The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #111956   Message #4173020
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
24-May-23 - 12:25 PM
Thread Name: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
Subject: RE: BS: A new wrinkle on Nigerian Scams
I use a helpful phone app called Hiya that is one of several on the Google Store marketplace. It filters calls and flags any that are already know as scams or spam, and offers other alerts when needed.

My Facebook got locked down pretty tight back in the years of the old Mudcat Troll - may he rest in pieces hopefully - he harvested photos then commingled them with soft core porn and created new albums or accounts in the names of various Mudcatters. It was a lesson in how to get lots of things removed from online sites.

The other day I was looking at my childhood street in Google maps and there are a couple of houses on the block that are totally blurred out. If this is a witness protection service attempt at anonymity, I'm sure there are ways around it, but for now, it kept me from seeing those houses. Photos of my house off of Google maps are regularly printed on letters offering me top cash for my house, and that alone is a good reason to erase the photo, though I think by now that opportunity has passed, it turns up in several places.