Having both iPhone and iPad means there is
no escape from the internet. I tried to remove the one I don’t like but in the
end had to re-establish it because Apple preferred it that way. Apple simply
wouldn’t recognise anything else for identification of yours truly. So it
proved necessary to go back occasionally to see if there’s any rubbish to
dispose of.
I used the word rubbish without thinking,
but little did I know the truth of it.
On the last visit I found an email from Netflix
via iTunes confirming the purchase of a month’s worth of film viewing.
Apparently the subscription would expire after a month and I needed to renew
it. To do this I had to click the link!
I HAD NOT ORDERED SUCH A THING!
My brain being what it is these days I
panicked. Fortunately, I did nothing except contact Hannah (remember Hannah,
former cleaner, now mother of new baby) and ask if her husband could sort it
out. My panic was so great I couldn’t think straight.
The next day George and Hannah and Oooooh
new baby arrived. George took a look at the email and immediately declared it was
scam. He fed the email address into his own phone and came up with something
other than what my email purported it to be. It had seemed so authentic (see
picture, if it’s clear enough) but George declared it to be one big hoax.
I
don’t think I have ever trusted anything that comes into my email box and
certainly I will never trust anything again, but I can understand the many
newspaper reports on people – usually elderly - who have been taken in by such
things. My warning to others is DON’T EVER TRUST ANYTHING THAT APPEARS IN YOUR
EMAIL BOX.
I
will leave you now and set about changing all my passwords. Again!
