Give Me All Your Money! SCAM ALERT! Red Flag!
Dear fans and readers,
Be aware, a new Scammer is making their way through social media to get your hard earned money.
Let me introduce you to following Scammer, who is trying to get to my money. Now if you people want, we can play the game and together formulate an answer to this Scammer, which I will post and get back to you with the answer.
In this way we all can learn how Scammers work and see scams much faster in the future.
This is the first step: they are trying to get in contact with you, writing such a PM in Twitter and that looks as in the photo above.
If you go and look on the profile, it looks normal, but, signup date is July 2018 and it is not a verified account.
But I thought let's see if I contact this lady what she has to say.
This is the email I received, this is an attempt to Scam:
I removed the link and the . in the link, that link might go to a malware infected or phishing website. I had to make photos of the text as WA sees it as similar content, so if you are not sure of such a letter, take a sentence from it and google it, if many scam alerts with similar text pop up, it is a Red Flag and most likely a Scam!
The way this is written is a typical form of scamming and should you ever receive such an email, do not attempt to contact these people back.
These people should be reported, however Twitter has no protection against scammers as their report tool does not include this, you wonder why?
Now if you people want, we can make an excersice and training learning post out of it, when we decide together, what to write back and to see what the next step of the scammer is. What will she (or a he? ;0) ) send us back?
Leave me your comments below, and say yes if you want me to act on this email.
Let the game begin! ;0)
Be safe everyone!
Stefan, ToLiNoLi
Recent Comments
46
So many people fall victim to these scams! I got busted at work as I was expecting a package delivered to my office from a supplier. It just so happens that’s when a scammer used a “Canada Postal - undeliverable package” e-mail and with a link to verify my shipping address. If I wasn’t expecting a delivery I would have known it was a scam, but because I was, I clicked the link and WHAMO - I had malware loaded on my work OC. I had to shut it down immediately and get it re-imaged...
Now I always double-check all links in emails to verify they’re going to a proper domain...
If it can happen to me, and I’m an educated IM/IT professional, it can happen to anyone...
Good catch on this one....
Yep. this has all the earmarks of a scam. I've gotten plenty such emails over the last several years.
I would suggest there is a good chance that the woman in the picture is not Lisa Beeson and or the name lisa beeson is a fictitious name and she either doesn't exist and or had her name and profile stolen.
I never had this kind of problem with my first website with Network Solutions! Thanks for the advice on how to handle it :)
I get this type of message on a weekly basis (if not daily!) via social media. There are thousands of them and the trick's far too old...
My typical reply when someone tells me I am going to get all this money... "Thanks. I already received the money and bought a new car and new house with it!!!"
That usually shuts them up quick!
Karin :)
Yes you are right, I just looked it up. It is good possible the scammer uses identity theft to play for this person. Who knows know which account is for real.
Out and out scam, everyone should be wise to these by now but someone is always falling right in, to bad.
Wayne
Yes, if it looks to be good, it is a scam in general. If you are not sure, just copy a piece of the text, throw it in Google and look what comes up.
If the first pages start with the word scam, your alarm bells should ring.
Unfortunately there are still people out there, newbies, who have no clue, and fall for it.
That is why we should always be attentive and share this within the community so others can learn and be safe while they build their business.
Stefan, ToLiNoLi
Not seen one as obvious as this before; this style was a typical email scam several years ago!
Hi Will,
Looks like they discovered social media now to put it through those platforms now to send you these scams.
See more comments
This is the classic Nigerian scam that's been going on for years. It's move to social media is no surprise.