Scam warning. This scam is a universal scam which has done the rounds in Canada, the U.S. And Britain and now popping up in Australia and no doubt other countries. The email message purports to be from the Australian Tax Office and tells of tax refund of $773.80 and all one has to do to get the cash is to fill out the genuine looking PDF claim form giving all your bank details and send it to a (false) email address. In all these scam documents there are inevitably a couple of tell-tale spelling mistakes. One in this email message is the spelling of 'Governament'. Snopes is your friend for scams etc. See Snopes here for details about this tax scam in the U.S., and here for a warning from ScamNet in Western Australia about the Aus Tax Scam.
This morning I drove to the local Ford dealership where Helen was delivering her car for a service. When I collected her we went to a newish small supermarket closeby. When we did a small shop we fronted up to the checkout where a woman was using a calculator instead of the checkout register. She explained that overnight thieves had come in through the roof and cut wires thinking that they had disabled the security system and all they disabled were the checkouts. In any case they had lowered themselves into a locked room and had to climb back up and out. The checkout gal was having quite a time of it with a young lad dashing to check the shelf price of purchases per kilo; her using a calculator to price the amount purchased, totalling the purchases up and then doing a subtraction from the amount tendered to calculate the change. The days of counting back are long gone.
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Still laughing over how dumb those thieves were, poor check out girl would of had a long day.
Helen and her husband look happy the salad looks delicious.
......:-)Hugs
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