My other sisters, the twins, not Bet, are always calling me to ask my opinion on the scammail they get. I am always amazed at how otherwise very intelligent women are always ready to believe in this crap.

The other day, it was an outfit in Toronto, (I have the addy, Rick, wanna go break a few legs?**bg**), asking my sister for her signature to verify that she is really who her name says she is; for her signature, it sounded as though some benefactor, i.e. like that old show where the millionaire gives out money anonymously, was going to gift her with tons of money.

As she read me the fine print, it came down to, for her signature AND $29.95 or some such amount, she, too, would receive the information which helped the anonmymous benefactor get rich.

I had already told her it was a bunch of crap and I stopped her right there, but I think the promise was for lotto numbers or something. "Well, okay," she said, "but if you check it out on the Internet and find out it's real, call me back!"

What makes it worse in their case is one is going blind and the other has a very hard time with fine print. And, the scammers/scummers are getting better, with every mailing, at making it sound soooo good and legit! I am glad they at least call me and ask my opinion now and thank goodness they've not had a lot of extra to lose.

kat