Scamming by first Spamming

Marcy Sheiner

Marcy Sheiner

Senior Member
Location
Bay Area CA
This week I've received 5 or more texts on my phone from stores or organizations saying they've seen a lot of recommendations on work websites about me. I don't know where they could have seen these, and I have diligently clicked on "Delete and Report As Junk." I'm just wondering if they are preludes to scams. Anyone know?
 

Marcy Sheiner said:
This week I've received 5 or more texts on my phone from stores or organizations saying they've seen a lot of recommendations on work websites about me. I don't know where they could have seen these, and I have diligently clicked on "Delete and Report As Junk." I'm just wondering if they are preludes to scams. Anyone know?
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I too have been getting similar on my cell phone recently, but mine are all do
do with paying bridge tolls past due (I don't drive the bridges they mention)

I do the same as you, 'delete and report as junk'.
 
Spams can lead to scams and scams lead to spams. Look in the settings or on google and see if you can adjust the first line of the texts. I can on my Moto phone.
I get spam scam emails that invite me to send articles to ghost publishers. Always deleted unread.
 
It's an ongoing battle on my phone too. also on Facebook...I've found that Gmail does a better job of keeping junk out of my email than some of the others, but it still happens occasionally.
 
My take on your question, Marcy Sheiner is, somebody
is trying to find active phones, they ignore dead ones
and sell on the ones who reply, or maybe just open the
message, if it is dodgy, leave it alone in the Dust Bin, if
you are concerned, contact the company who sent it to
you and tell them that you suspect that they have been
hacked, if they did send it, then you can find out who is
telling lies about you.

Mike.
 
Jules said:
Marcy, they’re junk and just trying to get you to open them.

Are you getting real reviews on work websites. This is probably where they found your info.

Can your texts be set up to show the first three lines of text without opening them?
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No, no reviews on work sites, unless some from 15 and 20 years ago are still up.
Yes, you're right, I can read the first few lines and not open them.
 
I've received texts about orders I didn't place, EZ pass fines when I don't own a car and other nonsense. I report them as spam and block the numbers. A couple of weeks ago, I received a series of emails allegedly from Gmail and one from Amazon, about email delivery failures. The ones from Gmail looked legit at first glance, but they were email addresses I haven't sent mail to in years. How Amazon got in that mix I couldn't say. Sometimes I do get legitimate mail delivery failure notices from Gmail, so weeding out scams in that case, gets to be a little tricky. There was nothing for me to click in those mail delivery failure notices though.
 

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