Online fraud

[DonTom]

I’ve been getting very similar. (I’m curious how you’re differentiating this as email and not spam. I may not have the definition correct, but I certainly call this spam.)

My AOL email normally sends Spam to its own "spam" folder. So it does not nomrally show up on my normal email. But these spam folders are not perfect. Some spam comes in as normal mail and vice versa. So the spam folders need to be checked also.

This Amazon thing does NOT go my Spam folder, but should.

I have no idea what spam folders look for, but I assume some of the spammers do know. So they also know how to avoid their garbage going into spam folders.

-Don- Page, AZ

 

[Tulecreeper]

My AOL email normally sends Spam to its own "spam" folder. So it does not nomrally show up on my normal email. But these spam folders are not perfect. Some spam comes in as normal mail and vice versa. So the spam folders need to be checked also.

This Amazon thing does NOT go my Spam folder, but should.

I have no idea what spam folders look for, but I assume some of the spammers do know. So they also know how to avoid their garbage going into spam folders.

-Don- Page, AZ

Then the next time you get one, mark it as Spam and after that if one comes from that email address it will automatically go to your Spam folder.

 

[SpencerPJ]

I protect my main email and phone number as closely as my SS#. I never give out my real phone (lol my old landline, that way if I ever need it on an account, it's my second guess). Always hover over sender, you can easily tell by the senders address.

 

[Oldgator73]

 

[DonTom]

Then the next time you get one, mark it as Spam and after that if one comes from that email address it will automatically go to your Spam folder.

I have been and they still come in as regular email. But they are just a little difference each time. I think the spammer figured it all out and how to change it just a little each time.

-Don- Flagstaff, AZ

 

[John From Detroit]

Then the next time you get one, mark it as Spam and after that if one comes from that email address it will automatically go to your Spam folder.

The problem is that sometimes legit E-mails get put in SPAM as well happened to me twice last week. Actually several times last week. Twice they were important.

 

[Babe2201]

And it's a lucrative business because there are 100's of 1000's of idiots out there who still fall for this stuff.

Unfortunately I wonder if they are not always idiots but people that suffer from dementia and the like and can't comprehend the fact they are getting scammed

 

[Kodiak34SS]

Most people who get scammed are neither idiots nor do they have dementia. They're just not aware of the kind of scams that exist in an online/digital world.

 

[Kodiak34SS]

My employer conducts phishing campaigns and randomly selects people who delete the message and report it and gives them a prize, usually a gift card.

That's gone sideways as of late. The first was a phishing campaign the same day as a layoff. The spoof email message contained a link asking people to digitally sign a document for HR regarding their employment. Needless to say, with tension high surrounding the layoff, a lot of people clicked on it. It was very poor form on behalf of the information security team.

A recent one was just a regular old spoof email sent at a random time. However, the actual prize for the random winners was a gift card redeemable via an online link, sent to recipients from an external email. Everyone who received the prize reported it, thinking it was a phishing email! But no, it was a real link, for a real gift card. The information security team has egg on their faces...again.

 

[DonTom]

. They're just not aware of the kind of scams that exist in an online/digital world.

A guy I used to work with had a neighbor who fell for the IRS scam. The guy was from another country and didn't realize that the IRS never does emails or phone calls when there is an issue of owning more taxes.

-Don- Flagstaff, AZ

 

[PancakeBill]

Then there is the one from a friends address needing help. the last one was Health Dept had a check for them to cover recent medical issues, and could I help them by getting a $500 gift card from Walmart, then send them the ode so they could unlock the funds from Health Dept. I gave them about 4 different random 16 digit numbers. They grew impatient with me, so I told them to meet me and gave them an address of a police station.
Really best to just delete.

 

[DonTom]

What is Peacock? I never heard of them until I started getting these:
This one came in today, NOT to my spam but my regular email:

 

[Babe2201]

What is Peacock? I never heard of them until I started getting these:
This one came in today, NOT to my spam but my regular email:

You better hurry. It runs out today.

 

[DonTom]

You better hurry. It runs out today.

But so did all the others also run out on the same day as I received them.

-Don- Flagstaff, AZ

 

[Oldgator73]

What is Peacock? I never heard of them until I started getting these:
This one came in today, NOT to my spam but my regular email:

It’s an online streaming channel.

 

[Alan_Hepburn]

That "Peacock" one gives itself away by calling themselves "Peakcock"...

 

[DonTom]

That "Peacock" one gives itself away by calling themselves "Peakcock"...

Good catch! I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out.

-Don- Flagstaff, AZ

 

[NY_Dutch]

I received an email yesterday that informed me that my email account was being suspended for non-payment. I could save it by immediately forwarding my annual payment using the form linked below. The only problem was that I own the domain that my email account is serviced by, as well as the email server and websites attached to it. I'm getting old, but I'm pretty sure I don't charge myself anything for my email account.

 

[Tulecreeper]

Unfortunately I wonder if they are not always idiots but people that suffer from dementia and the like and can't comprehend the fact they are getting scammed

Most people who get scammed are neither idiots nor do they have dementia. They're just not aware of the kind of scams that exist in an online/digital world.

I should not have used the term "idiots". I think ignorant (lack of knowledge), and naive fit better.

 

[Lou Schneider]

What is Peacock? I never heard of them until I started getting these:
This one came in today, NOT to my spam but my regular email:

NBC's name for their streaming service.