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That’s my local TV station. Brian Roche the broadcaster that’s doing the story regularly does segments regarding scammers.
What I fail to comprehend is how people can be so gullible.
 
I received a few of those Geek Squad emails, didn't bite me.
Geek Squad is also a waste of money and did get bit.
 
What a coinky dinky - Shortly after I posted that link, I got an email from PayPal (and it really was from PayPal), telling me my account had been used to purchase an iPhone for $899.99. There was a note telling me if I didn't authorize the transaction, to please call a certain number.

The first thing I did was to log into my PayPal account and sure enough there was a "pending" invoice for $899.99 sitting there in my transactions. Even though the email was from PayPal, the note with the phone number was from the scammer, so I knew better than to call THAT phone number. Instead, I logged into my PayPal app and found the REAL PayPal number. The lady I spoke with was very nice and very helpful. She walked me through the process of cancelling that transaction, then gave me the email address to send this phishing attempt to at PayPal, which I did. She said most likely, the person (Daryl) whose PayPal account was used to send me the invoice, was most likely someone who has had their account taken over/ compromised by scammers.

You just can't be too careful these days. The scammers are coming up with all kinds of clever ways to try to trick you.

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I watched a bunch of YouTube videos about people scamming the scammers.
Fun to watch,but very time consuming.
 
OK heres a question from someone who has no access to any of these kind of payment things (and the more I see the happier I am about it):

How did "Daryl" manage to put an invoice into your legitimate PayPal account? The fact that an entity which you did not conduct a transaction with was able to convince PayPal that you owed them money is, in my mind, a serious flaw in their system.
 
YakkoWarner said:
How did "Daryl" manage to put an invoice into your legitimate PayPal account?
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The way it was explained to me is that "Daryl's account" was compromised (he may have had a password that was easy to hack, for example). The hacker (not really Daryl) then simply logs in to Daryl's account and sends out "invoices" to as many other accounts as possible requesting money. (This is why it is really important to use complex passwords on everything you do online - simple passwords like words of dates, etc., are easy to hack with brute force attacks. I use a Password locker on my computer and have extremely long/ complex passwords on everything I do. I don't have to remember them since they are in may password locker and I only need to paste the password when I log in somewhere.

The good thing about how PayPal handles those illegitimate transactions is they don't automatically pay them - YOU have to approve the transaction. In this case, of course I knew I had not purchased an iPhone so I was able to cancel that transaction.
 
Basil said:
I've seen those - great fun.
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I did get a phone scammer to scream at me once, was telling me I'd been found guilty in "secret" financial court of stealing money and needed to pay a fine over the phone. If I didn't, the cops were sitting at the end of the street to come get me and toss me in prison. I said "great, no need to go to work and 3 squares a day, send them on down". His initial response was "What??". When I insisted they come arrest me he got to yelling, it was so much fun upsetting him and wasting his time.
 
I got completely cussed out by one while at work - including F-bombs and other obscenities. All because I pointed out that they were clearly a scammer because of their attempt to trick me into giving up financial info by claiming to offer student loan forgivness was amatuerish because they:

A - called someone who works at a college
B - on their listed college work phone
C - during normal business hours
D - who never took out a student loan

Wish I could have recorded it....
 
mikephillips said:
I did get a phone scammer to scream at me once, was telling me I'd been found guilty in "secret" financial court of stealing money and needed to pay a fine over the phone. If I didn't, the cops were sitting at the end of the street to come get me and toss me in prison. I said "great, no need to go to work and 3 squares a day, send them on down". His initial response was "What??". When I insisted they come arrest me he got to yelling, it was so much fun upsetting him and wasting his time.
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YakkoWarner said:
I got completely cussed out by one while at work - including F-bombs and other obscenities. All because I pointed out that they were clearly a scammer because of their attempt to trick me into giving up financial info by claiming to offer student loan forgivness was amatuerish because they:

A - called someone who works at a college
B - on their listed college work phone
C - during normal business hours
D - who never took out a student loan

Wish I could have recorded it....
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I had some fun with a phone scammer once. I started acting like I knew him - "Hey, I know you, don't I?" How have you been? Man, it's been a long time, hasn't it? Did you end up marrying that girl?" It was great fun.
 
I think I still have a warrant out for my arrest.One scammer let me
a message that if I didn't respond that one would be issued.



I had a co-worker who would have a conversation with scammers
when they called him.He'd ask them how the weather was,etc.,until they
ran out of their alloted time.
 
My shop partner messed with one a few months ago. Don't remember all the details but he was to receive $4.5M plus a new Mercedes. On the third call the guy finally figured he was being "reverse scammed" and threatened to send some thugs to kill him if he didn't give up his bank account number so they could transfer the money.
 
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