I get a lot of spam claiming my card is being charged to renew McAfee subscription, click here to cancel. I think it’s a variation on the USPS/UPS/FedEx delivery scam. Sometimes instead of McAfee it’s Norton.
The scams are sometimes via SMS also. We had one elderly customer believe an email from “Microsoft” that their computer was hacked and they needed to send something like $4000 to this guy immediately to disinfect their computer. It wasn’t ransomware, it was just a pure scam. He was telling them every device in their house was hacked and their IP address was hacked (WTF?). The customer’s wife was at the bank withdrawing the money, even the bank tried to convince them it was a scam. They ended up taking their PC to a local computer shop, but at least they didn’t pay the scammer. They probably gave him remote access though. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Jason McKemie Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2025 1:12 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] credit card fraud rate I think a lot of people, mainly older individuals, are victims of phishing / fraud. A lot of this seems to be via email, but I'm sure there are other common vectors as well. A lot of the time they don't even realize it has happened until it shows up on their statement, then they "got hacked". On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com <mailto:khoh...@kwom.com> > wrote: It seems to me the rate at which customers have to give us a new card number because their card “got hacked” (i.e. fraud) is surprisingly high. My own experience with both personal and business cards is this happens at most every 10 years or so, and I do a lot of both in person and online card transactions. Not too many though where I hand the card to someone. Is this common? Why does it happen so often to some people? Or is something else going on and they aren’t telling me the real reason? I know some people use one-time cards and give us a different one every month or two, but I think this is different. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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