I fell for a possible scam

[Col7777]

I was on the PC and got a popup in the corner from the BBC News.
It was saying David Beckham (soccer player) was on the TV telling how he is making a fortune daily.
So I clicked on the popup, then I got a BBC News page and it was saying David was on a TV show telling people to get on this quick, it was about the Bitcoin thing, then there was screenshots of people replying thanking him and they were making a small fortune overnight by doing nothing, just letting the Auto Trade run.

Then at the bottom of the page was a 'Click This' to join quick.
So like an idiot I clicked it, it asked for my name and email and phone number, I entered that then got a page saying the minimum deposit was £200 and to enter my bank card number, I know what you are all thinking but I did it.

Then a popup saying because I in the UK my deposit hadn't gone through, at that moment I got a phone call from a Asian woman saying she saw I had just registered and could I verify my bank details, so now I realised something was wrong.

I said, "When I buy something online and it asks for my bank details I don't get a phone call asking me to verify so why are you asking?"
She said I needed to go through her first, I refused and hung up, 2 seconds later she phoned back again asking me to verify my bank details, I said forget it I'm not interested, she phoned again straight away, I told her to stop phoning me.

Then I got an email sending me link that would enable me to deposit the money from the UK, then I phoned my bank.
I got a security person on and I told them my story and gave them the email details etc.
They stopped my bank card straight away and are sending me a new one in a few days.

Then I Googled a search and found a page saying that there was a FAKE BBC News item being sent online about the Bitcoin, I normally never fall for stuff like this but that BBC News page looked genuine and like an idiot I fell for it.

Anyway luckily they can't take my money now as my card had been stopped but I'm letting others know just in case they get the popup and like me think it is real.

Edit: Forgot to add, on the fake news page it also said that a few banks phoned the BBC at the moment TV program was on air asking them to stop the broadcast as they didn't want this information getting out, this again influenced me.

Col.

[Cybermat47]

Good rule of thumb is to ignore anything you see that says “this is how you can make a fortune”.

[Reece]

I got a security person on and I told them my story and gave them the email details etc.
They stopped my bank card straight away and are sending me a new one in a few days.

You are very lucky!!

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Col7777

I was on the PC and got a popup in the corner from the BBC News.
It was saying David Beckham (soccer player) was on the TV telling how he is making a fortune daily.
So I clicked on the popup, then I got a BBC News page and it was saying David was on a TV show telling people to get on this quick, it was about the Bitcoin thing, then there was screenshots of people replying thanking him and they were making a small fortune overnight by doing nothing, just letting the Auto Trade run.


Anyway luckily they can't take my money now as my card had been stopped but I'm letting others know just in case they get the popup and like me think it is real.

Edit: Forgot to add, on the fake news page it also said that a few banks phoned the BBC at the moment TV program was on air asking them to stop the broadcast as they didn't want this information getting out, this again influenced me.

Col.

Thanks for sharing your experience. Scammers are getting a lot better at deception these days, this could happen to anyone, even me! I moved into a new house and was ordering all kinds of household items from Amazon, Walmart, Wayfair, etc and getting the usual emails about deliveries and tracking numbers. Normally when I get an email from FedEx, USPS, or UPS, I copy and paste the tracking number from the email into the Fedex and UPS website one at a time. One day I was going along and I just clicked on the link to go directly to the tracking number... nothing happened but I stopped and realized, wth did I just do? I examined the links and nope, not legit, not from Fedex.

I'm almost ready to close all my email accounts!

[Eichhörnchen]

If you would all email your bank sort codes and account numbers to me, I can put a stop to this

[Texas Red]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

If you would all email your bank sort codes and account numbers to me, I can put a stop to this

How do we know you're not a scammer as well?

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

If you would all email your bank sort codes and account numbers to me, I can put a stop to this

I would say he should put it here in this thread, thereby it would have a greater chance to be stopped.

Back to serious comment.

I think we all have during our life on the web, have made smaller or bigger mistake. We learn from it.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

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

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

[Col7777]

Hi Jim, wish I had seen it sooner mate, anyway here is the name and email/phone number of the website trying to take my money.




Megan Davis | Agent at INV Center
Tel: +442039910009

E-Mail: megand@invcenter.com
Website: www.invcenter.com


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[Pisces]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

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.

[Onkel Neal]

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

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

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

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

[Col7777]

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

Col.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

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

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

[Onkel Neal]

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

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.”