Yep, our Nextdoor app has recently been filled with what appear to be women writing code words for various sex acts. And drugs (there’s a bunch of stuff online about these code phrases).
My H was DMd to see if he could help “fix a naughty belt” on a “vacuum cleaner” (he’s a librarian, not anything to do with “vacuum cleaners” 
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It’s too bad, really, because it used to be a good resource.
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I got the scam toll payment text today. I can see why some people are fooled - it looks legitimate. I think I’ve drilled into DH never to respond to ANYONE who calls or texts about an overdue payment or a “problem.” It has to be a hard and fast rule.
Humble Brag… I got the toll pay scam sent to my work email. I reported it to our Phishing Department and was rewarded with a “Congratulations! We sent that as a test. You passed!” LOL. It filled me with greater joy than it probably should have. It’s the little things…
Uggh, those “fake phishing” emails used to annoy me to no end when I was working! It was always so obvious - you just had to hover over any of the links and they were all from some obvious “test” site. I may have reported them at first, but soon I just sent them directly to the trash.
Looks like scam AI is making inroads into LinkedIn. Big time. Mr. B received a “join network” request from some executive. He used to get these requests from obvious scammers who had few connections listed and almost nothing in their profile. This time, the profile was very well developed and truly impressive, and the person had 500-plus connections. The dead giveaway? The profile picture showing a beautiful Asian woman, clearly AI generated, as it was flawless. Mr. took one phrase out of “her” profile resume and literally searched for it. A website profile of some professional came up, with the exact phrase. So beware of this.
That’s really scary. At some point, there probably won’t be dead giveaways. 
DH got a very realistic looking email supposedly from our email provider saying his account had been compromised. They used his name in the email. It was realistic enough that I called the provider. It took a little while, but they confirmed it was spam.
I have to admit, I didn’t look at the sender’s email address closely. When I finally did, THAT was the giveaway. I have to remember to do that first next time!
No more beautiful Asian women in LinkedIn scammers’ profiles. Mr. received two requests from different people. Normal looking male pictures. The giveaway? Work and education history were identical! Mr. googled one key phrase from those profiles and found a couple more identical “siblings.” Reported them all because the profiles sounded too good to be true. And he found another person who had that phrase but had a different education and work experience.
ETA: that last person was a legit guy, not a sketchy “recruiter.”
Yeah, I get weird friend requests on FB from time to time. I’m the administrator of my high school class’s web page, and I also get requests to be admitted to that page from totally random people. It’s so scammy.
Me,too! Mine was a small town high school and a small class of 230 so I can still recognize 99% of names. And I know for sure we didn’t have a Tiffany, Brittany, Ashley, Olivia, Isabella,etc. We were Susans, Karens, Cindys, Debbies, Lindas, Pats, Sharons, Janes, Anns, etc.
Jackpot today - two spam PayPal emails and one spam Toll text.
Hopefully my butting in to an overheard conversation in line at the post office saved someone from clicking on the email link to “find out what the package is that she owes 99 cents postage on.” The clerk had no package for her and no record of one…
Mine today was NETFLIX letting me know they were having trouble with my method of payment.
Mine too!
I’ve been getting the Pay Pal emails for a $500+ purchase for a couple weeks now. They send about 4 identical emails a day, every few days. Really annoying. Somehow the spam filter hasn’t filtered them out yet, even though I’ve marked them as spam
I had an email from Netflix a few days ago telling me my account would be suspended soon due to nonpayment. I assumed it was spam but logged into my account independently - discovered the payment was showing an earlier credit card number that had been replaced due to potential fraud. The autopay had previously automatically switched to the new number but for some reason reverted back. I deleted the old number and added the replacement number from scratch.
So it looked like classic spam but was not!
Yes, true. Check on your own, like you did and never click a link. And really, you just have to look at the email address to know it’s bogus. We need an eye-roll emoji.
I got this scam text today. It was somewhat believable. I have an old family comcast id, mostly in recent years used to deflect junk mail and a few other things. But we used to have other individual ids with them too.
Many years ago, I created a profile at a free online dating website. Creating a profile was necessary to search. After searching, I decided not to continue and didn’t visit the site again. I left the profile, as it had minimal personal information – just the minimum necessary questions and a single picture. It took me under 3 minutes to create.
I was surprised to see that ~10 years later, there has been activity on the profile over the past couple days -a flurry of messages and likes. It seems that someone hacked the profile, changed the username, and changed the picture. They did not change the password, so I can login and read the messages.
The person using the profile seems to indiscriminately send likes to everyone, regardless of age or sexual orientation. If they like him back, he says he is working in Queens (NY) as a “security guard agent”, but lives in a far away city with his 2 boys. This is completely inconsistent with the profile questions I answered, which mention working in tech and living in SoCal. He initially used to list living in seemingly random cities in different states. After figuring out that my the town in the profile is in SoCal, he changed this pattern to say he was living in the largest nearby city, which received much more positive responses. Most people he talks with, quickly stop talking after learning he is working in Queens and/or due to red flags. However, if he gets a positive response, the he switches to texting and gets the victim to download WhatsApp. At this point, I can’t see what happens.
I suspect that the scam is something similar to below:
There are tens of thousands of reports of financial losses from this type of romance scam each year. Some report losing millions. Many report losing tens of thousands. The FTC table at https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/federal.trade.commission/viz/shared/4WS8HTYQ6 suggests approximately $1 billion in reported financial losses per year.
That’s wild! Can you change the password and then disconnect yourself fully from the site? I can’t think of what that’s called.
Brain kicked in…delete the profile - after changing the password.