Bank Of America Possible Scam Attempt

I'm not a Bank Of America customer, but I just got this email and it immediately raised some red flags in my eyes, thought I'd post it here just to alert any BOA customers. I've sent an email to them about it.


Here's the text:

it came from email address secure.mail@bofa.com


Dear Customer, laffineuse.

You are receiving this message, due to you protection, Our Online Technical Security Service Foreign IP Spy recently detected that your online account was recently logged on from am 65.141.117.67 without am International Access Code (I.A.C) and from an unregistered computer, which was not verified by the Our Online Service Department.

If you last logged in you online account on Thursday April 5th 2007, by the time 6:45 pm from an Foreign Ip their is no need for you to panic, but if you did log in your account on the above Date and Time, kindly take 2-3 minute of your online banking experince to verify and register your computer now to avoid identity theft, your protection is our future medal.

Verification Link

Notice: You can acess your account from a foreign IP or country by getting am (I.A.C) International Access Code, by contacting our local brances close to you.

Solstice Rituals

So, the solstice ritual that I mentioned yesterday...this is the post that I made elsewhere about it:


On my way to work this morning, I had an idea for a solstice ritual (two actually, to be performed sort of in tandem), and then it occurred to me that the reverse would make for an excellent winter solstice.

On the summer solstice, a ritual to Hyperion at sunrise, with Eos as the gatekeeper to celebrate the dawning of the longest day, and a ritual to Nyx at sunset, Asteria as the gatekeeper in honor of the coming darkness.

On the winter solstice at sunset, a ritual to Nyx again, to celebrate the falling of the longest night, and the next morning at dawn, a ritual to Hyperion to celebrate the returning light.

I've always felt much more in tune with the changing of the sun than with the changing of the earth. The Solstices and Equinoxes have had much more impact on me than the cross-quarter days (and the fact that I am not of Celtic leaning, coupled with the fact that I believe that festivals such as Beltane or Lughnassagh should be celebrated in honor of the gods for which they are named, otherwise a different name should be devised definitely makes for some extra distance between me and those particular festivals.)

I think that I will try to write up these rituals and perform them for myself this year and see how they go, and if it works well, possibly attempting to adapt for a group next year and see if anyone else wants to join me.

Weekend.

Mom and Mike are picking me up in Hunt Valley after work on Friday evening. I'm going to see the seamstress on Saturday morning, and probably order some dyeable shoes (the good thign about them is that many places will later dye them black for free.) and then on Saturday afternoon, the plan is that Chelle will take me over to York, and we'll meet Caryn and/or Will somewhere around where 30 and 83 cross, and I'll go to Highland Farms for the night. If for some reason I don't go to HF, Mom and Mike will bring me back to B'more sometime on Sunday.