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I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed

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Re: I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed

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Post by megablast »

gnicholas wrote: post #10

> He verified my name, he had the last four digits of my debit card number, and everything generally seemed to follow the normal script of a transaction verification call There's a red flag right there — I've never found a bank willing to provide any verification of who they are when calling me. They call me and ask me to give them a code or card number without providing me with any proof of their identity. I've trie…

Who cares if you've never come across it before. It happens.

How else do they prove they are a real bank???

You are making the same dumb mistake this guy made.

Re: I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed

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Post by dreamcompiler »

rolobio wrote: post #6

I nearly got taken by a scammer because Amazon transferred me to one. I purchased a set of Reolink cameras on Amazon, (they've been great) one of them failed a couple months in. I contacted Amazon customer support (via my Amazon login and in their interface) and they wanted to troubleshoot with their technical team. Eventually the (very helpful) Amazon technician suggested contacting Reolink for support and started a…

Slightly OT but I swore off Reolink because as late as two years ago they still required a Flash plugin before you could view camera captures in a web browser. I think they've finally fixed that, but the utter cluelessness of requiring Flash in 2020 left a bad taste in my mouth.

Re: I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed

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Post by 14 »

whiddershins wrote: post #367
14 wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. Last example was LED grow light I purchased and description said had a grounded plug. When it arrived there was only a 2 prong plug. I’m weary of everything I buy there now and try find a manufacturer direct order when possible. Fulfilled by Amazon should read as a warning sign.

Just FYI weary = tired … wary = suspicious.

thank you for letting me know I hate to use words incorrectly

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Post by smoovb »

simoneau wrote: post #95

I'm surprised at the level of scamming we tolerate as a society. As technologists, we have a good chance of not falling for it, but my parents are sitting ducks. Some combination of new consumer protection laws, infrastructure improvements, and law enforcement attention is desperately needed. I don't know why this doesn't get more attention. Is it just the historical attitude that each of us are responsible for prote…

Many of these scammers have made it their life long career. It can become an addiction and driven by the big easy money wins of a successful scam. Imagine doing this for a while - you're unlikely to have many other career options. Not sure this ever gets rooted out of society.

Re: I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed

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Post by dangus »

daniel-cussen wrote: post #263
dangus wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is quite a jump to conclusions. The alternative theory of the customer service rep googling a phone number and getting the wrong one is far more likely. Or, it's possible that the company's own seller login was compromised and a scammer changed their contact number. The idea that a wildly successful multi-billion dollar company would actually set up such an easily-noticed system where they "get a cut" of phishin…

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Haha no, when I picked it I had no idea of the connection. I just like Dr. Steve Brule (“Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” and “Check it Out! With Dr. Steve Brule”

Re: I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed

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Post by monktastic1 »

Nextgrid wrote: post #330
monktastic1 wrote: post #293

"while I'm no expert, I've never heard of a call center system that can accept touch tones seamlessly while a call is active, and it would take extremely sophisticated audio processing capabilities to be able to do that, since the frequencies used by touch tone keys heavily overlap the frequencies of human speech." "Extremely sophisticated?" The tones are just a sum of two sine waves of known frequencies. That's triv…

I think his point was that it's difficult for a system to conceal the tones from the other party while not interfering with normal speech.

Did you read it in context? It seems very clear to me that he's talking about detecting the tones.

Re: I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed

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Post by grog454 »

Interesting that even in the addendum at the end of the article (which I only skimmed) there is no mention of the most glaring oversight of the author. From his own screenshot:

"[...] Wells Fargo will not contact you by phone or text to request this code."

To be fair, that should be about as large as the title text, and displayed before the code. And the scammer was likely doing a good job of keeping the author distracted enough to miss that.

Re: I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed

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Post by lupinia »

3np wrote: post #388

Permanent hug-of-death? > Lupinia Hosting Is Shutting Down Original archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220331074459/http://www.lupini...

That's an error condition I've never seen before; that page only appears when no corresponding virtual server can be found (leftover from when I used to host friends' websites, a very long time ago), but I'm not sure what would cause it to be displayed without fuzzing the domain name. If the application got overloaded and fell over and died, it should've thrown a 50x error of some sort. Thank you for pointing it out! I'll look into it :) It was already back up when I checked, so I guess whatever happened auto-recovered (hopefully it did that quickly).
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