A slightly different scam attempt today

Got an e-mail yesterday on my Yahoo e-mail account from EZ TOLL something or another. Sent it directly to SPAM to help educate the SPAM filter and then DELETED it without even opening it. Occasionally one slips through the SPAM filter but if I don't recognize the sender, just like phone calls from folks not in my contacts, it immediately gets DELETED without even being opened.
 
I get at least one Spam call per day from the 771 area code. It's a new Washington, DC Overlay area code. Since it's DC, I assume anyone calling is going want money. Looking it up on line it seems that this is the new hot area code for Spam numbers.

Figures that it's Washington, DC.
 
One item I read said that in the event a victim did fall for the scam and submit a credit card number, he would then get a message from the scammer saying that the card number was invalid, and to submit another card. So now the scammer has access to two cards.
 
I receive 3 to 5 phone calls, 2 to 4 text messages, and 3 or 4 emails every day. All are scams.

My cell phone voice mail only says “No one is available to answer this call, you can leave a message after the tone."

I removed my personal voice announcements many years ago. I understand the scammers are recording human voices and with AI then using them to scam family and friends.

I do not respond or reply to unknown messages. I just delete and block them if I can.

I do not answer the phone unless I know the caller and the number appears in my caller ID.

If the call appears to be from my auto insurance company, my bank, or health insurance provider, for example, I will take the call, but unless I know what the call is about and the identity of the caller, I simply say “I’m sorry you cannot prove who you are or your identity, so this phone call is over”. If they offer a phone number to call, I will write it down, but NOT use it to contact the organization. I will call my insurance company, bank, or my health insurance provider and verify any actions that need to be addressed.

I don’t think you can be overly cautious today with protecting yourself from evil.
 
My phone does a good job of noting possible scam calls so I won't answer. It blocks texts well, too. Email is another problem. It usually goes to the Spam folder, but sometimes surfaces. The toll scams arrive, and I report phishing and try to block them, but they always have a different spoofed addy. Ebay bitcoin purchases, and spoofed Norton AV and Geek Squad subscriptions are nearly weekly.
 
All I know it they my Cloud, sirius, et all payments were declined and my accounts are being suspended. Don't care as I have none of them. I have also won about 10 or so took sets from lowes. home depot, and on and on.
 
Wife got an interesting scam the other day. Email from supposedly USPS That she owed them .28 cents postage. We wondered why the postman just did not put a note in the mailbox like they used to. Got down the end of the message and they asked to be paid by credit card. They tried to not alert anyone by threats or asking for cash but they were sure after the credit card information.
 
Retired W4 said:
I was wondering if anyone actually fell for these scams. I suppose if they keep on casting into the pond some poor fish will bite.
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Yes. Sadly they do. I've seen it more than once and except for one occassion all were elderly folks. I didn'[t feel too sorry for them, though...I found them to be beyond excessively greedy.
 
I haven't been through a toll booth in over 30 years . Somehow I still have unpaid tolls ...:p
 
A couple of years ago I nearly fell for an elaborate phone scam. When the scammer started talking about me paying with Bitcoin, I quickly came to my senses before any damage was done. I consider that anything having to do with Bitcoin must be a scam.
 
This just posted by our local RCMP:
Two reports have been received over the past week of people trying to use a common gold scam in Mission. In one case, the suspects were using a black Cadillac Escalade with Washington State license plates, while a white Dodge Durango was used another time. This scam typically involves a male and female – sometimes even with children – who approach people in a mall parking lot, claiming to have lost their wallet or otherwise suffered some recent tragedy. The suspects ask for cash, and offer to sell an item of (fake) gold or other jewelry in exchange. The suspects will ask for hundreds or even thousands of dollars, and will often encourage the kind-hearted individual to use a nearby ATM machine to withdraw additional cash for the transaction. The offenders then leave with a sum of cash, while the victim is left with a worthless piece of jewelry. Anyone being approached in this sort of manner should decline and immediately report the incident to police, to help keep others from being taken advantage of.
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About 45 minutes ago I got a call saying that my credit card had been suspended (?). I told the person on the other end that I didn't believe in or have credit cards. He then asked why. I told him because of scammers! He kept on obviously reading from a card or script and asked for my name, social security number AND any bank account numbers I had "to be certain". I told him I didn't give out that kind of information. He ended the call with a hindi curse word and hung up.

My favorite is still Ranger Smith with the Harris County Dept of Highway Patrol but I've already wrote that here in the past and won't again although it still makes me smile.

Scammers are becoming smarter and more belligerent and threatening just like the panhandlers on the street these days.
 
DWalt said:
I assume that like me, many of you have received a text(s) or email from some toll road authority demanding payment for an unpaid toll, and also like me, just deleted them. However I just received a text from the Texas DMV (it said) saying I had an unpaid traffic ticket, and If I did not pay it immediately by submitting a credit card to some email address, they would cancel my vehicle registration, destroy my credit, and get a warrant for my arrest. Could be believable if I had an unpaid ticket but I don’t. It was sent from a Philippines country code (63). I looked it up, and this scam variation started this year. It is just a way to steal credit card information.
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Did you by chance ,recently make a credit card transaction with DMV? I renewed my registration Thursday night for my truck and bike. Yesterday I received the exact same threat. Either there’s a leak in the payment method or the scam is spreading like the measles.
 
I recently re-newed a software subscription….and only a day or so later rec’d an email that stated my CC had been declined…and had spaces-on-the-email-form to “fill in” another CC so they could process the charge.

It was a scam, of course. (don’t know how they got the info I’d recently re-newed the subscription…or if it was merely a “guess”)

I’ve had a similar matter on a PayPal acct. And my friend had a magazine subscription renewal-scam attempted.

“Be wary. Vewwy, Vewwy, Wary.” - Elmer Fudd
 
Alton said:
The biggest scam I have heard is when you answer a phone call from a scammer, they use your voice and call your family using your phone number and voice to scam them.
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I rarely answer my phone. Leave a message, if I feel like it, I'll call you back.
 
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