{"id":36423,"date":"2022-04-24T18:17:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T22:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/?page_id=36423"},"modified":"2022-05-15T13:05:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T17:05:39","slug":"all-about-scams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/all-about-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"All About Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
HERE (on left) we have an email addressed to me from ‘Aramex’.\u00a0 Never heard of them (BUT I assure you it can be ANYONE!) HERE (on left) we have an email addressed to me from Microsoft.\u00a0 Telling me there is an invoice about to cycle and charge me and wanting me to call a number if there was a problem.\u00a0 Needless to say the problems BEGIN if I call it! HERE (on left) we have an email addressed to me from Paypal.\u00a0 Telling me there is a payment about to cycle and charge me $647.99 and wanting me to call a number if there was a problem.\u00a0 Needless to say the problems BEGIN if I call it! RESULT: SCAM!!!<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t HERE (on left) we have an email addressed to me from The Geek Squad!\u00a0 Telling me there is a payment about to cycle and charge me $385.99 to renew my service! and wanting me to call a number if there was a problem.\u00a0 Needless to say the problems BEGIN if I call it! Do you really imagine we would have a contract with the Geek Squad?\u00a0 LOL \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 HERE (on left) we have an email addressed to me from a hacker telling me he has put viruses on my computer and has observed all my nasty activities! He offers to ‘forget about it’ if I send him BITCOIN to the BITCOIN wallet near the bottom.<\/p> NO TO LOOK FURTHER. AND DONT NEED MORE EXAMPLES!<\/strong> The boxes below are good examples of scareware.\u00a0 THEY ALL are simply inducements to run software (DONT) Everything you wanted to know about SCAMS! (well at least computer ones) Common Email Phishing Scams ALL collected by Yours Truly! HERE (on left) we have an email addressed to me from ‘Aramex’. Never heard of them (BUT I assure you it can be ANYONE!) Now in our email client when I pull down the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36423","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36423"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36672,"href":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36423\/revisions\/36672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Now in our email client when I pull down the ‘reply’ link I have other options, including ‘Show Source’ this produces the image on the RIGHT ->
Note – whoever ‘Aramex’ is they would not be having email returned to hjkilano.com (which is where the email originated, shown in the top line).
RESULT: SCAM!!!<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Now in our email client when I pull down the ‘reply’ link I have other options, including ‘Show Source’ this produces the image on the RIGHT ->
Note – the email comes from ooconfirmallp2004@gmail.com. Sound like a microsoft account to you?\u00a0 Me neither!
RESULT: SCAM!!!<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Now in our email client when I pull down the ‘reply’ link I have other options, including ‘Show Source’ this produces the image on the RIGHT ->
Note – the email comes from 192160408@office.itb.ac.id. Sound like a Paypal account to you?\u00a0 Me neither!
Further – ANY email from Ebay or Paypal will ALWAYS use my FULL name – not ‘Dear Customer’ or no name!<\/p>
Now in our email client when I pull down the ‘reply’ link I have other options, including ‘Show Source’ this produces the image on the RIGHT ->
Note – the email\u00a0 (yellow circle) comes from info@geek-squadserviceii3.co! Not even a .com address! Sound like The GeekSquad to you?\u00a0 Me neither!
RESULT: SCAM!!!<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\tScareware scams -- Beware they are tricky!<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
ANYTHING WITH A THREAT – AND A BITCOIN ADDRESS – IS A SCAM!!!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\tBOX POPPING UP ON YOUR SCREEN! BEWARE<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
or call various phone numbers (DONT – they will answer and claim they are infact Microsoft, HP, Apple or whomever.\u00a0 But – they aren’t!
ALL THESE ARE SCAMS.\u00a0 IGNORE THEM.\u00a0 THEY CANT REALLY HURT YOU!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\tSo... what can I do? If you THINK your system has been infected - or wonder if the message or email is legitimate -- CALL US - We can investigate and clean the computer or tell you what needs be done!\nCall us at: 703-436-4756<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"