kcjenkins Posted October 20, 2012 Report Posted October 20, 2012 From Kim Commando Here are three subject lines of convincing scam emails that are going around right now. If you see these in your inbox, delete them immediately. "YouTube Service has sent you a message: Your video on the TOP of YouTube" "Google Support has sent you a message: You are on the Top" "You have 4 pending messages on LinkedIn" If that's not bad enough, there is also a scam email claiming to be from Amazon that is starting to make the rounds. So watch out for that as well. If you receive an email from any of these companies, don't click on any links or open any attachments! Instead, open your browser and visit the company's site manually. If you really want to play it safe, call the company's customer service. Be sure you get the number from the company's site, not the email! Scammers love putting fake customer service numbers in scam emails and then tricking you when you call. Go to Kim's site for more saftey tips: http://www.komando.com/tips/index.aspx?id=13484 3 Quote
Gail in Virginia Posted October 22, 2012 Report Posted October 22, 2012 I must be really popular. I have gotten those messages, plus the one from Amazon, ones from PayPal, Ebay, UPS, the IRS, etc. The only one that even came close to getting me to bite appeared to be from Intuit. Since I use QuickBooks,, I almost clicked the link. Scary how realistic some of these look. 1 Quote
joanmcq Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 The really bad english composition usually tips me off. I got a ton of the YouTube ones. 1 Quote
Jack from Ohio Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 First clue is that your name is not in the e-mail. If any of them were real, they would at least know your name... Quote
Catherine Posted October 30, 2012 Report Posted October 30, 2012 I've gotten a bunch with a new twist lately -- always from people on my email list. Subject line is "Hey Catherine" and the message is a link with nothing else. The tip-off (other than that my daughters would use a subject line of "Hey Mom") is that - while it LOOKS like it's from someone on my list, the "reply-to" line shows something like (using KC, who started this thread) "KC Jenkins" <[email protected]>. The first one of these, a couple weeks ago, might have caught me except I have a firm rule of never clicking any link that doesn't have a recognizable note in an appropriate style from the person (and sometimes even then I email back, asking "did you send me this?"). 1 Quote
joanmcq Posted November 1, 2012 Report Posted November 1, 2012 If I have any suspicions on an email, I look at the full header which gives the details on what account the email really came from. 1 Quote
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