Anatomy of a Scam E-Mail
This is an actual e-mail sent to me and it has all of the warning signs of a scam.
The from “James” with Nina’s gmail account. Legitimate business e-mails use business e-mail addresses.
The subject line list an “Invoice ID from PayPal”. PayPal uses Transaction ID that is a combination of letters and numbers almost 20 characters long and adds their “double P” graphic to everything.
It is Geek Squad from Best Buy not ‘Geek Tech PC support’.
Now the pressure: you are going to have almost $400 taken from your account if you don’t call the telephone number within 24 hours. If you call them they steal more than that from your account.
At the end you have a different name and they almost get Geek Squad correct.
There is a lot of this garbage going on at the moment targeting “Senior Citizens”.
Full test of the e-mail below the fold [Read more →]
September 12, 2022 Comments Off on Anatomy of a Scam E-Mail
