CapeCodToday Blog Chowder

If you went down to Naimesh and Akku Patel’s 7-11 on Main Street and bought a scratch ticket that resulted in winnings of $1.8 million, that would be great, right?

What if, after scratching the ticket and expressing jubilation at your good fortune, you learned that there were strings attached to your windfall? What if those strings included inflicting pain and suffering on others?
That might change things.

By Jack Sheedy

Spoiler Alert: Being incidental text meant to flesh out a biography on 20th century writer Thomas J. McSheey, this blog entry is not even remotely amusing except for perhaps a slight witticism in the third-to-last paragraph, which by my mentioning may keep you reading. Thank you for your kind attention.

Thomas J. McSheey tried to live by certain rules. Well, perhaps “rules” is too strong a term. He lived by certain axioms … about life, about the ways of the world, and about himself.

By Greg O'Brien

William Shakespeare captured the essence of the late Sherill Smith of Orleans when he wrote in Hamlet, “He was a man. Take him for all in all. We shall not look upon his like again.”

Con Man Targets Guest Credit Card Information

We just want to drop a quick note to the numerous hotels on Cape Cod, regarding a scam that has been going on.

It seems that the new fraud engine is for the shyster to call the hotel, guess at a room number, finally get someone on the phone, and convince them that they are the front desk attendant. They then dangle the carrot of a computer error that denied the guest a discounted rate, which can be fixed if the guest would only be so kind as to provide their credit card information.