Hi Mr. Wayne (or may I call you Whiney),
I reminisced and smiled reading your article on unannounced friends dropping in. I must relate this tale which only occurred 2-3 weeks ago.
At 5.15pm on a weekday (dinner preparation is in full swing), and a knock at the door. I answer the door to someone I have never met, a 25-year-old-ish male complete stranger.
He ‘bold as brass’ says to me, “Hello Brad, how are you today?” as if he had a plate of lamingtons and was expecting a visitors’ beer.
 I shoot back: “How do you know my name?”
He starts to wave some A4 flyer in the air, so I much more forcefully say again: “HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME?”
He says, ‘That’s my job to know, I’m from Ray White Real Estate”.
After having my Optus account hacked the previous week, the steam is now spurting from my ears and no further communication occurred between us.
The look of absolute horror/shock/disbelief on his face as I closed the drawbridge front door on my castle was, as a very bad advertisement says – Priceless.
How dare I not wish to give a cold caller a lump sum percentage commission on the sale of my house, which by the way, is not for sale, because he knocks on the door and knows my name.
Without a doubt his information site also knows that our home was purchased over 20 years ago and now if he can get a foot in the door, there will be a huge easy profit in it for him.
To me it beggars belief how much personal information is freely or illegally available in this world today for the benefit of profiteers.
The younger generations need to be acutely aware of what information they freely giveaway on social media platforms, let alone what information can be illegally gained.
Keep up the great observations of the new world,
Cheers,
Brad.
