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• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
Free People is an American bohemian apparel and lifestyle retail company that sells women's clothing, accessories, shoes, intimates, and swimwear. It also has a beauty and wellness category, which includes products such as cosmetics, skin, and oral care, oral supplements, crystals, and books.
The internet can be a fun place to interact with people and gain info, however, it can also be a dangerous place if you don't know what you're doing. Many times, these scams initiate from an unsolicited email. If you do end up getting any suspicious or fraudulent emails, make sure you immediately delete the message or mark it as spam.
Email fraud (or email scam) is intentional deception for either personal gain or to damage another individual using email as the vehicle. Almost as soon as email became widely used, it began to be used as a means to de fraud people, just as telephony and paper mail were used by previous generations.
They are not officially employed by the clothing scam company, which does not keep a record of the people they use that can be checked. A 2016 investigation by the Sunday Post found that only a small amount, if any, of the value of the clothes donated was given to charity, and discovered evidence of links to organised crime networks. [1]
The email includes the person's phone number and a photo of the person's home. "The ones I've seen (photos of homes) have been straight up from Google map images," DeBoer said. Don't click!
If you get a message that seems like it's from AOL, but it doesn't have those 2 indicators, and it isn't alternatively marked as AOL Certified Mail, it might be a fake email. Make sure you immediately mark it as spam and don't click on any links in the email.
When it comes to this scam, a seller will offer an amazing deal on a car with a relatively believable reason for needing a quick sale (i.e. the cause for the amazing discount).