{"id":1515,"date":"2014-02-07T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/2014\/02\/07\/are-rich-people-trying-to-impersonate\/"},"modified":"2017-02-13T22:34:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T22:34:44","slug":"are-rich-people-trying-to-impersonate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/are-rich-people-trying-to-impersonate\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Rich People trying to Impersonate Me?! I Smell a Scam in East Hampton!"},"content":{"rendered":"
What can I say, it’s been busy in the Hamptons lately and this weekend will be no exception, even in the middle of WINTER! \u00a0 Yes, WINTER… the Winter Warlock is working overtime this weekend; there’s snow, the winter Olympics\u00a0<\/b>.. very little day light….<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Winter Winter Everywhere!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

and Sag Harbor hosts it’s Third Annual Harborfrost. \u00a0 \u00a0It’s relatively new tradition with fireworks, parties, art exhibits and the locals coming out of hiding to celebrate all things cold and frosty. \u00a0But if you really want to know what Harborfrost is really like, let me quote what a friend of mine calls it, “Spring training for St. Patrick’s day in Montauk.” \u00a0 Anyway, here is the schedule and web site for HarborFrost 2014! <\/a>\u00a0 Go have fun people and be safe! \u00a0Also, take heart, EH Village beach passes are now on sale! \u00a0Winter will soon be a thing of the past like “Beliebers.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, It’s been a weird couple of days. \u00a0 First, there was the angry man calling from “Microsoft” who wanted me to give him access to my computer, apparently there getting error message from my “windows computer.” \u00a0As he demands, \u00a0“Push the Microsoft Flag key and control,” I inquire who exactly he wants to speak to… I mean he has my computer registered in his files, right? \u00a0 \u00a0Once again he demands I listen to him but he still doesn’t know my name! \u00a0If you’re really interested, google it apparently it’s a common scam. \u00a0I actually find these scammers kind of fun to tease, I’m lonely!<\/p>\n

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Then I got an e mail from someone saying, “I hope you don’t mind me e mailing you at this address? \u00a0 I googled real estate, hamptons and Patrick and I found your business contacts. \u00a0 \u00a0Apparently the e mail we’ve been communicating on has been redacted!”<\/i> \u00a0REDACTED? \u00a0 I had to look that word up to find out it basically means deleted.<\/div>\n
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After I emailed saying, “refresh my memory, what were we talking about?” \u00a0 The nice gentleman figured out he had been had. \u00a0 \u00a0 Apparently some clown from god knows where took my photo<\/u> and my name and proceeded to list a summer rental on Air BNB for a home on Lily Pond Lane, East Hampton!!! \u00a0 Now call me wacky but do you really think anyone who has an oceanfront on Lily Pond lane is going to list on Air Bnb? \u00a0 \u00a0Is Jon Bon Jovi or Martha Stewart perhaps impersonating me on the<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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The Air BNB ad , I didn’t place!!!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Interwebs? \u00a0What, can’t they just send unwanted pizzas or ring the doorball and run away to the neighbors they don’t like?! \u00a0 I mean this is crazy!!! \u00a0Anyway, the nice people at Airbnb.com caught this before me and the ad was taken down. \u00a0 But how weird is this \u00a0 (See it below). \u00a0 \u00a0So buyer… or renter beware when you’re surfing online! \u00a0 \u00a0 This is almost as weird as when Amex asked me if I bought 10 cases of horse feed in Kentucky! \u00a0 Besides if you’re going to steal anyones identity… I mean really… you couldn’t pick someone more glamorous than me!?
\nAlso, don’t mind if I rub this in… DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME FOLKS USE A BROKER OR AGENT!<\/p>\n

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What can I say, it’s been busy in the Hamptons lately and this weekend will be no exception, even in the middle of WINTER! \u00a0 Yes, WINTER… the Winter Warlock is working overtime this weekend; there’s snow, the winter Olympics\u00a0.. very little day light…. Winter Winter Everywhere! and Sag Harbor hosts it’s Third Annual Harborfrost. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","generate_page_header":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1920,1670,1347,1358,1921,1482,1351,1922,1417,1923,1924],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-air-bnb","tag-beach-permits","tag-east-hampton","tag-hamptons","tag-olympics","tag-rental","tag-rentals","tag-scam","tag-summer-rental","tag-winter","tag-winterfrost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8pfeo-or","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}