How stupid do they think we are?

[aschen]

I got a card on our front door saying we missed a package delivery and to call a number to reschedule. The card looked mostly legit and was from the US parcel service or something like that. It is easy to read postal if you are just casually scanning. Thankfully I hate calling anyone and took some time to investigate a bit. Apparently if you call you are giving consent to some sort of aggressive marketing scheme.

I should have saved the card to post. It looks very similar to the ones the fedex guys leave. I don't consider myself gullible, but I could see how one would get tricked with this "scam".

[SiberianDVM]

I got a letter from a "company" supposedly in Texas, saying that I owed $180 fees for credit card processing, for my veterinary practice that I closed 10 years ago.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by red-beard

One of the newer fraud issues is sending fake invoices to businesses. They get into the payables group and they are simply paid. I expect this will work with smaller, but not tiny companies.

that or something very similar also seems to work well on huge companies including Facebook and Google.

http://fortune.com/2017/03/21/tech-phishing-scam/

The Department of Justice on Tuesday reported the arrest of a Lithuanian man, who allegedly conned employees at two U.S. tech firms into making $100 million in bank transfers to a phony supplier.

In a press release describing the arrest, the agency said 48-year-old Evaldas Rimasauskas used email to impersonate a real Asian supplier, and tricked them into wiring money to a bank account he controlled.

To make the scheme more convincing, Rimasauskas also used forged invoices that appeared to be from the tech company executives, and created fake corporate stamps with the companies' names.

The Justice Department did not, however, name the two companies but instead described one as a "multinational technology company, specializing in Internet-related services and products" and the other as "a multinational corporation providing online social media and networking services."

[R K T]

Got an email from Paypal stating that my account had been compromised and to please log in immediately to resolve. Of course I did not log in.

It wasn't Paypal it was Paypa1.....

Poor eyesight might not have caught the difference between a small case "L" and the number "1".

[ckelly78z]

Originally Posted by R K T

Got an email from Paypal stating that my account had been compromised and to please log in immediately to resolve. Of course I did not log in.

It wasn't Paypal it was Paypa1.....

Poor eyesight might not have caught the difference between a small case "L" and the number "1".

I have gotten this same message, and went ahead and logged in. I did not, however use their supplied link, I went to my favorites, and clicked on my actual PayPal account.....no problems, imagine that !

[Adrian Thompson]

The ones that piss me off most are the ever increasing number of 'We've reviewed your student loans and you are eligible for a discount' and the 'Urgent, we've sent you several reminders about the warranty that's about to expire on your vehicle, please contact us to make sure you don't lose coverage'.

I've never had a student loan in my life. I don't borrow money except to buy houses.

There are three cars in my family. My 99 Boxster that's been out of warranty since the early part of the century, my bought new 2008 Volvo C30 that I ran out on miles in 2010 and my ever rotating company car that i get a new one of every year.

I've taken to wasting their time by stringing them on as long as possible on the phone before telling them to get stuffed.

No call lists are useless until there is some kind of real penalty applied like $100 for every # on the list.

[flipper35]

I always give the Cobra replica when they ask about extended warranties. Not one has offered to extend the warranty on that for some reason.

[David]

Our IT department has started sending out fake phishing emails, usually shortly after our annual phishing computer based training course. And yes, they get a bunch of people every time.

[Geronimo '74]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I got a phone call the other day that was a very nice man that reminded me the warranty on my car was about to expire and they could extend the warranty. I acted excited the had called. Then he asked about my car and I told him the 1986 El Camino only had 330,000 miles and a warranty would be great. He was rude and hung up! The bastard.

Lol!

[id10t]

Originally Posted by David

Our IT department has started sending out fake phishing emails, usually shortly after our annual phishing computer based training course. And yes, they get a bunch of people every time.

Heh. Our IT department sends any of my requests to the new folk, and then I get to thoroughly confuse them, especially when they try to remote access my computer (I have the only Linux desktop on campus).


Then again, most IT departments don't get users that are actually capable of making correct diagnoses of issues. 95% of the time with a real issue I just contact the person in ITS that I know can fix it. That other 5% though....

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by David

Our IT department has started sending out fake phishing emails, usually shortly after our annual phishing computer based training course. And yes, they get a bunch of people every time.

We use KnowBe4. It is amazing what people will click on.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by red-beard

One of the newer fraud issues is sending fake invoices to businesses. They get into the payables group and they are simply paid. I expect this will work with smaller, but not tiny companies.

Basic voucher controls should never allow this to happen..............in theory.

Vendor data bases, goods received/work performed substantiation, front-end spend authorization.

Only takes one very sloppy system and a payday could happen.

[Esel Mann]

Originally Posted by red-beard

Really?

Effen scammers

Never can be too sure. Ask him how many smoots is the mass ave bridge.

[GWN7]

How stupid? They got $11.8 million from a university.

MacEwan University defrauded of $11.8M in online phishing scam - Edmonton - CBC News

An Edmonton university was defrauded of $11.8 million after staff failed to call one of its vendors to verify whether emails requesting a change in banking information were legitimate.

MacEwan University discovered the fraud on Aug. 23 after the legitimate vendor, a construction company, called to ask why it hadn't been paid.

Three payments were made to the fraudulent account: one on Aug. 10 for $1.9 million; another on Aug. 17 for $22,000 and a third on Aug. 19 for $9.9 million.

[aap1966]

A friend received an unsolicited approach for life insurance. He responded with great enthusiasm, and the salesman was equally enthusiastic until he got to 'occupation'.
"Design, build and test-pilot ultralight aircraft".

Salesman lost enthusiasm at that point.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by GWN7

How stupid? They got $11.8 million from a university.

MacEwan University defrauded of $11.8M in online phishing scam - Edmonton - CBC News

An Edmonton university was defrauded of $11.8 million after staff failed to call one of its vendors to verify whether emails requesting a change in banking information were legitimate.

MacEwan University discovered the fraud on Aug. 23 after the legitimate vendor, a construction company, called to ask why it hadn't been paid.

Three payments were made to the fraudulent account: one on Aug. 10 for $1.9 million; another on Aug. 17 for $22,000 and a third on Aug. 19 for $9.9 million.

"Here's our new bank account info!" Very simple really.

The Basturds but I can't help but admire the elegance of this scam.

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by legion

Since I moved in to the new house, I have gotten 15, yes 15 letters telling me that I needed to respond immediately regarding my mortgage. Each letter had the name of my lender on the front of the envelope. It was only when I read the fine print (on the first 2 or 3) that I saw that it was an offer for mortgage insurance--and very expensive mortgage insurance at that.

We got a flood of those after refinancing too. The first few it was like what the hell. Then we caught on and started pitching them.

[svandamme]

i had one post and ad for a 1960 VW T1 recently
For 1600 euros, which is about 1800 USD

Mint condition.. for that price.. that's not even close to realistic. That's like saying "free"

[kghjr]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

We got a flood of those after refinancing too. The first few it was like what the hell. Then we caught on and started pitching them.

A fun thing to do with those mailers that include a prepaid return envelope is fill the envelope with all their trash literature and mail it back.

[Geary]

Tape their envelope to a box of bricks is more like it ..