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Re: Beware Speaker Scam!
« Reply #40 on: May 26, 2013, 10:31:11 PM »
My wife just got a pretty clever email. It was allegedly sent by one of her friends and looked like a regular email that had a few pictures attached. Only it didn't have any attachments, it looked like a Gmail email where on the bottom it had a list of attachments and near each one there is the option to view or download, but all that was really part of the text of the email. Clicking on the link to view or download took her to a page that looked like Gmail's home page that asked her to sign in (as if she accidentally signed out or something). What tipped her off was that the regular sign in page showed up, even though she was on her phone so the mobile sign in page should have showed up. Though if she would have seen that email from her computer she would have most certainly fallen for it.

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Re: Beware Speaker Scam!
« Reply #41 on: May 26, 2013, 10:49:46 PM »
My wife just got a pretty clever email. It was allegedly sent by one of her friends and looked like a regular email that had a few pictures attached. Only it didn't have any attachments, it looked like a Gmail email where on the bottom it had a list of attachments and near each one there is the option to view or download, but all that was really part of the text of the email. Clicking on the link to view or download took her to a page that looked like Gmail's home page that asked her to sign in (as if she accidentally signed out or something). What tipped her off was that the regular sign in page showed up, even though she was on her phone so the mobile sign in page should have showed up. Though if she would have seen that email from her computer she would have most certainly fallen for it.
i got same thing, from a friends acct that was hacked... dead giveaway  ( ;) ) in most of these hacked emails, is the other ppl you see the message was sent to, usually its ppl in senders address book that you have nothing to do with.

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Re: Beware Speaker Scam!
« Reply #42 on: May 29, 2013, 09:56:31 AM »
A separate thread with lists of scams, links, stories, etc, would be great.

There is also a tv series called scam city, and can be found on Youtube.

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Re: Beware Speaker Scam!
« Reply #43 on: May 30, 2013, 10:55:58 PM »
A separate thread with lists of scams, links, stories, etc, would be great.

There is also a tv series called scam city, and can be found on Youtube.
Rule of the thumb "If it's too good to be true, it probably is".

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Re: Beware Speaker Scam!
« Reply #44 on: July 21, 2013, 11:10:47 AM »
See the 3rd comment in this article on The Lakewood Scoop.

 Then see this post, Then see the third comment.....

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Re: Beware Speaker Scam!
« Reply #45 on: July 21, 2013, 08:15:11 PM »
Lol!

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Re: Beware Speaker Scam!
« Reply #46 on: November 13, 2013, 01:46:58 AM »
2 dudes tried to pull this scam on me at LAX yesterday. So funny. :)

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Re: Beware Speaker Scam!
« Reply #47 on: November 16, 2013, 11:08:27 PM »
A couple guys in Brooklyn tried to pull the speaker bit on me on fri. Red GMC Safari. NY plates FZD 9504
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Re: Beware Speaker Scam!
« Reply #48 on: November 17, 2013, 01:49:24 AM »
A couple guys in Brooklyn tried to pull the speaker bit on me on fri. Red GMC Safari. NY plates FZD 9504
Did you call the cops? ( Not that they would do anything, but at least lishem mitzva). Do you tell the scammers that it's been discussed on DDF ;D

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Re: Beware Speaker Scam!
« Reply #49 on: November 17, 2013, 01:52:09 AM »
This happened to my wife about a year ago in the Bronx.
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Re: Beware Speaker Scam!
« Reply #50 on: November 17, 2013, 01:53:32 AM »
This happened to my wife about a year ago in the Bronx.
Did she buy the speakers?