Scammers are getting more and more sophisticated. Watch out!

[fiasconva]

About a month ago my credit card got hacked. My bank emailed me that some purchases were tried in two different states at the tune of over $6,500. The purchases were denied and the credit card company cancelled that card and sent me a new one. Today I got a letter in the mail with my bank's letterhead, etc. saying they needed information that had been missing from my last credit card. It said they needed my SSN, my ITIN( individual taxpayer ID no.), and my DOB. It was for the credit card account no. that had been cancelled so I knew it was a scam. It gave me a no. to call (877-252-6679) if I had any questions. Just for the heck of it I called and got a very professional sounding site with menus, music, etc. Since I knew it was a scam I called my credit card fraud no. to make sure and to make them aware of this scam. I'm going to take the letter by my bank tomorrow so they can have a copy of it to turn over to their fraud division. Be careful out there!

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[Chuck24]

Being a retired postal worker, this one caught my eye. From USA TODAY, a scammer set up a look alike web site to the postal HR site and managed to get several postal workers to change their direct deposits, lost a fair amount of money.

 

[444 Magnum]

Another thing to watch: there is the legitimate Proxibid website, and another site named Proxybid that looks the same trying to gather info.

 

[DWalt]

I treat every call, text, and eMail as a scam. No matter how correct the message or website appears. Four or five months ago I got a series of calls from a phony bill collector who almost made me believe that I really did owe someone.

 

[IAM Rand]

Some of the guys in the office try to see how long we can keep the scam calls on the line before they hang up. Trick is that we do a schtick while keeping them on the line.

 

[Golddollar]

There seems to be a concerted effort right now to pull scams regarding Medicare. I've received two calls from people asking about my Medicare card. One call woke me up and when I saw the caller ID showed a town exchange I picked up and here the first question I got was whether I received my new Medicare card. I wasn't sure what I was hearing and having just been woken up and having my teethguard still in my mouth I probably didn't sound like the sharpest knife in the drawer and the caller backed off but didn't hang up. The second time I was more coherent and told the caller politely (yes, really) to buzz off. Just a heads up to everybody.

 

[pittpa]

After having my credit card hacked a couple of times, I found it inconvenient to go back and change that dozen or so services that I have billed monthly on my credit card automatically. So I dedicated one card to all those recurring expenses and I don’t use it for anything else. That card got hacked anyway. I always felt that my biggest risk for having a card hacked was handing it off to somebody in a restaurant. But I also figured that a credit card companies would figure that out pretty quickly..


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[mtgianni]

Caller ID helps too. Medicare will not be calling me from Darby, Montana.

 

[fiasconva]

This was a snail mailed letter from the same ones, I assume, that hacked my credit card, with my bank's letterhead and everything, not a call or email. I turned it over to my bank's rep. today and she will give it to their fraud dept.

 

[mmb617]

Every day I win tools, appliances, gift cards, etc. At least according to the emails I get. Which is why I adhere to the never, and I mean never, click an email link.

If I think an email might be legit I go to the website myself instead of using the link. Even if it's a company I deal with all the time because some of the phishing schemes are so good now that the site the link takes you to will look exactly like the real website.

Of course some of the emails are so obviously fake that I wonder how anyone falls for them. How do you win a contest you never entered? But if they are using some type of bot and sending millions of those emails, somewhere someone will bite.

 

[glenwolde]

I'm surprised they mailed it, because that makes it mail fraud.

 

[fiasconva]

That's why I'm hoping the fraud dept. will get more into it and maybe pass it on to the feds. This could be a larger scheme than just this bank's customers.