AND ANOTHER THING (AS SOMEONE ONCE SAID)

Discombobulated, disconcerted and discomposed is all one can feel about what is going on in the world at present. The concepts of integrity, honesty, reputability and care have been replaced by flimsiness, puniness, duplicity and deceit. It would seem that any tribulation or adversity gives rise, not to resolving problems, but how to circumvent the difficulties by fraud and dissimulation. To gain ascendancy and pecuniary advantage is the name of the game. How it is obtained is of no consequence whatever. The trickster and the bully are on the up.

Yes, it is depressing. I do not mean to harp on about scams, but at every turn of events a fresh scam pops up. Today I received and email from a company called E-ON with a customer number informing me that their records show I was over charged by £85 and I could claim a refund by click here.  How do people fall for this? If I was a customer, would I not see the customer number was invention or just wrong. If I was overcharged £85 wouldn’t the company just refund my direct debit or standing order or just send a cheque in the post with a letter of apology. In any event why would I, never having been a customer of E-ON, let alone heard of them, believe I was overcharged as I have never paid them anything to begin with. The crassness of the scam is extraordinary. Why would anyone fall for it and part with information revealing bank details by clicking here?

Higher electricity charges are in the news, and so any chance to get back money from an electricity supplier must be attractive; hence the scam. Does a blanket sending out of emails actually produce results? Apparently E.ON is the largest supplier of energy in the UK and I suppose a mass send is bound to hit some E.ON customers who would be delighted to receive a refund on their bill. Excited by the prospect they blindly click here and probably lose a lot of money or compromise their bank account. Will their bank or E.ON compensate them for the loss? That is doubtful.

I have since searched for eon scam and was directed to this page:

It is a relatively new scam prompted by the increase in energy prices and inflation generally. Why is it so prevalent? Why do the levels of dishonesty seem to be on such an astronomical rise? Does the fact of the internet make it easier? Do the complexities of life create more dishonest endeavour rather than honest engagement with living decently? It would seem that the energy put in to creating the scam and the associated computer skills could just as easily, and probably more effectively, be applied to some form of honest enterprise. Are the rewards derived from crime greater, and achieved more quickly, than through honest labour? I wonder.

Is the cost of living so hard to achieve, and so dispiriting, that in order to survive a person loses all notions of respect and rectitude, and stoops to anything to obtain a crust?  Is sweeping every decent human emotion aside and resorting to meanness and harmful viciousness the only way to a brighter future?

I am not looking back to suggest that the times gone by were much simpler and better. Not at all. I believe it starts at the top and by example. The hypocrisy, incompetence and outright mendacity of the present government, with its members who defile every ministerial code of conduct, is a blueprint for anyone seeking to rise in this country at the moment. Rules clearly do not seem to matter and any teacher, preacher, parent or guardian who says otherwise is a fool. Just look a Boris Johnson and his cabinet, they’re an example to us all.

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered ? Here’s a little ditty to cheer you up, A very classy rendition by a very classy lady who had more integrity in one strand of her hair that the whole of the current cabinet.