Latest Scam Attempt...

[shanrose]

It has been a while since I have gotten any spam calls or texts on my phone..
Today there was a new one I had never seen before..

It was a text supposedly from USPS, US Postal Service, saying they had a package for me with an ..incomplete address.. and needed me to fill in the form, name address, e-mail, phone etc so it could be sent out for delivery again.. It came with a tracking number like ..US123456789.. When a tracking number starts with ..US.. that means the package was mailed from the US and sent to a foreign address.. Like packages from US to Canada the number starts with US and ends with CA..

I figured something was not right about this looking at the phone number it came from.. Them asking for a ...postal code... instead of a (US) Zipcode...

So I called the local post office to verify the tracking code, and it was fake..

Facts, details, experience, thoughts.. ??

I get several scams a week in my inbox. I know someone who got a call from the "electric company" telling him they were shutting off his electric immediately unless he deposited money to some address. He paid it. I know a guy in real estate who told me about a customer who lost $50,000 to a fake online bank.

 

[shanrose]

I received an email from Amazon for a few weeks ago that looked so legit that I had to seriously analyze the message to figure out how they faked it. I knew it was a scam because I do not have an Amazon account under that email. Turned out that the email, which came from [email protected] and linked to a near perfect clone of Amazon's website, was indeed a scam. The little a in Amazon had been replaced by a Cyrillic letter or number that looks basically the same. The big money scammers are getting better. A lot better. And they also put put the easy to spot scams so we become confident.

I get the fake Amazon scams a lot.

 

[Supervisor42]

I get the fake Amazon scams a lot.

Well if you get a really-funny one, snip out the good part and share it with everybody here.

 

[Supervisor42]

Today's funny:
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If they can extend it for 90 days for 'free', why is it expiring?
And they are actually telling the truth, they will not withdraw any amount from your CC, .....but the people they sell the info to, damsure will!

Oh no!!! Not my Sam's club membership too!
(Notice their 'magic words' at the end)