Has anyone Had an Online Scam occur Lately?
I get scam messages almost everyday. I got this very hilarious scam call. The person in other line was saying, "Sir we have kidnapped your daughter. Deposit 40,034 Dollars (3 lakhs in rupees) in the account we have texted you to get her back." I replied back, "Oh sorry sir you got the wrong number, Actually I'm supposed to be kidnapped and you are supposed to call my dad. You got the daughter." lol. Such scam call still exist. I said that to my dad and he was like, "How can they kidnap you when you stay in home all day long and I don't allow you to go out in this lockdown." It seriously made my day. This happened yesterday only.
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Two this week. I received was one of those McAfee emails you mentioned and the other was a guy who hacked my brother’s company Microsoft account and sent an email to a customer of ours asking him to pay into the bank account he (the hacker) provided rather than ours but luckily he (the hacker) was too late and we’d already been paid.
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Oh yeah. If I'm really bored, sometimes the contents of my junk folder is quite good for a laugh...
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I also have one from Isabel dos Santos (Africa's richest woman), who apparently wants to send me lots of money as well - it must be my lucky day!-
I have McAfee Scan plus and McAfee safe connect, I don't know if it's safe :0
Scammed by facebook, but not directly (this is one of the things you should be careful of).
It was my aunt telling us that a friend of her was renting a house on the beach. We payed and all, got scammed obviously cause it led us to an old abandoned building. And we were so confused, until I asked her specifically where she found it and if her friend was actually renting it. Apparently it was a facebook post her friend shared on facebook and my aunt (that is 78) didn't understand how facebook works.
Be careful people.
*by the way: her friend didn't know it was a scam too -
https://www.ivisa.com/
Yeah, beware of this website. Don't let the "As seen on the BBC" emblem full you. The site claims to assist you with visas and Covid related travel documents, but they charge you a bunch of money, and then either send you faulty forms, or forms that you can access for free through official embassy websites. And they make you send a selfie holding your credit card, and then don't refund you the money.
Stay away from this site! Access any travel forms you need through your country's State Department website. - 399 opinions shared on Technology & Internet topic.
I've had to advise my mother (who was at least suspicious enough to ask) about a couple of scam emails, but I've been on the Internet since the only graphical web browser was Mosaic (and was a novelty) and there were less than 10,000 websites globally. I've seen a million scams, and part of my job is network security, so it's not easy for me to fall for that crap. I rarely click links - and certainly never to places where I have to log in.
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I just got an email saying they took $429 for a renewal when I had cancelled my account and went with Norton. I checked my bank account to see if it was true and it wasn't. So therefore the customer service number in the email was probably so they could scam you when you called.
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I know what an online scam looks like. Means the design and all such things on a webpage, so I never fall for such scams.
When I visit some shady website, these dcams about mcafee and norton security are qlways there. These are just popups and should never be taken seriously. - 455 opinions shared on Technology & Internet topic.
Not lately. A couple years ago my sister fell for the "This is Microsoft and we detected a problem on your computer" scam.
I worked for a company that had a support contract with Microsoft and it was like pulling teeth to get them to provide someone to fix an issue, so the idea that they were independently monitoring computers to find problems was laughable to me. -
I work in tech support so I hear quite a lot of scam calls or fake web sites.
In the UK we don't get the banking scams where they send you out for a voucher to pay back money they pretend to have accidentally transferred to you.
Mainly it's "Microsoft" phoning people saying there is a problem with there pc saying they where hacked and trying to remote into the computer.
Loads of fake Norton/McAfee/Office activation sites that say there was an error activating which moves to either web chat or a call back and remote in the end.
Most start asking for money to install antivirus once remoted in to "fix problems".
One of my team actually said a scammer asked for money to remote in before even trying to pretend to fix there pc. -
No, because I don't fall for any computer scams because I do all the computer maintenance myself. I don't buy into a strange company based out of a basement in India for my computer tech support.
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Which McAfee one we talking? They normally come as pop ups claiming your computer is infected and needs an update through if the pop up it gives you.
These chodes have gotten very crafty. -
Nope not to me or anyone I know. I'm very skeptical and don't tend to fall for these things.
I receive scam text messages, phone calls, emails, weekly, trying to scam me. I block them all. -
Yeah someone emailed me saying they're a hacker and have my password and Said to give him a thousand bucks. I told him to suck a d*ck. He blocked me hahahah
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No, but I get the one's telling me my package is arriving today and to click on a link which is obviously not from a postal service a lot. I had a new one on my phone the other day saying I had won a competition from a large supermarket chain. I also had a new number from Kazakhstan try to call me the other day. Another was someone called me from a phone company I'm not with and also someone from "microsoft windows headquarters". I just hang up as soon as they introduce themselves.
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One scam
I was on online dating and I found a girl
she looked sweet so I swiped right
but
It took her 30 seconds of chat to give me her number
when I texted her HI
She immediately video called me, When the call started she was naked and she recorded my reaction to that. I immediately cut the call and called the police and cybercrime. -
Yes. I saw something about how great an idea it was to go to college, get married, have kids, and a mortgage. Thankfully avoided. :)
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None for me. McAfee? Never bought it. I rarely pay for software when there are good freebies about!
Use Ccleaner, or better still, Bleachbit. - 612 opinions shared on Technology & Internet topic.
Nothing online in recent weeks @Paris13 . I did have a call on my phone this morning. Apparently my Visa card was being used to make large purchases on Amazon. I don't have a Visa card. LOL
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Well, my client was scammed. I have no idea why they didn't call me or someone in my company.
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Surprisingly not but I am getting more scams on my cell phone.
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I don't know if this counts, but recently a few people in my country have been robbed at gunpoint by bandits after responding to online ads supposed to be about the sale of vehicles.
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