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Scams - We all need to be aware
- Thread starter Lord Chevy
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A different type of scam, but a scam nonetheless.
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great thread idea @Lord Chevy
will check these out!
will check these out!
I was just a recipient of an attempted scam. I sell things online in Facebook groups and I got an email from a woman saying that she wanted to buy an item I had for $25.00. So I said alright, please send a paypal payment to my email address. About 5 minutes later I get an email in my spam folder saying that she had sent $25.00 to my account. The thing is, the email was in Italian and had a strange return email address. I also couldn't see the money in my account. so I emailed her back and she said she sent it to a business account rather than my regular paypal account and she was going to send me another $150.00 to make my Paypal account a business account and I needed to refund her $150 back. This is the letter I got from "Paypal".
I was born at night, but it wasn't last night. It was an obvious scam. This was the email address where the emails came from: paypalonlinepayment190@gmail.com
I emailed them/they, him/he, her/she or whatever fucking pronoun they want to use and told them to eat a bag of dicks.
Stay vigilant!!!
This was in our messenger chat:
Yeah if you read and understand the email it trying to say that right now The fonds are on hold on your end once you send back the $150 now and email the screenshot to them the $175 pending will be credited into your account immediately and it’s will be upgraded at once
Enter
Should I send my PayPal details for you to make the refund?
The next message I got:
The payment can’t be canceled it as been withdrawn from my PayPal account already
Enter
once you send back the additional $150 i had to send to upgrade your account you’ll get credited with the total amount and your account will be upgraded
Enter
You won’t get the money credited into your PayPal account, or available balance till you make the refund of the additional $150 back to me for security reasons and safety so they can credit your account total amount once they see like a screenshot proof of the refund sent from your end....
I was just going to send her another message but for some reason it says "This person unavailable on Messenger". Gee, what a surprise!!
I was born at night, but it wasn't last night. It was an obvious scam. This was the email address where the emails came from: paypalonlinepayment190@gmail.com
I emailed them/they, him/he, her/she or whatever fucking pronoun they want to use and told them to eat a bag of dicks.
Stay vigilant!!!
This was in our messenger chat:
Yeah if you read and understand the email it trying to say that right now The fonds are on hold on your end once you send back the $150 now and email the screenshot to them the $175 pending will be credited into your account immediately and it’s will be upgraded at once
Enter
Claire
Should I send my PayPal details for you to make the refund?
The next message I got:
The payment can’t be canceled it as been withdrawn from my PayPal account already
Enter
Claire
once you send back the additional $150 i had to send to upgrade your account you’ll get credited with the total amount and your account will be upgraded
Enter
Claire
You won’t get the money credited into your PayPal account, or available balance till you make the refund of the additional $150 back to me for security reasons and safety so they can credit your account total amount once they see like a screenshot proof of the refund sent from your end....
I was just going to send her another message but for some reason it says "This person unavailable on Messenger". Gee, what a surprise!!
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If you're ever suspicious about an email, get the headers. For Outlook, open the email and go to the File tab, then click Properties. Contained in that are the headers. Copy them to your clipboard and go to mxtoolbox.com. There's a link to Analyze Headers; just go there, paste the copied text, and click the button.
A lot of the data is technical, but one thing you'll see looks like this:
This shows you every server that was involved in the email's travels. This example isn't very good (legit email), but you can see the IP address. Spam emails generally (but not always!) have more "hops". That first entry (under the FROM column) can be very telling.
Note: If you take the IP address of the first FROM (in this case 192.28.153.178) and go to you web browser, enter in 192.28.153.178.ipaddress.com. It will come back with a lot of info - ISP/IP Owner, Geographic location, and more.
Another thing spammers do is craft the email so the FROM address is whatever they want, and even spoofs the "address" behind it. But, they set the REPLY TO address in the headers to come back to them. The MXTOOLBOX tool will break down the headers in a clean format and you can look for that.
Yes, this is technical. Yes, it is a few steps. But being able to verify (especially if you're checking for someone else - like an older parent - who won't just accept the truth becuase the email sounds so real to them) and show the proof can save someone a lot of money.
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I probably should have mentioned earlier that when she said I needed a Paypal business account to receive the money, I knew she was lying. My Paypal is a business account.
Bit of an alarm bell. I posted that quick and dirty since I am still up, and if it helps one person then it was worth it.
But, I am also the type that likes to keep the scam callers on the line as long as I can - especially if I am running scans or something else that includes a lot of "hurry up and wait". And they get pissed off, which is a bonus.
When I got scam calls, I used to listen to their speil and say "I'm not really interested but my brother might be". Then I'd change my voice and act like I was a brother. I'd let him go through his talk again and I'd say "I'm not really interested either, but my Dad might be". I'd keep going as long as they kept listening.
Never put a deposit down on an apartment you haven't seen yet!
Ice_Ice_Brady
the executioner’s face is always well hidden
I love how every scam takes so much time to put together with logos, schemes, hiding email addresses, etc, and the grammar is always dogshit.I was just a recipient of an attempted scam. I sell things online in Facebook groups and I got an email from a woman saying that she wanted to buy an item I had for $25.00. So I said alright, please send a paypal payment to my email address. About 5 minutes later I get an email in my spam folder saying that she had sent $25.00 to my account. The thing is, the email was in Italian and had a strange return email address. I also couldn't see the money in my account. so I emailed her back and she said she sent it to a business account rather than my regular paypal account and she was going to send me another $150.00 to make my Paypal account a business account and I needed to refund her $150 back. This is the letter I got from "Paypal".
I was born at night, but it wasn't last night. It was an obvious scam. This was the email address where the emails came from: paypalonlinepayment190@gmail.com
I emailed them/they, him/he, her/she or whatever fucking pronoun they want to use and told them to eat a bag of dicks.
Stay vigilant!!!
This was in our messenger chat:
Yeah if you read and understand the email it trying to say that right now The fonds are on hold on your end once you send back the $150 now and email the screenshot to them the $175 pending will be credited into your account immediately and it’s will be upgraded at once
Enter
Claire
Should I send my PayPal details for you to make the refund?
The next message I got:
The payment can’t be canceled it as been withdrawn from my PayPal account already
Enter
Claire
once you send back the additional $150 i had to send to upgrade your account you’ll get credited with the total amount and your account will be upgraded
Enter
Claire
You won’t get the money credited into your PayPal account, or available balance till you make the refund of the additional $150 back to me for security reasons and safety so they can credit your account total amount once they see like a screenshot proof of the refund sent from your end....
I was just going to send her another message but for some reason it says "This person unavailable on Messenger". Gee, what a surprise!!
Ice_Ice_Brady
the executioner’s face is always well hidden
The word “bank” is now a registered trademark apparently
I was gonna go through the whole thing, but I’m too lazy. The number of misapplied capitalization and grammatical errors here is just off the charts.
This is always a foolproof fraud detection method because the actual companies are supposedly sending these messages and have templates.
You’d think these “geniuses” that are going to send this scam to like a million people would at least have a native English speaker write or review the text.
I thought this was another Covid thread.
Once I got a call from an Indian guy telling me that my Amazon account had been hacked, and he needed to reset the payment information. So I had to give him my account info so he could reenter. I keep him on the phone for about 20 minutes just fucking him with a wrong number or being unable to read one of the digits, so I'd have to find another card. He finally caught on when I told him I once had the worst case of the shits after eating at an Indian restaurant. He said FUCK YOU and hung up.
Good idea @Lord Chevy
Once I got a call from an Indian guy telling me that my Amazon account had been hacked, and he needed to reset the payment information. So I had to give him my account info so he could reenter. I keep him on the phone for about 20 minutes just fucking him with a wrong number or being unable to read one of the digits, so I'd have to find another card. He finally caught on when I told him I once had the worst case of the shits after eating at an Indian restaurant. He said FUCK YOU and hung up.
Good idea @Lord Chevy
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