Valentine’s Day is a day of romance and expressions of love but if you’re careless you could fall as a victim to a Valentine’s Day scam.
As February 14th approaches we come to expect advertising pitches and eCards to appear in our mailboxes related to Valentine’s Day. Crooks are well aware of this and they use this time of year to trick the innocent into divulging their personal and financial information. One such phishing scheme involves an email representing that the flowers you ordered for your sweetie won’t be delivered unless you log in and re-enter your credit card.
What are the probabilities that an important number of these messages are going to make people that have ordered flowers? None of them wants their loved one to think that they’ve forgotten them on Valentine’s Day! If you click the link in that email and go into your credit card number you could have a real trouble once you get your next statement. Even if you think a message like this is genuine, go openly to the florist’s website or call them on the phone.
The same rules are relevant all year long. Treat any email message like this doubtfully and always go openly to the website rather than clicking a link in an email no matter how genuine it seems.
New Zealanders have supposedly been caught up in a most important international scam where fraudster go ahead and bid fake accommodation, and then they trick victims into sending across bond and rent cash.
The scammers concerned are targeting flat-finder websites from all over the globe, and once they have successfully recognized contact with their home-hunting victim via e-mail, they collect money from them and then steal their individual detail to go on and cheat the next victim.
Sometimes, the scammers go as far in advance as actually speaking with the victim over the phone.
Warnings of scam have been sounded that someone asking for money via a “Western Union” transfer was “would always be a scammer” and generally working from an overseas location.
Also people looking for a flat should never send out rental deposits earlier to seeing the flat.
Banking customers in three additional states have received fake text messages which claimed to be from their institutions.
As part of a growing wave of related Phishing attempt all through the nation, clients in Cincinnati, Ohio, St. Louis, Missouri and Lewiston, Idaho last week received text messages stating that their bank accounts had been free zed.
These attacks represent those in opposition to bank customers in October in Pennsylvania, Nebraska and New York, and are part of an ongoing wave of Phishing attacks that have shot up 600 percent more than last year.
The customer made a call to US Bank, had the card replacement and didn’t mislay any money. Law force reported several banks had been under attack by the scam.
Alike reports came from Bridgeton, MO-based Vantage Credit Union clients also which have been reported.
