The linked page has disappeared. Probably eaten by a jackelope.
Woot! It worked!
I got an email from eBay:
Thanks again for reporting the problematic content you found.
What happened:
We looked into your report and removed the content. It may take up to 24 hours for it to reflect on the site. This determination was made by a customer service agent.
That was cool of them. Most of the time when I report something on a site I get a canned auto-reply, but nothing else.
I wonder, what would a working “Eagle milk cat dog fish pony hippo jackrabbit coyote” be capable of?
Beware of an email that claims to be from Social Security. It’s titled “IMPORTANT DOCUMENT AVAILABLE.” Red Flag #1: The sender’s address is a dot.com, not dot.gov. Red Flag #2: There’s a link to download the supposed “important document,'“ but the email says it only works on Windows devices.
I didn’t fall for it, but it sure looks authentic and it probably fools a lot of people into downloading malware or giving away their Social Security numbers and/or financial information.
I guess this goes here.
AI has been “poisoned” to suggest solutions to common problems that install serious malware on computers:
I’m pretty sure that the Social Security folks and other government agencies will NEVER contact you via email or telephone.
That’s the IRS. With Social Security, you can opt out of most paper communications and I’ve never had them phone me. When I do get an email notice of a message I go directly to the site rather than opening any links in the email.
Most of the emails are Beware of scams.
Worse than dogs & cats living together 
They will definitely send emails, if you confirm that is how you want them to contact you.
As to phone calls, I’m not sure. I have definitely spoken at length with them on the phone, but I no longer recall whether they called me or I called them. Quite possibly the latter. (In any case, I didn’t share any personal info over the phone.)
I think I was thinking of the IRS, but typed SSA. Brain fart.
That’s right, everything is done by mail. As far as I know, they don’t even have my email address.
Ooooh, I just got a new one.
The name in the email matches the name in the email address instead of the random letters & numbers that I’m used to seeing. Of course the end of the email address is .de, indicating it’s from Germany & the first line (all I can see in preview) is, “Attn Beneficiary” They’re getting clever I tells, ya! 
Now, getting texted from random phone numbers is pretty tame compared to some of the attempts here, but I’m dropping in here to give those Mini-Wannabe-Scammers credit for creativity.
Even if I don’t open the text, they know I’ll see the first few words on preview. So they’ve been trying to pique my curiosity:
“Yeah, you were right…”
(I WAS right, that’s good to know… but I’ll never know about what.)
“Hello, can we talk two minutes?”
(I googled that, since it should be “talk FOR two minutes”; and, it’s a common opening from spammers. In the USofA and Canada.)
“I really need to talk…”
(Crap, what if that’s from someone I know? I mean, it’s my area code, and I have three friends going through divorces … NO, I won’t feel guilty! Sorry, Insecure Spammer, talk to your therapist instead!)
Be aware that if you are trying to track a package shipped via USPS, make sure you are going to the USPS.com website. There are spoof websites that want you to install an app on your phone or on your browser.
GODDAMMIT!
I noticed an icon in my system tray yesterday that I hadn’t seen before. I click it and it shows an .exe file being copied to my computer, without asking permission first. OH HELL NO.
I figure out that the attempt is coming from a program called ScreenConnect – if you’re not familiar with it, it is a program used by IT people to take over your screen and do stuff on your computer if you are having trouble with something.
I look and find out it was installed, again without my permission, a week ago – I remember my anti-virus alerting me that it had blocked something around that time, but nothing about this download at all. So basically for a whole week this thing has been on my computer and who the hell knows what they accessed.
Fucking great.
I went nuclear and reinstalled Windows from my recovery USB to make sure it was cleaned out and updated my passwords. Fortunately the credit reporting agencies already have my accounts frozen so if they stole enough stuff to impersonate me they won’t be able to open any credit accounts.
Got this email from “Chase Bank” a few days ago:
My sympathies. This is the reason that I keep nothing on my phone that would be of any use to anyone. No account links, no online payment apps, etc. I don’t even password the phone. Anybody who steals it will get a three-year-old POS with nothing useful on it.
I got a similar one, too. Like many millions of other people I have an account with Chase. First thing I did was look at what email address it had actually been sent to. It was not sent to the address Chase sends me things, so I immediately knew it was a scam attempt.
Having separate email addresses for every company I do business with is sometimes a pain, but it also makes scams like this much harder to fall for.
Does your phone have password-less access to your email and do you ever use that phone number for account recovery authentication?