Scammers

I’m so tired of scammers!

There are so many around!

For every situation,

A scammer is to be found.

 

There's the email message

From a "friend" stuck overseas

Whose money has been stolen

And who needs your help, please.

 

Have you received the phone call

Saying that you're in big trouble

With the I.R.S. and insisting

That you must pay on the double?

 

Computer hackers will take

Your PC hostage and say

That you'll lose ALL your computer

Data unless you pay.

 

What about being a winner

Of a contest? All you must do

Is forward them some money

And they'll send the "winnings" to you.

 

If you by chance get a call

From "Microsoft" or "Dell"

Saying your account's in danger,

Tell them to go to hell.

 

Scamming probably reaches

Far back into history.

The demise of the Neanderthals

Might not have been a mystery.

 

Did early Homo sapiens

With carefully planned persistence

Scam neanderthalensis

Out of its earthly existence?

 

If scammers had put their energy

In a positive direction,

We could say, "Three cheers

For natural selection!"

 

But, no, we're stuck with scammers--

A problem that clearly shows

That if we want to survive,

We've got to be on our toes.

(6-29-16)