I Almost Got Scammed!

[McCln]

Hi eveyone, I thought I was going to have a bad week. Yesterday, I was on line and had a message about an order I di not make. When I opened it up, it was for 1-800-flowers.com. The letter claimed I had ordered flowers. It had a click here. So I did and went to some website that did not make sense. I check the AOL information and foud out that it was a scam to get my information. Well, I did not suffer a heart problem with this. But I am pissed at the person who had me worried for a while. So please be cautioned about e-mail saying that you ordered something, when you did not. Take care. Just sharing this with you. I am alright now.

Caroline
09-13-01
Aortic valve replacement
St. Jude's valve

 

[Ross]

It's all too easy to be scammed on the internet. I'm glad you didn't go for it. I'm sure others will and that's what stinks.

 

[fyrfytr]

Hey Caroline,
Thanks for letting us know and I am glad you didn't fall for it also.
Have A Great Week!

Dave
_________________________
Surgery: 4/21/03
Aortic Aneurysm Repair
AVR, with a St. Jude Mechanical
Heart Center of the Rockies

 

[hensylee]

Had a job in Orlando (scam city) once upon a time. The phone rang, I answered and the party said "we are delivering the ........ that you ordered; please have a check ready for us". I said we hadn't ordered it and she argued that we did so I got huffy. I told her "Look, lady, I DO THE ORDERING AROUND HERE and we didn't order your stuff" She hung up. This one is a famous scam. They're everywhere, aren't they?

 

[Nancy]

I get spam and scam all the time. I never open any mail that I don't recognize and send it to AOL's scam service. I even deleted my daughter who was writing to me from a computer at work, her message was "Take a look at these pictures". They were actually of her son who was playing baseball. I didn't recognize her address, and didn't want to "take a look" at any possibly naughty pictures. So off she went to the scam list.

Boy, she was kind of mad that she couldn't email me after that. But I got it all straightened out and deleted her address from the scam list.

 

[weekycat]

Beware of email impersonating EBAY!

Beware of email impersonating EBAY!

Be careful for impersonators! I got an email supposedly from EBAY today. It said they needed to update their information, and unless I sent them the info, I would not be able to sell or buy on Ebay. They asked for a credit card number, ss number and the ever-popular ATM PIN number!

Yeah, right. Like Ebay is going to do that! My son looked at it, and said it was actually a picture of a real EBAY site. I sent it to the proper authorities at the REAL ebay, and hopefully they'll catch the jerks!

A while ago, I almost got took with a similar email pretending to be from Earthlink, but I started to wonder when it too asked for an ATM PIN #. Ebay, AOL, Earthlink etc will NEVER send you an email asking you to send this type of information. You are the only one who needs to know your ATM PIN #!

 

[hensylee]

I read someplace (maybe here) about the eBay scam and the use of their official page. People keep on trying to get your $, don't they? Bad enough the government does it, not to mention these other scum.