I like the way you think.
I may have issues with how you web design though.
The site on Android (Samsung galaxy S-20) in chrome has the logo proudly proclaiming “oinsquirt”
Ah so it cut off the “L” at the beginning.
Wonderful. I hope you get to use it and tell us all about it.
Just now I got a text message purportedly from my credit union, Urgent notice on your account kindly sign in to reactivate
Logged in on my laptop and everything was fine so I sent the credit union a message about it.
Odd thing is, while I often get similar texts “from” BofA (where I don’t have an account) or Wells Fargo (where I do), it’s a small CU and I’ve never had an attempt on it before.
A lot of them don’t know how to read barcodes or QR codes.
I make a fake confirmation or screenshot the website.
I received an email this morning from a “paypal” seller thanking me for my $700 purchase. Company I never heard of. Check my actual PayPal activity, Nope nothing there. But I’m sure that if I’d contacted the folks who sent the email they’d need my information to solve the issue.
I’ve got a couple of messages in my Gmail account saying that some name I’ve never heard of requested $99.99 from me via Venmo. Easy enough to ignore and then I noticed that the toll-free number listed in the message is not the same as the real one for Venmo.
I got one last night that purported to be from PayPal. Mine was for $843.7 and whatever it is will be shipped soon. I thought about calling them to ask if that was 7 or 70 cents because I’m cancelling if it’s 70. But I’ve got better things to do than fuck with scammers today.
Interesting. It seems that the word choad, which perhaps has fallen out of favor as of late, but I recall fondly through my college years as an insult, may very well have a Hindi origin. A Navajo origin is another speculation.
We’ve (or my wife, I should say) recently gotten several of those DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER OR DELETE THIS MESSAGE OR YOU WILL BE KILLED AND YOUR DOG WILL BE MISTREATED! CALL MICROSOFT AT THIS NUMBER IMMEDIATELY TO BE RELIEVED OF EVERYTHING IN YOUR BANK ACCOUNT! I don’t know if this is because of some websites she visits?
Is this on your phone or in your email? Because my email routinely skims any message like that off into my spam folder.
No, it happens when she’s browsing on the iMac. Not sure which website. It’s pretty ominous looking/sounding, and is complete with Microsoft logos and everything. The threat of “losing all your data” is laughable, as there is nothing on that computer that would be of any great loss.
Scammers create/buy up(or take over) emails and websites that are “typos” of the real thing. The warnings are just popups like any other site.
I spent close to two seconds yesterday deciding that the email I received from “Sirius XM” was a phony.
The message was that my subscription was expiring (true, but not quite yet) and I needed to renew it, plus I’d get three free months from their loyalty rewards program. Just click the link and enter your credit card info (don’t worry, it won’t be charged). In all the time I’ve been a subscriber there’s never been an offer of free months, which was suspicious in itself. Then I check the sender line, which listed an authentic looking Sirius email address, but with a note that it was via bogusscammer.net.
Nice try, 
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Well, it’s the website (or more likely, an advertisement running on that site).
It’s absolutely not targeted.
Running a browser without aggressive ad-blocking is just asking to get yelled at.
I’ll have to check, but I’m pretty sure I installed AdBlock on her computer.
My MiL gets that one from time to time on her iMac.
The last time she had it, there were a handful of suspicious-looking browser extensions installed. I deleted them and ever since (fingers crossed) all has been well. I’m not sure how they got installed, but she does sometimes get a bit confused and click on a button she shouldn’t, so I’m guessing that was the case.
My wife is under strict instructions to come get me if something like that pops up. She’s a smart person, but not when it comes to computers or other electronics.
Just reply with “Go ahead and use the number on file. Thanks for the free months.”
At least half of being smart is knowing what you’re dumb at. The days of the Renaissance (wo)man are long behind us.