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   On Sun, 12/14/2025 7:21 AM, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > On 14/12/2025 9:48 pm, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >> On 2025/12/14 4:16:24, The Horny Goat wrote:   
   >>> On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:27:01 +1000, Daniel70   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>> This is my opinion only - based on fighting the Amazon/Google algorithms.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> They are, supposedly, money making entities ... so want to make money   
   >>>> out of YOU!!   
   >>>   
   >>> I'd be interested in knowing how Google guesses my age - I keep   
   >>> getting those ads for meeting younger women.....I don't THINK it's the   
   >>   
   >> Don't the _majority_ of at least unsolicited "meeting women" ad.s   
   >> mention "younger" women, since that's what most men (of all ages!) look   
   >> for, at least the sort who might respond to unsolicited ad.s? In that   
   >> such liaisons are going to be - let's not beat about the bush - looking   
   >> for sex, for which younger is preferred (on the whole)?   
   >   
   > Sex .... or Procreation??   
      
   Well, it used to be, a 1-900 number was involved and you could   
   talk to the women. Then, at the end of the month, there would be   
   a hugely expensive long distance call billed on the telephone bill.   
   And the telephone company would be careful to point out it   
   only supported the scams, it didn't invent the scam.   
      
   But the trend now, seems to be waiting from some gullible individual   
   to send emergency funds because "Petunia has fallen down the stairs   
   and needs money for the hospital bill". Or maybe Petunia needs   
   airfare to come see you. Seeing as you are in Aus, the amount   
   you would pony up would be sufficient for a plane flight there.   
      
   Apparently, some duffers lose a couple hundred thousand to this stuff.   
   It's not a trivial amount of stupidity involved here.   
      
   To use a fishing analogy, if you "knew there were whoppers to be reeled in",   
   wouldn't you pay for a ton of adverts ? Most of the sardines in the   
   audience, are too smart to be biting on that hook. And the thing is,   
   this sort of crap has been going on for so long, how could   
   anyone fall for it ? Yet, here we are.   
      
      Paul   
      
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