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You’ll even see the same amount of money the con artist mentioned in your account balance, which lends at least a hint of truth to the fraud. The scam text I received. (Image: Howley) (Howley)
Here are five new text message scams that will take your money. Amazon Text Message Scam. ... a PayPal scam, scammers send text messages claiming to be from PayPal to alert you that there is an ...
• 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.
Based on mostly the same principles as the Nigerian 419 advance-fee fraud scam, this scam letter informs recipients that their e-mail addresses have been drawn in online lotteries and that they have won large sums of money. Here the victims will also be required to pay substantial small amounts of money in order to have the winning money ...
Each letter from the pad will be combined in a predetermined way with one letter of the message. (It is common, but not required, to assign each letter a numerical value, e.g., a is 0, b is 1, and so on.) In this example, the technique is to combine the key and the message using modular addition, not unlike the Vigenère cipher. The numerical ...
The scammer sends the victim a bogus payment notice for the item's price plus what they claim is a business account upgrade fee, then asks the victim to buy the upgrade from someone impersonating the payment processor so that the victim can receive their payment. The victim does not actually receive any payment, but the scammer receives a ...
Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail, if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail, if it's an important account email. If you get an ...
The man received a call from a man claiming to be from PayPal. The caller said $100 had accidentally been deposited into the resident's bank account. Phone scam costs Hingham man almost $100,000 ...