While you wait for your Amazon delivery for the holidays, don’t fall for this scam
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
Posted Dec 17, 2020
Ed Marshall said he recognized a scam call from someone who claimed to be from Amazon. The caller tried to trick him into giving up his personal information. (Jerry McCrea | NJ Advance Media)
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Many shoppers rely on online shopping to buy gifts for the holidays, and it’s a popular option in the wake of the coronaviruspandemic.
But this convenient method to cross items off your shopping list could lead to all kinds of scams if you’re not careful.
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At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site.
Returning to the upward trend. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching, here, and I hate to see the upward rise, because I don’t think the peak is coming in the next days, or even weeks.
I thought I’d look at some big states (New York, Florida, Texas, California) instead of the Midwest:
The big states all moving more-or-less in tandem now, with California sprinting ahead; perhaps spread was nationalized with colleges and universities opening and closing? The correlation seems to happen around 63 days ago (October 1).