Scam alert

[Hijinx]

I got an email which said it was from Microsoft and they were automatically renewing a program called Windows defender Premium Edition. They said they would charge my credit card from a previous purchase, and if I had a problem to call the number listed. I emailed them back that I had never purchased the original and didn't want or need a renewal.

After some thought I went online and asked if it was a scam and surely it was. I don't know what trouble i may have for emailing them back, but the message said calling them was a real pain in the ass.

Just telling you folks to look out for the scam.

 

[Sneakers]

I still get emails that scream "Don't click on this! It will format your C: Drive!"

 

[Monello]

There are you toobers that punk people that run these scams. Most now are coming out of India. What is amazing is that they have money mules in the US that even unknowingly abet this deception by accepting money from scam victims. The foreign scammers need people in the US to accept the mail which usually has money put into a book. Else they make them get gift cards and tell the scammer the numbers over the phone. Even small call centers make over $100,000 a month on unsuspecting marks that fall for their scams. Most are elderly and not very tech savvy.

 

[Monello]

 

[BOP]

There are you toobers that punk people that run these scams. Most now are coming out of India. What is amazing is that they have money mules in the US that even unknowingly abet this deception by accepting money from scam victims. The foreign scammers need people in the US to accept the mail which usually has money put into a book. Else they make them get gift cards and tell the scammer the numbers over the phone. Even small call centers make over $100,000 a month on unsuspecting marks that fall for their scams. Most are elderly and not very tech savvy.

I watch those occasionally.

I am convinced that the ones who get busted, or the ones who suck at it become FB "fact checkers."