Not me, but a friend got this from Booking.com - sheesh!
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Yikes. It seems like you can’t believe anything you get by email or text. But often it’s hard to get anyone on the phone. 
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Not a huge scam but two of my adult kids recently received mail at our home address that looked like a paycheck (not inconceivable) which turned out to be junk mail after they asked me to open it. Sadness all around!
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And then sometimes real mail looks like junk mail!
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I was warned by BestBuy that they were sending my $100 gift card in a plain white envelope that looked like junk mail. I did received and hung onto the card.
We got checks in plain envelopes that looked like junk mail but were checks for us. My sister had already moved hers to her junk mail pile and wondered why she didn’t get one. Fortunately she was able to retrieve & cash. One has to sort mail carefully!
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Just a reminder to be VERY careful about the websites you buy from. DH needs a specific kind of calculator made by HP that seems to be rare these days. I googled it and an ad came up from a site. There was a photo and description of a calculator that looked legitimate. I was about to buy it, but then I noticed the other ads on the site were for odd things like brightly colored tennis shoes and other clothing. It seemed incongruous, so I googled the name of the site and got back a lot of hits about it being a scam. I’ve already forgotten the name of the site so I can’t share it. When I look now, it’s not coming up at all.
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Definitely—so many deliberately “look alike” sites by scammers. They want to lure you in as the real deal when they’re just selling bogus goods.
I worry so much about scams that I temporarily ignored a text msg from “SSA” this morning. When an email came, I decided to log in (but not using the link). My initial 1099 is available.
I didn’t know if I could link an IG video here, so instead I screenshot the info…
Ugh, the scammers are everywhere!
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This isn’t actually a “scam,” more a questionable business practice.
By the way, be careful out there when returning gifts. I tried to return a pair of shirts I bought at Walmart online using the website and said I could bring it to FedEx. Walmart said there would be NO fees but the site only indicated I’d get a refund for ONE of the 2 shirts. I went to WalMart to ask why and the CS person said I had to call the main office. I got her to write the number. I called and after second try with the menu spoke to a person and complained about not being offered a full refund and said I needed to return both shirts as neither fits the recipient. I said I was currently at Walmart. The CS guy on the phone sent me a bar code via email that I presented when I went back to customer service with the shirts and my receipt and I got a receipt for the full refund back to my original charge card.
It took more time and effort than it should have and I can easily see folks throwing up their hands and just getting a partial refund (perhaps not even realizing they’re being short-changed), but I was glad to get my full refund and get the shirts out of our house. Still have a few more returns but expect them to be pretty easy (Costco).
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My friend suspects he fell victim to a scam.
A few months ago, he was actively seeking a senior leadership role. He received an email from a recruiter claiming he was a strong candidate for a C-suite position at one of her clients. She asked him to send an ATS-friendly resume as soon as possible.
The email provided little information about the role, and my friend, hesitant to send his resume without more specifics asked for additional details. The recruiter explained that the position was highly sensitive, and specifics would only be disclosed to shortlisted candidates. She reiterated her request for an ATS-friendly resume and included a link to a service that could format resumes appropriately.
Confident that his existing resume was already ATS-compatible, my friend submitted it. The recruiter responded, claiming “the system” couldn’t read his resume properly. She urged him to use the recommended resume conversion service and warned that time was running out—he had just 24 hours to resubmit.
Feeling the pressure, he relented and paid $19 to the resume service. After uploading the converted resume, he never heard back from the recruiter. His follow-up emails went unanswered.
He now believes the entire situation was a scam. He discovered the resume service was based in Eastern Europe and likely used an AI tool for resume formatting, meaning minimal effort was involved on their end.
In hindsight, it had all the telltale signs of a scam: vague details, the lure of an enticing opportunity, a manufactured sense of urgency, and pressure to act quickly.
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it was a scam. Now they have some of his personal information and his credit card information.
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Oh yes! I didn’t think about the credit card 
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I just got a text message from a bogus looking email telling me about an AppleCard charge CA and steps to IMMEDIATELY take if I didn’t want to be charged.
My ApplePay only shows the one charge I made the other day as my most recent charge.
Reported to reportpfishing@apple.com.
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Just got a voice mail on my phone saying that to keep my 50% discount with Comcast I had to call the number that left the message by midnight tonight.
Umm, I do not have a 50% discount with Comcast, nor do I think that anybody does, so…
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It’s a scary world out there.
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I got a similar voicemail, except they didn’t say at all what company or provider’s 50% discount was about to expire. Um, no thanks?
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But your 50% discount with Acme REAL GOLD jewelry, Escort Services, and Internet Provider is about to expire!!!
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