Perspectives

Dear Heloise: What you described in a recent column about an email scam happened to me three weeks ago. I made the mistake of believing what you described. The scammers did get access to my computer, and they scanned it. Aside from making my mortgage payment each month by phone call, I always do my banking in person. So, I was “told” that I had to withdraw $3,500 from the bank and deposit the money into a Bitcoin ATM machine that was located at a gas station in an unfriendly part of town.