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TXTibbs

TXTibbs

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I'm here...just got busy with work and life and things unmentionable!

First I want to clear up some awful things that happened a couple weeks ago! My email and Face Book accounts were both hacked by some creep and they sent messages to all my friends, family and all contacts on my email list! A LOT OF PEOPLE!!! Anyway they sent messages to all of them saying that I was mugged and robbed in the United Kingdom and that I needed money to pay for my hotel, cab and to get home! TOTAL LIE...I've never been to the UK. I received calls from all over from people asking if I was ok and of course I am. Faster Horses I want to thank you again for your concern and also you Jersey!! TTB was also involved with the ranchers.net quest to make sure I was ok. Thank you all for your concern!! I had a nice visit today with Faster and was shocked to hear from her and to hear that Jersey had received the nasty letter saying I was in the UK and missing all my belongings. Face Book disabled my account quickly and stopped everything on their end, but my hotmail account which is through Microsoft Live was NO help what so ever and won't return any emails or contact! So irritated with them. Anyway...I'm safely at home and its all just in the past now I spose.

On another note, I did catch a rat in my attic and I haven't heard any up there for a long time so I'm hoping I got it! I also acquired a cat from a friend...yeah me with a cat....weird, but this is a weird cat and the thing spends 90% of its time either in my trees or on the roof! Soooooo, I'm hoping that maybe it will catch an nasty little critters that go on the roof and try to take over my attic!
 

Faster horses

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Welcome back, Tibbs. Yes, we were concerned, but you can't beat
3 women who are on the trail of something. :shock: We're happy
it turned out fine. Glad you are
okay and just irritated at the internet. So, CASE CLOSED! :wink:

And please, don't stay away so long...
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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It was so weird...there I was Saturday before last mornin...waitin on Lil Lilly to get horses ready and loaded so we could leave for a barrel race. I was killin time online and "you" popped up on my facebook chat thingy. Askin could I please send money. It went on and on. LOL "you were desperate" LOL I felt really bad in a way....but kept sayin to myself...this can't be real. First of all....you know I live out in the middle of no where. I myself don't even know where the nearest place is I could wire money if I took a notion to.....but "you" kept insisting that I could. Even when I told ya that I was broke. I'm thinkin to myself....yeah I can see this...walk into a western union office with a calf under each arm and tell em I wanna wire you some money in the UK. hahahahaha

Glad your home safe...and nothing bad has happened to you. There you were carryin on as usual with your "rat killin"

Dang I wish I would asked "you" that day how the rat situation was goin......I prolly coulda cleared it all up right then and there...but it didn't cross my mind. OR....I coulda asked about burnin britches......
 

Soapweed

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
It was so weird...there I was Saturday before last mornin...waitin on Lil Lilly to get horses ready and loaded so we could leave for a barrel race. I was killin time online and "you" popped up on my facebook chat thingy. Askin could I please send money. It went on and on. LOL "you were desperate" LOL I felt really bad in a way....but kept sayin to myself...this can't be real. First of all....you know I live out in the middle of no where. I myself don't even know where the nearest place is I could wire money if I took a notion to.....but "you" kept insisting that I could. Even when I told ya that I was broke. I'm thinkin to myself....yeah I can see this...walk into a western union office with a calf under each arm and tell em I wanna wire you some money in the UK. hahahahaha

Glad your home safe...and nothing bad has happened to you. There you were carryin on as usual with your "rat killin"

Dang I wish I would asked "you" that day how the rat situation was goin......I prolly coulda cleared it all up right then and there...but it didn't cross my mind. OR....I coulda asked about burnin britches......

Didn't the Statler Brothers have a song about "burning britches behind me"? :???: :wink: :)
 

TXTibbs

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
It was so weird...there I was Saturday before last mornin...waitin on Lil Lilly to get horses ready and loaded so we could leave for a barrel race. I was killin time online and "you" popped up on my facebook chat thingy. Askin could I please send money. It went on and on. LOL "you were desperate" LOL I felt really bad in a way....but kept sayin to myself...this can't be real. First of all....you know I live out in the middle of no where. I myself don't even know where the nearest place is I could wire money if I took a notion to.....but "you" kept insisting that I could. Even when I told ya that I was broke. I'm thinkin to myself....yeah I can see this...walk into a western union office with a calf under each arm and tell em I wanna wire you some money in the UK. hahahahaha

Glad your home safe...and nothing bad has happened to you. There you were carryin on as usual with your "rat killin"

Dang I wish I would asked "you" that day how the rat situation was goin......I prolly coulda cleared it all up right then and there...but it didn't cross my mind. OR....I coulda asked about burnin britches......

Yeah whoever the dirty "rat" bugger is who hacked me really stirred up a lot of people. My nephew had a conversation with him as did a couple of other of my friends....and they said the same thing...that he/she/it was very persistent and insisted that money could be wired very easily. Ha yeah Jersey I can just see you going in with calf scours on your pants in yur muddy boots to wire some cash. And why would I ask you for cash...I mean I would exhaust all my family first! It was just an awful deal and I'd like to find out who it was and just have a good ole fashion hanging! And worst of it all is that I can't remember half the people's emails on my list so there is no way I can email them back under my new one and let them know I's ok.
 

Faster horses

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TX Tibbs, had that person asked for money because your pickup was wrecked and your pants were on fire...now that story
would have been believable, to some of us anyway... :wink: :p :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

mrj

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That type of scam is getting all too common. And some of them are experts! We have an 80+ age friend who got a call from someone claiming to be his grandson, who was in trouble of some sort in Canada and needed money wired to a Walmart there. He talks to the grandson frequently and the caller sounded so much like the grandson as to be believeable. However, he smelled a rat, as the saying goes, and bought time with claims of having to cash some checks. He called the 20+ age grandsons' dad who said he knew the guy was not in Canada. When calling 'the perp' back to report on progress with the cash transaction, he finally told the guy the police were probably about to tap him on the shoulder because he had called the law (which I think was not factual, if I remember correctly) the phone went dead very fast!

Lesson: always be very wary. Maybe even have some sort of code word for family members to use if they ever truly are in trouble and need money or help.

mrj
 

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