Not the floating Buicks that my elderly aunt and uncle drove in the 1980s.

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This was doubly humiliating, not just for me but also for my parents, because Uncle Simon's wife, Marie, had pulled strings to get me into prestigious Congregation Shearith Israel, the majestic Spanish and Portuguese synagogue at 70th Street and Central Park West.

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My Uncle was mildly embarrassed by the entire episode, but should not be, because the techniques used to propagate these scams have become so advanced that the educated and computer savvy among us are not immune.

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