DocAndersen
One of the things I used to do more often, and I should get back to doing is listing the scam phone calls and emails that I have encountered or that friends have shared with me!
1. There is not central windows helpdesk! (1 billion computers, generating between 10-15 errors per day, 10 billion errors, sort that, find YOUR specific computer and call no that isn’t possible)
2. IRS leaving you a threatening voice mail – doesn’t happen. If the government revenue service in your country wants something from you, they will either appear at your door, or they will deliver a registered letter.
3. PS, any call left in a threatening manner to you personally in a robotic voice is fake.
4. No Nigerian prince has left you millions of Euros, Pesos, dollars or for that matter anything.
5. There is no missing gold in Africa, found and now shared with you!
6. Apple doesn’t send you invoices as PDF attachments. EVER! Just delete that spam!
7. You won the Google email lottery (there isn’t one)
8. You won the Microsoft email lottery (yeah, no)
There are so many more it is sad to me. Please add additional ones in the comments (that is how I collect my lists)! These are my all-time favorite iterations of the many scams floating around. I have personally experienced many of them. My favorite activity for the first call when they used to happen was to see how long I could keep them on the line. (did you say right click or left click? I don’t have a mouse, but I also didn’t hear you). The more of their time I wasted, the less likely they would have time to hurt someone else well.
Here are the simple rules that my grandfather taught me years ago!
• If it sounds too good to be true, it is.
• Ask yourself, why I did I apply or enter this? If the answer is no, then by all means just hit delete!
• Look, before you leap. He said that to me about mud puddles and the resulting splash, but it applies to be online!
Personal and online security starts with remembering that first rule! At the darkest hour, desperation makes us do things we shouldn’t do.
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Hopefully polls are fixed but if not, will you share additional scams in the comments?
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Yes
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Is the poll issue impacting you?
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Yes
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if the only answer is yes, is the question moot?
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do you wish I would stop asking questions?
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Do people ask you questions often?
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is this too many questions?
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Yes, I would say that everything you say is true, if it is too good to be true it probably is.
Good advice with this post
sadly if it seems to be to good to be true is one thing I really want people to get!
I got an interesting new voicemail – robotic voice telling me my SS # had been frozen.
The US Government does not call you with a robotic voice!
Q: Hopefully polls are fixed but if not, will you share additional scams in the comments?
Yes (5 votes) – 100%
Q: Is the poll issue impacting you?
Yes (2 votes) – 100%
Q: if the only answer is yes, is the question moot?
Yes (4 votes) – 67%
No (2 votes) – 33%
Q: do you wish I would stop asking questions?
Yes (1 votes) – 100%
Q: Do people ask you questions often?
Yes (4 votes) – 100%
Q: is this too many questions?
Yes (4 votes) – 100%
Intersting and informative post.
Thanks – was any of the information useful?
Online security begins with you. AMEN! I don’t know why people are so lax when they are online. Seems like they think they’re in some sort of “safety zone”. The reality is you don’t have to surf the darknet to find yourself treading in dangerous waters. Evil never takes a holiday: offline or online.
(P.S. University of Miami had an extensive international student population. I attended the university with a Nigerian prince. (At least he said he was. I believed him because he always had money. LOL. You know how in college you’re always broke?!) Oh I wish he would have left me some money. It doesn’t have to be millions. A few thousand would be nice. LOL.)
you are very right.
funny story, I actually met a royal in holland. It was interesting.
they tried the microsoft deal on my father. he told me about it and I asked “Did you give MS your number? How did they get your number?” he figured it out…
that is good, that one makes me sad.
as opposed to the other ones?
They all make me sad. Yesterday I got a voice mail that my social security number had been suspended. How do you suspend a social security number?
mine was reported as belonging to a deceased person. basically someone told SSI that I was dead…
It can be really hard to prove you aren’t dead!
I was laughing, it was a robotic voice and left me a long message. I snickered and deleted it!
sounds like a Python sketch “Actually, I’m not quite dead yet…”
Bring out your dead. Bring out your dead.
Laughing again!
who are you that is so wise in the ways of science?
my all time favorite line…
He’s not the messiah, he’s just a naughty boy!
my favorite? “it’s symbolic of his struggle against reality…”
now, if we moved this spear right here (picks up a spear, moves it) factory collapses.
Jabberwocky
they were a most potent blend of humor and subversion
Interesting examples of which I know. I’ve already received similar e-mails too. Since I am a woman, I have also received a lot of “love” emails. All men are widows, they have children and are much younger than me. They are very happy because they met me (I do not know where) and they fell in love with me
That type of scam has been going on for many years. It is truly a sad reality…
Yes you are asking too many questions. 🙂
And yes the poll issue is getting very annoying. 🙁
I rewrote my questions so there wasn’t a no option!
It is getting frustrating. I keep posting polls hoping to collect data, instead I don’t get data.
I receive similar or similar messages every day … millions are millions of miles there … all come from African countries … I just delete … who will leave me 10 million dollars
Can I tell you that your attitude is exactly what you should do!!!!
Thank you … I’m not lucky anyone to leave millions … I do not believe in fairy-tale … what I have earned with the hard work … nobody gave me anything … even the parents did not because they did not have
you are very wise my friend, very wise!
Thanks for the compliment, dear friend … and I’m not obliged to do anything
Great information , All clear now
Any telephone or email scams you want to contribute?
I ,ll share the detail in my next article , Yes I have many similar story and information
ok if I have time I will read them.