@Torunn
Yes, such frauds are a multi-billion dollar business. Nearly everyone is online these days, and if only one in a million people fall into the trap, it still pays off for the scammers. They invest very little themselves, so it is very profitable.
@great-big-stees saidThat is how they start the conversation usually in a phone call, saying that they work for a bank and they have noticed suspicious withdrawals from the person's (usually elderly) bank account but - they can help get the money back if they can have their bankID. This has happened to people I know.
I, somewhat regularly, get emails saying my bank account, at a bank I don’t and never had, deal with. They say it’s been compromised. Oh…too bad. Must be a mistaken identity. Sure there has to be more than one Great Big Stees.🤔😲😁
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@torunn saidI have become suspicious of everything/body. Are you REALLY torunn?😡
That is how they start the conversation, saying that they work for a bank and they have noticed suspicious withdrawals from the person's (usually elderly) bank account but - they can help get the money back if they can have their bankID. This has happened to people I know.
@great-big-stees saidTorunn is my alter ego - I think. 🙂
I have become suspicious of everything/body. Are you REALLY torunn?😡
@great-big-stees saidJust an alter ego - I think. I'm not sure of anything these days.
So you have an alter-alter ego?🤔
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@torunn saidI think you are…sure of everything…well maybe not your alter ego.🤔😁
Just an alter ego - I think. I'm not sure of anything these days.
@great-big-stees saidIs that how it looks? 🙂 A smokescreen perhaps.
I think you are…sure of everything…well maybe not your alter ego.🤔😁
One from Dec 15 that I just found in my spam folder:
Hello,
How are you doing? I am using this opportunity to inform you that the business that we both are working on before has been finally concluded with the assistance of another partner from Iceland who financed the transaction to a logical conclusion.
Contact Mr. Grenville Email: (fredgrenville @ aliyun.com) and ask him for the for the draft (3,750.000 USD)I left for you.
Meamwhile, you should send him your Name and telephone number/your mailing address where you want him to send the bank Draft in appreciation for your help.
Thanks for your past effort.
Regards,
Mrs. Precious Mph
My sister got a phone call on her private landline from someone, claiming to be from Microsoft, who also claimed that her computer had been infected by a virus. If she would give them her administrator name and password, they would log onto her computer and fix it. Of course they were the ones who then planted the virus and promptly plundered Her computer for all the data they could find. Two days later I got a phone call from the same people, they obviously found my phone number in her address book, and they tried the same scam on me.
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@moonbus saidMy dad, years ago, got a call saying my son had been arrested after a car accident in Montreal and he needed $5,000. He, my dad, called me asking if my son was in Montreal. I called my son and he was actually in class. I told my dad it was a scam. It, that scam (The Grandparent Scam), rears it’s ugly head every so often and there are some who don’t think to call someone, known to them, to verify the call.
My sister got a phone call on her private landline from someone, claiming to be from Microsoft, who also claimed that her computer had been infected by a virus. If she would give them her administrator name and password, they would log onto her computer and fix it. Of course they were the ones who then planted the virus and promptly plundered Her computer for all the data th ...[text shortened]... eople, they obviously found my phone number in her address book, and they tried the same scam on me.