That’s just an attempt to switch you to an alternate provider. There’s a number of ways it can go from there. All bad.
Thanks!
They would have a better chance if they used a real phone number.
Got the bank details. Sent this. Waiting for fireworks since he’s expecting a paper receipt. This is just the “template” I keep ready.
Just got an answer.
Hello Mr. Mosse,
Your email is well received and once your payment is confirmed then you will be notified. I will schedule payment on Monday once your payment is confirmed today or tomorrow.
Of course, the next step is to accuse him of lying about not getting the money.
There is a new universe of scammers and suckers associated with cryptocurrency and NFT’s. At its best it’s just a pyramid scheme with lots of smaller grifts on the side.
Does the confirmation code translate to anything in English. Rot13? Leet? It looks as if it ought to, anyway.
Nope. I used a random sequence generator.
Dang. I was hoping for a fabulous insult to the scammer.
When I get to that stage, I want it to be crystal clear.
OK, I’ve had a second scambaiting going though nothing of interest until now. Just the basic “you’ve won a 2.8 million dollar ATM card, send fee” scam.
I sent them a fake payment and got the response this morning.
I was thanked for the payment and they’re shipping the card with a logistics company (coming in four days) and here’s a link for tracking the progress. “Tracking”, r-i-i-g-h-t.
My response: “Looking forward to receiving my card. No way I’m clicking on that fucking link, though.”
After some research, I found the following.
I did a search on Dex Logistics Delivery Company, no exact matches.
Did a search on dexlogs. com came up a blank page.
Added “/enter” as it was in the email, got the front page.
Looks to be a container ship/cargo logistics.
Domain lookup showed it’s only a year and a half old.
No company history mentioning a recent name change.
No mention of courier services. No indication how a card is coming from Uganda to the US in only four days
Company banner included logos of “our partners” (DHL, FedEx, UPS, TNT) all distorted.
company logo included the partner logos in one image named fedaax.png
Obviously a bait site for suckers. Either the link had a tracker like Grabify or the shipment progress search box was a tracker.
Just got a Medicare call. “Calling about your Medicare coverage”. (Company not identified) Then I was called by my real name, first time that’s happened. So I threw a wrench into the works(I hope) by claiming not to be that person, I’m Peter Mosse born Feb 21 1960. The “agent” accepted that then passed me on to the next idiot.
He reconfirmed the information, verified that I don’t yet have a doctor since I recently moved then said I would be on hold for the next agent.
He then picked up and tried to pretend to be the next agent thinking I wouldn’t recognize his voice. By now I’m playing a bit pissed off.
Next agent comes on, a woman this time, starts her spiel and then the kicker. She asks how much I’m paying for home security and internet.
I demand she tell me why she wants to know and she said the next agent would answer that.
Right in the middle of demanding an answer from her, she hung up.
Anyone getting this “Google” survey win an iPad popups?
Well i did the simple survey and Won, shocking! All I had to do was furnish credit card info to pay the shipping fee, a modest amount <$3.00. I used a debit card expiring this month where I had the minimun $10 to keep open just to see the reaction. Charge was declined, a couple other attempts were made. Fraud folks at the card company were right on it with email and phone call to me inside of 24 hours. New card coming and charges never were paid.
Was there an attempt to overcharge or was that not stated?
Not stated but two of the attempts were from different states.
I often wondered if those would try to max out any card they got ahold of.
I’ve got an old debit card with about 25 cents left on it which I use to play with “Rachel From Card Services” scammers (along with a list of pregenerated “test” numbers that pass the first stages of verification but don’t have an associated account).
They’re still trying!
I am writing this mail to inform you that i receive a call from our mailing agent that your ATMcard was on hold at airport in London by Custom and they are demanding Custom clearance certificate which is going to cost you $570 so am advise you to try and send the fee through western union or money gram with the information below to enable him obtain the certificate and carry on the delivery
Good thing I didn’t have to send it to a specific airport in London.
Just sent a Western Union receipt(similar format to the bank receipt) so we’ll see how far they’re going to push this.
The dimbulb is complaining the money hasn’t arrived yet. I just told him I talked to my bank and was told the transfer went through as I wouldn’t have gotten the confirmation if it hadn’t. I speculated the bank is playing the float. Lets see if he understands that.
Unfortunately they can check the numbers on-line without stepping foot in the WU office.
When I scambaited, I always used MoneyGram as I knew they’d have to go there in person and couldn’t check it on line [not sure if that is still the case nowadays]