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Talking about viruses, I remember when I was fairly new to the Internet and I got an email saying it had detected a virus, to get rid of it install this cure.

So being green at the time and panicking I installed it, activate this scan then got a popup saying it had detected the virus but only the full version could get rid of it.
To get the full version pay £XXX etc, luckily I told someone at work and he was PC savvy, he told me it was a scam, then he googled it for me and said you will have a job getting rid of this, and he helped me, he found a cure and sent me the information of how to do it.

Another time this was years alter I was at work and there was a young lad who I liked from another company in our control room.
He was working on a computer altering the program, he was very clever, we got talking and the subject of viruses came up, then he told me he had written a few.
I asked why he would do things like that, he said it was a laugh, I told him I thought he was a moron and and never spoke to him again.

Col.

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2677129)

That scam is all over the internet using different household names/celebeities.

One of the worst offenders for such advertising is actually msn.com

Got them on Facebook all of time too a few years back.

A Dutch celebrity John de Mol jr. (media-entrepreneur/television producer) went to court against Facebook demanding they take down those fake ads and won:

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/12/du...other-lawsuit/

Which seems to have helped as I don't get them as much anymore.

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Originally Posted by Col7777 (Post 2677236)

Thanks everybody for all your concerns and comments, like I said in my first post I'm usually more aware of stuff like this but this time I fell for it.

Anyway moving on I got an email from my bank telling me they are sending me another card but... It is a more advanced card with lots of new features, I can turn things on and off with this card by going online and either activating or de-activating certain features.

So now I have to be computer savvy lol, the thing is they didn't ask me if I wanted this new card style they are just sending me one.
Suppose I shouldn't complain, after all they were helpful when I phoned about my problem.

Col.

Most if not all the financial institutions are now using this latest technology. I don't know if you use mobile banking but I can even adjust the features on my iPhone.

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Originally Posted by Pisces (Post 2677297)

Yeah, the crap used to be prevalent just about everywhere.

Don't feel bad.
I got scammed myself!
Wife said she'd do the dishes if I did the laundry.
Wife is now on a camping trip and guess who is doing the dishes?
And she took $700 out of MY Bank account!!
:/\\!!

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Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves (Post 2677302)

Your lucky, I told Nancy we'd need a $1000 at least :)

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Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves (Post 2677302)

The things we do for love! :yep:

Edit:
Forgot to mention, when the wife is happy the husband is happy! :up:

Here's a scam: Tonight I was looking for a ladder. Home Depot has a really good deal but "out of stock"

Ok, so I search for other vendors, Amazon, out of stock. etc.

Then I come across the ladder for nearly half the price at this site

https://www.lelafall.com/type-375-mu...-with-aluminum

Whoa, this must be a scam, right?

According to Scamdoc, yeah, definitely.
https://www.scamdoc.com/view/205920

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Originally Posted by Onkel Neal (Post 2677422)

Love how that store sells dresses, jewellery, clothes, and apparently this one specific kind of ladder.

Glad you took STEPS in the right direction and checked first.

Col.

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Originally Posted by Onkel Neal (Post 2677422)

That's a good site Neal and fortunately I've never had to ignore it, only used it on a couple of occasions though.

It's becoming more prevalent than ever. Facebook ads are estimated to be 50% fake store fronts.

https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fra...-shopping.html

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Bass, the attorney in Austin, was in the market for a coat when the Facebook ad caught her eye.

She’d bought a number of sweaters, scarves and shoes from similar ads without any issues. So she followed the link and purchased two coats from KeliSexin. She didn’t pay attention to the URL, she said, and assumed that the social media site had vetted the ad. A spokeswoman for Facebook said an automated system reviews ads to make sure they’re not selling prohibited items such as tobacco, dietary supplements and payday loans. Identifying companies that sell counterfeit products, she said, can be more difficult, and Facebook often relies on user reports to flag such content. She added that the company is reviewing KeliSexin’s ads.

Bass said she typically reads customer reviews and does reverse image searches for products on websites she’s not familiar with. “But this time I didn’t,” she said. “And I got burned.”

She used a debit card to pay $112.49 for two coats. Weeks later, she’s still trying to get a refund for the order, which arrived from a San Diego warehouse.

When she asked to return the coat, a company representative told her she’d have to ship it to China, according to emails Bass shared with The Post. “It may be lost in the process of returning,” the representative told her. “If lost, we can’t refund the money to you.”

Getting a refund, experts say, can often be difficult. Most consumers don’t catch on until days or weeks later, when they receive a faulty product in the mail (or perhaps nothing at all). By then, the site in question has probably been shut down, leaving shoppers with little recourse.

Kevin Whitaker didn’t have particularly high expectations when he paid $54 for a shearling sheepskin coat from Neathot.com. But he liked the color and thought it looked nice.

“I figured it was an imitation but I read the reviews and thought I’d just wear it casually,” the Pittsburgh-based truck driver said.

He paid an extra $6.95 for three-day shipping. Two weeks later, he has yet to receive anything from the now-defunct website. (As for the item in the photo, it turned out to have been a $3,395 Overland coat.)

“This was my first time buying from a site I don’t know and I’ll never do it again,” he said. “I feel cheated.”

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She didn’t pay attention to the URL, she said

Strike One. Always check the URL in a link before you click on it

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assumed that the social media site had vetted the ad.

Strike Two. Trusting Social Media to vet things is naive at best, downright stupid at worst.

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Bass said she typically reads customer reviews

Strike Three. Online reviews have lost all credibility with me. With people being hired to either place poor reviews or worse posting good reviews to make companies look better, online reviews are not worth the binary digits it takes to store them. Yet another example of something that started out good but became perverted by businesses.

Sounds like this lady really needs to learn about the Internets Tubes and how it is an ugly world out there.