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Sorry I haven’t seen any, I just get local spam such as Banking from banks I don’t belong to, Interact and PayPal… 😉 But many Phone scams such as Duck Cleaning and Government tax agency.

It doesn’t have to be one that you personally got (def bonus points) but anyone that you’ve seen making the rounds on the internet is fine too!

In one day I got 3 fake PayPal requests from 3 different scammers.  Gotta be careful out there homies.

This is a success story, for the scammer:

Scammer calls my Grandma (from now on referred to as my nan), claims someone from the bank is fraudulently siphoning money. Some sort of malarkey about the numbers on the notes, told nan to withdraw £400. She does, gets a call back to claim it worked and they caught the guy. And that someone (a courier, which is a classic scam) would collect the money.

That’s how my nan was scammed out of £400!

Nearly got caught out with a new car purchase until the Pennie dropped , 

I just love the scambaiting stories

I’ve only really seen the standard email scams, I always enjoy watching Kitboga though!

Best one so far, was a call centre agent calling on my landline. Telling me that he is call from Microsoft and that they are tracking a large scale hack. If i could kindly go to Event Viewer and look for a certain event. He then tries to convince you this Failure Event was due to a virus infection and that i need to open a specific website to download and install a patch immediately.

But once you start to question him/her they drop the call only to call back with the same story a few days later.

What made this really annoying is the fact that you couldn’t block the call as the number was with-held

Classic call from “Microsoft” about them detecting my computer being infected and they would help me sort this out. The usual line of trying to download a program so they can come in and assist, and then you keep telling them how you cannot find the start button, the taskbar, the desktop looks different, and then after twenty minutes you tel them that your Apple iPad does not seem to have any of these programs they are asking you to find… *click* - When you are in the mood for it, these calls can be very satisfying!

I can share 2 stories, one personal, and one from a TV show. 

The personal one was some inheritance that was left behind from my late father. I must give them my full names and ID number so they can confirm that it is me. So when I asked the chappie why would I do that, if they knew it was me, why do he not forward me the details first, then I will confirm, needless to say, the call went dead. 

The second was from a TV Show call 90 days to wed. The Nygie guy there, he was to much and to much of a show putter just looking for a way to scam the poor  lady into money etc. Cant recall his name though. 

You come across them once in a while, but i dont have any wild story's about someone taking the bait.. sorry!

My wife was caught in a scam, i was able to stop the bleeding before it was to much but still.

Here is how it went :

My wife saw a fake lotery on a facebook ad, where she had to pay a 2€ entering ticket in order to win some bigger prize.

She did the “2”€ price (for which 70€ were transfered instead); then received an email that the payment failed and that she needed to provide her card details and someone will call her to assist.

I overheard the phone call from another room and immediately recognized a scam so i rush to tell her to interrupt the call. She was really panicked; called her bank to block all cards and transactions.

Since then, she never execute a payment online and always goes through me before.

We had ‘John from Microsoft’ call our service desk once. My boss at the time kept him on the phone for 45 minutes playing dumb (he had him on speaker the whole time) and he finally revealed that ‘John’ had called an IT service desk followed by the raucous laughter of 15 helpdesk people with a background of slurs from ‘John’ before we hung up.

We've had two different clients fall for the same thing. HR gets an email requesting an update to direct deposit. HR replies and tells them that they need to update via the correct payroll site. HR then gets a reply saying the user can't login to the site, so HR makes the change and pays someone overseas. We even have flags on emails to let the user know when an email is from outside the organization. 

Google takes the fun away from us now with their spam filter. Think of all the Nigerian Princes who can’t get through to us to share their millions because Google thinks we won’t be interested….

In other news, I have inherited a fortune well over 300 Gazzilion pounds, I need some help moving it over to the UK from oh… Nigeria… happy to reward you 50% for your trouble….any takers?

A dear friend of mine (Italian) one day receives an email from a Dutch sculptor friend. The friend reports that she is abroad and has lost documents and money. She needs help and asks for a sum to be sent to cover immediate expenses. Fortunately my friend doesn't take the bait and calls the sculptor by phone who is comfortably at her house. Happy ending, luckily...

I think everyone on earth got the mail someone died and left 100 M $ and need your bank details to send this to your account.

I got many scam calls claiming they r the bank and wants to update my bank details.

Some years ago I over heard my mother, she was about to start giving I'd details.

They called me for a job at Amazon, I already imagined in Ireland, hahaha.

I had a couple in the last few days.

With all the talk of ChatGPT, I was discussing with some team members that I expected phishing messages to get better since they can use ChatGPT to write their messages (especially if English is not their first language).  My fears were quickly reduced when I got a text message a couple of days ago that advised “to continuing to using your account as normally” that I need to “clicking the link as below.”

The second was I got a phone call telling me that my AMEX had been approved for a credit increase.  I politely informed the caller that I did not have an AMEX, then asked how much he gets paid to scam call people every day.  I have never had a phone call disconnect so fast!

I have seen a few clients over the years fall for the “CEO needs gift cards Immediately! Please don’t bug him, though. He’s in an important meeting!”

At my first job after college, I remember getting a few Nigerian prince “emails” on the fax machine. lol

Ah yes! We get clients forwarding these gift card request emails to support!

There was a season for this where I got like 4 in a couple month period

That’s kinda crazy how easy it is

“your IP address is flashing red on our servers...”

love these type of stories