Tis' The Season For...
By Smelly
@Sasquatchy (1131)
Canada
December 11, 2018 10:45am CST
...SPAM.
I don't know if you all have this same thing, but every time I open my email I have another email saying that one of my subscriptions are on hold, or has an issue, or has suspicious activity.
"Your Streaming service is on hold due to suspicious activity. So click here to put in your info to get it up and going again."
"Your payment account has been inactivated due to suspicious login, so *cough* *cough* Login to correct it. "
Some of the emails are pretty convincing and they are getting pretty good at it.
How do you guys tell the good from the bad?
I do two things.
1. I go directly to the site and check my accounts via another browser window.
2. I do a google search on the sending email address.
Anybody else have any helpful ideas?
6 people like this
4 responses
@Sasquatchy (1131)
• Canada
12 Dec 18
Oh the memories..only if I was old again....
2 people like this
@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
11 Dec 18
I got a Phishing one supposedly from PayPal. You did the right thing. Check the site direct and report the email.
1 person likes this
@Sasquatchy (1131)
• Canada
12 Dec 18
Oh I get those too. Last week I got one from a clothing store saying I paid for something and that it's being delivered to MI. I'm in Canada...we dont' have MI.
1 person likes this
@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
11 Dec 18
Poor you. I have no probs with spam at the moment. You can always accost the 'sender' of the email and ask for a detailed information. They will tell you that they haven't contacted you at all.
Once I got a demand note that I hadn't paid the bill in a hotel in a touristy region of the country. I had never been there! I wrote to the hotel what that meant and they apologised profusely although they had done nothing wrong. Someone had hacked their account and found it funny to send such mails to random people whose address they had got from somewhere.
1 person likes this
@Starmaiden (9311)
• Canada
11 Dec 18
I get spam mail claiming to be from my bank or mobile service provider. The first clue for me is that neither of these services would send me an "email" by bank would notify me through snail mail, and then I would call customer service.
My mobile service provider always notifies me through "text" and I always call their customer service line to confirm it was them.
1 person likes this
@Sasquatchy (1131)
• Canada
12 Dec 18
The text thing is a great idea! Too bad it's taking over the world! #StupidTexting
