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Fyrefox

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I got a variation of the Amazon scam yesterday. The dolts called at 7:30 in the morning, the recorded message said that over $600 had been charged to my account, and if I did not make this purchase to call them immediately at such-and-such a number. You never want to do that as they’ll then milk you for your information and use it to suck your account dry, I simply checked my Amazon account at the actual website, saw that no charges had been made, and knew that it was a scam.

Scammers will try to alarm you by startling you so you respond immediately and impulsively without thinking things out; hence, the early morning phone call and the high amount supposedly charged. It’s an attempt at psychological manipulation. Just a warning if you haven’t encountered anything like this that you may; perhaps they’ll say that several expensive laptops have been charged to your account. Don’t buy into the scam, don’t feel pressured to respond, and by all means verify before you do anything else… 👮‍♂️
 

It's the same thing on F.B. My scam last month was. I was on Messenger talking to an old friend I worked with for 20 years.
This person knew all of the Evelyns personal Info. As she talked about things that happened at our plant.
Long story short. I sent her $5,000.00 worth of gift cards.

I finally called Evelyn on the phone & ask what was going on that she needed so much money? She said Oh no they got you too. She said that is NOT me on there. She was scammed the same way by what she thought was talking to another person we worked with.

So if you get a request from a person you know for $$$ CALL THEM to make sure it's them.

I just talked to my bank's credit card dept. this morning because they sent a credit card to my wife here at my address. She has been gone now for 6+ years. Trying to cancel that is like pulling hair. Got to call a different number Monday from 8 to 5 to see if my bank has my wife's death certificate on file I gave them a month after she passed.

I will get part of my money back or about $3,000.00 at the end of this month.
 
Purwell said:
I had a text message recently telling me that there was a problem with paying my O2 phone account. They suggested that I follow a link to update my payment details and I nearly fell for it as I recently lost my card and been issued a new one.
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this is te dangerous things, because despitemany of us being on theball with these kinds of scams, if something has just happenedtomakeyou think it's possible, then youfall right into te traap... I had a simialr incidence the other week..the Email looked extremely genuine and was from our Broadband supplier supposedly ( and we'd recently had a problem with it) ... if it wasn't for the fact that regardless of how real it looks, I always remember NEVER to click on a link ... I would have been scammed, because as I suspected it was a fraudulent mail
 
Calls ... texts.. emails, etc., ...
However someone contacts you, it's best to think SCAM before you do anything ... And if it's anything to do with money, you can bet it's a scam. Think before acting on those. Always safest to delete.
 
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It's always good to remind people of scams. I remember a robo call not too long ago related to some Amazon scam. The worry is people who fall for them.
 
they spend all day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. calling my dads house. he told one of them the other day "for the 53rd time f off!" the gal called him back to tell him to f off and we laughed. he spends the day answering the phone by just pushing answer and then hanging up right away. i can't believe something can't be done to stop that crap. they don't call as much on my cell because i never ever answer ever. if it's the same number enough times i put it in call rejection. i think all phones should have call rejection. it's horrible seeing him having to put up with that otherwise he has to take the phone off the hook.
 
I got a lot more than usual robo calls yesterday; I’m assuming because of the Christmas season. My ringers are off on all phones and I don’t know there is a call until I hear my voice saying “leave a message please” on the answering machine. Sometimes there is a 5 second pause and they hang up. A few times a live voice will say hello persistently but not identify themselves which is a giveaway. I have yet to pick up.

My Yahoo email has been good and I don't get texts because I don’t text or bother with it on my flip phone which still happily operates with 3G.
 
I regularly get repeated ones, that tell me my car warranty coverage, or my car insurance, has expired, and warns of all the scariest, most frightful things that could happen, due to it having expired.:rolleyes:

But, they say they are willing to renew it, etc, etc.....in order to help me.
Don't pick that up, and don't call them back!!!
 
My SS set his home phone to refuse any call that he didn’t have registered as a known number. I think the caller had an option to now identify their number and name, which they wouldn’t do if scammers.

On my cell phone, I set it to Do Not Disturb from early evening to 8:30 AM. At least I’m not wakened by them.
 
Generally speaking I stopped reading about Covid 6 months ago but have never stopped reading about scams. A popular scam for Canadians is someone phoning you and telling you that you have a parcel from the USA waiting for clearance at the border. HA! I have just read 34% of a book called, "Dark Market, Cyberthieves, Cybercops And You." To my thinking this is time well spent. A lot of these crooks live in Russia, Eastern Europe or South America. With the internet, they could live anywhere in the world and clean out your bank account if you are not careful. Also, watch your credit card statements. Cyberthieves love credit cards as everyone uses them.
 
Kaila said:
I regularly get repeated ones, that tell me my car warranty coverage, or my car insurance, has expired, and warns of all the scariest, most frightful things that could happen, due to it having expired.:rolleyes:

But, they say they are willing to renew it, etc, etc.....in order to help me.
Don't pick that up, and don't call them back!!!
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i get a snail mail thing every so often about a recall claim on my vehicle. it's a fake.
 
hollydolly said:
I always remember NEVER to click on a link
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I thought I was good at not clicking on links, but I fell for it at work this week. I'd been on vacation and had lots of emails so I was trying to rush through them and one had a title about company survey and a link. I clicked on the link, and ugh it was one of the phishing tests that our company sends us to see how many of us aren't careful. I'm hoping either my name doesn't get reported to my manager or at least maybe a bunch of us fell for it. Once I looked carefully at the email it was super clear it was not a legit email. I feel so stupid.
 
My sheriff told me when he helped me with my Scam. This time of year everyone is so tired of shopping & the hassle. People DON'T look at their receipts. So some cashiers can add a few dollars to your bill & you never think to check since you are so tired to go through every receipt. ( I've had this happen to me)

Also, some have hand scanners in their pocket so they get all your info off the card if they say they have to go to this other cash register. As he said NEVER leave your cards out of your site. If they say they are going to a different register hold onto your card & say I'll walk with you.
 

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