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No no no no⊠lol
I think you may have misunderstood me⊠I am not one to post or answer any question post or anything like that, I never give out any information for any kind of fishing scamâŠ
I post about pit bulls, dogs and cats doing funny stuff, stupid people doing stupid stuff, stuff like 'The Far Side" and those sort of thingsâŠ
I NEVER answer those stupid âYour 1st job was McDonalds, prove me wrongâ crap much less repost them⊠I never repost the âI bet only 2 of my friend-insert hereâ stuffâŠ
I do post stuff like the new guy spraying water/soap on a dismounted tire tread looking for bubbles to find the leak (not mounted, no air), or the idiot with the strut between his legs about to hit the strut to mount nut⊠So donât need to worry about me and my post on FB, and I am not on it but a few minutes everyday⊠But thanks for the advise anywayâŠ
Just yesterday, one of my Facebook friends (actually, my brotherâs neighbor) had her FB account hacked, and I received an IM allegedly from her. I knew that, as soon as âsheâ asked several times if I knew about some sort of lucrative government program, it was a scammer.
I replied, âYes, I am well aware of that program, and Iâve already received $75k from it!
If you give me your bank account information, I can help you to apply for those fundsâ.
The scam messages suddenly stopped.
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I am a full time care taker of my parents now and I finally just unplugged (a while back their phone) due to getting 15-20 scam calls a day M-F⊠I also intercept all the mail due to the same thing⊠Sad when people work harder at not working a real job then having a real job⊠I even got on to our bank manager about some scams that they didnât catch that Dad had signed up for⊠
Yep! That is the EXACT crap I am talking about! âWhat was the make and model of your first car?â âWhat car did you learn to drive in?â âWhat car did you learn to drive a manual transmission in?â âI wish I never sold my __________________.â with a classic car themed background. âYour porn name is your motherâs maiden name and the make and model of your first car.â The list of these just goes on and on. It seems to obvious to me and is nothing new but people continue to fall for them on a daily basis. Then there are the like farming scams to win a valuable price. Campers/RVs, iPhones, and cars are all common targets. They want you to like and share the post and fill out a bunch of your information. This is really a huge problem.
I have seen local small businesses really screwed over when some idiot employee insists on doing Facebook scams at work, resulting in a malware/ransomware/data breach situation that often costs tens of thousands of dollars to cleanup. I have gotten to where I block access to social media for many when it isnât needed on that computer to prevent bored employees from participating in this nonsense. It seems like no matter how many times someone tells them to stop, they donât. It is an addiction like gambling.
The funny jokes and stupid stuff like the guy using starter fluid to mount tires are often part of like farming schemes. You get on lists of potential targets and they know you like cars/mechanical stuff from what you share and interact with. They wonât send you scams related to sewing machines, knitting, and recipes once they know. I usually copy and paste the links if I find it funny because that is a lot safer. There is still risk but it is very small. The real risk from copying and pasting are the âgullibility checksâ that insist you copy and paste a string of text to opt out of terms on Facebook or similar. This is completely fake, doesnât work, but serves as a good indicator for someone who might fall for scams if they are explicitly targeted. Bot accounts are just searching for those who copy and paste these messages, then they are targeted.
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Yep! Been there, done that! Got messages saying I could get $50K or more in COVID CASH or something from the govt. I told them I had already gotten it. They seemed really interested at first as I think they thought I had fallen for an identical scam and would be a good target. They kept wanting to see the money so I just did am image search for âpile of cashâ and found a good one to send to them. The scam messages stopped. I have certain friends who seem to fall for all this crap and get their accounts hacked ALL THE TIME! I can explain why it happened to them a dozen times or more but it is like talking to a concrete wall. I have limited what these people can see on my account because I donât want any of my information being used against me or my friends. I sometimes wonder why I donât just unfriend them as I get scam messages from them basically weekly. I do use them as examples to my customers of what you donât want to have happen to your Facebook account and that is the main reason I keep these 3-5 gullible people around. Plus they often end up as good paying customers when they get hacked/scammed repeatedly.
I had three bothers contact me from St. Louis (about 100 miles away) due to their mother falling for these scams repeatedly. She had blown though half a million dollars THAT THEY KNOW OF and had likely gone through a lot more, all to scammers. She was to the point she was about to get kicked out of her house, have her power cut off, and didnât have enough money for food. They would give her money for these things but she would send it to scammers. It was like an addiction for her. Finally the FBI got involved and she can no longer open a phone service, bank account, buy flights, and a whole bunch of other restrictions because she has aided criminal scammers with so much of her money. The kids finally took complete control of her finances and she was basically broke by then with nothing to live on but social security. I do not get this mindset but it is apparently quite common as I see it several times per week.
They tried buying her gift cards for the nearest supermarket for a while so she could buy groceries that way. She would instead buy pre-paid phones with the grocery gift cards and send them overseas to scammers. The FBI was watching her by this time and had to shut that down as well. She had to then send a shopping list to her sons, they would buy the food, then she would have it picked up or delivered.
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Tell them to look at recurring payments that are NOT monthly but every 3rd month or something like that, Our bank does not show those on the recurring payment section on the statements and they are hard to findâŠThey are also small amounts like $20-50 so nothing to draw attention toâŠ
One was $33.00 every 3rd month from a legit magazine company that failed to tell the customer that that âone time feeâ would come out every 3rd month, now they only legally stole just under $400.00 over X amount of time , but with a million + customers that adds up (I think there is a class action against them)⊠It can be the little stuff that doesnât jump out at you that can getcha alsoâŠ
And to keep it vehicle related, I love the your warranty is about to expire on your 2004 whatever car⊠Get the ____ out of here⊠lol
I did have fun messing with a lot of the scam callers before I got board with them and unplugged the phones⊠I would drag it out as long s possible giving them fake info and then would give them 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500 as my addy and boy would they get made once they figured I was messing with⊠Or tell them thank you I really needed the money and then make up some BS sob story and just keep adding to it about how bad everything was until it got so obvious that a 5 year old would know I was lying or I would just plain burst out laughing⊠They may be scum bags of the earth but they still hate it when you waste there time⊠
Years ago, when the scam calls were much less frequent, if it was going to be a really hard-sell tactic, Iâd sometimes say âWow! Thatâs Interesting! I really want to listen to everything you have to say, but thereâs somebody at the door, could you wait on hold until I find out what they want?.â ⊠lol âŠ
My wife told me I was mean cause I will/would tell them wait a minute so I can get a pen and paper, then I would lay the phone down and go back to whatever I was doing⊠lol
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I have done similar stuff. Told one I was going to pay them $5000 for computer support but had to go to the doctor and would be back in an hour. I put them on hold, went outside for an hour, cut firewood, and came back in and told them what I was up to. I have never been called such horrible things in my entire life! It was great.
The car warranty scams are one of the most popular scam calls people get. Luckily I donât get many of these for some reason. I hear timeshare sales and disposals is another one where they really get you but I donât get those calls either.
Yes, banks have flags for strange patterns that indicate fraud. Several of my customers found out because of this. Even number purchases from drug stores and supermarkets are a huge red flag and usually indicate gift card fraud. That poor guy had spent like $2000+ trying to âwinâ an iPhone that at worst case would have cost a tad more than $1000 when this was going on over a period of several months with $50-$100 gift card purchases. He was going to the same local supermarket and making even number purchases for gift cards to supposedly âwinâ this iPhone. The thing he printed out was so bad. It was misspelled and the picture and wording described the current flagship Galaxy as well as the Android OS with the title only being about getting a free iPhone. No it was an âiPh0o0o0o0oneâ or something like that. How obvious can you get?
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Seems like a good thing, but can be a problem too. A few years ago I went of vacation, credit card company decide the charges were in different place and categories than they usually were, so they decided the card must have been stolen, & put my card on hold. Mid-vacation, I discovered I couldnât buy anything, couldnât even pay for gasoline & hotel bills, except w/cash.
A hold on a credit card is much more likely if you are traveling outside the US. If that is the case or itâs somewhere in the US a long way from you, then call the card company and alert them to the trip.
Thatâs what the credit card staff told me later. I wasnât a long distance away though, the credit card hold started while I was still in Nevada. I think the mixup was related to an organization change at the credit card company that was occurring at the same time, the credit card was changing from Visa to MasterCard. Trying to get the card status back to normal was a comedy of errors, involving a hotel telephone with sticking keys.
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I always phone my credit card companies prior to a trip, to notify them that I will be in locales other than my usual locations. A few minutes on the phone can prevent a LOT of problems that are otherwise avoidable,