Phishing Email I Just Got

[ZiprHead]

Supposedly I got a free Yeti cooler from Dick's Sporting Goods. The first blackout is my email address name@google.com. The second blackout is my real gmail address.

Never seen anything like this before. Just a warning in case you get something like this.

 

[Jarhyn]

I've been getting spam like this for a while, now.

 

[steve_bank]

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Supposedly I got a free Yeti cooler from Dick's Sporting Goods. The first blackout is my email address name@google.com. The second blackout is my real gmail address.

Never seen anything like this before. Just a warning in case you get something like this.

I can help you out but first I need your full name, address, birth date, social security number, and a credit card number.

 

[Elixir]

I keep getting notices that there has been a charge to my PayPal account.
They mostly look totally legit, 'cept for one thing; I don't have a PayPal account.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Most of these come to my junk mail, and those I rarely open. Any time the title line tells me that some store wants to give me a tool kit or a gorilla cart (this was the prize of choice all through the spring) or a $100 best customer gift card, I smell Gen Z criminal all over it.
Recently I've had a few emails to my inbox claiming that I successfully bought $495 or $595 worth of tech service, but if it wasn't me making the purchase, I need to call them. I generally check the balances on all my credit cards on receipt of these, an annoyance that takes me up to 15 minutes, but so far they've just been phishers looking for naive users.
I guess the world has always had gyp artists, fraudsters, Trumps, Madoffs, and Ponzis. It sure teaches you to trust nothing you see online, and to neither grab at a prize you've "won" or panic when some scammer tells you your money's been stolen.
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[steve_bank]

I have always had two email accounts. One for sites that require an email account, the other for communications.

The account I use for sites gets the barrage of spam.

There are sites online that list the known phone and email scams.

Phone scams seem to come in cycles. I usually let pone cal go over to voice mail. Some of them are pretty clever.

One I answered. Hello, may I speak to John Smith?

There is no John Smith here.

Maybe I got the number wrong, but I have something you might be interested in...

From recent reporting people especially vulnerable older people are being taken for a lot of money from email and phone scams

I would love to get one of these predators alone in a dark alley.

 

[Jarhyn]

I have always had two email accounts. One for sites that require an email account, the other for communications.

The account I use for sites gets the barrage of spam.

There are sites online that list the known phone and email scams.

Phone scams seem to come in cycles. I usually let pone cal go over to voice mail. Some of them are pretty clever.

One I answered. Hello, may I speak to John Smith?

There is no John Smith here.

Maybe I got the number wrong, but I have something you might be interested in...

From recent reporting people especially vulnerable older people are being taken for a lot of money from email and phone scams

I would love to get one of these predators alone in a dark alley.

Google call screening has been a wonder for me. Usually, whoever it is just hangs up, and there are recordings of each session.

I do not broadly share my phone number, and I know well enough not to respond to a text that can't even identify me. "I am _insert name here_, messaging _my name_ because _reason for new number_" would get me asking two questions, one pertaining to a real shared piece of social context, and one asking about a thing that never happened between us, but presented the same way; or a message from a person who would be present there attesting, from a trusted number or source.

Maybe mention these in the deadly sins thread? This is a good one, a fine candidate for justifying eternal suffering.

 

[southernhybrid]

I've also been getting lots of those scam emails for years, so I spend a lot of time doing delete delete delete. I get scam phone calls as well, but I don't answer them or sometimes I put my phone on silent for anyone who isn't in my directory. The scam fest seems to be growing and they must know that older adults tend to be more gullible which is probably why I get so many, but I'm not that dumb, at least not yet.

To be honest, I hate email and wish it had never been created. Half of the emails I get are from charities begging me for money or political organizations begging me for money. I do give to several charities, but the more you give, the more they ask you to give. I'd rather people use a text to notify me and it's not that hard to find out people's phone numbers, otherwise I wouldn't get so many spam calls. Only the legit ones bother to leave a voice mail. I just got a call from some mortgage company, so I hung up. I don't have a mortgage and don't need one. I've also gotten lots of emails offering me great loans, which I don't need and don't want. I bet a lot of them are scams that just want your personal info.

There's so many assholes in the world and technology has made it easier for them to scam people out of their money.

 

[steve_bank]

Years back when I became a member of a local PBS station I was flooded with paper mail from charities.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Years back when I became a member of a local PBS station I was flooded with paper mail from charities.

Yeah. I forget who it was but it produced a barrage of mailings from many sources that almost certainly added up to more cost than what I had given them.

 

[Tigers!]

My wife's business e-mail has been getting these types for years. Supposedly send by her to herself. But the sending e-mail is so obviously fraudalent that she just ignores them in the vain hope that they will cease.
We have had 2 hosting services in that time. Both when contactwed separatelt reported these spam attacks (do tell). Both have never done anything it seems about it.

 

[TV and credit cards]

I must be the odd man out in all this. I thought only my mom had this level of curiosity. Be it email (spam folder), text message (unknown sender folder), or phone call (not in my address book-no ringy dingy), they never see the light of day with me. I don't even answer the door. I'm sorry, was I expecting you? Fuck off person knocking on my door. Now maybe I've missed out on a lot of very good deals from very reputable individuals just trying to be super nice to me. Maybe that was Prize Patrol.
I'll never know.

 

[southernhybrid]

I must be the odd man out in all this. I thought only my mom had this level of curiosity. Be it email (spam folder), text message (unknown sender folder), or phone call (not in my address book-no ringy dingy), they never see the light of day with me. I don't even answer the door. I'm sorry, was I expecting you? Fuck off person knocking on my door. Now maybe I've missed out on a lot of very good deals from very reputable individuals just trying to be super nice to me. Maybe that was Prize Patrol.
I'll never know.

I don't open them either, but I can tell by the title what they are up to and I still get a lot of paper mail as well asking me for money. This week it was from PBS, Humane World, Amnesty International and Mother Jones. Oddly enough, I had just given money to Humane World, previously known as the Humane Society, as it is one of my favorite charities. I don't answer the calls either, but if there is a caller ID, I just hang up without saying a word. I don't always answer the door, but if the person looks innocent and they've already seen me inside, I will usually have the courtesy to tell them I'm not interested in what they are selling, especially if they're selling religion. Luckily none of the Mormons or JWs have been to my door in years.

I used to ask to unsubscribe to unwanted emails, but then I discovered there is an organization that will take you off of one list and then send you an email from some other organization you don't want to hear from. It never ends. Off topic, but I also hate medical portals. Some work. Some are annoying and if you change doctors, it's hard or impossible to get rid of the old portals.

The same goes for political texts. If you text to stop, they will find a different organization to bother you, so it's usually easier to simply delete the text.

 

[TV and credit cards]

I must be the odd man out in all this. I thought only my mom had this level of curiosity. Be it email (spam folder), text message (unknown sender folder), or phone call (not in my address book-no ringy dingy), they never see the light of day with me. I don't even answer the door. I'm sorry, was I expecting you? Fuck off person knocking on my door. Now maybe I've missed out on a lot of very good deals from very reputable individuals just trying to be super nice to me. Maybe that was Prize Patrol.
I'll never know.

I don't open them either, but I can tell by the title what they are up to and I still get a lot of paper mail as well asking me for money. This week it was from PBS, Humane World, Amnesty International and Mother Jones. Oddly enough, I had just given money to Humane World, previously known as the Humane Society, as it is one of my favorite charities. I don't answer the calls either, but if there is a caller ID, I just hang up without saying a word. I don't always answer the door, but if the person looks innocent and they've already seen me inside, I will usually have the courtesy to tell them I'm not interested in what they are selling, especially if they're selling religion. Luckily none of the Mormons or JWs have been to my door in years.

I used to ask to unsubscribe to unwanted emails, but then I discovered there is an organization that will take you off of one list and then send you an email from some other organization you don't want to hear from. It never ends. Off topic, but I also hate medical portals. Some work. Some are annoying and if you change doctors, it's hard or impossible to get rid of the old portals.

The same goes for political texts. If you text to stop, they will find a different organization to bother you, so it's usually easier to simply delete the text.

Yeah, the information scrapped together on us is incredible. A while back I Googled a land line phone number from when I was about twelve years old and the info websites like fast people search and spokeo have is depressing. From that phone number to my current one and much more info was all accurate. Complete with links to family members.
Consumer Reports has an article about removal but it seems there are upwards of six hundred of these websites some requiring even more personal information (upload your drivers license) to remove you from their database with no guarantee of remaining off permanently. This is mostly from local and state government keeping all this info in the public domain. Ohio is terrible for this.

 

[ZiprHead]

The movie The Beekeeper was about a guy using violence to take down an online scammers network.

 

[DBT]

"Beware of Greeks bearing gifts"

 

[steve_bank]

Today it is 'Beware of computer GEEKS bearing gifts'.

 

[Jarhyn]

The movie The Beekeeper was about a guy using violence to take down an online scammers network.

I might have to add it to my list. Did he like, kill them with bees? I would love to see a movie where a cabal of scammers dies by BEES!

Like, I would love to see a creepy horror movie involving a cabal of scammers being eaten by those bees that make their honey from meat, but like, mutant varieties crossed with murder hornets or something.

Their fucking nests are gnarly, too, and look like they inspired a lot of "flesh horror" art.

I want that movie, where scammers get dragged into flesh horror nests by giant wasps and humanity falls because nobody can bring themselves to actually care about the fact that they're breeding like crazy on the scammer population.

 

[bilby]

I want that movie, where scammers get dragged into flesh horror nests by giant wasps and humanity falls because nobody can bring themselves to actually care about the fact that they're breeding like crazy on the scammer population.

You could ask Jason Statham to star, but that's not really his genre.

I know nothing about The Beekeeper beyond the fact that Statham stars in it; But from that one datum I am projecting that it involves car chases, gunfire, and occasional hand-to-hand violence, stitched together by a thin plot that vaguely justifies all that mayhem (and a few impressive explosions).

 

[Jarhyn]

I want that movie, where scammers get dragged into flesh horror nests by giant wasps and humanity falls because nobody can bring themselves to actually care about the fact that they're breeding like crazy on the scammer population.

You could ask Jason Statham to star, but that's not really his genre.

I know nothing about The Beekeeper beyond the fact that Statham stars in it; But from that one datum I am projecting that it involves car chases, gunfire, and occasional hand-to-hand violence, stitched together by a thin plot that vaguely justifies all that mayhem (and a few impressive explosions).

Yeah, they seriously missed out on narrowly justifying watching disgusting wasps pull awful people apart rather than human mayhem. Human mayhem is so boring.

Might as well see John Wick at that point.