Trick Or Treat

Trick Or Treat

This last Halloween several area residents were dismayed when groups of uncostumed kids in their late teens came to their doors trick or treating for candy, a custom they assumed was reserved for younger children in their cute costumes. They turned the youth away empty handed and were very relieved to wake up the following morning to find that their house had not been TP’d or vandalized. About a week later however, some of them reported that their computers had been attacked by a virus that had a little jack-o-lantern icon that wiped out their hard drive. Another neighborhood discovered about a month later, after they had gotten their credit card statements, that all the neighbors that had turned the urchins away had suffered from identity theft and massive unauthorized charges on their credit cards.

©2008 Eric Stamets