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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 9, 2017 18:45:09 GMT -5
Scary s***...
I just received a very authentic-looking email from my internet provider, saying that my last payment had been declined, and inviting me to click a link to access my account...
The address of the sender looked legit, and the entire email was indistinguishable from what I would normally receive from that company. Luckily, I always assume that such an email is a phishing attempt, and went to check that everything was fine with my account in another way.
Those pirates really know their stuff.
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 9, 2017 19:46:05 GMT -5
Had the same thing happen with "Bank of America"
Trust no one
Contact them directly yourself !
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2017 19:56:15 GMT -5
Had the same thing happen with "Bank of America" Trust no one Contact them directly yourself ! My wife is a banker. She has to deal with customers who fall for these things all the time. Bottom line, never click on links in e-mails like this. Find a different way to contact the company and verify your accounts that way and report the fishing attempts. It's an ugly expensive mess and a long term hassle if not outright disaster if you click on one of those links and provide info. Most companies do not provide links to click in their e-mails because of these phishing tactics. If you start to think, man it's a pain in the a$$ contacting the company to verify stuff without using the link, just imagine what kind of pain it will be if you click on a link and have your accounts hacked and info stolen. -M
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 9, 2017 20:26:35 GMT -5
So what are we all going to do with Experian pinching pennies and having 143 million identities potentially compromised ?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2017 20:37:26 GMT -5
So what are we all going to do with Experian pinching pennies and having 143 million identities potentially compromised ? There are ways out there to check if your info is among those in the breach. Otherwise, closely monitor all activity on your accounts and verify every charge is actually yours and report any fraud immediately. Many banks have a way for you to get an alert every time your account is used (via text or something else), so you don't have to wait to get a statement to see all the activity. Many have online banking available where you can check activity regularly between statements if you don't want to receive alerts. You should be doing that anyways, but especially with a potential breach of this magnitude you need to be responsible and vigilant with your accounts. -M
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2017 21:57:08 GMT -5
Scary s***... I just received a very authentic-looking email from my internet provider, saying that my last payment had been declined, and inviting me to click a link to access my account... The address of the sender looked legit, and the entire email was indistinguishable from what I would normally receive from that company. Luckily, I always assume that such an email is a phishing attempt, and went to check that everything was fine with my account in another way. Those pirates really know their stuff. Diligence and being extra careful is the key in protecting your money and paying your bills making sure that your money is heading the right direction. I don't do automatic payment plans at all and I rather do the old fashioned way paying your bills monthly by check and all that. Being extra careful is the key of understanding your monies and that why these things are creeping up on your identity and potentially destroy your credit rating as well. Without a good credit rating you can't get a home, a better car, and anything else that matters to you. Diligence is the key in EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2017 23:28:41 GMT -5
Sometimes you never realize how much you depend on tools or aspects of tools until they stop working. The wheel on my wireless mouse stopped working on Thursday morning. The rest of the mouse worked fine, but using the wheel to scroll up or down wasn't happening. I ordered a new mouse along with some other stuff from Amazon and it arrived today, and I installed it, and the wheel is working again, but good lord it was such a pain scrolling and editing word documents or navigating through sites like these boards. I never realized how dependent I was on that little wheel for making things easier, having taken it for granted until it stopped working. Editing those documents took twice as long to perform simple operations with the mouse not quite working the way it was supposed to trying to navigate up and down using the arrow keys or the side navigation bar. Little things taken for granted I guess.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2017 22:13:32 GMT -5
Just because I was so creeped out I had to share....a hermit crab using an abandoned doll head as a shell... -M
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Post by shaxper on Sept 10, 2017 22:22:56 GMT -5
Wasn't that thing in Toy Story?
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Post by The Captain on Sept 11, 2017 5:28:36 GMT -5
Just because I was so creeped out I had to share....a hermit crab using an abandoned doll head as a shell... -M Well, I know what my nightmares are going to feature for the next week or more...
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Post by Pharozonk on Sept 11, 2017 10:11:37 GMT -5
Wasn't that thing in Toy Story? And they wonder why kids are so messed up these days!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2017 21:25:29 GMT -5
The great comics cull of 2017 is well underway. I only have 6 short boxes left to sort through of my stuff determining if it stays or goes. It looks like there will be 14-16 short boxes of stuff being sold off next month, plus the 2 short boxes of stuff I already traded off, and a partial short box of stuff that may be finding its way to fellow readers/collectors here on the CCF and elsewhere. I have about 2-3 short boxes of stuff I haven't decided if I want to keep or cull yet, but that I have sorted through. It looks like somewhere between 1/3 and one half of the books I had will be culled. Amy's stuff is another 8 short boxes of material going. Updating the computer files of what stays or goes is another aspect of this that is taking time. It's going slow and I have to still pace myself (weight lifting limits for my recovery go up next week to 50 lbs, so I will be able to move things around a little easier starting next weekend so that should speed things up a bit), but it is getting done. I am getting impatient to get the room done and get access to stuff to be able to read it and to have an accessible work space that is not a kitchen table again, but I need to get the comics out of the space before I can do a lot of the work up there, so one step at a time.
There's a good chance some of the stuff in the keep piles may wind up going down the road too once I get a chance to read it, or sample it and decide I don't want to read it. I still have too many books and I may end up doing an even harsher round of culls come springtime once the comic room remodel is done and I know exactly how much storage and display space I will have. We'll see how it all goes.
-M
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 11, 2017 22:41:03 GMT -5
I've done it before and will do it again I'm sure once I'm moved into the Hondo-minium.
Everytime I've done it in the past I kick myself for certain things I let go, like Atari Force, which I'll be getting back.
Then I've got to buy new boxes.
I was going to wrap them all with one large connecting image, but then I have other boxes that will throw that image off later.
I'll still wrap them, but in miniature individual collages instead, methinks.
Good luck mrp, and be careful with selection, and lifting !
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2017 23:45:29 GMT -5
The great comics cull of 2017 is well underway. I only have 6 short boxes left to sort through of my stuff determining if it stays or goes. It looks like there will be 14-16 short boxes of stuff being sold off next month, plus the 2 short boxes of stuff I already traded off, and a partial short box of stuff that may be finding its way to fellow readers/collectors here on the CCF and elsewhere. I have about 2-3 short boxes of stuff I haven't decided if I want to keep or cull yet, but that I have sorted through. It looks like somewhere between 1/3 and one half of the books I had will be culled. Amy's stuff is another 8 short boxes of material going. Updating the computer files of what stays or goes is another aspect of this that is taking time. It's going slow and I have to still pace myself (weight lifting limits for my recovery go up next week to 50 lbs, so I will be able to move things around a little easier starting next weekend so that should speed things up a bit), but it is getting done. I am getting impatient to get the room done and get access to stuff to be able to read it and to have an accessible work space that is not a kitchen table again, but I need to get the comics out of the space before I can do a lot of the work up there, so one step at a time. There's a good chance some of the stuff in the keep piles may wind up going down the road too once I get a chance to read it, or sample it and decide I don't want to read it. I still have too many books and I may end up doing an even harsher round of culls come springtime once the comic room remodel is done and I know exactly how much storage and display space I will have. We'll see how it all goes. -M I am just curious, where do you sell your books?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 0:08:26 GMT -5
The great comics cull of 2017 is well underway. I only have 6 short boxes left to sort through of my stuff determining if it stays or goes. It looks like there will be 14-16 short boxes of stuff being sold off next month, plus the 2 short boxes of stuff I already traded off, and a partial short box of stuff that may be finding its way to fellow readers/collectors here on the CCF and elsewhere. I have about 2-3 short boxes of stuff I haven't decided if I want to keep or cull yet, but that I have sorted through. It looks like somewhere between 1/3 and one half of the books I had will be culled. Amy's stuff is another 8 short boxes of material going. Updating the computer files of what stays or goes is another aspect of this that is taking time. It's going slow and I have to still pace myself (weight lifting limits for my recovery go up next week to 50 lbs, so I will be able to move things around a little easier starting next weekend so that should speed things up a bit), but it is getting done. I am getting impatient to get the room done and get access to stuff to be able to read it and to have an accessible work space that is not a kitchen table again, but I need to get the comics out of the space before I can do a lot of the work up there, so one step at a time. There's a good chance some of the stuff in the keep piles may wind up going down the road too once I get a chance to read it, or sample it and decide I don't want to read it. I still have too many books and I may end up doing an even harsher round of culls come springtime once the comic room remodel is done and I know exactly how much storage and display space I will have. We'll see how it all goes. -M I am just curious, where do you sell your books? I have several acquaintances who are shop owners, con organizers and con dealers, so I contacted them to see who would be interested in what or on the whole thing. They'll take a loo at what I have and make an offer I can either accept or decline. I know most of them well enough that they will put me in touch with other dealers if I cannot come to an agreeable price. I have sold pieces off to fellow collectors who I know are looking for something I had as well, and I traded in some to a couple of dealers already for store credit to pick up some stuff I was actually looking for. I might trade in a few pieces to Lonestar to get some credit there as they have a few things I am looking for as well. But, I've spent a long time building relationships with dealers and creators in the area, many of whom are also fellow collectors/hobbyists and many of whom are also fellow small press folks or support the local small press scene. We look for stuff for each other, give heads up when we see things of interest that we cannot pull the trigger on broker deals for each other, etc. So when I decided I wanted to cull some stuff and my wife decided to part with her X-Men collection that has more than a handful of keys, I let them know, and they were all like let us know what we can do and when your ready we'll talk numbers. As long as you understand that they are dealers and have to make money on the stuff they buy from you and set your expectations accordingly, and both sides are comfortable walking away if it doesn't work, you can work things out pretty well and usually get a deal done that makes everyone happy. I took the time and did a few shows as a vendor the last time I sold stuff off, which was the origin point of a lot of these relationships, which I could do again if I wanted to maximize return, but it would also maximize effort on my part too, so I am willing to take less to get rid of the stuff. What you can't do is expect to sell your books at top guide prices to a dealer or expect to sell filler issues at anything other than bulk prices. When you go to show and see long boxes of $5 Silver and Bronze books for sale, you have to realize that they're not being bought at top dollar. Unless you have absolute high grade (9.6 or higher) Silver & Bronze filler, have keys of some sort, or high demand current books, you're going to be hard pressed to get anything but bulk prices for your stuff with the current market. It is relatively easy to sell, as long as you don't have unrealistic expectations going in. The problem is a lot of people have unrealistic expectations of what stuff is actually worth and what it is actually selling for in the wild. -M
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