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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, July 02, 2018 - 8:01 am 
My 91-year old dad gets spam calls all the time. He just tells them that they have to speak to me and he can't tell them my number. I'm glad he is well trained...LOL! Bless his sweet heart.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, July 02, 2018 - 11:45 am
I use NoMoRoBo which blocks a large number of calls and I screen calls that don't display as someone I know.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, July 14, 2018 - 7:23 pm
So interesting, this is the second time I have gotten a new card from BofA. This is what they said... We're letting you know your card may have been part of a compromise at an undisclosed merchant....
I didn't have any weird charges and have no clue what merchant had a problem.
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Atcaroline
Member
08-13-2007
| Saturday, July 28, 2018 - 3:02 pm
Dipo, this happened to me a couple of years ago with BofA. They would not tell me who the merchant was but I was able to get them to tell me when the fraudulent transaction occured so by process of elimination, I figured out it was a restaurant I had recently eaten at. The bank told me that often times merchants have employees who scan your card or copy the number down then sell the numbers to the black market. That is why I now have a separate card with a very very low limit for online purchases, restaurants or other places I think might have susceptible employees.
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Kitkat
Member
08-23-2008
| Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - 9:00 am
I've had the computer and arrest warrants scam calls, but now had a new one. It started out with "you have won 5 million dollars from Publisher's Clearing House" When asked why they were not at my door, they said I would have to pay the delivery fee of about $250. Needless to say, I told him what I thought of him and hung up on him. Be Aware!
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - 5:51 pm
well, in my town they are getting some bitcoin scam via e-mail.
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Kitkat
Member
08-23-2008
| Monday, August 20, 2018 - 9:07 am
Our County Sheriff's Office just posted this on "NextDoor"
Scam targeting parents of high school age students
Hello P------- County parents,
A resident was recently called by a friendly and soft spoken woman. The caller advised that her son had completed some forms at school requesting SAT/ACT study materials. The caller said they would send the workbooks, CD's and other study materials out and if the CD's were returned in 30 days the company wouldn't charge the $216.32.
The caller requested a credit card number, but the parent had more questions. The caller gave her name and a 1-888 phone number and assured the parent to feel free to call anytime M-F between 10 am-4 pm. The parent became concern when the caller began finalizing a delivery date and a charge on the card. When the parent began challenging some of the facts, the caller abruptly hung up. After the call, the parent called the number provided and received a recording "that the number is unassigned".
Attached is a link to an almost identical scam from 2016- www.sandiegocan.org/2016/05/04/scam-alert-satact-scholastic-flunks-the-scam-test/
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Firebird05
Member
08-24-2001
| Monday, August 20, 2018 - 9:28 am
KitKat these scammers are true low lifes and despicable.
About a year ago a got a phone call telling me mother was in distress and needed to be transported to the hospital.
But I needed to pay with a credit card before that was possible. They said they were calling from Oklahoma where she lived. She did live there for a long time.
But she lived in Nashville 5 minuets away from me before she died 4 years ago.
I had some words for them that can’t be said here.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Monday, August 20, 2018 - 1:56 pm
Why do scammers think they can get away with that?? Because occasionally they do. That is sad.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, August 20, 2018 - 3:32 pm
Oh it is strictly like spam email.. most are deleted but when they fool someone they win and it is strictly volume and take what they can get and they often get a lot.
As one of the officers said at the last seminar I attended.. if ANYONE is asking you to pay them with a Target Gift Card (or any other gift card), it is NOT legit.
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Kitkat
Member
08-23-2008
| Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 2:27 pm
Another SCAM ALERT put out by our county Sheriff's Office on NexrDoor.
Medicare Card Scam
Scammers follow the news – and the money. Medicare is sending new cards to everyone who gets Medicare benefits, finally replacing your Social Security number with another number. As expected, scammers have been trying to cash in on this change.
These scammers typically reach out by phone and have tried a few different tactics. Sometimes, they claim to be a Medicare representative and ask to verify (ahem, steal) your information. Or they claim that there’s a fee for your new card (there isn’t). Others claim that your Medicare card was compromised and you need to move your money from your bank into “safer accounts” (it wasn’t, you don’t, and following their advice means putting your money in their pockets). We’ve even heard of some scammers offering plastic versions of the card for a fee – even though the real Medicare cards are paper and there are no legitimate plastic cards.
How can you avoid these scams? Remember these tips:
Don’t give personal information to get your new Medicare card. If someone calls claiming to be from Medicare, asking for your Social Security number, bank information, or other information to get your new card, that’s a scam. Hang up. Medicare will never ask you to give personal information to get your new Medicare number and card.
Don’t pay for your new card. It’s yours for free. If anyone calls and says you need to pay for it, that’s a scam. Hang up.
*Consumer Alert from the Federal Trade Commission
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, September 20, 2018 - 2:38 pm
Good one.. this had been around for several years.. they were targeting people with cancer and telling them they needed a new card, which they did not at the time. I remember hearing a guy on the phone talking about how he heard he needed a new card as he sat in the waiting room at a cancer center 
And now that we ARE getting the new cards, obviously they are right there trying to take advantage of people.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Monday, September 24, 2018 - 9:18 am
Got another slightly unhappy call from somebody here in town. Apparently he had gotten a robocall that just happened to be my number. This is the second time this has happened but at least this guy wasn’t accusing me of trying to call his wife. Latest guy was ok once I explained I hadn’t called anybody on my house phone so it couldn’t have even been a “butt dial”. 😳😬
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Monday, September 24, 2018 - 9:31 am
My business went through that.... hundreds of calls were placed using our 1.800 number... and we got dozens of angry calls in return. We finally had to just put a message on saying that we didn't make those calls and if you were an actual customer to leave a message and we'd call back.
It was a nightmare.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Monday, September 24, 2018 - 11:21 am
Not such great news is there just happened to be a report on the local morning news that the FCC thinks that there will be an increase in robocalls in 2019. Robocalls are generated by computers over the Internet from various foreign locations and apparently are close to impossible for the government to block. Supposedly working on it in cooperation of the most frequent countries of origin like India to come up with a solution.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Monday, November 12, 2018 - 4:27 am
This ad popped up on my Twitter feed. I don't do bitcoin so I would never be interested to click on this. I'm just curious if this is a scam or not. Thanks.
quote:Еlоn Мusk
@capgemini_aust
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18m
I'm giving 10 000 Bitсoin (BTС) tо аll community!
I left the post of director of Tesla, thаnk yоu аll for your suppoоt!
I decided to make the biggest cryptо-givеaway in the world, for all my rеadеrs who use Вitcoin.
Participаtе in giveaway - (link: http://m-tesla.me) m-tesla.me
Lol! I just noticed that "he" spelled "support" wrong. But, in twitterworld, that can be common.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, November 12, 2018 - 8:22 pm
My best suppootsition is that it is a big poot of caca, Grooch.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - 12:32 am
Thanks, Juju. The ads I get on Twitter has always been for real companies. I guess now, the scammers are hitting it.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Saturday, November 24, 2018 - 8:07 am
New scam for us. Wife got an email demanding she pay about $700 in bitcoin or the scammer was going to expose her Internet surfing to the world. Supposedly my wife has been surfing porno sites and the scammer has captured that history. Of course she hasn’t so that part is totally fake. The one slightly disturbing aspect is they do have her correct email address and an old password she hasn’t used for many years. Sounds like they got ahold of one of the old information hacks from several years ago and are trying to leverage that information. They warn if she tries to change the password they’ve imbedded malware to track the new password and some threat about hacking her computer. Again that’s all BS as access to her email account would have nothing to do with gaining access to her personal computer. Reading on the Internet apparently a number, actually a lot, of people have fallen for this scam and the scammers have and are making several thousand dollars a day with it.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Saturday, November 24, 2018 - 8:22 am
Isn't that a coincidence? My sister got the same thing on her work computer last month.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, November 24, 2018 - 9:11 am
If they are falling for it, does that mean they were looking at porn and feel guilty?  Inquiring minds want to know! LOL
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Saturday, November 24, 2018 - 9:17 am
I did a little more research and it turns out the password they say they have has never been used as the password for her email account. However most probably my wife did some online reading or logged onto an Internet retailer and had to register her email and provide a password and one of those sites got hacked. The password they said was her email account password was actually just a default throwaway password she’d use for such websites and was never used for anything important or personal.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, November 24, 2018 - 9:52 am
There are quite a few going around using those old passwords right now.
I try to change mine every year, but I don't always remember.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, November 24, 2018 - 1:31 pm
My friend Lorna got that same email. She is 83 and was really shaken by it. She did not click any links, but printed the email and took her laptop in to her computer guy.
I tried to tell her it was a scam and undoubtedly one sent to a bunch of people.
Mack, did they also say they had used her computer's camera and had incriminating pictures?
The email really was written in a threatening and disturbing way 😕
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, November 24, 2018 - 1:36 pm
Lorna fell for it, but not about the porn and said it they took pictures they would see nothing exciting. She has a laptop but no Wi-Fi so only used it attached to her cable.
She feared they would put open on her computer.
She is active in her church, goes to services, Sunday school, Bible study and other activities, so this rattled her.
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