My EUBANKs Funeral Home Scam UPDATE!

***UPDATE*** 

After contacting the "Real" Eubanks Funeral Home, on January 15th. here is the response I received from them the following day. -

Re: Funeral Home Email-

Thank
you for helping get the word out about this SPAM.  We have had well
over 100 calls and dozens of emails today concerning this.  Again, thank
you for your help.

Brian Bass

Eubank Funeral Home

Haven of Memories

Phone: 903-567-4111

Fax: 903-567-6412

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 And I received this nice e-mail from someone who had read my post. I am removing Identifying information as there is no need to share it. Plus, I hadn't mentioned that I was posting this on my blog.

From: Amy S.
Sent: ‎January‎ ‎16‎, ‎2014 ‎9‎:‎06‎ ‎AM
To: me@panglossiancurmudgeon.com

Thank
you so much for posting and adding this scam to the internet.  I was
able to view the email without opening it then went to the internet to
see if I could
find anything out regarding a hoax.  It took me a while but I did find
you. 

Anyway, thanks again!!

Amy S.
~
Underwriting Assistant
~ ABC
~ 
GA & UT 
~
 888-XXX-XXXX

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My Response to Amy,

Hi Amy,

Thank You for the e-mail, as I usually don’t get them from things I post online.

I received this e-mail from these yahoos, and it just didn’t feel right. -

 

From: Eubank Funeral Home
Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎January‎ ‎15‎, ‎2014 ‎9‎:‎20‎ ‎AM
To: me@panglossiancurmudgeon.com

Eubank Funeral Home & Cremation Services
For this unprecedented event, we offer our deepest prayers of condolence and invite to you to be present at the celebration of your friends life service on Thursday, January 17, 2014 that will take place at Eubank Funeral Home at 11:00 a.m. Please find invitation and more detailed information about the farewell ceremony here. Best wishes and prayers, Funeral home receptionist, Arnav Bennett
Copyright 2014 Funeral Home Website Design By: Frazer Consultants LLC

I lost my mom on Dec 4, 2013 after her having complications from a stroke she had on November 13, 2013.

Up until 2 weeks ago, when I finally came back home to Wyoming, I’ve spent every minute in Florida, for the Wake, Funeral, and helping my dad out afterwards, as my mom handled all the financials, and he was really broken up. They would have had their 60th wedding anniversary on Sept. 18, 2014. 

I’ll be going back down there in 6 weeks for another month with dad, and we’ll play it by ear after that.

My dad doesn't want to come and live with me in Wyoming, and I know my siblings, or sibling will try and convince my 83 y.o. dad to move to NY near them. My dad wants none of that and he wants to stay in Florida for his the rest of his life, and be buried with my mom in Florida at the Sarasota National Cemetery. Plus, in a few years, my siblings have plans of moving down to Florida after they retire. So then my dad would have to move again? Family- sometimes they’re??? confusing… I don’t know?

I think it is pure evil for whomever thought it was a good idea to send out this type of e-mail. Someone needs to take these folks out behind the woodshed for a few minutes and straighten them out.

I mean really, who would do this to people? Just pure evil without a hint of a conscience.

Where do these evil people come from? I know we have really bad actors in our society, but this is the lowest of the low, and what, to spam about a some paper/plastic bags? Or maybe an in to get you to share personal information? Or have you download a Trojan virus? Know wonder they from out of the country,(USA) they figured we can’t touch them as they hurt fellow Americans! Now this is what our intelligence community should be working on, stopping this international organized crime.

FYI- I don't have a Target near me in Sheridan, and haven't shopped in one in years, so... just to let you know.

There are quite a few different iterations of the e-mail they had attached to the link. They used .nl domain which is the Netherlands, but they’ve also used .ca,(Canada) .ke,(Kenya) and eastern European countries. It’s an organized effort to screw with people and their money during an extremely emotional time in their lives. They probably scan all the obits and use them as their source of targets.

Take care you all and chat soon.

Best wishes always,

Bill

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That's it, hope no one got screwed by these yahoos. We have to work together to stop these dirtbags, and there should be harsher penalties for this kind of crime, so devious and evil it has no name, but just taking a moral low into the depths of hell! I'm a pacifist, but a 42" Louisville Slugger Just might straighten them out for a long time.

 

Good luck and good night, And be careful out there!

Otis G. Pike, maverick N.Y. congressman, dies at 92 - The Washington Post

My Favorite Congressman from Long Island, N.Y.- Otis G. Pike, maverick N.Y. congressman, dies at 92!

James K. W. Atherton/The Washington Post -
Mr. Pike pats the classified material on the 1973 Arab-Israeli
war that the White House turned over to the House Intelligence
Committee on September 10, 1975.

By Matt Schudel,

Published: January 20, 2014 

Otis G. Pike, a nine-term New York
congressman who was a persistent critic of Pentagon overspending and
led one of the first congressional investigations of abuses by U.S.
intelligence agencies, died Jan. 20 at a hospice in Vero Beach, Fla. He
was 92.


His daughter, Lois Pike Eyre, confirmed the death and said she did not yet know the cause.

Mr. Pike, who was elected to the House of Representatives in
1960, was regarded as an independent-minded maverick during his 18 years
in Congress. He was a Democrat elected from a Republican-leaning
district on Long Island, a Marine Corps veteran who was skeptical of
Vietnam War escalation, and a patrician, bow-tied lawyer with a wicked
sense of humor, which he used to ridicule wasteful spending.



In
1973, Mr. Pike was credited with single-handedly grounding a $14 million
program that awarded extra pay for flight duty to generals and admirals
who never piloted anything more aerodynamic than a desk at the
Pentagon.



Standing on the floor of the House with his arms outstretched like a plane in flight, Mr. Pike used mockery to plead his case.



“If
the in-basket is continually loaded on the starboard, or right-hand,
side of the desk, and the out-basket is continually empty on the port,
or left-hand, side of the desk,” said Mr. Pike, who flew 120 missions as
a Marine pilot in World War II, “wood fatigue sets in, the landing gear
tends to buckle and the whole fuselage crashes down on your feet.”



As the chamber echoed with laughter, the flight-pay policy was abolished.



Mr.
Pike had his most conspicuous moment in the public eye in 1975, after
revelations of the CIA’s “family jewels” — suspected involvement in
clandestine operations that may have included killings and coups
overseas and spying on U.S. citizens.



In July 1975, he became
chairman of a committee that was the House counterpart of a Senate
committee led by Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho). Both panels reviewed
activities of the CIA and other intelligence agencies, marking the first
time Congress had examined secret dealings and suspected abuses by the
CIA since the spy agency’s founding in 1947.



During the
often-testy hearings, Time magazine called Mr. Pike “the model of a
properly pugnacious public servant — sharp-tongued and not easily
intimidated.”



Mr. Pike challenged CIA Director William E. Colby
to accept greater oversight of the CIA’s budget — then, as now, a
secret, off-the-books appropriation. The CIA balked, saying the
country’s intelligence operations could be hurt by opening its books.



Mr.
Pike was alarmed by CIA excesses, including suspected involvement in
efforts to oust leaders in Chile and other countries. After Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger withheld certain documents and limited the
number of State Department officials who could testify, the Pike
Committee voted to hold him in contempt of Congress.



The contempt
went both ways, as Kissinger charged the committee with acting “in a
tendentious, misleading and totally irresponsible fashion.”



Among
other findings, the Pike Committee called for central congressional
oversight over intelligence operations, a prohibition of CIA-sponsored
killings and more transparency in the intelligence budget.

“It
took this investigation” into the CIA, Mr. Pike said in a 1976 New
Republic interview with Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, “to convince
me that I had always been told lies [and] to make me realize that I was
tired of being told lies.”



When Mr. Pike’s committee was scheduled
to release its full report in January 1976, the full House of
Representatives voted to keep it secret, citing national security
concerns. A copy of the 338-page report was obtained by Daniel Schorr of
CBS News and published by the Village Voice in New York.

Summoned
to appear before a House committee, Schorr steadfastly refused to name
the source of the leak and kept the secret until his death in 2010. Mr.
Pike was adamant in conversations with his family and others, his son
said, that he did not give the report to Schorr.



In the end,
because the document was never officially released, Mr. Pike’s
investigation was soon overshadowed by the Senate’s Church Committee,
some of whose recommendations were adopted in measures to rein in the
excesses of the CIA and other intelligence agencies.





Otis Grey
Pike was born Aug. 31, 1921, in Riverhead, N.Y., a town on the northern
shore of Long Island then known for its potato farms and fishing fleet.
He was an orphan by 6 and was raised by two older sisters and an aunt.



One of his sisters was a social worker during the Depression and told Mr. Pike about a local farm family.



“All
they had for Sunday dinner was boiled potatoes,” he recalled in a 1967
interview with the New Yorker magazine. “I was surprised that in a great
country like America such a thing could happen. All my family had
always been Republicans, but that kind of thing, and what Franklin
Roosevelt tried to do about it, turned me into a Democrat.”



Mr. Pike graduated from Princeton University in 1946 and from Columbia University law school in 1948.



He practiced law in his home town, was elected justice of the
peace and served on his town council. After losing his first
congressional bid in 1958, Mr. Pike defeated the Republican incumbent,
Stuyvesant Wainwright II, two years later. He went on to hold seats on
the Armed Services and Ways and Means committees.



Mr. Pike enjoyed
singing and playing the piano and ukulele. By the time he decided not
to seek reelection in 1978, he lamented to The Washington Post that
Congress was no longer much fun and had become dominated by “two kinds
of people — millionaires and Boy Scouts.”

 



After his congressional
career, he wrote a column on public affairs for Newsday and the Newhouse
News Service until 1999. He retired to Vero Beach.



His first wife, Doris Orth Pike, died in 1996 after 50 years of marriage. A son, Robert Pike, died in 2010.



Survivors
include his wife of 10 years, Barbe Bonjour Pike of Vero Beach; two
children from his first marriage, Lois Pike Eyre of Riverhead and
Douglas Pike of Paoli, Pa.; and two grandchildren.

While
speaking out against what he considered outlandish defense spending
during the Vietnam War, Mr. Pike cited the example of small metal rods
with a retail cost of 50 cents. The Pentagon, which bought them for
$25.55 apiece, described them as “precision shafting.”



“For once,” Mr. Pike declared on the House floor, “the American taxpayer got precisely what he paid for.”

52 Totally Feasible Ways To Organize Your Entire Home!

52 Totally Feasible Ways To Organize Your Entire Home!

Time to get your life together! 

These are the quick, cheap
tips that don’t entail remodeling or custom-building expensive furniture
pieces to gain precious storage space.  

 

Peggy Wang

























- BuzzFeed Staff

@IAM486 

 | Posted on August 22, 2012 at 1:26pm EDT

 

1. Use a Rail in Your Sink Cabinet for Cleaning Products

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Use a Magnetic Rack to Store Knives

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2. Use Tension Curtain Rods as a Divider for Cupboards

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3. Store Foil, Saran Wrap, and Wax Paper Rolls Inside of a Magazine Rack

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4. Use a Magazine Rack to Store Pot Lids

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Short curtain rods work, too.

5. Hang Pots and Pans on the Ceiling

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Pictured: a salvaged sled.

6. Attach Magnetic Spice Racks to the Side of Your Fridge

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7. Utilize Wall Space to Hang Utensils

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Here’s another example using a pegboard.

8. Use a Deep Kitchen Drawer to Store Utensils Vertically

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9. Supplement Your Fridge Storage

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You could also use these pull-out baskets to group things together, like fruits.

10. Keep Bulk Items in Stackable Bins/Drawers

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11. Attach Undershelves in a Cabinet to Take Advantage of Vertical Space

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12. Hang boots with pants hangers.

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13. Hang Shoes on the Wall Using Crown Molding

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14. Label Your Hangers

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A good idea if you have multiple items of similar-looking clothing.

15. Turn Your Hangers to Find Out What You Really Wear

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16. Use Divider Shelves to Store Sweaters

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17. Hang Belts and Ties on a Sliding Rack

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Amazon sells a chrome one for $9.99.

18. Hang Eyewear on a Hanger

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Or make a sweet little display with a sturdy ribbon and a headscarf.

19. Use Shower Curtain Hooks to Hang Handbags

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20. Use Command Hooks to Hang Jewelry on the Inside of a Closet Door

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Command hooks are sticky adhesive hooks that require no screws or nails.

21. Store Shoes with One Facing Forwards and the Other Facing Backwards

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You’ll use less space this way. This
works most efficiently when the forward toe is the right shoe and the
backward toe, the left.

22. Cut Up a Pool Noodle and Place in Boots to Keep Them Upright

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Keep your boots from falling over in your closet and taking up valuable floor space.

23. Store Matching Sheets Inside of Their Pillowcases

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24. Attach Tweezers to the Inside of a Bathroom Cabinet with a Magnet

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25. Use a Magnetic Rack to Store Hygiene Tools

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26. Store Your Hair Appliances with PVC Pipe Attached to the Inside of a Cabinet

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Or use a magazine rack.

27. Make Bathroom Wall Storage out of Mason Jars and Picture Hangers

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28. Use Glass Bottles to Store Bracelets and Ponytail Holders

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Or you could use a paper towel holder if you’re paranoid about glass falling and breaking.

29. Put All Your Makeup into One Magnetic Palette

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Palette is $29 from Unii.

30. Put a Shelf Over Your Bathroom Door for the Stuff You Don’t Need Regular Access To

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Cleaning supplies, extra towels, bulk items, etc.

31. Hang Baskets on Rails to Store Towels and Shower Supplies

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32. DIY Magnetic Makeup Board

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Get the directions here.

33. Make a Pressing Surface to Replace Your Ironing Board

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No more unruly ironing board! Get the instructions here.

34. Use a Shoe Organizer to Store Cleaning Supplies

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35. Put Washer and Dryer on a Shelf

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Take advantage of vertical storage by using the space BELOW the washer and dryer. You could also install drawers.

36. Hang a Ladder from the Ceiling for Air Drying Clothes

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Get the full directions here.

37. Use Cables to Store Balls

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38. Hang a Pegboard with Movable Hooks to Organize Kids’ Sports Gear

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39. Separate Nails, Screws, Batteries and Other Small Items in Jars

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Nail the lids to a bottom of a shelf and screw the jars in.

40. Store Bins on the Ceiling

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These tips also work for art supplies, toys, or tools.

41. Coffee Canisters to Store Yarn

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This crafter
cemented the cans together, and then reinforced them by taping strips
of cardboard to the back. The structure is then nailed to the wall.

42. Use the IKEA Grundtal System to Organize Crafts

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This IKEA series is normally reserved for kitchenware, but it looks modern and can store ribbons and jars for art supplies as well.

43. Display Supplies on a Pegboard

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44. Choose an Ottoman with Storage

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You can keep extra game controllers, remote controllers, and other random things in here.

45. Put Unsightly DVDs in Boxes

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A DVD is 8”x6” so choose a box with the right dimensions.

46. Label Your Cords

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47. Store Vinyl in a Bench or Window Seat

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48. Get a cable organizer.

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This one is $24.99 from Quirky.com.

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You could also hang a kitchen basket under a shelf or a desk.

49. Mark and Label Everything!

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Use chalkboard paint labels to mark reusable containers.

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You could also hang nametags on bins and baskets.

50. Cut Up Shoe Holders and Attach to the Inside of Cabinets for Extra Organization

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Not the most attractive solution, but it’s out of plain view. And you can label them with a sharpie or stickers.

51. Organize a Junk Drawer with Altoid Tins

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52. Repurpose!

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Reuse paint cans, tins, mason jars,
and plastic containers to store small things. There are so many creative
ways to repurpose them. Shown: paint cans covered in fabric.

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Spice tins as storage.

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Paint yogurt containers and use as office supply holders. You can also follow this tutorial on how to remove the print on plastic containers.

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Turn a globe into a display bowl.

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Repurpose a shutter into a magazine rack.