Not possitive but I do think that 2 recent surveys in our email are to be avoided. One said it was from State Farm Insurance which we do have and one from AAA the auto club which we do not have . Both offered a safety kit and all you had to pay was the shipping. They both looked like they were legit.
I must get a half dozen of those a day, at most I will tap the senderās information, often the web address has nothing to do with the business it claims to be from. So yes, the bad kind of spam. I get thoseād claiming I won some type of tool or emergency kit from sa well know retailer. Tap the address, not uncommon to see domain of .de or .ru
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My wife will not even click on a link from the bank etc, even if the email address checks out, she always goes to the website directly before doing whatever she was requested to do..
I do get a kick out of the spammers email addresses, if you ever check them 1st, you would probably never open the emailā¦
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I happen to us the VA for much of my health care. At the little shop in the clinic, SPAM was more than $5, people will buy it thinking the VA (or DOD Commissaries) have the best prices.
Hmm, how can we make this car related? Well, I did have State Farm car insurance for over thirty years. I dropped them when they stopped issuing homeowners insurance because of my proximity to the Atlantic.
Speaking of State Farm, are you aware of the multiple lawsuits that they are facing? These lawsuits allege that State Farm vastly undervalued their cars when they were totaled. One woman in Arkansas already won her case against State Farm, so it should be interesting to see what happens with these cases in other states.
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I click on the sender and if it isnāt from the supposed sender, I block it.
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Yeah, I do too. Just donāt unsubscribe, that seems to generate more spam as a valid email recipient.
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2-3 a day.
I get lots of spam email also and I donāt unsubscribe either. I just mentioned these 2 because they really were well done and I can see someone falling for them.
One should always assume any unexpected email, text or phone call (even from an apparent known source) is spam, or worse a scam. Just heard of an acquaintance that got a Facetime call on her iPhone, turned out to be a scam where the captured images are used by the scammers. Sheesh.
Did you ever get the call from the IRS? Will send law enforcement to your house. Always a foreign accent.
No sure if real or a setup, but local news showed a cop receiving one of those calls at work, he told them send them over.
Every 2 weeks, my local PD publishes their Police Blotter, detailing incidents in which the cops were involved. In EVERY one of these reports, there is at least one instance of somebody being scammed out of thousands of $$ because they believed a scam message to be valid.
In todayās report, a man lost $61,000 because he responded to a message from an unknown person about āopportunities in Crypto-Currencyā. Sometimes there will be 2 or 3 of these incidents reported, and the amounts of money have ranged up to $200k.
It seems that no matter how often there are news reports about scams, some people just continue to be taken-in my these high-tech thieves.
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Yep, I may have mentioned that a neighbor/friend lost $42,000 in just such a scam.
What kills me now is the phone number spoofing thingy, where it looks like the number is legit, I got a call early one morning from a ābusinessā telling me such and such and the caller ID showed it was from a restaurant that didnāt open until lunchtimeā¦ I asked him why he broke into the restaurant just to use their phone to make his callsā¦ I also used to just really mess with them and keep them on the phone for a while and then say hang on a minute I have to find something to write with, then just leave them hanging, totally wasting their timeā¦ I have also just out right messed with them saying stuff that canāt be said on here, yeah I have answered and just start making weird noises and stuff, anything to mess with themā¦ Sometimes thanking them for calling cause I really needed the money due to some really long story that I would make up and run with it until they finally figured out I was messing with themā¦ Northing better than wasting their time and getting their hopes up before yanking the rug out from under themā¦ Yeah, I can get a little evil sometimes depending on my moodā¦ 
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That is my brotherās favorite technique. I prefer just cursing at them and then hanging up.
Back when I used a land line and got a sales pitch I would tell them I was really interested and ask them to hold while I answered a knock at the door. Then wait a few minutes, ask them if they were still holding and ask them to wait a few more minutes.
We were on both the federal and state do not call lists, but they had no teeth so were ignored by the callers.
We had an S&L calling every week to refinance our house, they ignored our do not call again. Finally we threatened to sue before they quit calling.
Most of these calls come from overseas where the do-not-call list is useless. Even though the number may be local the call originated from outside the US,
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The S&L was definitely local, but yes majority are from other countries. What ticks me off, the 2017/18 tax bill resulted in more call centers (customer service) moved offshore. Some agents have accents so strong I can not understand them.
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Valid e-mail addresses are worth far more than invalid addresses; unsubscribing validates.
It used to be their policy never to call. That changed a few years ago.
Unfortunately people are losing money in ālegitimateā cryptoācurrenciesā (They arenāt, in fact, currencies.)
Yes, Iām aware of that. Maybe Iām being overly cautious, but Iām not interested in any investments other than āconventionalā ones offered through Vanguard, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and other known quantities.
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