So I got this in my email. Seems like something to pass on. Plus I got nothin’ else today kids. Nada. So, enjoy the following P.S.A. from dp.com…

JURY DUTY SCAM:

This has been verified by the FBI and Snopes (their links are included below).

Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book. It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call.  Most of us take that summons for jury duty seriously a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced.

The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you protest that you never received a summons for jury duty, the scammer asks you for your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she can verify the information and cancel the arrest warrant. Give out any of this information and bingo; your identity was just stolen.

The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states, including New York, Oklahoma, Florida, Illinois, Texas and Colorado. This (swindle) is particularly insidious because they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving information by pretending they are with the court system. The FBI and the Federal Court System have issued nationwide alerts on their web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.

Snopes site: says this is real fraud.
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp

FBI site: warns about the fraud.
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm

So there you go. Love you. Kisses. Mean it.

tagged: email fraud warning security jury p.s.a.

Enough said, right? It’s one of those work related things, as well as family stuff, so off to Member’s Only Land…

tagged: richard work blog day mom email bitchy loud family mess

False Idol via cheap blue guitar.

Could it really be? Was Sanjaya an art-school hoax, the brilliant creation of a fiendishly clever 25-year-old grad student at the Rhode Island School of Design?... Naaah.

tagged: links funny american idol fraud hoax sanjaya malakar

First podcast of ‘07!!! This is the one you’ve been waiting for! Daniel talks about work (again), the holidays (again), furniture, the house, and Richard. He tries to remember something, and fails. A rollicking ride! Death Becomes Her. Shirley Q. Liquor. Hollar!

rol-lick-ing  (RL-kng)
adj.
Carefree and high-spirited; boisterous: a rollicking celebration.

tagged: richard podcast music itunes shel retail hoor fraud furniture death becomes her

It’s my newest internet addiction! I am sure I am totally late on this one, but here goes. There’s this home schooled religious hot girl (lonelygirl15) who has a vlog on YouTube. It’s well done. I mean really well done. In fact there is speculation on whether it’s a fraud or a commercial or something! Apparently her BFF Daniel helps out with the editing, as well as maintaining his own vlog. There is a lot of cross vlog banter and drama. Really seems scripted… but maybe not… I just watched like 8 videos from the 2 of them. I am totally hooked. Be sure to delve into the comments. There are sometimes a lot (627?!) but heheh, fun stuff.

Lonelygirl15
Danielbeast
Lonelygirl15 on MySpace

more on lonelygirl15
the fansite

via Stereogum.

UPDATE: Lonelygirl15 on Business Week?

Lonleygirl15 is an actress? *sigh* I still want to see how it ends… another.

Apparently it ends on Jay Leno?

tagged: internets fraud addiction lonlygirl15