I guess it all boils down to how much paranoia one has in his soul. One
must protect oneself from fraud and mishaps. Anytime you have your money
anywhere out of your immediate reach, things can happen. If all your
money is in a bank, something weird could happen - something totally off
the wall - and it could lock up your money for weeks and weeks. I once
transferred $25,000 from two construction accounts with a bank. The bank
officer I was dealing with has his secretary write out two checks for
$12500 each, and send them over to the appropriate desk for deposit. I
went home, paid my sub-contractors, and late that afternoon right at
closing time I started getting a bunch of irate phone calls. My checks
were no good. it was too late that day to cheek it out, so I had to live
with a bunch of hostile sub-contractors until I could get to the bank.
Sure enough, only $12500 had been deposited, and no one in the bank
could find the other check. A massive "in-house" search began. The
missing check was finally found. Both checks had been put on top of
another secretary' s in basket, only to have one slip over the back and
slide down the back of the desk and hang in a little piece of trim on
the back of the desk. The desk was against the wall, and the check
didn't fall to the floor. It stuck up where no one could see it. Anyway,
the check was found, the deposit made, and the contractors got paid and
the banks sent letters out to everyone and all was well. But weird stuff
happens, and in my experience it will happen exactly at the moment, and
in a area, where you are the most vulnerable at any given time. So for
the greatest security, remember that things happen. Cut a hole in your
concrete slab floor in your basement, dig a pit underneath, drop a 1/2
in thick steel box into the hold, put all your money in the box, closed
the steel door, put insulation over the top of the door, put the
concrete plug cut from the floor over the hole. then cover with carpet.
If the government goes broke, or your house burns, your money will be safe.

Yeah, I'm paranoid!

S**t Happens!

Regards,

John Rodgers

JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:

>i just recieved another email from "paypal"..    these scam emails are
>realistic, this particular one actually used my full name...   i forwarded it to
>spoof@paypal.com, they do nothing about it...just send a form automated letter
>reply..saying its a spoof...who know is anyone actually there looked at it or
>not.    the tricky thing is that it looks so real, there is no way to tell if
>its real or fake..copy and pasting the link provided sent me to a official
>looking "paypal" page with official looking paypal graphics..where they were
>requesting my password, etc...   even the links on the page took you to actual
>paypal links..  it was so well done that its hard to distinguish real from fake..
>this is another reason i dont use paypal..
>
>chris
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