Cior used H&R Block’s online service on April 9th to do her taxes and everything went just hunky-dory, except for one, small, dangling modifer:

“Now I’m receiving an insane amount of spam from all manner of scary loan people, mortgage companies and so forth. All of the spam seems to be financially related, and all of it refers to me by my full legal name (which is a thing I have never associated with any of my dealings online with exception to my hrblock.com return). Now, I’m receiving phone calls on my cell phone, from mortgage lenders, credit card companies and scholarship “opportunity” sources.

I’m receiving literally hundreds of spam messages each day.

I blame HR Block. All of the spam, all of it, started on April 9th.”

The same day she used H&R Block, w~e~i~r~d.

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