As a follow-up to my recent advice to get some computer skills and get on the web, I thought it wise to let you all in on the following: I have won the lottery! Now you won’t see me on The Big Spin show or anything like that because I didn’t win the California lottery. It’s the Irish Lottery! And I didn’t only win once, I won twice! Oddly the same fellow, A Mr. Anthony Chagnot has notified me of both prizes without noting the other. If I email him my contact information, he can wire the money directly to my account! Funny, I don’t remember buying a ticket. And Ireland doesn’t have a lottery. I also get weekly offers to get me my inheritance from family I didn’t have. Also I could help a guy in a Nigerian bank get some money out of the country. One more scam is to send a real looking note to confirm your password, by a bank or other financial institution. This is called phishing. They get your email address somewhere. Mine is published in a newspaper every week. They send this nonsense to a thousand internet users and if just one or two bites, they have a phish on the line! With a few promises of wealth they get the number to an account and authorization to drain it every month when a pension check comes in by direct deposit. Sometimes I ask the phisher to send me proof of his good intentions. I want a photo in front of the bank where he works. Sometimes I ask him to wear a distinctive garment, so I know it’s him. A pink dress is my favorite. I like the idea of some fat guy in Bakersfield trying to figure out if he really should get a picture of the Bahrain Bank of UK with a guy in a pink dress out in front of the building. I never hear back from them. All in all, be careful, even in virtual reality, there are crooks everywhere.