Q Talk

[MoJoV]

I received an email supposedly from our bank.  It said there had been a double charge on my account,didnt say which one.  I would have to "click here" to verify some things to have them remove the double charge. It looked very official with the bank logo,an ID # etc.

I took it to the bank today....fraud.  They said they don't check for double charges on accounts,it's my job to check my accounts for that and then let them know. That made sense.  

Bottom line here DONOT click on anything you have even the least suspicion of.  Rotten lowlifes trying to steal hard earned money.

[January121]

We can’t trust anybody/anything in today’s world... so sad that we have to live like this 😭

[Bhvbum]

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@January121 wrote:

We can’t trust anybody/anything in today’s world... so sad that we have to live like this 😭

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I get notices that I absolutely trust, but I never respond to that email, I always go to the actual website to check and see if there are any messages.  And low and behold there are, like from my mortgage company.

[vsm]

@MoJoVThank you for this cautionary tale.  You've surely helped everyone who reads it.

[Cats3000]

@MoJoV Thanks for the "heads up"  Although right now my head is overflowing with "heads ups".  In fact, I can hardly hold my "head up"/

The junk out there is overwhelming.  Thanks for tne latest.

[Anonymous032819]

I would have just gone to my bank's website, check to see if there was a double charge, and when I saw that there wasn't, I would've deleted the email.

I would've save time & gas by doing that.

[handygal2]

The Federal Trade Commission has a website for reporting scam emails:

      spam@uce.gov

I forward all scam emails that l receive to this email address. I don’t know how successful the FTC is in catching these criminals, but it makes me feel better to report them!

[Fona]

I'm a little bit off topic here, but today I received two separate phone calls from Social Security telling me that my SS number had been SUSPENDED...etc.  The calls were about an hour apart, same wording but two different voices and numbers.

Of course, I didn't pick up, but honestly they were so amateurish it made me wonder how dumb these people can be.  I really hope that any recipients of this call were not scared off by the word "suspended" and realized that this was a scam.

[MrSour]

get these emails all the time. DO NOT OPEN UP. I made the mistake of opening up one these emails and got blackmailed. As soon as I opened i started getting calls from my financial institutions telling me my computer was compromised and to change my passwords and to delete my contacts. They threatened me if I didn't deposit 500.00 into a bitcoin account that they would expose me to all my contacts. Don't you know watching the news they reported this and how many people got the same email. I googled this and found the email almost word for word that I received. I did not make any deposits but many people did. Be careful.

[denisemb]

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@Bhvbum wrote:

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@January121 wrote:

We can’t trust anybody/anything in today’s world... so sad that we have to live like this 😭

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I get notices that I absolutely trust, but I never respond to that email, I always go to the actual website to check and see if there are any messages.  And low and behold there are, like from my mortgage company.

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I'm with you, Jeanbhv.  I always go directly to the actual website, even for my banking when they update my current CC rewards.

Funny you should mention this.  Have rec'd 3 emails in the past week from "The Avenue" (plus-size women's clothing) saying I have 10 items in my cart that will be deleted if I don't check out.   One even offered 25% off.

1.  Don't have an online acct. with them, ever.

2.  Have NEVER bought 10 items from any site at one time.

Did contact the real Avenue to let them know there's a scammer out there.

But boy...it's SO tempting to answer the scam and ask for 90% off, or when they ask for a CC number, use some colorful language in place of the numbers.