A Canadian woman who works for IBM has been on a medical sick leave for a year now, due to her clinical major depression. She hasn’t worked in a year, and is still getting a benefits check from the company’s insurance while on her leave. I didn’t even know you could be on sick leave from a job for a year, unless you were in a coma or something. So, while on her sick leave at home trying to get better, the woman frequents her Facebook account in her spare time. Frequents it by doing random applications and, of course, posting pictures of herself. On vacation. At a bar. Or at her birthday party. And an agent from the insurance company decided that she wanted to check these pictures out. The woman decided that she found evidence that suggested the woman was not depressed, and that they are going to deny her claims for insurance benefit checks from now on. The woman is claiming that her doctor is telling her that she needs to go out and have fun with her friends to try and get over the depression, but the insurance company isn’t buying it. They cancelled her benefits, and now she is working with a lawyer to try to get them back. This is a sensitive subject, and I can see both sides. If she’s depressed, she should be trying to get over it with friends. But, I can understand why the insurance company would feel like they were getting taken advantage of after seeing the pictures of the woman vacationing and partying with the free money she was getting from them. It’s impossible to say either way who is right, personally, so I hope they just get this figured out as best as they can for all involved.

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From working as a Relay Operator for the Deaf, I have become really good at detecting internet fraud. And I bet that sentence doesn’t make any sense to those of you out there that don’t know what Sprint IP is. These fraud jerks would get on the relay website to make phone calls from out of the country to America, and act like they were going to buy items from people. They would say they didn’t have a real phone, they were on vacation, blah blah blah, and that they would send the person the money in a check and sometimes included extra money to cover the inconvenience of the transaction. Well, the money wasn’t theirs, the people were fraud and stealing the stuff, and they were using other peoples bank account numbers to make the people with the items think it was all legit and done. Then, whose ever bank account it was would see what happened and get all the money refunded or what ever they do, and everyone would get screwed over but the fraud ass hole because he’d already have the product. They always called into UPS to try and change the receiving address of packages to where they were, they called innocent craigslist personal ads and begged the people for money in promise that they would date and come visit in America, just all kinds of awful disgusting things. There really wasn’t anything we could do but write down their IP addresses and turn them in, but by then it was usually too late to stop. Be careful of dealing with ANYTHING online, always watch yourself and try to get all the information you can before doing any kind of business!

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I went to Texas Tech and got my bachelors degree in Psychology, but in the last year I was there I decided that I wanted to do court reporting. I knew that I needed to get my certification to do it, and that I had to pass a series of tests to prove that I was able to type 225 words per minute. They don’t offer the school anywhere around here, and I found an online program through Dallas that I could do until I actually moved down there. Well, it turned out to all be a lie, the woman I had been talking to told me that I needed to get an associates degree to practice in Texas, and I did some research and found out she was lying. She was just trying to get me to go to her school cause she got some kind of commission on admissions, and she didn’t even care to help me out personally she just wanted to make money herself. When I found out, I sent her an email and asked her why she lied to me, and I got a copy and pasted response back from her from their hand book that I guess I was supposed to read to know she was lying to me on my own. She used to call me three or four times a day and send me countless emails, and after that I never heard from her again. Be care who you deal with online, because sometimes those people are just out to help themselves.

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