CYBER MONDAY - Be Prepared

[Bob_VT]

Be prepared...... it's Cyber Monday.

I received a text earlier this morning that won a $1000 gift card in a contest from Target. Well considering I have not even driven past a Target in about 5 years and do not enter their contests...... I did some back checking and it is a SCAM.

Please be careful and enjoy your day!!

 

[southkogs]

Re: CYBER MONDAY - Be Prepared

... ditto. Except it was Best Buy and I had been there in the last few weeks. Didn't enter any contests tho.

Thanks Bob, and be careful out there y'all.

 

[WIMUSKY]

Re: CYBER MONDAY - Be Prepared

Ya, the Grinches will be out in force until Christmas............:facepalm:

 

[82rude]

Re: CYBER MONDAY - Be Prepared

the amasing part is they get lots of suckers every year even though everybody in the world knows about these scams.

 

[JB]

Re: CYBER MONDAY - Be Prepared

When you get 8 to 12 a day you do get familiar with most of them. However, some recent ones that have been popping up are the Better Business Bureau and AOL Email scams, neither of which appear to ask for personal contact (ID theft) info at first and neither of which appeal to greed.

 

[bassman284]

Re: CYBER MONDAY - Be Prepared

... ditto. Except it was Best Buy and I had been there in the last few weeks. Didn't enter any contests tho.

Thanks Bob, and be careful out there y'all.

Nothing today (so far), but a few months ago I got 4 texts for Best Buy "offers" over a couple of days. My last purchase from Best Buy was about 3 years ago as nearly as I can remember. And I generally do not give my cell number to businesses. Still got a land line (dinosaur). The irritating part was that I have a Gophone prepaid and they charged me a dime for each of those texts.