Also, if you have pets that go outside, such as a dog you take for walks, you need to check them even if they are on flea and tick prevention. Ticks are more than glad to hitchhike indoors on pets and then later decide to rehome themselves onto a human.
This is probably stretching the definition of strange, but I got in school suspension in middle school for having 3 tardies (aka arriving late to school). I rode the school bus to school each day, I had no control over whether I was late or not, so I find it strange to be punished for something like that.
I had someone with an issue signing up for an account mention that they were not successful because when they tried to sign up, they got a message that they weren't eligible because there was already an account using that email address.
I told them if they have a Gmail account, just use the + addressing feature, otherwise, just create a Gmail account.
Someone else responded on the first person's account "But they don't have Gmail, so they can't do it."
Let me tell you, THIS is a situation where a call is necessary. There's nothing I can type that will suddenly unravel the layers here and that won't lead to more layers being laid. It will be 100000000000000% easier and less time consuming to schedule a meeting/call and talk through this than it would be to continue this discussion in text format.
It's a comforting sentiment, but unfortunately, it's not really true.
A lot of grifters grift not because they failed at "legitimate or useful" employment, but because grifting is easier, quicker, and better money for them (or has other tangible benefits) and they have no moral quandaries about what they're doing.
Because it's easy to manipulate the general public with these planned out and scheduled spectacles specifically developed to provide cover for all the truly terrible stuff that's being done just slightly behind the curtains while also giving both sides convenient cover from the other's failures.
I know this is probably the worst place I could possibly pose this question, but I've been wondering, so here goes. But first some background.
Probably within the past year or two, I discovered that FedEx started showing the name and a photo of the delivery driver on the tracking pages. Since they started doing that, I've noticed a very strong trend.
Whenever my package is late, meaning it's marked as "Out for delivery" on a given day, but doesn't arrive, it's always the same driver. Now it's at the point where if I get a notification that my package is out for delivery and I happen to see that Bob (not his real name) is the driver, I know for sure it's not coming that day. Sometimes it'll come the following day, but most often it doesn't get delivered until a different driver shows up on the tracking page several days later.
So, I'm wondering, when they know they don't plan on actually making a delivery attempt but they need to mark the package as out for delivery, do they just have a designated "fake" driver they assign it to? Is Bob even a real human?
Because people see the picture and think "What in the world why does that soap have a bit out o fit" and then go ahead and click the link. And after doing various "experiments" over the years, advertisers have found that these sort of practices substantially improve engagement/click-through metrics and ultimately result in higher traffic / sales / ad revenue / etc.
Yes, but it can only be transmitted purrposely.