Still here and may I humbly pass along my sincere best wishes to Head Rambles. Take care as best you can my friend.
Anyhoo, I’m sure I’m not alone that, when some scam comes to light, thinking the folk that fall for them are stupid for falling for such obvious{?} scams. Guess wot,
I now have sympathy for old folk wot fall for iffy E-mails.
Recently, we’ve been waiting for delivery of a small package from a land far, far, far away when I received an E-mail, purportedly from Royal Mail, alerting me to the fact
that a package delivery had been attempted but failed owing to the package been incorrectly addressed. The mail asked me to click on the web address supplied, enter our correct name and address and pay two pounds via bank
card for redelivery. As we were expecting a package my finger was sweeping towards clicking the link when a bright light flashed in ma old foggy heed and instead I hit delete.
Later, after a bit o’ Giggling - not much required - it was indeed found to be a scam but given our situation, waiting for a package, it was a close call thus my change
from calling the elderly wot fall for such scams utter nutters to offering sympathy as, dependent on folks circumstances at the time, how easy it is to do a quick clicky thingy in the hope of a resolution to ones present ‘problem’.
Addendumadodad; Package received next day.
Quote; Terry Pratchett.
“It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.”
3 comments:
We get lots of texts like that, as well as some emails. I'm sure you are right, they know they could hit someone who really is waiting for a package just by chance.
I can use an unlimited number of inbound email aliases, so using a different one for every supplier means I can tell who the email *should* have originated from. That flags up certain scams, but text messages are still a problem. For text messages, not having internet on my dumb phone certainly removes the option to just click on link.
A K Haart,
Or have they hacked Royal Mail eh?
djc,
Sounds like a good idea and dumb phones are definitely the way to go. Especially for dumb old folk...
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