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Sorry I’ve been dodging your calls, Mr. Likely.
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# ? Mar 4, 2018 21:48 |
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EL BROMANCE posted:Sorry I’ve been dodging your calls, Mr. Likely. A Likely story.
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# ? Mar 4, 2018 21:50 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I'm Scam Likely. Oh, of the Conneticut Likelys?
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# ? Mar 4, 2018 22:54 |
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Fil5000 posted:Oh, of the Conneticut Likelys? No, the Boston Likelys. Common mistake.
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# ? Mar 4, 2018 23:15 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:No, the Boston Likelys. Common mistake. Ah, yes, founder of the Likely Real Estate Company.
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# ? Mar 4, 2018 23:42 |
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BigDave posted:Ah, yes, founder of the Likely Real Estate Company. "Our Prices Are Credible!"
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# ? Mar 4, 2018 23:47 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:"Our Prices Are Credible!"
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# ? Mar 5, 2018 00:21 |
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ToxicSlurpee posted:That sort of thing can be the worst. Before cell phones the land line number I had I guess had belonged to people who had a tendency to not pay their debts. I guess they were the type that would get credit cards, max them out, never pay them back, then change all their details. Like they'd move, get a new phone number, and whatever. I got so many calls I eventually just turned my ringer off. I got real sick of saying "they don't live here stop calling." It's like hey guys I've literally never met those people stop bothering me about their debts. Wouldn't changing your own phone number have been an option to stop the callers? I'm not saying the best option but it would seem better than turning off your ringer (effectively DOS-ing yourself).
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# ? Mar 5, 2018 10:26 |
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Wouldn't changing your own phone number have been an option to stop the callers? I'm not saying the best option but it would seem better than turning off your ringer (effectively DOS-ing yourself). You'd have to weigh that against having to update *every one* with the new number. Since this is "Before cell phones", that would be a HUGE pain in the rear end. I remember having to do that when I moved just 10 miles in the mid-90s to a new town. There's no other way than contacting directly, one at a time. I'd just turn off the ringer at that point and screen via answering machine as well.
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# ? Mar 5, 2018 13:05 |
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Plus the fact that when you change your number there's an excellent chance the new number will turn out to also have formerly belonged to someone who wasn't in the habit of paying their bills and/or was in the habit of using their phone to sign up for harvesting promotions by the dozens. I just don't answer the phone if it's not a number that's already in my contacts. I think that's what most people do.
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# ? Mar 5, 2018 15:07 |
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I canceled my land line years ago.
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# ? Mar 5, 2018 15:57 |
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Super tangential, but when I moved into my first apartment 20 years ago, my landline had the same or a very close number to Busta Rhymes's old digits. I'm not sure who was more confused, me or the guys on the other end. Kinda makes me wish I still had that number, I could have tons of fun with scammers.
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# ? Mar 5, 2018 16:16 |
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Ah gently caress, I have super vague memories of hearing a story recently (I don't *think* it was in here, but on a radio show or something) where one hip hop guy was attempted to be scammed by someone pretending to be another famous rapper. It got pretty far along too until something tipped them off. I wish I could remember who it was, but maybe someone else will remember it. It was pretty interesting.
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# ? Mar 5, 2018 17:00 |
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Collateral Damage posted:I canceled my land line years ago. I would have, but it comes bundled with my cable/internet. My land line number is the one I give out when I don't want people to call me.
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 12:57 |
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Oh, wow! The FBI EXECUTIVE Director is emailing me?! Oh, boy!
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 13:58 |
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Counterpoint: You used to be a mod on the SA forums. FBI/SS emails should be nothing new!
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# ? Mar 6, 2018 17:32 |
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Sure isn't for Aatrek.
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# ? Mar 7, 2018 02:33 |
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Counterpoint: You used to be a mod on the SA forums. FBI/SS emails should be nothing new! To my knowledge they only contact the site owner.
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# ? Mar 7, 2018 05:58 |
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probably better for your long term mental health re: aatrek also and no offense meant, was trying to set you up for an alley-oop goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Mar 7, 2018 |
# ? Mar 7, 2018 07:54 |
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The other day I almost clicked on an email from PaypaI That's a capital "i", not a lowercase "L"
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# ? Mar 7, 2018 10:45 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:To my knowledge they only contact the site owner. Better open it just to be sure. Could be important!
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# ? Mar 7, 2018 12:41 |
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I got an email from a former client - one from my regular job and someone who I've also freelanced for - and it was just link, which I did not click, and a really odd subject line. Looks to me like someone hijacked her email and is phishing I guess.
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BiggerBoat posted:I got an email from a former client - one from my regular job and someone who I've also freelanced for - and it was just link, which I did not click, and a really odd subject line. Looks to me like someone hijacked her email and is phishing I guess. We're gonna need a bigger bot.
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BiggerBoat posted:I got an email from a former client - one from my regular job and someone who I've also freelanced for - and it was just link, which I did not click, and a really odd subject line. Looks to me like someone hijacked her email and is phishing I guess. Unless you know the email address is one they use, it's more likely spammers harvested the info from social media and set up the account to match. I get emails from time to time with the name of friends/relatives trying to get me to open links, but it's never from the actual address they use. The subject is always something vague like "I thought you might appreciate this".
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# ? Mar 7, 2018 17:18 |
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Yeah something's going on. Says "answer.c4d-global.com" for the link and "BULK" in the subject line. I sure as poo poo aint clicking it anyway. The woman's name is correct but she would certainly put a subject or a message in there
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# ? Mar 7, 2018 18:04 |
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I would tell her, by a text or something. We had someone hijack a works email here and it’s crafty to the point where it set a rule to auto delete any new incoming email too, so anyone telling us it was spamming was sent straight to trash.
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# ? Mar 7, 2018 18:20 |
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Sir_Lagsalot posted:Unless you know the email address is one they use, it's more likely spammers harvested the info from social media and set up the account to match. I get emails from time to time with the name of friends/relatives trying to get me to open links, but it's never from the actual address they use. The subject is always something vague like "I thought you might appreciate this". I get that every other day or so, mostly "from" the same three friends who are on Facebook a lot.
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# ? Mar 8, 2018 01:49 |
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Came home from work to find an eBay purchase just four hours earlier I hadn’t made. eBay reversed it right quick and I changed all my associated passwords. What I find funny is the unauthorized purchase was a cheap item related to something I did buy a couple days before, but there were some pricey computer processing parts in my watch list and recently viewed. Is that a typical eBay scam these days where they gain account access, do a “test” buy to see if the fraudulent activity is noticed, then go hog wild with more expensive items?
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# ? Mar 8, 2018 05:37 |
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A similar test strategy was used with stolen credit cards, so it makes sense that it would be adapted to a new environment.
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# ? Mar 8, 2018 05:58 |
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How does that work? Small purchase, not picked up, buy huge? Why take the risk the small purchase will be noticed?
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# ? Mar 8, 2018 06:05 |
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Previously you'd test that it was a valid number and then go nuts because the victim wouldn't know until the card was declined when it was over limit or the statement came at the end of the month. There may be enough people who only check when the bill is due to make it work even today.
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# ? Mar 8, 2018 06:12 |
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Typically the financial institution picks it up as suspicious activity before the customer does these days unless someone local took the actual card and is making purchases in your hometown. Otherwise the sudden change in activity and location is usually caught and they freeze the card until they can contact you.
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# ? Mar 8, 2018 06:29 |
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504 posted:How does that work? i don't work in that field but cc fraud prevention works partially on the idea of locality. purchases that are similar to recent purchases are considered less questionable than ones that are dissimilar. tge scammer in this case is hoping to manufacture a trail of "similar" purchases, to bridge the gap between whatever item OP purchased and whatever items a person can buy on eBay that provide the most bang for the buck. it's classic "try to hide from scrutiny" stuff imo
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# ? Mar 8, 2018 07:11 |
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I tried to delete my eBay account today and it wouldn't let me because I had "open listings." My last purchase was over 10 years ago and I was never a seller :/
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Lutha Mahtin posted:i don't work in that field but cc fraud prevention works partially on the idea of locality. purchases that are similar to recent purchases are considered less questionable than ones that are dissimilar. tge scammer in this case is hoping to manufacture a trail of "similar" purchases, to bridge the gap between whatever item OP purchased and whatever items a person can buy on eBay that provide the most bang for the buck. it's classic "try to hide from scrutiny" stuff imo Yes, this is it. Normal purchases = ok Different type of purchase, same location = ok Different purchase, different location = not ok Similar purchase, different location = ok So when you purchase a similar product for a new location, it goes through. And you can now make a ‘different ‘ purchase to that same location.
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# ? Mar 8, 2018 08:33 |
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Midjack posted:A similar test strategy was used with stolen credit cards, so it makes sense that it would be adapted to a new environment. Yep. I got a call a week ago about fraudulent activity on my CC asking me if I'd made any purchases in Orlando. I've only been between Jacksonville and St. Augustine for the last 3 or 4 months so, no. Oddly, the only registered charges were a couple of $1 service charges but not the purchases themselves. Maybe someone was "testing" the card number but it both charges were at gas stations so not sure how that would work.
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BiggerBoat posted:Yep. I got a call a week ago about fraudulent activity on my CC asking me if I'd made any purchases in Orlando. I've only been between Jacksonville and St. Augustine for the last 3 or 4 months so, no. Oddly, the only registered charges were a couple of $1 service charges but not the purchases themselves. Did you put air in tires using a credit card? Those machines are run by very small, incompetent operations that often report transactions happening wherever the owner is based.
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# ? Mar 8, 2018 13:53 |
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BiggerBoat posted:Yep. I got a call a week ago about fraudulent activity on my CC asking me if I'd made any purchases in Orlando. I've only been between Jacksonville and St. Augustine for the last 3 or 4 months so, no. Oddly, the only registered charges were a couple of $1 service charges but not the purchases themselves. If you have the name, number, and expiration date it's staraightforward to generate the rest and write it to a blank card. Magstripe writers are available, and at a gas pump nobody is looking at the card to question a blank white card, hotel key, or reused to card with the wrong name and number being used.
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# ? Mar 8, 2018 14:05 |
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Phyzzle posted:Did you put air in tires using a credit card? Those machines are run by very small, incompetent operations that often report transactions happening wherever the owner is based. No. I haven't even been using that card.
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Pay at the pump gas charges usually show as a $1 preauthorization at first, then they replace it with the real amount. Gas pumps are also a target for fraudulent transactions because they are specifically exempt from the chip card transition until 2020.
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