The Retirement Thread

[Drago]

-2°C here in Poshshire and falling.

 

[welsh dragon]

-2 here as well

 

[Gunk]

-2 here as well

Still quite warm here!

 

[Dave7]

Has anyone tried the over 60’s Asda Soup, roll, and a cup of tea yet?

Not tried it but it looks good.

 

[classic33]

It wasn't my brother, it was one of his cats who sat on his phone.

Question should have been how did the cat unlock the handset, not how did it actually manage to make the call.
Most have fingerprint "locks" along with various other "security" lockouts.

 

[Dave7]

Just takes one to put a bin out early and they all follow

Warrington Council have a good system. You type in your postcode and it tells you what/when the next collection is.
No idea if other councils have similar systems.
Our blue, recycle bin was collected today and is full again. We had 8 people here over Christmas and 8 people create a lot of waste.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Question should have been how did the cat unlock the handset, not how did it actually manage to make the call.
Most have fingerprint "locks" along with various other "security" lockouts.

Question should be why he has the cat's bum as his fingerprint!!

 

[Dave7]

It's a special edition pukka pie I spotted in Waitrose.

Don't think I've ever had a Pukka pie.
There is a private pie shop nearby, called To Piefor. They do all the normal stuff but every day have a special pie. Good quality.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Don't think I've ever had a Pukka pie.
There is a private pies hop nearby, called To Piefor. They do all the normal stuff but every day have a special pie. Good quality.

WHAT!!!

I mean - how?? why???

one of the things I miss about the gluten free diet is not having pies like this

 

[BoldonLad]

Warrington Council have a good system. You type in your postcode and it tells you what/when the next collection is.
No idea if other councils have similar systems.
Our blue, recycle bin was collected today and is full again. We had 8 people here over Christmas and 8 people create a lot of waste.

Yes, our local council (South Tyneside Council) has same.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Yes, our local council (South Tyneside Council) has same.

Widnes has a similar one - very useful at this time of year!
looks like most of the road didn;t use it this week!!!

 

[Drago]

Night Johnboy.

 

[classic33]

It is a very old scam - way older than the WWW although that and email have made it far easier and cheaper

Basically - you are right - maybe 0.5% chance that any given email will hook someone

but if you have a computer sending out 1 email a second then it would get one response every 200 seconds
i.e. roughly every 3 minutes
so if you have a big enough list then you would get20 hooks every hour - 480 a day

next step will loose a few more
but an experienced scammer would probably move it on slowly
but with the email I pasted they would shortly ask for a few hundred dollars (or whatever) to "release the funds" or some such rubbish
that'll loose a few more

but we are still working on maybe a dozen a day - which would amount to maybe several thousand dollars a week
which is serious money even in this country

but the earliest version I have seen was in the USA many years ago where someone was convicted of a scam where he had sent out loads of letter to people saying they had inherited etc etc etc

I even saw this myself. Many years ago - probably about 1980s - my Grandad got a letter from a "firm of solicitors" in London saying that they were a very old company and had been dealing with the execuation of the will of Catherine Parr - last wife of Henry 8th - since her death in xxxx and certain beneficiaries had never been traced.
However, the latest research suggested that my Grandfather, as the widower of my grandmother whose Maiden name was Parr, could be the missing beneficiary.
The amount couldn't be disclosed at this stage (!) but as it had been wisely invested since Catherine's death it was a sizeable sum.
etc etc etc


anyway - he asked my Dad (his Son) who said "no way" but he did mention it to me on the way home


so either this was the same thing or you lot should be referring to me as "My Lord"
I suggested this to my wife - she hasn;t responded as yet!!!

You're saying that the e-mail I got last month, saying this was just a scam?

I once followed one up, with George in Aberdeen, who was looking to pass his money onto someone for charitable purposes, after he'd died.

Managed to find out his address, from that match his name to a number actually in the phonebook and spin it out from there. Saying that as the funds would be coming from the US, my bank required extra money laundering to be done. Prove it was drug money, proceeds of crime or intended to fund any illegal activity in this country. And he offered to forward the required documentation, which never arrived. I phoned to be told that he'd died a few weeks previously. Mentioned the fact that we'd actually spoken since his death, he phoned me, and the phone went the same as he had, dead.

No further contact with him, and I was so close to getting the money as well.

 

[welsh dragon]

Question should have been how did the cat unlock the handset, not how did it actually manage to make the call.
Most have fingerprint "locks" along with various other "security" lockouts.

My brother left it unlocked and the cat sat on it. It could have been worse. The cat might have actually turned the camera on, them I would have been looking at its bum.

 

[Mike Ayling]

Question should have been how did the cat unlock the handset, not how did it actually manage to make the call.
Most have fingerprint "locks" along with various other "security" lockouts.

With Android you don't have to use fingerprint or facial recognition.
I just use a four digit code which any smart cat could manage.