She was a huge Hanson fan and frequently went to their website to send them fan mail.
Unsurprisingly, she never got anything back beyond the automated "message received" garbage.
One day, I found a random email spoofing tool and sent her an email from one of the Hanson boys.
Also unsurprisingly: it didn't take anything more than coming from the @hansonline.net domain to make her believe it was authentic.
To this day, I'm unsure if she ever figured it out.
...Or if she just forgot and/or got over it.
Well, she definitely at least got over it, since I don't think she's into Hanson anymore.
That being said.
I have trust issues.
Because I know there's people out there like me that do things like what I did.
Mind you, I've not done anything like that in at least 25 years, so...
I'm a changed/better guy in that respect.
But again: because I know people like me (past and present versions) exist, I know that things can't be taken at face value.
I bring that up as my current USAJobs application pool has breached 40 applications.
My main two concerns are:
Both of those seem like they're real possibilities.
And both of those make me sad.
Still holding out to hope that one of these jobs actually works out.
...And I just got an email from one of the jobs saying they'd like to continue with the process.
Urk.