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To: blu

It makes me nervous that some of us are getting different messages. I hope that Trump’s site hasn’t been hacked. But I am probably the least techno-savvy person on these parts.


1,566 posted on 02/16/2022 7:28:35 PM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Bigg Red
That isn't a hacked site, it's a phishing site. Always check the URL before you click on anything. Phish sites will look something like FamousBrandName.IWillStealYourMoney.com. If it has anything other than TruthSocial.com in the URL, it's not a link you want to click and you certainly dn't want to give them your information or credit card.

Some examples I have seen: Starbucks.marketingmagic.com (they copied a legitimate Starbucks email and pasted into a message, so it looked like the real thing) and FedEx.invoice234.com... this is common and I get it every week. The copy a fake FedEx invoice into the email and tell them I owe them a shipping charge of $000.00 before my shipment will be delivered. Same with Amazon phishing scams.

It's easy to get lazy, especially in email. My IT department occasionally sends out phishing emails to give a lecture when we click them, and I was caught recently. I thought I was clicking on a LinkedIn invite from someone in my company, but it was a fake website they had set up. I got busted. 😣

1,630 posted on 02/16/2022 9:57:45 PM PST by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven )
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