I fell for it!!
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Topic: I fell for it!!
Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Subject: I fell for it!!
Date Posted: March-15-2016 at 12:42pm
 Thankfully I caught it in time, called my credit card company and cancelled the account. Thankfully there were no phony charges on the card. Yesterday I entered personal information in the link provided in a phony email! It looked like a PayPal email but wasn't!! I called PayPal and was told they are getting lots of these calls from people like me. Be cautious to say the least. http://www.phishing.org/scams/paypal-phishing/" rel="nofollow - PayPal pshing scam ------------- /diaries/details.asp?ID=1622" rel="nofollow - 54 Atom /diaries/details.asp?ID=2179" rel="nofollow - 77 Tique 64 X55 Dunphy Keep it original, Pete < |
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Posted By: Hollywood
Date Posted: March-15-2016 at 12:58pm
| Don't every put personal information in an email. If you think it may be a real alert go to the actual website. Don't follow their links either. |
Posted By: Gary S
Date Posted: March-15-2016 at 1:03pm
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You don't really need your birth date on here either- just saying ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=1711&sort=&pagenum=1&yrstart=1966&yrend=1970" rel="nofollow - 69 Mustang HM SS 95 Nautique Super Sport |
Posted By: AAM196
Date Posted: March-15-2016 at 5:19pm
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Kinda hard to believe a guy who'd couldn't be fooled by marking ads to use sub par penetrating oil would email someone in Nigeria his social security # and credit card information.. Good thing you realized this was a scam before they ordered a few cases of Fram Oil filters and PB blast! 
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Posted By: M3Fan
Date Posted: March-15-2016 at 6:07pm
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Essentially phishing is so successful that crooks are just focusing on that vs. creating viruses these days. We are implementing phishing training at work, which includes creating and sending spoof phishing campaigns to the company to see who bites and I'm shocked at how many people fall for the test emails, giving away some of their most important logins right away. It's extremely important and urgent that companies start doing phishing training (and WiFi Scam training) to protect their assets. ------------- 2000 SN GT40 w/99 Graphics/Gel 2016 SN 200 OB 5.3L DI https://forum.fifteenoff.com |
Posted By: IAughtNaut
Date Posted: March-15-2016 at 10:13pm
Sounds like profiling to me. ------------- bring the ruckus http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=5347" rel="nofollow - 2000 Pro Air |
8122pbrainard wrote:Posted By: AAM196
Date Posted: March-15-2016 at 11:17pm
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