I have various accounts with 2 different banks. Every month, at different times, I get an email from each bank letting me now that my FICO score has been updated and to click on the link to verify it. And every month I delete those emails and log in directly to the banks’s website. You just never know.
Once I worked at an employer that wanted employees to take an online training for this sort of thing. Except that it was through an outside contractor who sent an email announcing it (with link to it on an outside web site) from an unfamiliar outside email address. Turned out to be real, but lots of people thought it was suspicious.
I git this one back in 2019, but I guess that both @college_query and I are on Director Wray’s Contact List. The lack of spaces after punctuation marks and and other errors were in the original email, so the FBI may be to blame:
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I’ve gotten those several times, So have my husband, son and daughter. It’s so annoying!
I’ve also gotten a lot of scam emails. They look like they’re from Amazon or Netflix and they say my account is going to be closed because I haven’t paid or my credit card didn’t go through. But of course the email address is just a jumble of letters…
My H has gotten some emails that look like Itunes receipts but the billing address shown is usually in some country like Ukraine and the songs he supposedly bought are like “Itsy Bitsy Spider.” And the email is like lalachen @ apple songs .com
I got an email in the junk folder of my work email that was from “Jenny” who was telling me that she heard from my parents that I’d been a good girl and I was gonna get a ton of special toys. She said her elves were working hard…
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I’ve gotten those too! My kids who are on Facebook and sometimes comment on news articles, get replies that are similar to this email. Or they’ll get ones that say “Dr, Wakanda has blessed me with life and good fortune and helped me see the light.”
Boy, scams are everywhere!
I want to get an email from director Wray! haha
I’ve been to 1,000 sporting events, concerts, Broadway plays in my lifetime. I’ve seen every ticket sellers scam from counterfeit tickets, duplicate tickets, send PayPal via friends, bogus copies of barcodes, etc…Knock on wood, I’ve never been beat by these lowlifes. I’ve actually helped many a person (especially out of towners) not get scammed. Sucks when you see a father walking into a concert or ballgame with their kid and they get stopped and turned away with bogus tickets.
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@natty1988 i am literally laughing out loud reading your post.
The Itsy Bitsy Spider is just the funniest! 
These scammers are relentless, aren’t they?!
Primerica, Cutco, and MLM schemes that want to make a quick buck off of business majors. Enter one of these and you get a job that doesn’t even pay.
I get phone calls from Marriott winning a vacation all the time on my cell phone. Different numbers each time. I have to answer because I get truck deliveries and a lot of out of state phone calls. Does anyone else get these Marriott calls?
I’ve just remembered a scam from 2019. I had an email telling me that if I didn’t pay $500 in Bitcoin to the sender, all of my contacts would receive an “embarrassing video” of me.
I, of course, didn’t pay anything and didn’t respond. I did worry that somehow the scammer could access my email list. I’m not very savvy about this kind of stuff, so as a precaution I alerted all important contacts not to open any attachments from me.
LOL, I remember getting one like that. Supposedly they had control of the camera and had video of me…
- I don’t do anything worth videotaping in front of my computer
- There is a cover over the camera
Still, it made me do a double take
Not a phone or email scam. But I went to a California State Beach last week. I was there two hours and when I got back to my car it had been broken into. Luckily nothing was taken. My purse was actually in the car, but I had my wallet with me in my backpack. According to the Park Ranger there is a ring of thieves targeting beach parking lots all up and down the California Coast. They are in and out of the car quickly and are only looking for credit cards. They will even strike on the busiest of days in broad daylight. They are using forced entry and using car-jamming devices that prevent doors from locking.
Not from Marriott but I have gotten ones saying I’ve won a cruise
I got a Paypal notice that I’d approved a $499 charge for something. It was after a series of the ‘you need to update your paypal credit card data’ or other fake notices from paypal (the address was always a scramble of letters). I contacted paypal, the real one, and they didn’t seem concerned enough to me, so I took all the credit card info off paypal. Now if I want to use it, I have to input all the information, so it is not convenient, so I don’t use paypal anymore.
This is a win for me because now I don’t buy as much junk.
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Ugh, that is so annoying! I’ve never gotten one from PayPal. I just got one of the scam ones from Amazon this morning. Well actually in the email it was from “AMAzon”
This isn’t an email or phone scam but it does remind me of something that happened to D and I while we were out shopping. We had a lady come up to us acting like she recognized us from somewhere. We didn’t recognize her at all and we told her that maybe she mistook us for someone else. But she was insistent that she recognized us. After apologizing to her again and saying (for the second time) that she is probably mistaking us for someone else she knows, she then started commenting on how nice our clothes are, yadda yadda yadda. Well we see red flags and smile and try to walk away. As we walk away she asks us to pray for her and she’ll pray for us. It was very odd. And the weird thing is, there was nothing else that seemed off to us. She was well dressed and seemed normal otherwise…
My 80 year old mother got one of those, They threatened to show the “video” they had taken of her watching porn, which also included a “good taste” in parentheses.
It took my mother some five minutes to stop laughing, and then she called me to share it.
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I think it would be funny if they did get a video of me, but it would be a video of me doing something like washing the dishes or paying bills or looking through my mail…Just kidding, I don’t want them to get ANY video of me doing ANYTHING!
I was going to add to my last post about the lady D and I encountered, I told D that if she encounters someone like that again and they won’t leave her alone to go to a store employee or security. And if they ask you to go somewhere with them, say NO!
Luckily neither of us has had this happen to us since…
mwolf, that made me smile.
i had that exact email this week, but what concerned me was they had my most-used password in the email, although the email was my spam-junk mail account email address. I quickly changed passwords on all of my accounts associated with my real email; but it sort of scared me. It was too close. Not sure how they got that.
There are probably plenty of these:
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Fake debt collector trying to convince you to pay a debt that does not exist.
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Real debt collector who cannot be convinced that you are not the deadbeat they are looking for (or that your phone number is not the deadbeat’s phone number).
Your password is easily guessed, and you used it on a web site with weak security?
Avoid sharing passwords between accounts, especially between “junk” accounts and those where you really do not want cracked (your primary email account, mobile phone related accounts, and any banking or financial accounts, for example).
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