Shocking but not Surprising. Our landlord was victimized by this kind of scam. To find it has moved on line is taking it up a lot of steps to the worse. Mom prefers to use checks/cash because. I use my debit card or checks/cash. We have found that no method is really safe. There are always bastards out there hoping to take advantage.
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Skimming various news sites I found this Al Jazeera story which asks if Israel's dependence on high tech gadgetry helped cause the intelligence failure on October 7. And evidently that reliance on AI and so-called smart technologies is also failing in the Gaza offensive--it isn't as precise or selective as advertised.
Al Jazeera also has a long article about how Brexit affected people individually. Under Brexit people from most European countries could easily travel, live and work in most other European countries without passports and visas. They had gotten used to that until the unthinkable happened and the U.K. vote to leave the European Union. A lot of people lost not only the freedom to move, live and work easily throughout Europe but a sense of security.
I am so glad that the Medicare Advantage sign up period is over for this year. I so wanted to slap Martha and Karen. Mom has an advantage plan associated with Anthem but during this period was pestered with phone calls almost daily and actually changed providers at least four times because she couldn't get the "licensed insurance representative" to tell her who they represented. She did finally get it straightened out for her preferred provider. We haven't needed to tap it yet so what they will pay and how quickly is still a question. This article on Naked Capitalism provides me another reason to stay out. Some hospitals are now refusing to accept certain Medicare Advantage plans and the customer/patient probably won't know until they are billed for services.
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