Legit looking emails from businesses notifying you of automatic billing for the coming year. It is usually from businesses you know. Of course there is a time limit if you want to cancell. English and grammar are acceptable.

At this point, I assume everything is a scam until proven otherwise. Some of the emails look totally correct except for the sending email address, and even those are configured to trick.

Perhaps the next few B2 missions should be to scammer facilities...

If you don’t know what you’re subscribed to, you need to keep a list even if just for the people you’ll leave behind when you die.

Before the internet there was the phone and door to door. You could get some real satisfaction when the scammer visited your home. It was a very unpleasant experience for them.

Even if it's something I'm sure I want to respond to, I close the browser and open a new one to get to the site.

There’s nothing new about these email scams. They’re all the same. Legit looking, asking you to click “HERE” to perform a task. Pretending to be business you know? Of course. What are the chances of their potential victims being real customers of AT&T, Amazon, Chase, Wells Fargo and the likes?

Got one a few days ago that started with Dear Costumer. LMAO.

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Perhaps the next few B2 missions should be to scammer facilities...

The NSA can keep track of millions of phone calls, e-mails and other communications, but can't locate telemarketers and other scammers.

Beekeeper

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Even if it's something I'm sure I want to respond to, I close the browser and open a new one to get to the site.

Also a good policy to do something similar when you get a call claiming to be some bank or business. Hang up, look up their number, and call them back.

Received the emailed package scam today where they want you to click a link and provide your personal info so they can deliver your package to you. Got a good chuckle and figured must be some 10 year olds running it. Who else would send such a request from “payelves.com”?

I got fooled yesterday, but amazingly paypal refunded my $109.

It was a Facebook ad for a flash sale across most of a major online retailers site. I made the classic mistake of clicking the link instead of typing their address into a new browser window.

Somehow they effectively put themselves invisibly between me and the real website, so as I browsed products the real website was there. I put a few things in my cart.

At checkout they had hijacked the PAY button, sending me to paypal. The payee info didn't show up until after I had hit SEND, which revealed some bogus foreign email.

I have an account at the merchant, but no evidence of my order of course.