Scam of the Day
Scam of the day – November 13, 2020 – USPS Informed Delivery Program
We are about to enter the holiday season and many people will be getting deliveries from the United State Postal Service of valuable items in addition to your normal deliveries of sensitive and important mail such as credit card statements. In 2017 the United States Postal Service began its Informed Delivery Program which is a good, but not perfect program which I urge you to enroll in. The Informed Delivery Program is a free service of the U.S. Postal Service that will send you an email each morning with images of the mail you will be receiving later that day. This service was first done on a pilot basis in 2014 in parts of California, Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C. and became available to everyone three years later. Identity theft through the stealing of mail such as credit card statements and bank statements from your mailbox is a significant problem and this program both alerts you as to when to look for important mail, as well as let you know if such important mail has been stolen from your mailbox so you can respond more quickly. However, nothing is fool proof. Last year I told you about the identity theft of more than thirty-five people living in the same Miramar, Florida neighborhood caused by criminals exploiting flaws in the program. These criminals criminals signed up for the program in the names of their victims and were able to see when credit card statements and other mail containing personal information would be delivered so that they were alerted as to when to steal the mail from the mail boxes of their victims and gain access to their credit cards as well as sign her up for additional cards which they also exploited. While in order to set up an Informed Delivery account, you need to answer security questions, the information necessary to answer those questions can often be readily obtained online.
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The best way to avoid this problem is to sign up for the Informed Delivery Program before an identity thief does so in your name. Here is the link to go to sign up.
https://informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.action
It is also important to note that if you do sign up for the service, you should use a unique and complex password to prevent identity thieves from hacking your account to let them know when important mail that they can exploit for identity theft purposes will be arriving to your home.
You also should consider securing your home mailbox to help protect you from criminals cruising your neighborhood and stealing mail.
For those of you receiving the Scam of the day through an email, I just want to remind you that if you want to see the ever increasing list of Coronavirus scams go to the first page of the http://www.scamicide.com website and click on the tab at the top of the page that indicates “Coronavirus Scams.” Scamicide was recently cited by the New York Times as one of three top sources for information about Coronavirus related scams.
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Scam of the day – November 12, 2020 – FTC Shuts Down Phony Websites Purporting to Sell Clorox and Lysol Products
Since the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic, the demand for disinfectant products made by Clorox and Lysol has been high with stores temporarily running out of these products at times. Taking advantage of the high demand for these products, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), scammers have been setting up phony websites that purport to sell Clorox and Lysol products, but consumers using these websites to purchase the products end up paying for products they never receive. Now the FTC has gone to court and obtained a temporary restraining order shutting down 25 of these bogus websites. Among the phony websites closed down were cleanyos.com cleankler.com, clorox-sale.com, crlysol.com and lysol-cleaners.com.
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When buying anything online it is important to make sure you are dealing with legitimate companies. Choosing to deal with well established companies with which you are familiar is a good option. If you want to consider doing business with companies with which you are not familiar, you should do an online search for any complaints against the website. You also may wish to do a whois.com search to find out who owns the particular website and if it originates in a place such as North Korea which is known for such scams, you should not do business with the particular website.
Whenever you do business online you should only use your credit card and not your debit card because the consumer protections provided by law for fraudulent purchases are much greater when your credit card is used for a fraudulent purchase than when you use your debit card.
For those of you receiving the Scam of the day through an email, I just want to remind you that if you want to see the ever increasing list of Coronavirus scams go to the first page of the http://www.scamicide.com website and click on the tab at the top of the page that indicates “Coronavirus Scams.” Scamicide was recently cited by the New York Times as one of three top sources for information about Coronavirus related scams.
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Scam of the day – November 11, 2020 – Veterans’ Day Scams
Today we celebrate Veterans’ Day, a day we set aside to honor those who have served our country and to whom all Americans owe a debt of gratitude. However, for scam artists, Veterans’ Day is just another opportunity to take advantage of the best intentions of people and steal their money. Last year, the Senate Committee on Aging held hearings in which they inquired about scams targeting veterans and members of the military. One witness testified at the hearing that veterans are twice as likely to be scammed than the general population.
Among the scams targeting all of us at this time of year are phony telephone calls that purport to be from various veterans’ organizations or charities seeking donations when, in fact, many of these calls will be from scammers seeking to steal money under false pretenses.
Another scam related to Veterans’ Day involves veterans receiving telephone calls purporting to be from the Veterans’ Administration asking for personal information necessary to verify or update the information of the VA. Of course, the call is not from the VA and the request for personal information is intended merely to gather such information in order to make the veteran a victim of identity theft.
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Even if you are on the federal Do Not Call List, which is a good thing to be on if you wish to avoid telemarketers, you are legally able to be called by charities. The problem is that whenever you receive a call purporting to be from a charity, you have absolutely no way of knowing if you are being contacted by a legitimate charity. Using a technique called “spoofing,” scammers can manipulate your Caller ID to make it appear that their calls are coming from legitimate sources such as charities. You also cannot know, without doing some research, whether the particular veterans’ charity that may be contacting you is legitimate or not. As I often advise you, never give personal information such as credit card information to anyone over the phone if you have not made the call. If you are considering a gift to a particular charity, first check out the charity with http://www.charitynavigator.org to make sure that the charity is legitimate and also find out how much of the charitable donations they receive actually goes toward helping veterans and how much goes toward salaries and operating expenses of the charities. A good rule of thumb is to not give to charities that take more than 25% of what they collect for their own salaries and expenses. If after vetting a particular charity, you decide that you would like to make a dontion, you can get the information from charitynavigator.org as to how to make your gift.
As for calls that you may receive purporting to be from the VA or any other governmental agency requesting information, you should never provide information over the phone to anyone because, as I indicated above, you can never be sure if the caller is who he or she says they are. In this case, you should contact the particular agency at a telephone number that you know is accurate to confirm whether or not the request for personal information was legitimate or not. Most of the time, the call will turn out to be a scam.
For those of you receiving the Scam of the day through an email, I just want to remind you that if you want to see the ever increasing list of Coronavirus scams go to the first page of the http://www.scamicide.com website and click on the tab at the top of the page that indicates “Coronavirus Scams.” Scamicide was recently cited by the New York Times as one of three top sources for information about Coronavirus related scams.
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Scam of the day – November 10, 2020 – Critical New Apple Software Updates
As was made abundantly clear by 2017’s massive Equifax data breach which affected 148 million people and was perpetrated by exploiting a vulnerability in Apache software for which Apache had already issued a security update, but Equifax failed to install, it is critical to install software security updates and patches as soon as they are available. Constant updating of the software we all use with the latest security patches and updates is an essential part of avoiding scams and identity theft threats. Whenever new security updates and patches are issued, we provide access to these so that you can update your software to provide better security on your computers, smartphones, laptops and other electronic devices. Updating your software with the latest security patches and updates as soon as possible is important because identity thieves and scammers are always finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in the software that we all use. Delay in updating your software could lead to disastrous results. However, it is also important to be sure that you are downloading legitimate patches and updates rather than being tricked by an identity thief or scammer into downloading malware under the guise of downloading a security patch or update. Today’s security update involves serious vulnerabilities in a number of Apple products.
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Here is a link to this recent security update as posted by the Department of Homeland Security regarding the latest Apple updates: https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2020/11/06/apple-releases-security-updates-multiple-products
While you can get your Apple software updates in the App Store, you also can choose to get your updates automatically downloaded which is a simple way to make sure that you don’t miss any important security updates. Here at Scamicide.com we will continue to alert you to important updates in the software programs that you use.
For those of you receiving the Scam of the day through an email, I just want to remind you that if you want to see the ever increasing list of Coronavirus scams go to the first page of the http://www.scamicide.com website and click on the tab at the top of the page that indicates “Coronavirus Scams.” Scamicide was recently cited by the New York Times as one of three top sources for information about Coronavirus related scams.
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Scam of the day – November 9, 2020 – Will Smith Becomes Victim of Identity Theft
Although the actual crime occurred years ago, the news recently reported that actor Will Smith became a victim of identity theft when Carlos Lomax, using Smith’s Social Security number and name was able to open 14 credit accounts in Smith’s name and steal close to $33,000 worth of goods using those accounts Eventually Lomax was caught and sentenced to 37 months in prison. A lesson for us all here is that had Smith frozen his credit reports at each of the three major credit reporting bureaus, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, Lomax would not have been able to open those accounts even having Smith’s Social Security number. Freezing your credit reports is the single best thing you can do to protect yourself from becoming a victim of identity theft.
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To get the maximum protection from identity theft, it is important to freeze your credit at each of the three major credit reporting agencies. Here are links to each of them with instructions about how to get a credit freeze:
https://www.freeze.equifax.com/Freeze/jsp/SFF_PersonalIDInfo.jsp
https://www.transunion.com/credit-freeze/place-credit-freeze
https://www.experian.com/freeze/center.html
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Scam of the day – November 8, 2020 – Latest Google Chrome Security Update
As was made abundantly clear by 2017’s massive Equifax data breach which affected 148 million people and was perpetrated by exploiting a vulnerability in Apache software for which Apache had already issued a security update, but Equifax failed to install. Constant updating of the software we all use with the latest security patches and updates is a critical part of avoiding scams and identity theft threats. Whenever new security updates and patches are issued, we provide access to these so that you can update your software to provide better security on your computers, smartphones, laptops and other electronic devices. Updating your software with the latest security patches and updates as soon as possible is important because identity thieves and scammers are always finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in the software that we all use. Delay in updating your software could lead to disastrous results. However, it is also important to be sure that you are downloading legitimate patches and updates rather than being tricked by an identity thief or scammer into downloading malware under the guise of downloading a security patch or update. Today’s security update involves serious vulnerabilities in the popular search engine Google Chrome. It is important to remember that while Google will automatically send your computer the updates as soon as they are issued, you need to restart your browser to install the updates. Some people leave their browser open for days at a time so it is important to download and install any Google Chrome security updates as soon as they are available.
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Here is a link to this recent security update as posted by the Department of Homeland Security: https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2020/11/03/google-releases-security-updates-chrome-cve-2020-16009
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Scam of the day – November 7, 2020 – Microsoft Phishing Email
Phishing emails, by which scammers and identity thieves attempt to lure you into either clicking on links contained within the email which download malware or providing personal information that will be used to make you a victim of identity theft, are nothing new. They are a staple of identity thieves and scammers and with good reason because they work. Reproduced below is a copy of a new phishing email presently circulating that appears to come from Microsoft which purports to be a receipt for a Surface Book 3 at a cost of $1,499.99. Microsoft is a popular target for this type of phishing email because its products are used by millions of people. Like so many phishing emails, this one attempts to lure you into responding by making you think someone has charged something using your name. As phishing emails go, this one is pretty good. It looks legitimate. However a telltale sign that this is a scam is that the email address from which it was sent is that of an individual totally unrelated to Microsoft and is most likely the address of an email account of someone whose email account was hacked and made a part of a botnet of computers used by scammers to send out phishing emails. As so often is the case with phishing emails sent out in massive amounts the email is not directed to you by name. It carries a legitimate looking logo, however, it is a simple matter to counterfeit a Microsoft logo. Here is a copy of the email presently being circulated:
Order Receipt
Your details are as followed
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Surface Book 3 (Windows 10 Home )
Microsoft Surface Book 3 features 1 TB of SSD storage, 24 GB RAM and upto 15.5 hours of video playback
Your order summary
Product : Microsoft Surface Book 3
Charges: $1499.99
Order number : ODR-29121993XZ
Payment mode : PayPal Online Payment
Your order has been shipped
Shipping address:- 1594 North high street, Jacksonville , Fl 32214
Contact Us
CALL WINDOWS SUPPORT at +1- 858 800 0741
Monday – Sunday 9 a.m. – 9 p.m PST
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Billing or service questions ? Call +1- 858 800 0741
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There are a number of indications that this is not a legitimate email from Microsoft, but instead is a phishing email. Legitimate companies would specifically direct the email to you by your name. Your name does not appear anywhere in this generic phishing email. While many phishing emails attempt to lure you into clicking on malware infected links, this phishing email tries to get you to contact their customer sevice number to dispute the charge. Of course, the phone number you are directed to in the email to contest the charge is not a phone number for Microsoft, but rather is the phone number of the scammer who will attempt to get you to provide personal information that will be use to make you a victim of identity theft. If you receive an email like this and think it may possibly be legitimate, merely call Microsoft’s customer service department at 1-800 – 642-7676 where you can confirm that it is a scam, but make sure that you dial the telephone number correctly because scammers have been known to buy phone numbers that are just a digit off of the legitimate numbers for companies to trap you if you make a mistake in dialing the real number.
For those of you receiving the Scam of the day through an email, I just want to remind you that if you want to see the ever increasing list of Coronavirus scams go to the first page of the http://www.scamicide.com website and click on the tab at the top of the page that indicates “Coronavirus Scams.” Scamicide was recently cited by the New York Times as one of three top sources for information about Coronavirus related scams.
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Scam of the day – November 6, 2020 – Coronavirus Clinical Trial Scams
With many companies intensely working on developing a vaccine to prevent the Coronavirus there are literally thousands of clinical trials being conducted. Many people are interested in participating in these trials both to be able to do something to contribute to the battle against the Coronavirus as well as to get the payment that participants in such clinical trials receive which is generally between $1,000 and $2,500. Unfortunately, as with everything else that is prominent in the minds of the public, scammers are all too willing to use Coronavirus clinical trials as a hook to scam people or make them victims of identity theft. They do this by luring you into participating in a phony clinical trial. These phony clinical trials are offered by scammers through legitimate appearing, but phony websites and through emails and other promotional material.
Some scammers will offer lists of clinical trials for a fee. This is unnecessary as the National Institues of Health offer a free searchable database of clinical trials on a wide variety of diseases including the Coronavirus. Hre is the link to that data base which will tell you what studies are recruiting particpants and their contact information. https://clinicaltrials.gov/
In addition, you can volunteer to participate in a Coronavirus clinical study through the National Institue of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Insatitues of Health through this link. https://www.coronaviruspreventionnetwork.org/
Scammers operating phony clinical trials will ask for personal information including your Social Security number that they will use to make you a victim of identity theft. While legitimate clinical trials will ask for necessary personal information such as your name, contact information, age, gender, race, ethnicity and pre-existing conditions you may have, they will never ask for your Social Security number. Some scammers will also ask for your bank account number and routing number in order to wire your payment for participating in the clinical study to your bank account, however, to be safe, you can ask that they merely send you a check so that you do not need to provide them with your banking information.
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Never pay to participate in a study or to find out about clinical trials that may be seeking participants. You can get that information for free at the websites indicated above.
If you do apply to take part in a clinical study for a Coronavirus vaccine, never give them your Social Security number. They do not need it. Any study askinig for it is operated by a scammer seeking to make you a victim of identity theft.
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Scam of the day – November 5, 2020 – Another Stimulus Check Scam
In the months since Congress passed the CARES Act which provided $1,200 payments to millions of Americans who suffered financially due to the Coronavirus pandemic, as many as twelve million people who were eligible for these payments did not receive anything. Payments under the CARES Act are determined in the vast majority of instances by the information contained on your 2019 income tax return or if you had not filed a 2019 income tax return yet, by your 2018 income tax return. These tax returns are being used to determine both the amount of the stimulus check that you shall receive as well as to where the stimulus payment will be made. People who had provided their bank account number and bank’s routing number to the IRS as a part of their federal income tax return had their payments sent to their bank accounts electronically. After May 18th the federal government began sending paper checks and debit cards to those people qualifying for the stimulus payments that did not provide bank account information on their most recent federal income tax return. However, for the millions of people who didn’t file federal income tax returns for either 2018 or 2019 because their income was too low, they have not received any stimulus payment yet although they are in desparate need of this assistance. The IRS has sent a letter to nine million people who may be eligible for CARES Act payments that instructs them how to apply for their payment. Here is a link to a copy of the letter. https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/n1444aes.pdf It is important to note that the deadline for applying for a CARES Act payment is November 21st so if you have not received a payment and believe you are eligible for such a payment, you must act quickly.
Now for the scam warning. Scammer are already contacting people on the phone, through emails and text messages posing as the IRS and offering to help people claim their CARES Act payments. In some instances the scammers ask for a payment in order to process your CARES Act payment. In other instances they ask for personal information that they use for purposes of identity theft and in yet other instances they lure you into clicking on links in emails and text messages that contain malware that can lead to your being scammed or becoming a victim of identity theft.
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Trust me, you can’t trust anyone. The IRS is not contacting you by phone, text message or email about the CARES Act payment. Even if your Caller ID indicates the call is from the IRS, it is a simple matter for scammers to “spoof” the number of the IRS and manipulate your Caller ID so that it appears as if the call is coming from the IRS when, in truth, it is not.
It is also important to remember that there is no charge of any kind to become eligible for a CARES Act payment. Anyone asking for such a payment is a scammer.
For information you can trust about the CARES Act stimulus payments go to this website where you can also apply online for your payment. https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus/economic-impact-payments
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Scam of the day – November 4, 2020 – Social Security Impostor Phone Calls
Early this year the Senate Aging Committee released its annual report in which it indicated that fraudulent phone calls where scammers pose as Social Security Administration employees asking for personal information were the number one phone scam last year. Scammers call on the phone under a variety of pretexts and ask for the Social Security numbers of the people they call. In the hands of an identity thief, it is very simple matter for a criminal to take a person’s Social Security number and use it to make the person a victim of identity theft. Some of the excuses given by the scammers calling are that criminal activity has been linked to the particular number and they need to confirm that you are not a criminal or that there has been a computer problem at the Social Security Administration and they need to confirm your Social Security number. Making the problem worse is that through a technique called “spoofing” scammers are able to manipulate your Caller ID so that the call you receive appears to come from the Social Security Administration.
Recently I was notified by a Scamicide reader that she had received a robocall from a scammer which informed her that she owed money to the Social Security Administration and if she did not pay immediately she would be put in prison. She was then prompted to press 1 on her phone to be connected to someone at the Social Security Administration to arrange for payment. This particular call was apparently made from a large overseas call center.
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An easy way to avoid becoming a victim of this scam is to remember that the Social Security Administration will never initiate any contact with you by telephone call, email or text message. Any communication you receive in this manner that is not in response to your own telephone call or email is a scam. On a larger scale, it is important to remember that you can never be sure whenever you get an email, text message or phone call as to who is really contacting you so you should never provide personal information to anyone in response to an email, text message or phone call unless you have independently confirmed that the communication was legitimate and that information from you is absolutely required.
Many of these fraudulent calls come as robocalls. It is important to remember that the Social Security Administration will never contact you through a robocall. Seniors are particularly vulnerable to robocalls and should install anti-robocall programs on their phones. Here are some ways to stop robocalls:
Verizon has implemented new services to help its customers avoid illegal robocalls. The new Call Filter service offers spam alerts and new protections from robocalls for its wireless customers. Customers will receive alerts when a call is most likely a scam. The new Call Filter service will also automatically block robocalls based of the customer’s preferred risk level. The Call Filter service is offered in a free version and an enhanced version that among other things will enable customers to create a personal robocall block list. For more information about the Call Filter Services and how to sign up go to https://www.verizonwireless.com/solutions-and-services/call-filter/
There are a number of other options for preventing robocalls including a number of apps that for free or a small fee will reduce and in some instances prevent robocalls.
Samsung’s SmartCall informs you if the call you are receiving is from a known robocaller. This feature is available with newer Samsung Galaxy phones. Here is a link to information about SmartCall and instructions as to how to activate this app.
http://www.samsung.com/levant/apps/smart-call/
Google also has a spam blocker that will warn you when you are receiving a robocall and your screen will turn red. Here is a link to information about the app and how to install it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.dialer&hl=en
AT&T also offers free apps to block robocalls on iPhones and Android phones. Here is a link to information about these apps.
https://www.att.com/features/security-apps.html?partner=LinkShare&siteId=TnL5HPStwNw-yrUS1uDw9WGvN._xt67yew&source=ECay0000000CEL00O
Verizon’s CallerName ID is a free service for iPhones and Android phones that will alert you to suspected robocallers. Here is a link to Verizon’s app.
https://www.verizonwireless.com/solutions-and-services/caller-name-id/
T-Mobile offers a free scam blocker of known robocallers for Android phones which you can activate by merely dialing #662#
Sprint offers a paid service to protect your iPhone or Android phone from robocalls. For more information, use this link
http://explore.t-mobile.com/callprotection
For landlines as well as smartphones there are a number of apps such as Nomorobo, Truecaller, Hiya, RoboKiller and YouMail that offer robocall blocking for free or for small monthly charges. Here is a link to those apps. I have used Nomorobo for years and find it to be tremendously useful
https://www.nomorobo.com/
https://www.truecaller.com/
https://hiya.com/
https://www.robokiller.com/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.youmail.android.vvm&hl=en_US https://www.youmail.com/home/apps
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