Online Scammers

[Gembo]

Some of the email ones are very good but I just hover over the title to tell the address is nonsense. I keep getting calls automated calls from London at the moment. I keep blocking the numbers but they use different lines. No doubt my number had been leaked somewhere on the WWW.

I remember just after I'd got tickets for a gig ticketmaster emailed saying they had a massive data breach and it was likely I was affected. Luckily nothing seemed to come of that though in regards to bank details

Ive started getting scam emails from places like Argos and Aldi and when I click on the email address it does come from @aldi.co.uk etc. The title always says I’ve won or been selected for something but you can tell they’re a scam by the wording and spelling. Some people would be taken in by it

 

[Warpaint]

Ive started getting scam emails from places like Argos and Aldi and when I click on the email address it does come from @aldi.co.uk etc. The title always says I’ve won or been selected for something but you can tell they’re a scam by the wording and spelling. Some people would be taken in by it

It looks legit initially but when I hover over the name on the left hand side a little while box comes up with the actual email address. But yeah, easy to see why people do fall for it. Especially those who love coupons and all that. I imagine those are the targets. I've had to look a few times at some of them (Think it was a TV license and Netflix one)

 

[Emperor]

Don't know if I'm allowed to mention the site, but there are some humorous vids on something rhyming with 'Goo Joob' where the guy hacks into the scammers files while they're trying to scam him; he deletes everything they have and they realise (slowly) that something is wrong at their end. Very satisfying.

 

[Gembo]

Don't know if I'm allowed to mention the site, but there are some humorous vids on something rhyming with 'Goo Joob' where the guy hacks into the scammers files while they're trying to scam him; he deletes everything they have and they realise (slowly) that something is wrong at their end. Very satisfying.

My husband was watching one of those the other day and he said they were able to reverse the scam so that the scammer got money taken from them. Haven’t seen it myself but my first thought was Good!

 

[Emperor]

Oh yes, always satisfying to see them punished. You have to be a very particular type of rum to take advantage of the vulnerable.

 

[Ghostpumpkin]

Random post but I received a letter today to my old address (I’ve updated my bank to my new one & old address was my mums) and it was a new bank card, the letter said I wouldn’t be expecting a card but they’ve identified my card as having suspected fraud or whatever. I havnt had any communication from my bank about this or any weird activity. I rang them when I got home through the app and they confirmed it was all legit and I had been identified as my card had “possibly” been compromised, I tried to get them to say how or where they had this info from but they couldn’t tell me. I went through all the security info and rang them through the actual online banking app, the guy just said have I been using my card in different ways which I havnt, no unusual transactions or anything. I’m thinking surely the bank could state why they thought it was fraudulent? It’s playing on my mind and you hear all sorts about even ringing the bank and it being fraud. Anyone else has this?