I Was Almost Scammed!

No, I haven't been scammed, but people have tried. What I did was I played them! I got an email that said Congratulations! You have been selected to receive a sum of $_____________. We just need your name, phone number, address.....blah blah blah. I asked them if they could send me the money to my PayPal account, but they said no, they'd either send a cheque or put it straight into my bank account but only if it was an American branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Then they said I'd need to send them £95 - £105 so that they could release it! (They couldn't make their mind up!) I asked how they wanted me to do that. When they said how I said sorry, I can't do that. Never heard anything from them since! I also keep getting emails saying. Hi there. I'm contacting you because you have the same surname as a friend of mine who has just passed away. He had no-one to leave his money to, so we thought as you have the same surname it could go to you. I just deleted it, I know what's coming next. That's happened at least three times!

May be NOT your email account, but the email account of your friend was hacked. I receive this kind of messages as they come from my niece email account, because her account was hacked.

Almost, but I saw through the scammer and didn't respond to him anymore. I put up a jacket on Ebay. I got a response I don't normally get from a potential buyer. They would pay me ten dollars more. They texted me and asked for Game Cards in order to complete the transaction. I became suspicious. Also, eBay let me know that the person was trying to do the transaction out side eBay which is a tell tale sign a scam will occur.

@LindaOHio Very wise of you to see what was going on. They knew they could not scam you. Good for you for figuring how what they were trying to do to you. I have been in person and on the computer and when I learned about the scam in person they did not like it and continue to make me pay for not letting them scam me all the way and think they care when they do not.

Scammers are very smart. Or perhaps her email address is what was hacked.

Oh wow, that's not good! Can be so tricky. My mom sort of was, saying she had purchased anti-virus software and to call this number to get it refunded and such. I should have known right away it was a scam. They were claiming that she had to send $2000 to get the $200 refunded.

I think it's pretty much a daily thing. Scammers will try anything to get us. I don't fall for any of it. I treat every message, email, text, friend request, etc as a scam until I can verify otherwise.

I haven't been scammed by an internet scam. But you know that my (physical) check was stolen and my Facebook account hacked.

This is terrible. Doesn't mean your account was hacked though. They could've gotten your friend's email address from somewhere else. Whenever I get emails that seem not legit I always look at the sender's actual email address since the sender's name they can put anything. That usually confirms if it's spam/scam or not.

Yes lot of time, India usually get scammed on phone call. We were never been online alot. But since Covid I have seen people are even using whatsapp,facebook and email to scam in India. Total has increased to $871.46 I am glad you take a note of all the points and took time before rushing to it!

So glad you weren't scammed! The scammers are very sneaky and very good at it. Did you get in touch with your friend?

Never have thankfully but they are out there indeed.

I hope you always be careful of scams. Sometimes our friends can't be trusted either. So stay alert.

once, a few days ago, I lost money,because the service to exchange credit into money

People have tried but not been successful. I almost do not trust anybody any more.

I haven't been scammed but they are out in full force. This morning when I checked my emails, I found about 3 or 4 suspicious emails that apparently were from the same source. First of all it looked very spammy to me so I did not open any of them. The subject line had to do with McAffe virus protection and that my device had to be updated or else I won't have virus protection. Of course that is not the case at all.

So glad you realized it in time! My neice recently lost everything in their bank accounts, but thank God the bank replaced it.

I'd like to think I'm smart enough to be scammed but yeah, I've been scammed by people before. Not online though, but by people whom I used to call my friends. Sad

I am glad you have noticed it. I hope and pray that I will never have that experience.

sorry that happened, you did all the right things - way to go!