The Scammers Never Stop

Monday morning, I received a phone call from a young woman who was obviously calling from overseas. There was a problem with my Internet, she said, claiming she was from my ISP.

I replied curtly: “No, you’re not”, and she hung up at once.

I’ve had calls like this before, the callers are male as well as female, but they are always from overseas. They try to dupe you into giving them information like account passwords or bank card details. Sometimes people are fooled.

Usually though, the scammers work entirely on-line. Below are three screengrabs. The first is an e-mail I received as dated. It professes to be from Google, but look at the sender’s address.

The second is from the spam folder of one of my e-mail accounts. I do not use this account for subscriptions, and I don’t subscribe to either McAfee or Netflix anyway, so these are easily avoided.

The third screengrab is from a message board that warns users against these sorts of scams.  The wording and the link associated with this message both vary, but it is clearly another attempt to scam the recipient.

Scammers mail out hundreds, thousands or more of these sorts of messages daily, so a .0001% success rate can bring them big rewards. Just make sure you are not one that one in a million.