{"id":16889,"date":"2010-03-11T06:36:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T13:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=16889"},"modified":"2010-03-11T06:36:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T13:36:05","slug":"oh-boy-i-hope-i-get-whats-coming-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/11\/oh-boy-i-hope-i-get-whats-coming-to-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Oh, boy!  I hope I get what&#8217;s coming to me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Spam, spam, spam, spam ...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/spam.jpg\" alt=\"spam\" width=\"104\" height=\"104\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Look! In my email!\u00a0 I get a &#8220;PayPal Refund&#8221;!\u00a0 Yippee!  I haven&#8217;t bought anything with PayPal for a while, but why look a gift horse in the mouth?<\/p>\n<p>The message doesn&#8217;t go into much detail.\u00a0 It just says &#8220;PayPal Authorized Refund,&#8221; with efficiently terse instructions to &#8220;Please download and complete form.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then, I guess, I&#8217;ll just have to send it back to &#8220;paypai.com&#8221; (a simple typo on their part, I&#8217;m sure).<\/p>\n<p>I just can&#8217;t wait to download this mysterious HTML file and see what it gets me!<\/p>\n<p><small>[Kids &#8212; and adults &#8212; don&#8217;t try this at home.  Really.]<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look! In my email!\u00a0 I get a &#8220;PayPal Refund&#8221;!\u00a0 Yippee! I haven&#8217;t bought anything with PayPal for a while, but why look a gift horse in the mouth? The message doesn&#8217;t go into much detail.\u00a0 It just says &#8220;PayPal Authorized Refund,&#8221; with efficiently terse instructions to &#8220;Please download and complete form.&#8221; Then, I guess, I&#8217;ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/11\/oh-boy-i-hope-i-get-whats-coming-to-me.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oh, boy!  I hope I get what&#8217;s coming to me!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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}},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130367,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/05\/prejudice-has-consequences.html","url_meta":{"origin":16889,"position":0},"title":"Prejudice has consequences","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Apr-16 9:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Bravo to PayPal. They're not the only one who's announced similar plans, but this is just the sort of \"businesses will choose to go where they feel is to their advantage\" thang that Republicans are usually so happy to support when it comes to tax rates and union rules and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25352,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/if-you-pay-income-tax-from-robbing-a-bank-do-you-get-a-refund-if-you-got-caught.html","url_meta":{"origin":16889,"position":1},"title":"If you pay income tax from robbing a bank, do you get a refund if you got caught&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Jan-12 5:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If you pay income tax from robbing a bank, do you get a refund if you got caught and lose the money?That's essentially what Joseph Nacchio -- not a popular guy in Denver -- is asserting. 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