two e-mails similar to this one.
i want to inquire if you have 3 rooms available on the 22nd to 29th of july,2010.The number of guest to expect is 6 with 2 people in each room.Do confirm if available and get back to me.
Warm regards,
John Howard.
Scotland .
+44 704 573 0909
It has all the usual marks of spam, with bad spelling, punctuation and grammar. Who ends a message with “Warm Regards”?
But I’m not sure how it works. I suspect that ringing the number will result in a large cost on your phone bill.
There are a lot more examples here.
Beware the Ides of March
I had my stroke on the 15th March, which is The Ides of March.
This is not a suspicious day for me, but it was my mother-in-law’s birthday. My late wife always said that we should beware the Ides of March.
Now I didn’t get on too well with my mother-in-law, as she was a lady with different principles to me, but surely my stroke isn’t her fault?
The History Boys
I went to see The History Boys last night in Cambridge with a friend.
Perhaps, I should have gone to a matinée as I had a bit of a problem staying awake. But not because of the play which was very good.
I hadn’t actually seen the original stage play, but I did see the film of a few years back with my late wife. The two are different obviously, but the story is virtually the same.
So if it comes to a theatre near you then go and see it. You won’t be disappointed.
The Anonymous Widower 