You may have noticed that I forgot to post my blog yesterday. I have an excuse, just not a very good one. I had thought of it on Wednesday, wondering what I would write about this week, and also wondering when I would write it, as we had appointments for our latest Covid booster shots just about the time I usually publish. And of course it is written on my fabulous “to do” list. And then life happened. Anyway, here I am, as they say, better late than never! You probably have noticed the “Comments” section at the bottom of each blog entry. Hey, perhaps you have even been bold enough to write a comment!! Don’t feel bad, not many people have. But that’s ok. Really. Anyway, a few weeks ago, I got an email from my website provider notifying me that someone had left a comment! Yay!, I thought, a comment!! The message was rather vague about how interesting my topic was, and it included a suggestion to visit their site, link provided of course. I wasn’t too wary, but I didn’t really want to visit another site without a better reason to do so, so I didn't. Then the next day I got the exact same comment from someone whose name was strangely similar to the first, with yet another link. I may not be Einstein, but I quickly realized these were not legitimate comments so I deleted them before anyone clicked on the suggested links. I also went in to my website’s settings and turned on the option to have to approve comments before they are posted. I find this sad because if someone legitimately comments, they won’t see their comment posted before I get around to approving it, which could take a day or two. Kinda kills any spontaneity. But the worst thing is every second day now I get a notice about yet another spammy comment that I have to deal with. I mean, what do these spammers expect? I haven’t clicked on their links so I have no idea what their game is, but how desperate do you have to be to spam some totally unknown artist’s blog? While we are on the topic of spamming and scamming, it seems it's that time of year again as after weeks of silence, we got 3 separate phone calls in one day from “the department of Service Canada” about our Social Insurance number being “suspended because of suspicious activity”. Seriously? Who falls for that crap? Apparently enough people to keep whoever it is in business doing whatever it is they are doing, otherwise they would stop. Which I wish they would! At least when it’s a person on the other end, I can give them the “Hello?..... Hello?.... Is anybody there?” treatment. But these are all robocalls, so you can’t string them along and waste their time…. What about you? Have you had annoying spam/scam calls? What have you done about them? Let me know in the comments. (Just know that it might take a day or so for the comment to be approved!)
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