Scams Getting More Refined

Jules

Jules

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This is a screenshot of an email correctly addressed to me from Support. I removed those.

I knew it was garbage, but they’re getting better. If someone was prone to missing payments or unaware of the skill of scammers, they might use any of these links. Even the grammatical errors are fewer.

They’re such a polite bunch. “We will try again, but in the meantime….” 😖


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I've been getting a lot of those kinds of scam that look like real merchants. They have really upped their game in how they seem legitimate. Of course when I get those I use the block sender option on my email. That option has reduced the quantity that started about 3 weeks ago,.
Thanks for pointing out how clever the scammers have gotten.
 
Some scammers smarter than others. I've had some emails claiming to be from my ISP, saying my account 'locked and click on link to restore service. Seriously?
1) i've had full service in the 12-24 hrs since that email hit my inbox and 2) If my service suspended how is clicking a link going to take
we me anywhere from my desktop at home?


Whenever i get such things (have gotten ones supposedly from bank about accounts too) i never use the links in the email. Instead i go ro whatever site my usual way to check everything. But apparently some do fall for this junk.
 

Knight said:
I've been getting a lot of those kinds of scam that look like real merchants. They have really upped their game in how they seem legitimate. Of course when I get those I use the block sender option on my email. That option has reduced the quantity that started about 3 weeks ago,.
Thanks for pointing out how clever the scammers have gotten.
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One of the tipoffs is that most banks, Streaming services, ISPs, have their own domains, so neither the email address it is from or the one they tell you to reply to should be something like @hotmail. No matter how good their logo/page mockups are...a close look at the email urls can give them away.
 
helenbacque said:
Maybe they have to do with the rumors that Netflix is getting serious about getting rid of 'shared' accounts.
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Never use the link in the email, it amounts to you giving access to your bank account info! Go to whatever account your usual way to check it out. The scammers count on people taking the only marginally easier, faster way of clicking their link.

And guess what! On the very slight chance it was from legit company you do business with, you will probably find a 'in house' message when you go to your account the usual way and as long as the issue gets resolved they don't care how you navigated to get there. But every time i've checked my account with whatever company was fine. Which means sender of email was phishing to get my info.
 
feywon said:
Never use the link in the email, it amounts to you giving access to your bank account info! Go to whatever account your usual way to check it out. The scammers count on people taking the only marginally easier, faster way of clicking their link.

And guess what! On the very slight chance it was from legit company you do business with, you will probably find a 'in house' message when you go to your account the usual way and as long as the issue gets resolved they don't care how you navigated to get there. But every time i've checked my account with whatever company was fine. Which means sender of email was phishing to get my info.
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Thanks for the advice but I'm just old, not stupid.
 
I HIGHLY recommend these YouTube channels. They're very educational. They show what the latest scams are and exactly how scams work. They also show how scam-baiters and scam-catchers shut them down (usually temporarily, unfortunately), and report them to cyber police, India police, and the FBI.

Jim Browning (the most serious)
Scambaiter (most clever)
Scammer Payback (most altruistic)
Trilogy Media (funny)
Kitboga (entertaining)
 

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