Monday wasn't a terrific day. I'd give it a oh, C-. I was looking forward to a better day today. Read on to find out about how I woke up...
As usual, DJ3 came in to wake me up. Nothing was bad about that. Even the time. 6:21 these days is fine.
It all started when I checked my email. Usually, first thing in the morning, this is a boring task. But not today. No, my friend Art wasn't mugged in Spain needing me to wire him money. This is great. Because if that happened to him AGAIN, I would have been even more annoyed.
Instead, I found out that at some point when I was asleep, ok, 12:12 a.m. to be exact, someone was pretending to be me. iTunes told me all about it in my receipt. I decided it was a phishing email after I woke up a little bit. I did the absolute worst thing. I clicked on a link. Then, I had no idea what to do about that stupidity. So I shut down my browser. And yelled for my husband. Since he is so smart, he was able to figure out I was NOT actually stupid. It wasn't a phishing email as far as he could tell, but a real, legitimate receipt from iTunes. He said if it was a phish, it was the best he'd ever seen.
After much browsing, I found out how to contact iTunes about this and let them know that "I," the real "me," did not order a $40 giftcard for kg. Now, the weird part was that whoever did order it did not use my credit card information. Just my name and email address. I have no idea how the person knew my password. Or not? A customer service representative helped me out on his end.
So we had a major school delay. Late start, they call it here. Not because of snow. But because of greed. I'm glad I don't have to report that to anyone official!
Anyway, this made me come up with a new password for at the very least, iTunes. I hate coming up with passwords. It makes me feel like I am married to it or disloyal to my up until then, perfectly good one. I don't like doing this. Never have, never will.
I wanted it to be ihatescammers or youstinkformakingmemakeupanewpassword or password or dontstealmythings or youareintrouble or onedayyouwillbepunished. And I can't tell you what it is, because then I'd have to, well, at this point, kill you.
I then decided that whoever knew (or now I think didn't have to know) my previous password might be smart and try it elsewhere. Why limit the fun to giftcards for kg at iTunes? So I changed it most places I visit online related to that email address...including that email address! I'm still thinking about chucking that email address for good and starting all over.
Finally, at 9:45, we had our morning meeting. As I was telling my children about what happened, the Holy Spirit told me to forgive this person or people and get on with my day. I didn't want to. I wanted to just be mad and rant and rave about it for a few hours. When I told my children that I was commanded to forgive, they were hesitant. "MOM, they stole from you!"
At our prayer time, I not only had already in my heart forgiven this person or people, but I also asked the Lord to forgive them and save them from their sins. After I said, "Amen," I laughed and said, "I just kicked Satan in the butt." That got their attention, all right!
I obeyed the Lord. I made Satan mad.
And the day improved.
As usual, DJ3 came in to wake me up. Nothing was bad about that. Even the time. 6:21 these days is fine.
It all started when I checked my email. Usually, first thing in the morning, this is a boring task. But not today. No, my friend Art wasn't mugged in Spain needing me to wire him money. This is great. Because if that happened to him AGAIN, I would have been even more annoyed.
Instead, I found out that at some point when I was asleep, ok, 12:12 a.m. to be exact, someone was pretending to be me. iTunes told me all about it in my receipt. I decided it was a phishing email after I woke up a little bit. I did the absolute worst thing. I clicked on a link. Then, I had no idea what to do about that stupidity. So I shut down my browser. And yelled for my husband. Since he is so smart, he was able to figure out I was NOT actually stupid. It wasn't a phishing email as far as he could tell, but a real, legitimate receipt from iTunes. He said if it was a phish, it was the best he'd ever seen.
After much browsing, I found out how to contact iTunes about this and let them know that "I," the real "me," did not order a $40 giftcard for kg. Now, the weird part was that whoever did order it did not use my credit card information. Just my name and email address. I have no idea how the person knew my password. Or not? A customer service representative helped me out on his end.
So we had a major school delay. Late start, they call it here. Not because of snow. But because of greed. I'm glad I don't have to report that to anyone official!
Anyway, this made me come up with a new password for at the very least, iTunes. I hate coming up with passwords. It makes me feel like I am married to it or disloyal to my up until then, perfectly good one. I don't like doing this. Never have, never will.
I wanted it to be ihatescammers or youstinkformakingmemakeupanewpassword or password or dontstealmythings or youareintrouble or onedayyouwillbepunished. And I can't tell you what it is, because then I'd have to, well, at this point, kill you.
I then decided that whoever knew (or now I think didn't have to know) my previous password might be smart and try it elsewhere. Why limit the fun to giftcards for kg at iTunes? So I changed it most places I visit online related to that email address...including that email address! I'm still thinking about chucking that email address for good and starting all over.
Finally, at 9:45, we had our morning meeting. As I was telling my children about what happened, the Holy Spirit told me to forgive this person or people and get on with my day. I didn't want to. I wanted to just be mad and rant and rave about it for a few hours. When I told my children that I was commanded to forgive, they were hesitant. "MOM, they stole from you!"
At our prayer time, I not only had already in my heart forgiven this person or people, but I also asked the Lord to forgive them and save them from their sins. After I said, "Amen," I laughed and said, "I just kicked Satan in the butt." That got their attention, all right!
I obeyed the Lord. I made Satan mad.
And the day improved.
I seriously HATE coming up with new passwords, too. Apparently I'm not creative enough, as I always get the message that my choices are "weak" - even with words and numbers and using random caps. I'm sorry your day got off to a rocky start, but I'm glad you kicked that old devil's you-know-what! By the way, have you ever heard the saying, "I want to be such a person that when I get out of bed in the morning the devils says, 'Oh cr**! She's up!'" :)
ReplyDeleteI love this post! Hackers are a blight on society. But then, just to go and forgive him, that's big. It shows you are not like them. Now I hope that someone kicks his/her butt for you.
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