Here is an email that I received yesterday. Actually I received 2 identical emails with this information in my Hotmail account.
Do you think it is a true email and I should respond or do you think it is a scam.
Vote below and then in the comments leave WHY you think it is one or the other.
This is a pretty creative website. I would like for you to check it out! And yes.. it is all about poop. :)
Assignment: 1) Please fill out a Website Review Form on this site and 2) in the comments of this post, leave 3 skills you would need in order to create this site.
CASH BACK" you did not ask for.
THIS SCAM CAN BE DONE ANYWHERE, AT ANY RETAIL OR WHOLESALE LOCATION
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It happened at Wal-Mart (Supercenter Store #1279, 10411 N Freeway 45,
Houston, TX 77037 a month ago. I bought a bunch of stuff, over $150, & I
glanced at my receipt as the cashier was handing me the bags. I saw a
cash-back of $40. I told her I didn't request a cash back & to delete it.
She said I'd have to take the $40 because she couldn't delete it. I told her
to call a supervisor. Supervisor came & said I'd have to take it. I said NO!
Taking the $40 would be a cash advance against my Discover & I wasn't paying
interest on a cash advance!!!!! If they couldn't delete it then they would
have to delete the whole order. So the supervisor had the cashier delete the
whole order & re-scan everything! The second time I looked at the electronic
pad before I signed & a cash-back of $20 popped up. At that point I told the
cashier & she deleted it. The total came out right. The cashier agreed that
the electronic pad must be defective. Obviously the cashier knew the
electronic pad was defective because she NEVER offered me the $40 at the
beginning. Can you imagine how many people went through before me & at the
end of her shift how much money she pocketed?
Just to alert everyone. My co worker went to Milford, DE Wal-Mart last
week. She had her items rung up by the cashier. The cashier hurried her
along and didn't give her a receipt. She asked the cashier for a receipt and
the cashier was annoyed and gave it to her. My co worker didn't look at her
receipt until later that night. The receipt showed that she asked for $20
cash back. SHE DID NOT ASK FOR CASH BACK! My co-worker called Wal-Mart who
investigated but could not see the cashier pocket the money. She then called
her niece who works for the bank and her niece told her this. This is a new
scam going on. The cashier will key in that you asked for cash back and then
hand it to her friend who is the next person in line. Please, please, please
check your receipts right away when using credit or debit cards! This is NOT
limited to Wal-Mart, although they are the largest retailer so they have the
most incidents
I am adding to this. My husband and I were in Wal-Mart North Salisbury and
paying with credit card when my husband went to sign the credit card signer
he just happen to notice there was a $20 cash back added. He told the
cashier that he did not ask nor want cash back and she said this machine has
been messing up and she cancelled it. We really didn't think anything of it
until we read this email.
I wonder how many "seniors" have been, or will be, "stung" by this one????
To make matters worse ...
THIS SCAM CAN BE DONE ANYWHERE, AT ANY RETAIL OR WHOLESALE LOCATION!
You Decide -
Wonder what it is?
What is a wave? How does it work? What can we use it for? Why is it important?
Over the last several months, I have heard a lot of chatter among educators that I ‘talk’/tweet with about Google Wave. I finally got my Google Invitation! and passed along an invitation to the Web Design class. Make sure you have found that and accepted the invitation and signed up for Wave.
so… YOU are now a BETA tester. Remember what that is? Good, because you will need to know the answer to that later.
So.. now our journey begins together. Lets find out more about Google Wave. How can we use it? What could it be used for inside and outside of school. Would other students or teachers be interested in getting in on the Wave?
Start by watching the 2 videos below. They have some very valuable items to get started with this super cool new product.
Assignments:
1. Find one new video or webpage tutorial about how to do something in Wave and share that in the comments.
2. Start a new wave with me and your other classmates – first person to do this, post what the definition of a beta tester is for extra credit.
3. I would like everyone to add a gadget to the page and start learning about what some of the new and exciting options are for using Wave.
4. This one is important – list 2 ways you could use Wave in your life. (don't just think of school..think of everything you do)
Go ahead and get Waving!
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/10/12/google-docs-adds-folder-sharing/
Please read the link above and then come back here for your activity.
Did you read the link?
If so, email me with the author’s name :)
Then, go to Google Docs and Create a folder and share it with me. (hotmail account)
Comment about one way this would help you in any of your schoolwork or homework or life.
This goes along with the CourseCast for the week of September 21st. In the CourseCast, it introduces the federal governments new concept of cloud computing. The Apps store that the government owns has a great video on the homepage that talks more about what cloud computing has to offer. What it doesn’t do is tell us what the other side (negative aspects) of it are. Please watch the short video on the Apps.gov homepage. In the comments – discuss one advantage of this type of service. Then you need to go do some research. They don’t tell us any of the disadvantages or problems that may arise with this concept, but there are some places that you can find that out. Research cloud computing and leave an additional comment about what some of the drawbacks are and why we should be concerned. (Hint – in the transcript there are some articles that you could use, or search for cloud computing. Wikipedia has some info)
If education as we know it ceased to exist right now, what would your life look like? Think about it. What would today be? What would tomorrow be? Next year, 10 years? What would you be doing and how would you do it? So you thought about becoming a lawyer? How would you do that without college or high school?
I admit it.
It has taken a while to come to that conclusion.
Ok.. so maybe not.
But.. Here is what I discovered.
I can mess up my phone by trying to be too ‘techy’. I did that this summer and just decided rather than go through the hassle of trying to fix it, I bought a new one. I made a promise to myself that I would figure this one out even if it meant READING the directions. (Gasp.. READING? ug)
So.. here is what I have figured out. I finally have all my contacts back in my phone because I was bright enough over the summer to sync up my phone with my school’s outlook account and all my phone contacts imported into there. So NOW I have it working both directions. Phone to outlook, outlook to phone. Just wish I could get Hotmail contacts in there as well :S Anyone know how to do that?
My calendar, tasks, memos are also syncing properly – yeah! I can keep techno-organized.
I ALSO setup so that I can post directly to my blogs from my phone through emails AND can post my videos to YouTube from my phone. Before I was plugging my phone into the computer, moving the video files to my computer and then uploading them to YouTube. What a pain and time consuming.
So..in all of this, I was wondering what you figured out lately? Any new thing that technology had you baffled and now it doesn’t? Or any new timesaver or cool thing you found that you like? I love discovering how technology can help me in my life.
I have used a program called MS Onenote for quite a while now and love it. The only thing I wanted Microsoft to do for me was make it portable across the internet so I didn't have to always be AT my one computer to find the stuff I wanted. I have different stuff on my computer at home and my computer at work. I needed stuff back and forth all the time.
So...one day I decided to type into Bing "Onenote online" and here is what I happened...
I knew that I didn't want to go to Microsoft's page. I already know that OneNote isn't online. So I looked at the next result and came across a familiar title. This is a web blog that I read sometimes, so I went to it. I read a little about what he was wanting also and agreed.. yup. That is exactly what I was looking for too.
I saw there there were comments on the post, so I clicked on those to see what other people had to say on the subject
Then the last post described a product that I thought sounded just like what I was looking for. I clicked on the link and found Evernote.
I looked around their website and read about some of the features.
I decided to download and install it for a trial.
So.. I would like you to look around and see what you think of the product and how you think it would fit in your life.
Answer in the comments 2 questions.
1 – What feature do you like about this program?
2 – Give one example of how you would use this in your day to day life.