Old scams never die

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I just got an email about Bill Gates and AOL wanting to send me money to forward emails to all of my friends. I haven’t seen that one in awhile, but what makes it especially noteworthy, is that it was sent by a salesperson for a company that I met at ITEC last month. A company that wants to sell me technology training.

Um yeah, thanks, but maybe you should spend some time training your sales people to not come across as helpless noobs before I trust you to do tech training with my users.

Just a suggestion…

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