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[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Whatever you get from wherever.


[Amazon] You have a refund, click here to check the amount.

Of course, it's one of those fake Libyan URLs (.ly) that should always be avoided.

Checking my real email and account, nope ... no refund. Surprise!!

 

[purbeast0]

I don't even read or pay attention to them anymore. They just get marked as spam and I move on.

I also get text messages with stuff and just do the same - block and delete.

 

[KLin]

Got a norton subscription renewal invoice in my gmail. Made it into the inbox. Probably because it came from another gmail account.

 

[stargazr]

I have a second email account with gmail that I don't log into very often. I received several emails over two days from women claiming to have responded to my profile on a dating site. Well, those sites usually don't give out user email addresses so you can pay for their services, and discretion. Communications are through the site.

I don't even have any profiles like that. And none of the emails mentioned what site they were responding to. I guess the scammers figure a lot of men have had experience with a dating site in the past, and fall for it. They probably end up trying to get you to send money to visit or something.

 

[sdifox]

I used to get calls claiming to be from the PRC consulate.
<---- Taiwanese

 

[Brainonska511]

Got a norton subscription renewal invoice in my gmail. Made it into the inbox. Probably because it came from another gmail account.

I had something similar, but it claimed it was GeekSquad. Obvious fake invoices to try and get you to call and reveal other personal info probably.

 

[IBMJunkman]

No scam. Actual fraud. Thursday morning I woke up and checked messages. Seems I bought something on Amazon at 02:29 my time that morning. Uh, I was asleep. Item is a Genie garage door opener for around $450.

Checked my orders. Nothing. Turned out there is an option to archive orders. They don’t show up in the normal screen. The scam order had been archived. Cancelled order. Changed password on Amazon account and set up 2FA. Cancelled credit card. Really hated to do that.

I have the name and address of the intended recipient. Did some research. Seems he is a 67 year old retired engineer that worked for a now closed RC airplane accessory company.

I think this is a porch pirate scam. Scammer waits for delivery and grabs package before homeowner sees it. I am tempted to call recipient and have a conversation.

Should I?

 

[KLin]

No scam. Actual fraud. Thursday morning I woke up and checked messages. Seems I bought something on Amazon at 02:29 my time that morning. Uh, I was asleep. Item is a Genie garage door opener for around $450.

Checked my orders. Nothing. Turned out there is an option to archive orders. They don’t show up in the normal screen. The scam order had been archived. Cancelled order. Changed password on Amazon account and set up 2FA. Cancelled credit card. Really hated to do that.

I have the name and address of the intended recipient. Did some research. Seems he is a 67 year old retired engineer that worked for a now closed RC airplane accessory company.

I think this is a porch pirate scam. Scammer waits for delivery and grabs package before homeowner sees it. I am tempted to call recipient and have a conversation.

Should I?

"Hi, is your grandson a porch pirate scammer by any chance?"

 

[stargazr]

I got a message on FB from a Japanese woman, who I had one mutual friend in common with. She said "Hi, can I ask you a question" lol. Profile *sort of* looked legit. Pics were of a very beautiful fairly young woman. I was at work running production on CNC, and had a lot of down time, so I figured what the heck, I'll play along. Talked to her all day.

She was very successful, had her own business and also managed a medical laser company. And another red flag - very interested in investing, especially cryptocurrencies. Later said she got home from work, sent pictures of her awesome dinner she cooked up.

So I Googled 'Asian women crypto'. There's a whole huge type of scam where men are getting conned out of their life savings. The FBI has released PSA's warning people. It's called Pig Butchering. Very sophisticated, long, drawn out online relationships where they slowly gain your trust (fattening the pig), then send a link to invest in Bitcoin etc. (the butchering).

Hard to believe they get so many suckers. They say a great deal of it is unreported, because some guys feel so stupid and humiliated.

 

[marees]

I got a message on FB from a Japanese woman, who I had one mutual friend in common with. She said "Hi, can I ask you a question" lol. Profile *sort of* looked legit. Pics were of a very beautiful fairly young woman. I was at work running production on CNC, and had a lot of down time, so I figured what the heck, I'll play along. Talked to her all day.

She was very successful, had her own business and also managed a medical laser company. And another red flag - very interested in investing, especially cryptocurrencies. Later said she got home from work, sent pictures of her awesome dinner she cooked up.

So I Googled 'Asian women crypto'. There's a whole huge type of scam where men are getting conned out of their life savings. The FBI has released PSA's warning people. It's called Pig Butchering. Very sophisticated, long, drawn out online relationships where they slowly gain your trust (fattening the pig), then send a link to invest in Bitcoin etc. (the butchering).

Hard to believe they get so many suckers. They say a great deal of it is unreported, because some guys feel so stupid and humiliated.

Romance scammer posing as a stranded astronaut swindled an 80-year-old woman out of $6,700 — fraudster claimed they needed funds for oxygen supplies​

News
By Mark Tyson published 16 hours ago
Pleas that his spaceship was ‘under attack and in need of oxygen’ were surprisingly successful.

CBS News reports that an elderly woman in Japan was conned by a man posing as a stranded astronaut. After building the relationship, the scammer cheated the victim out of a million yen (~$6,700) to fund his "need of oxygen."

The woman, an octogenarian who lives in Japan's northern Hokkaido island, first met her ‘astronaut’ suitor online in July, according to reports. Perhaps he was posing as a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) employee.

Romance scammers drain billions of dollars from people seeking love, and their tactics have evolved in sinister ways in the online age. More than 64,000 Americans were taken for over $1 billion in romance scams in 2023 — double the $500 million just four years earlier, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

About half of people who are using dating sites say they've come across somebody who's tried to scam them, according to Rep. Brittany Pettersen, a Colorado Democrat who says tech platforms need to do a better job of protecting their users.

Romance scammer posing as a stranded astronaut swindled an 80-year-old woman out of $6,700 — fraudster claimed they needed funds for oxygen supplies

Pleas that his spaceship was ‘under attack and in need of oxygen’ were surprisingly successful.

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[lxskllr]

Sounds like a job for Star Fleet, not some random normie. I wonder how you buy oxygen in space? Does amazon deliver?

 

[Greenman]

I get at least two scam emails a day. A couple months back I started getting rando texts "are you playing golf with us Tuesday?" crap like that. I always answer and claim some horrible accident or amputation has left me bedridden.

 

[bononos]

I got a message on FB from a Japanese woman, who I had one mutual friend in common with. She said "Hi, can I ask you a question" lol. Profile *sort of* looked legit. Pics were of a very beautiful fairly young woman. I was at work running production on CNC, and had a lot of down time, so I figured what the heck, I'll play along. Talked to her all day.

She was very successful, had her own business and also managed a medical laser company. And another red flag - very interested in investing, especially cryptocurrencies. Later said she got home from work, sent pictures of her awesome dinner she cooked up.

So I Googled 'Asian women crypto'. There's a whole huge type of scam where men are getting conned out of their life savings. The FBI has released PSA's warning people. It's called Pig Butchering. Very sophisticated, long, drawn out online relationships where they slowly gain your trust (fattening the pig), then send a link to invest in Bitcoin etc. (the butchering).

Hard to believe they get so many suckers. They say a great deal of it is unreported, because some guys feel so stupid and humiliated.

Their profiles don't make sense. They supposedly have good jobs and are successful but they always seem to spend the whole day chatting. It just doesn't add up unless they actually work as scammers and spend the whole day scamming people.