Posted on 07/31/2019 11:33:52 AM PDT by Leo Carpathian
Yesterday I received "notification" from FedEx officially looking email telling me that package is on the way, will require signature. To find out where it is just go click on link.
Today I got email from service@paypal, telling me to go click on
"You received a payment of $308.09 USD from eBay Inc Shipping (us-ebay-shiplabels16@ebay.com)
Check and Update Activity"
which points to: (http://members.westnet.com.au/~kathscully/LABEL.07-31-19.jar) which looks like malware in .JAR format (like .ZIP)
When I got first one and viewed on the phone, I clicked on it and nothing showed. Later checking via computer I found the .JAR file on the phone and deleted it. I hope it avoided malware.
Watch out and please be alert, this is getting worse.
Spam, do not open or call/respond
You can send the first one to abuse@fedex.com and the second to spoof@paypal.com. They are probably interested to know about these e-mails.
If it seems YOU are getting something for nothing it generally means SOMEONE ELSE is getting something for nothing.
Could be ransomware. Hopefully, you have backups.
And send them to each other.
Scammer vs Scammer.
Er, why click on it at all?
Thank you
.jar files are java packages. No legitimate business is going to be sending you that!
The ability to actually use our mobile devices for communication is getting more difficult daily.
I always check the email address and it’s usually some weird address so I never click on an attachment unless I’m 100% sure.
I got one from “Apple Services” today. Bad grammar and all. I didn’t click.
I get at lease one of these a day, every day. Their sheer ubiquity is a flaming red flag. I’d vote democrap before I clicked on an unsolicited link.
Let’s see... I am on the mailing list of:
FedEx
American Express
Qatar Airways
American Airlines Support
Ebay
Paypal
and several others I can’t recall
All the emails I receive from the above look 100% legit. Until I hover over a link and discover it will take me to, example, http://protocolo.jaguariuna.sp.gov.br/wp-content/cecropiapj.html or some such.
Just delete these and don’t worry about it. Sure, you can send email to, example, spoof@fedex.com but be aware there are thousands of folks doing the same thing.
For now, it is impossible for an email to deliver working malware UNLESS you click on the link.
To repeat, just delete these emails and don’t worry about it. Has been happening for years. Just delete. DO NOT click on a link.
Yeah, I got an email this morning from “PayPal” telling me my account had been suspended. Click here for details and how to clear the suspension.
I haven’t used PayPal since the turn of the century. I don’t even remember what my email was back then.
Because, even though you are cautious, sometimes these things look important. Just last week, I got a call from the number and ID the school uses for emergencies. Nope, it was a credit card scammer. I reported it to the police and sheriff’s dept. The jerk at the police dept. laughed it off. The sheriff’s dept. saw the seriousness of it. The last time we had a call from the school was an alert for a bomb scare so getting a call on that number would have parents skipping heartbeats.
O received a number of text messages, calls, and e-mails from “Zillow”. I’ve been looking for a new home and someone managed to get into Zillow’s information and start spamming, because I didn’t contact any realtors and had merely been browsing. I forwarded all of the phone numbers and email addresses, along with the street addresses being supposedly peddled, to Zillow’s fraud center and haven’t had issues since. It was persistent for about three days (one call was a legit accident, as a realtor transposed numbers, so that one was fixed easily) until I reported.
Lots of Thai porn sites were coming up associated with the phone numbers calling me. It was very strange.
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I need to proof read a bit better..
I got a call yesterday saying that my SSN had been used in suspicious activity, and had been suspended. I was supposed to call the number given to re-activate my SSN.
The first clue that it was a fraudulent call was the computer-generated voice.
What? No HOT RUSSIAN WOMEN that want to chat?
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