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dflprincess

(28,612 posts)
4. Probably a scam
Fri Aug 4, 2023, 09:58 PM
Aug 2023

I get emails all the time about someone logging into an account with some outfit I've never dealt with.

Look at the email address if it doesn't say @nerdwallet report it to your email provider as phishing.

I got one yesterday claiming I had had $6 million deposited it an account at the U.N. for "recovery funds". All they needed was every bit of personal information they could get including a bank account #. Clearly this was a scam from the first sentence and the email was "@hotmail.com" Yeah, I'm sure the U.N. uses hotmail.

I've also been inundated with scam emails supposedly from Geek Squad, not of them have a Geek Squad email.

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Yes, do not respond or click links. Bluethroughu Aug 2023 #1
Thank you!! ailsagirl Aug 2023 #2
Your welcome, if ever in doubt... Bluethroughu Aug 2023 #8
Will do ailsagirl Aug 2023 #15
Scammers just making crap up, it could be someone like trump. Bluethroughu Aug 2023 #16
I would ignore it claudette Aug 2023 #3
Will do-- thank you ailsagirl Aug 2023 #6
Probably a scam dflprincess Aug 2023 #4
LOL-- guess they'll try anything ailsagirl Aug 2023 #5
I don't know for sure dflprincess Aug 2023 #7
No NoRethugFriends Aug 2023 #9
Good to hear!!!!! ailsagirl Aug 2023 #12
They may have grabbed a bunch of IP addresses off a real-time map, Bluethroughu Aug 2023 #10
Sound advice ailsagirl Aug 2023 #13
No, unless you have purposefully deployed a means to prevent it like a VPN Hugh_Lebowski Aug 2023 #11
The crooks are getting more dangerous all the time ailsagirl Aug 2023 #14
IP address is the most trivial of hacks. its in every click Tetrachloride Aug 2023 #17
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