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wdfifteen 09-22-2023 06:50 AM

Harbor Freight/Stanley Tools Scam??
 
I got an email from Harbor Freight. They have my address and I get email from them all the time. I checked the URL against the old emails and it is the same.

I supposedly won a $170.00 Stanley mechanics tool set.

Has any other Harbor Freight users here gotten this? I have a feeling they send it to everyone.

All you have to do was send them my shipping address and pay $7.xx for shipping using a Master Card or VISA.
I have a Master Card debit card that I was planning to cancel. Haven't used it in months and I have $15 in that account. So I went ahead and filled out the form. Other than $15 out of an account I am going to cancel anyway, how much damage are they going to do to me?

Ayles 09-22-2023 07:03 AM

Got one this morning and seem to almost daily. They land in my spam folder and rightfully so. Its a scam.

You can see the parsed url is not Harbor Freight.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1695394967.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1695394967.jpg

masraum 09-22-2023 07:04 AM

When I got to the HF website, I don't see any Stanley tools anywhere on their website. I have to assume it's bogus.

rfuerst911sc 09-22-2023 07:13 AM

I get them fairly often . I just delete and move on .

Mike80911 09-22-2023 07:15 AM

They also use ACE hardware a lot Telling you that you won a $100 gift card. I get the HF one about once or twice a week.

GH85Carrera 09-22-2023 07:50 AM

I never give them my real phone number or email and certainly not my mailing address.

Radio Shack used to ask for addresses or phone numbers. I just declined.

I have received the email from "Harbor Freight" and it has to be 100% scam as they don't have my information. I just mark it as spam and flush it.

Bob Kontak 09-22-2023 08:45 AM

I have two Harbor Fright and one Ace scam/spam in my junk mail folder this September.

Zeke 09-22-2023 10:41 AM

Seeing this I looked in my spam folder. Yep, HF and Lowe's free tools. Right.

HF only sends out the 20% off coupon by email now. No more flyers for 3 years now. If you don't give them an email you don't get a coupon. Unless there is another way other than creating an account online or giving them an email in the store.

Funny, I have given them my email 2wice and both times they entered it wrong. 6th grade max educmucation is the reason for that. I just tell them now it's too complicated for them. I make a lot of friends that way.

Scott Douglas 09-22-2023 03:45 PM

When HF asks for my email account, I just get a quizzical look on my face and say 'What's that?'
Keeps the line moving.........

dw1 09-22-2023 07:12 PM

Harbor Freight doesn't sell name-brand tools like Stanley, Black & Decker, etc.

I too have been getting this spam daily.

Bill Douglas 09-22-2023 07:17 PM

I get the Harbor Freight spam fairly much every day. And we don't even have Harbor Freight in this coutry.

Bugsinrugs 09-23-2023 05:13 AM

I got the “Free Drills from Loews” on Facebook. Just pay for shipping. Enticing but nope!

bugstrider 09-23-2023 02:56 PM

I shop at HF and belong to the ITC for good deals. I too have been receiving legit HF emails as well as the scams. Here is an email I received from HF regarding the scam email issue. This might help and they also provided an email address to forward the scam emails to for review https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8772e63d6e.jpg
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