Scam victim Brian Cotter thanks a computer consultant for scamming a scammer in today's Letters to the Editor. Photo/file
Scamming the scammers
With acknowledgement to the late Sir Edmund - We got the bastards!
Well, at least Eden Brackstone of Queenstown did (Otago Daily Times, January 18). Congratulations to him and full marks on scamming the scammer. Just yesterday I received another phone call from one of the residents in
our village thanking me for lifting the lid on the "Spark" scammers (News, November 20). She had just received a call from them and recalled my experience. I now say, on behalf of an enormous number of people, Thank you, Eden!
Brian Cotter
Mount Maunganui
Testing reflexes
A conspiritorist I am not. However, I cannot help but think that the recent Hawaiian nuclear warning was not an accident but a deliberate action to test the reflexes and attitudes of the civilian population and the efficiency of the civil defence.
That being the case, well done the button pusher.
Did he have a wink, wink from a higher authority or did he do it as the ultimate act of devilment? There will be an inquiry, and the findings will hang some poor, hourly- paid clerk and absolve the higher authority on some convoluted reasoning that no one can fathom and therefore no one can blame.
How would we, in any one of our regional electorates, fare in a similar situation? That is providing that the warning devices all worked and the Civil Defence top people were all awake, unlike a few years ago when the Hawaiian tsunami centre could not raise anyone.
Just wondering.
AD Kirby
Papamoa
