This email scam is a doozy

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JBR

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Southern Canada mtn. valley, tad west of Rockies
I've received my share of scams by way of emailed messages. This morning, the name of the sender caused me to shake my head and chuckle...
salvaggiokolya

I'm sure I'd have remembered a moniker like that if I'd actually done any business with the sender, whose "invoice" claimed I'd be paying through PayPal.
 

AI is so good at creating a scam email that we have to be extra cautious.

salvaggiokolya needs to invest in it. He/she probably forgot to use a pseudonym. šŸ˜‚

JBR, did you get an email from Canada Post today wanting us to log in and confirm our email address. If itā€™s fake, itā€™s perfect. Anyway, later Iā€™ll just log in directly and see what they say.
 

Remy said:
Was that the title or email? I hover over these emails and usually get "x99723byz" @ g mail or something like that. So legit, let me open that right now.šŸ˜’
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That was the sender's email "name". A Gmail account. Via much past experience, "phony" was what I thought from first glance at this message in my morning's inbox..
 
Got this one today:
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About scams. I get a bunch supposedly from the U.S. Postal Service saying I have a package with an unreadable address, and if I don't reply, now, they will return it. There's a phone number to call. At that time, I was expecting a package.
Then it dawned on me that how did the U.S. Postal Service know my email address? And how did they know it was me, if they couldn't read the address. There's hundreds with the same name.
 
What's even spookier to me is logging on to a financial site from Chrome on my desktop, it says it needs to send a one-time security code to my phone.

The SMS text with the code pops up on the phone, but Chrome on the phone also pops up: "I have that code, want me to send it for you?" so I don't need to type it in.

I opted to type it myself as always. Didn't want to risk getting locked out.

But creepy.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Yeah, I got one of those "your $847 purchase on PayPal" emails. I, too, don't have a Pay Pal account, and the sent email address was something like "salvaggiokolya". That must be a cousin of the Nigerian Prince, who wants to give me millions.
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Actually the name in the OPs post reminds me more of one that might be Russian or Ukrainian, those areas.

I didn't get emails, but texts saying I had packages that were undeliverable by the USPS due to a bad address. Delete!
 
I am getting a little tired of these emails saying that I have been invoiced, and claiming to be from PayPal and always for hundreds of dollars. Don't they think I ought to know if I did something to involve an invoice? I report them to PayPal and delete them.
 
The old bank one ā€œ someone has accessed your bank accountā€ and spent $$+ is back in Australia ā€¦ā€¦..

if this wasnā€™t you Phone this number ā€¦.The trouble is ..I live in a small country town where Iā€™ve got the direct phone number for the bank ā€¦and thatā€™s not the number or anything like the number Iā€™ve got
 

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