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Great Phishing Stories Thread

Escape pod said:
… getting emails saying to pay my fast-track by going to the website and enter the letter Y.
I deleted it and report it as a scam
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I got two texts yesterday saying I need to pay my fast-track fine before it went up. Both reported as junk and deleted. Had the email last year. They probably got my age and info from the DMV selling it. :afm199
 
Me too, I've also ordered various other services with enormous fees, and they have the invoices to prove it! :laughing
 
Just got this message.

Hi, my name is Lena. Sorry to bother you with this message. Adjust has great job opportunities. We are currently in urgent need of 100 employees to help update Adjust merchants' data. We will provide you with free training to get you familiar with the job. Learn valuable skills and enjoy regular holidays. This is an easy, yet fun and challenging job that you can do anytime, anywhere, with complete flexibility. You can earn between 100 and 300 USD per day. During the trial period, you will receive a base salary of 780 USD every 5 working days, plus additional performance pay. After the trial period, the monthly salary will be 4360 USD. If you are interested in joining us, please send a text message to 2132466021 for more information.
(Note: Must be 18 or older and responsible.)

Call that ph number at your own risk.
 
They try and I delete.

One older woman I know got bit by the kid in jail scam. :facepalm
 
budman said:
They try and I delete.

One older woman I know got bit by the kid in jail scam. :facepalm
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Being a grandfather with a twisted personality, the one time the 'help me grand dad' came in I replied: "Why you little phukker, you still owe me a hundred from last month. You can sit there until your posse' gets you out."

I guess it WASN'T one of my grandkids, a mother would have said something to me.
 
I got the Adjust job scam. I also got this FasTrac thing:

The Toll Roads Notice of Toll Evasion:
You have an unpaid toll bill on your account. To avoid late fees, pay within 12 hours or the late fees will be increased and reported to the DMV.
(Please reply Y, then exit the sms and open it again to activate the link, or copy the link to your Safari browser and open it)
The Toll Roads team wishes you a great day!

Pretty funny. Pretty clear instructions on how to infect yourself with a virus.
 
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The company I work for sends fake phishing emails to check if we are able to recognize them. I think it's a good idea. So far I haven't fallen for one yet, but the stats (Which they send out to us) usually have a 70% success rate or so. Yikes!!
 
Not really a story, but a general way of acting. When I see what looks like a scam call, I always pick up the phone and put on a Vietnamese accent. When they ask who I am, I respond with “My name Chét”.

“What is your last name?”

“Last name Tiet ban”

It means fuck you in Vietnamese. I usually string them along for as long as I think I’m getting them to bite, then go full on no more accent and tell them that their father was a goat herder and their mother reeks of elderberry.

When a scammer calls, “HEY KIDS, GET OUT HERE, WE GOT ANOTHER SCAMMER!!!”
 
Bubba_s said:
The company I work for sends fake phishing emails to check if we are able to recognize them. I think it's a good idea. So far I haven't fallen for one yet, but the stats (Which they send out to us) usually have a 70% success rate or so. Yikes!!
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my last company does that too. and they made it painful to pop up on that list.
 
I've been ignoring emails from the churches reverend but figured I'd respond but I guess he's been hacked:

ALV-UjXEnALSP9grnF4TYMgzC7ULw2GBi2X5E5HrmBfIdLYgkBF6uQ=s40-p

Reverend Marcus Liefert​

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Thu, Feb 20, 6:06 PM (2 days ago)
to me
Good to hear from you Tux I need to get a Walmart gift card for a member for her birthday today, but I'm unavailable to do that right now. Can you kindly purchase the card online? Rest assured, I'll reimburse you. Kindly let me know if you can be of help.
 
Mr Butch and I must’ve been hacked by the same sources. I got the same toll notice this week. Had a rental car with TX tags recently but thought I’d avoided the toll roads on that trip, so wondered for a minute since the link had tx. $6.69?, wonder how many bite?
 
easy wind said:
Mr Butch and I must’ve been hacked by the same sources. I got the same toll notice this week. Had a rental car with TX tags recently but thought I’d avoided the toll roads on that trip, so wondered for a minute since the link had tx. $6.69?, wonder how many bite?
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More than you might think. People, in general, are fucking stupid.

The texts aren't random or targeted. They send them out en masse.
 
I had one last year that was sent from one of my actual friends to her entire contact list asking to pick up some gift cards. I figured it was bad, she said all her friends were calling. It was specifically for itunes cards and they kept texting me asking if I’d gotten them yet. I was at the store so I took a photo of the cards and sent it back asking if this was what they wanted. They said yes and I said G’luck with that. So it was weird to correspond with them.
 
Butch said:
I got the Adjust job scam. I also got this FasTrac thing:

The Toll Roads Notice of Toll Evasion:
You have an unpaid toll bill on your account. To avoid late fees, pay within 12 hours or the late fees will be increased and reported to the DMV.
(Please reply Y, then exit the sms and open it again to activate the link, or copy the link to your Safari browser and open it)
The Toll Roads team wishes you a great day!

Pretty funny. Pretty clear instructions on how to infect yourself with a virus.
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Got this text today from a 44 country code. Almost sure I wasn’t driving in the United Kingdom recently.
 
I just got an unsolicited email from BARF dog food. :laughing
 
Got an unsolicited text yesterday saying, "Guess who I am?"

I replied, "Dr. Livingston, I presume."

They replied with a photo of a very attractive woman and the text, "Hi Amy! I'm Susan. We exchanged numbers at the charity gala last week. Do you remember me?"

I replied with the following: "Yes, I remember. YOu were the one who removed my anal beads in the bathroom after I ate the bad oysters."

I haven't gotten a reply.
 
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