Only just over a week ago now I was sitting in a hotel on the Gold Coast as a 10%’er of the thorns amongst the roses at the annual Problogger Event run by Darren Rowse and his team looking through the event schedule, palms sweating, anxious and nervous.

The “Thorn amongst the roses” refers to the amount of the male species that were present for the event.

I have only been writing for a few years but at the beginning, through chance, I have been following stalking Darren and a few others in his team online for a while and using the Problogger site for knowledge and cross checks, so the Problogger Event was the next logical step for me, a kind of commitment to the craft you could say.

So I booked, booked the accommodation and packed up the family and headed to the Gold Coast for a weekend of learning and it didn’t disappoint.

Problogger Event was held at the QT Hotel on the Gold Coast QLD

Tonight at about 6.29 pm the phone rang, of course it was a mad dash to see who could get there first between me and the daughter, I won and my prize was….

Listening to an automated solar rebate scam phone call telling me they were from the Queensland Government and that they could give me money back on solar through a solar rebate.

Hmmmm, interesting I thought, the lady computer voice on the phone was pretty formal in giving me this great message so it has to be real and true doesn’t it?

Solar Rebate Phone Scam

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