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Gone Phishing
“I’m a con artist in that I am an actor, making people
believe something is real whey they know perfectly
well it is not.”--John Lithgow
God help us gather the energy to gird our loins
against the fricking & fracking hordes of phishermen.
My own friends were fueled with compassionate fear
receiving an email reporting that I had been robbed
in Spain, was now stranded and sorry, but
I was begging for a 1000 bucks to bolster
my meager abilities to ever get out of damned Madrid,
to arrive home, both happier and spouting homilies.
All claims were callously bogus, of course, but
it did give hackers heinous access to my honied
laundry list of friends and lingering contacts, and
yes, it took a lot of time to reduce the torment,
to untangle the terrible tumult,
to reclaim a replica of control, my rights
if not to privacy, then perhaps just to mock-pastoral
cyber-freedom; so hey, be afraid of phishing scams.
Glenn Buttkus
July 2013
Posted over at dVerse Poets FFA
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7 comments:
ah it is scary when people get access to your private stuff... a friend of mine's pay pal account got hacked and someone bought stuff with her credit card...she got everything back really quickly but it's scary nonetheless..
yay! he's back...ha...i remember getting this email from you a while back...glad you made it out smiles...hackers suck...nothing better to do than their time, i hope karma catches up...nicely done on the allit...
first line, should it be to gird our loins?
Love to have you back Glenn.. And the topic of your poem is for sure scary. Wonder when I see some strange poems on my site next time. Love your writing here sir.
Definitely 3 strong allits in each line, although I wasn't finding the fourth beat. This form is way harder than I thought ... smiles
Your subject is scary. Of course, we all know that there are thousands of Nigerians (people of other nationalities are guilty too) who have billionaire uncles who just died and who are suffering a teensy tiny credit problem just now - or could use a bank account to pass their inheritance through.
No Way! You mean to say there aren't? Smiles
Great take, I love things that come from a new direction like this does.
Ah, man... sorry this happened, but beautiful penned verse!
I heard of this scam before. Man, they sent it from you? How crazy. Well written.
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