Indian scammers...
I answer my phone by not saying a word and let the scammers sit there and wonder what’s going on. It wastes their time and saves somebody elses.
This pertains to any calls or emails that you get from ANYONE!
No matter who contacts you, whether they claim to be your bank, your insurance company, any retailer, or whatever, never ever trust that they are who they say they are. Tell them thank you and that you will handle it on your own and hang up. Do not let them try to convince you that your account is in any kind of danger. Just hang up.
Same with emails.
Never click on any links or open any attachments.
If they claim to be your bank, call your bank directly. Separately. Never trust anyone who calls you out of the blue.
I keep getting calls from some mortgage company wanting me to refinance my VA mortgage. My home has been paid off for years.................
I got a call the other day informing me that my utility company had made an error, and I was due a refund. Funny that they never mentioned my name, or the name of the utility company.
I was curious, so I stayed on the line. I ended up having a nice two-minute conversation with an Indian gentleman. But he eventually hung up on me. Maybe that’s because I was speaking Hungarian to him the whole time.
Watch kitboga on youtube or twitch to see him mess with these scammers.
At some point almost all of these scammers want you to run desktop sharing software. If you get fooled up to that point, STOP NOW!
I got a strange message on my screen the other day.
“Some of your passwords may have been stolen. Click here to confirm your passwords”. No thanks!
I recently received a couple of e-mails, supposedly from Amazon, which said that someone had purchased something using my account. They wanted me to click on a confirmation to stop the transaction. Naturally, I would have to enter my ID and Password.
No thanks.
I contacted Amazon and they confirmed it was bogus and advised me not to open any attachments or provide any information.
I got an e-mail from “Amazon” telling me that my Prime account was about to expire. I checked my account (not through the e-mail’s link) and found I have several months yet. It looked pretty authentic without with obvious grammar or spelling errors.
Also, beware of the line “Can you hear me all right?” Your “yes” reply can be used against you.
Someone I know had their email hacked recently. I got an email, from her address, asking if I would “do her a favor ... do you have an Amazon account?”
Evidently the scam is that they get you to purchase an Amazon gift card & then give them the claim code (or send it to them) - of course you are never reimbursed.
I would NEVER do this anyway, plus I noticed that the email for replying was similar, but not the same as the person’s email. Additionally, as if I need more reason to be suspicious, we are not ‘friends’ and I am the LAST person she would ask for a favor. The only reason my email address was in her address book was for some organizational business we had to transact some years ago.
Within a week, there was an email from the organization we both belong to, stating her email was hacked & to ignore/delete those scam messages.
My “land line“ rings about ten times a day. No one I know has that number. It is always silence, then the person on the other end says “hello” like I called them. I now have the line connected to a fax machine, and I chuckle when it picks up, hoping the shulb on the other end is getting an earful.
I frequently receive texts telling me to click a link to claim an Amazon gift card, or telling me an Amazon package —which I didn’t order— is on the way.
I never click, assuming this is a malware attack.
The other odd thing is, these texts always address me by a fake name I once used on Twitter.
I suspect many of the Antifa punks work for the left wing big tech companies. They’re getting access to people’s personal info— cellphone numbers, etc.
I got that by text with the link. Idiots only click on links they know nothing about..and my name was Javier on the text. Just like Mittens, I have my own Pierre Delecto secret ID.
My answering machine has those loud beeps associated with disconnected numbers.