I got an email, purportedly from Paypal, threatening to close my account in 7 days because I haven’t used it in a while. Naturally it asked me to log in and provide my password. The funny thing is, I don’t have a paypal account. Which made it easy to spot this as a fake.

Here’s the email address of the scammer, if anybody cares to have it:

support@romanticobodasbymademoiselle.com

This spoof email came to my yahoo email address. I reported this to paypal, as if they’ll do anything about it.

Remain vigilant about these scammers, guys.

Somebody I know who works at Wal Mart had this story. An elderly gent came in looking to buy some Play Store gift cards (or something similar). After asking him why, he said his Paypal account was overdue and he needed the cards to pay it off. Somebody had called him from "Paypal" threatening to terminate his account. My friend talked to him, and suspected a scam. He had the gent call up the 'Paypal' rep, who immediately got angry and suspicious, warning the gent to not tell anybody. This finally convinced the gent the phone guy was trying to scam him.

Had my friend not intervened, the gent would have paid the scammer $600.

I hate scammers. There is a special place in hell reserved for them, a level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

I get crap like this a couple of times a week. Sometimes it claims to be PayPal, sometimes Netflix, sometimes Apple...but it is always obvious and nothing new.

I get this from Social Security, PayPal, Microsoft and Apple all the time.

I keep them on the phone as long as possible if I am not in the middle of something.

I figure the longer I keep them on the phone, they can't make calls to scam someone.

All. The. Time.

When I won the PCH grand prize of $3.5 million along with a new Mercedes, I could hardly contain my excitement. The nice man even told me the car was already in my state on its way to my house and gave me the option of having the media there. I declined, I really didn't want the neighbors to know how much money I was about to get.

Only thing was, I had to pay $7,000 for taxes on the
car. I told the man to just deduct it from the $3.5 million. I don't know why but he didn't seem so nice anymore. He said I had to go to my bank, be sure to keep the cell phone on, and he would instruct me how to complete a fund transfer when I got there.

I told him I couldn't go for about an hour, I was busy with something else. He became agitated and told me I would lose out and my prizes would be given to someone else. He insisted I leave for the bank immediately.

I decided it was time to have a little fun. I said I couldn't leave until I finished screwing his wife and btw did he know she had one helluva hairy butt?

After a few seconds of silence he unleashed a barrage of curse words and hung up.

Made my day.

Last year I had a very serious scammer email me a few times, said they tapped into my system, got the video's of my misbehavior. And if I didn't send them $tens of thousands to their bitcoin(?) account within 3 days, they would post the video's on my facebook account.

Problem is, my computer didn't have a camera; I have never taken a video with my i-thingey, and I don't have a facebook account.

I did call the FBI who told me to contact the local police, which I did. They told me not to bother forwarding to them the email, such scammers change their source daily.

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Originally posted by arfmel:


Here’s the email address of the scammer, if anybody cares to have it:

support@romanticobodasbymademoiselle.com

I'd send an e-mail to that address with the following:

"I'm so glad you contacted me, I'd lost your e-mail address. I've been trying to reach you about your extended vehicle warranty...."

Get it all the time, 99% of the time it's immediately noticeable that it's a fake. Sometimes the second look catches.

What is annoying to me is my work now tries to phish attack me and if I don't catch their fake fishing expedition then I guess I get a black mark on my record or something or need remedial training.

All the time. I get them from random addresses. For the past week I've been getting calls from "Apple support". Every time I answer (I'm expecting a call from AAC (yeah right) about my suppressor) and it's them I ask them for the address and the non-native guy asks why so I just tell them I want to bring my apple device there and blow the place up.

We were at the accountant doing our taxes. My phone rang and some guy starts going on about how I’d just called him and he was calling the police.
I pointed out three of use were conducting business and my phone hadn’t been used. Then I explained spoofing phone numbers and how scammers used it.
He didn’t believe me and was still going to call the police. I replied “fine” that his complaint and contact information would be public record and did he want anyone to know who and where he was?
Click

An email asking you to click here to provide so and so? Man, these scammers must be living in the last century still. Just as amateurish as the Nigerian prince wanting to share his fortune with you.

You guys are so mean....

I like to try and understand their culture....make a connection if you will.

Asked one fellow "what is it like to live in a third world shithole?" And " did his children have more than one pair of flip flops?"

He did not want to " make a connection"


Next up, I asked a very polite woman " if she believed a rape culture existed in India and what should be done about all the poor sheep being raped?"

She did not understand how I just wanted to understand her culture better.

One Hispanic woman could not understand my screams, I tried to explain I was connecting on a very base level and supporting tearing down the wall but she hung up.



My wife has taken to handing me her phone for these calls as well

Anyone else been getting "car warranty about to expire" calls lately? It's been a few times a week the last month or so.

Funny thing is the only car under my name is 23 years old.

^^^ Yeah, get those quite often as well.

From the meme thread. Made me laugh.