Scam warning

So last night, out of the blue, I get an email from, well, somebody who hates me with the white hot fury of a thousand suns, offering me a real cool deal on a freebie movie ticket from something called Homerun.com.

Now, according to the serpent/dove principle, I hoped that this particular reader had been miraculously transformed by divine charity and was offering me an olive branch for the beginning of Lent. But it also occurred to me that my mother always taught me since I was knee high to a grasshopper way back in 1962 never to click on email links when you don’t trust the person sending it (and even when you do, should the email sound strangely generic and in a voice not typically used by your bosom buddy). So instead of clicking the link and harvesting my cool free movie ticket, I nosed around on Google and found this.

Sadly, I think the whole “This guy’s address book was hacked by evil Homerun.com” is a much more likely explanation for his sudden and inexplicable largesse. If some friend or total stranger sends you a wonderful movie ticket offer from evil Homerun.com, delete it, write the person who “sent” it, and let them know that Homerun.com has hacked their address book.