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General => Technical Help => Topic started by: doddsie4 on Wednesday 03 August 22 22:05 BST (UK)
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I have received an email, which says "Your transfer is successful. The receipt is attached to this email. Contact the support number for any queries,
Regards,
Support."
In an attachment, it says ZELLE
You have sent £399 dollars to Mark Stein. They are required to ship out the item and get back to us. ...They give an American contact number and a Transaction number.
I don't know what it is all about. Can anyone help me?
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I have had similar emails and immediately deleted them - it's a scam.
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It looks like a scam. Why would a legitimate email be sent with the sum written with the £ sign and dollars, £399 dollars. It doesn’t make sense.
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Thanks for your prompt reply. It relieves me to know that they can't do anything if I just ignore their email.
...It seems they are well known in U.S.A. for fraud, and they have made a lot of money by fooling people with a follow up phone call. I saw a report that said Congress were dealing with it. I would never give bank details to a surprise caller on the phone.
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Jebber,
Sorry. It was actually a dollar sign. I was typing too quick in a desperate bid to get a solution. It worries me that their email says: "The transfer was successful."
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It's a spam.
When I receive similar e-mails, I delete as Spam and block sender.
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Jebber,
Sorry. It was actually a dollar sign. I was typing too quick in a desperate bid to get a solution. It worries me that their email says: "The transfer was successful."
They want you to think that money was transferred out of your account and hope you call the number to try to fix the problem. The damage is done if you call the number.
I get lots of these (in the US). Also ones saying my subscription to Norton Anti-Virus or McAfee or whatever just renewed. And a contact phone number at the bottom of the email.
If you look closely at who the mail was sent to, often it went to someone else, and you were just sent a copy.
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Gadget,
I have just blocked the sender. Thanks.
Oldohiohome,
I also have McAfee. I have it on Auto renew. They always give a date when the next renewal will be. I will watch out for this scam on McAfee, now that you have told me.
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Jebber,
Sorry. It was actually a dollar sign. I was typing too quick in a desperate bid to get a solution. It worries me that their email says: "The transfer was successful."
No problem, anything unexpected with an attachment can usually be regarded as a scam.
I have received countless scam Emails supposedly from MacAfee, now I’m getting Norton ones, there are plenty of others doing the rounds at the moment.
I recently had one demanding payment in Bitcoin, to stop them sending to everyone in my contacts a screen shot of me watching porn. They must think us stupid to threaten with something we knows be impossible, or they think everyone looks at porn.
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If you think you're being scammed, you are! Always be extremely sceptical of these e-mails and delete - NEVER open them.
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I get someone phoning me now and then saying that someone has taken money from my Amazon Prime account. They always want me to press one on my telephone but I never do. I am well used to it by now and it doesn't bother me any more.
I think ZELLE are just doing much the same thing by offering you a help telephone number. If I had phoned them in a panic, (which I very nearly did) it seems like it is much the same as pressing one for the Amazon Prime scam. If I had phoned ZELLE I would have fallen right into their trap, hook, line and sinker.
Thanks for your help everyone.
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This is useful information
https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/advice/how-to-spot-a-scam-alFiz5h8mnJ9
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It's a spam.
When I receive similar e-mails, I delete as Spam and block sender.
Same here and with phone calls also
Rosie
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It's a spam.
When I receive similar e-mails, I delete as Spam and block sender.
Same here and with phone calls also
Rosie
I also do for all spam e-mails.
Also report it to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
Phishing: Spot and report scam emails, texts, websites and calls
report(at)phishing.gov.uk
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/phishing-scams/report-scam-email
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The calls I receive are always an Indian sub-continent voice with an Anglicised name!
"Well goodness gracious me." The oldies such as I, will appreciate that lyric.
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How does one block a sender. ?
I get these purporting to come from amazon and several phone calls a week.
Since i know exactly what i spend on amazon anything other is always a scam.
I delete all spam without even reading them. .
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How does one block a sender. ?
Both of my e-mail providers have an option to block senders. Smart phones and landlines have the option to block senders.
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Sounds like the typical scam operating method. They say they represent Norton/McAfee/Amazon or similar,, get you to download teams and login to your bank. They then manipulate your screen to make it look like you have 'accidently' been refunded some money. What follows is a lot of call transfers, requests to action payments or buy gift cards which need to be posted.
Scammer payback on youtube goes through the process regularly and turns the tables by logging into their systems, deleting files and phoning people to warn them when he eavesdrops on calls in progress.
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Here on Oz, we regularly get phone calls from the taxation office, supposedly, about a refund.
A friend recently got one, and annoyed the hell out of the scammer by bursting out laughing. He knew that he was going to have to pay extra tax when they went through the system, and was not going to get a refund ;D ;D :-X :-X
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I have recently had 168 emails with a receipt from my power supplier thanking me for my $22 payment. I phoned the power supplier after the sixth one and said that I had not made any payments. He put me on hold and went off to check, then came back and said that someone was trying to put over $7,000 into my account and had set up for automatic payments of $22. The person had used our account number. There was a name on the receipt (not ours). The person who I spoke to said that they had never seen anything like this and would have to investigate further and they would get in touch with the person on the receipt and get them to stop the payments. Over 48 hours I was regularly receiving email receipts and approx. $3,700 had been credited to my account. Have not received any emails from an unknown person asking for my bank details and to pay back the money which I thought this would be the next thing to happen.