Posted on 04/28/2017 11:48:50 AM PDT by StormPrepper
I got this email today and I couldn't help but laugh... a lot. Their fake [Sing On] page is located at an URL in the UK. But it just reeks of a Chinese accent. My comments are in red.
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Verify Your Account Information For Security Reason.
[SP]Errrr...just one reason? Or is it for the reason of security??
Dear Client,
[SP]Yea... my real name is "Client". How did they know? I've never told anyone...
There is trying from suspicious devices to login your account.
[SP]Dang it! Those suspicious devices are trying again...They're always so trying. The lack of articles in simulated sentence makes my eyes bleed.
Your online banking account has been suspended.
[SP]Great news!!! Seeing as I don't have an account with US Bank. Ummm is there any money in it??
Please, reactivate your banking account Sing On.
[SP]Cutting edge technology. In order to login to their bank, you have to sing!!! I won't be doing that anytime soon. If they heard me singing I might get banned from banking altogether...
We are here to assist you anytime.
[SP]I'm sure you are... there to assist people out of their money any time...
Thank you for using our services.
[SP]It looks like those two beginning English classes you took are really paying off!! Please excuse me if I don't sing on to my account. But if there's any money in it, please cut me a check. Just address it to "Client" in America... everyone knows me.
I’ve been getting some like this from Malaysia regarding my paypal account.
Obvious phishing scam.
Wasn’t there a post here long ago where some Freeport had had a great time playing with some foreign con artists? Had someone posing with underwear on their head and such?
lowbridge is the FReeper you are thinking of.
I get these emails occasionally....I used to get a bit scared...but thankfully, I’ve always deleted quickly....
The latest telemarketing scam is someone claiming to call from “The Center for Disease Control”.
The disease is telemarketing, of course.... :-)
Thank goodness for the inadequate education people get in those countries. It makes it so much easier to spot these scams.
Whenever I get sent one of those links to “sing on”, I enter my user ID and password as “scammers” and “suck”. ;)
Its the Russians!
Did it say “USBANK” Wisconsin, Oregon?
How did you convince her to wear undies on her head?
Hmmm. So my Navy Federal Credit Union account needs updating. Which I don’t have. Also my PlayStation password needs updating. Which I also don’t have. Good news is, I got notice from the Deputy Director of the FBI letting me know the special funds from Rhodesia are A-Okay. ;-)
The first one prompted me to sign in and check on the paypal account, I knew better than click on the e-mail itself. When everything looked normal on the paypal account I looked closer at the email and saw it was from Malaysia and knew it was a scam.
You know, now that I think about it, I haven’t heard back from that Nigerian Prince in quite awhile......
At card fraud committed against me the other day.
Did not lose my card nor was it ever out of my posssession, nor could I have possibly been at the location the card number or a phony card with my name and card number was used to attempt two large transactions - AT A GROCERY STORE. The first for reasons unknown yet was processed but my bank stopped the 2nd one and suspended the card.
I do make online purchases, and I swipe my card at many retailers I use. What was interesting - coincidence - I shop at another branch of that super market and use that card when I do. I let their corporate office know, for the possibility their system has/had a data leak.
It is good for me that this debit card works weather the retailer’s system uses and accepts a pin or like a credit card only asks for a signature. What is bad is in this instance a signature alone, without the pin was sufficient for what the thieves did.
Scary. What do I do, pull out of doing any electronic transactions? There is no telling yet (or ever?) how they got the card number and or if they also made up a phony card as well.
I guess if the store has cameras on the cashiers, and they take the day & time of the transactions and match it with their security feeds they might at least get faces of the thieves.
Although not the same thing, this reminds me of a gift card scam. We bought two $50 gift cards for Amazon at CVS drugs. In both cases the intended recipient was unable to use the card - Amazon claimed they had already been used. Neither Amazon, nor CVS would help.
Hey..it worked on John Podesta.
They’re busy shrink wrapping all that cash to ship via UPS to you.
These commercials were great, “my name is Peggy”
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