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K Patterson
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1 edit | The FBI wants you to know:
This forum includes many contributors that are familiiar with each of these scams. My hope is that they will pick a topic and write an explanation of the scam. how it works, how to deal with it and your bank, and who to nofity;
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nwrickert
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| I am commenting on the last paragraph:
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Did you respond to an email requesting you to CONFIRM, UPDATE OR PROVIDE your account information?
If you receive email with such a request, it is almost certain that it is part of a scam/fraud/phishing scheme.
The typical phish email provides a link in the email, and it is when you click on that link that a page appears for you to fill in account information. DON'T DO IT.
The fraudulent web page will look very realistic. It might even contain warnings to avoid phishing frauds. The scammers want to fool you into trusting that web page, so make it as realistic as they can.
Sometimes the phishing web page will like like a survey. "Answer these questions, and we will deposit $100 in your bank account". Don't be fooled. What they want is your bank account information.
There is a safe way to use your bank. And that is to use the url provided by your bank, and that you have probably bookmarked (saved as a "favorite" link).
Never trust email.
Example: I purchase something at amazon. I receive email confirming the purchase. I know it is legitimate, because it corresponds to what I just purchased. I save the email for future reference. I am not "trusting" the email. Rather, I am trusting my knowledge of what I purchased, and using that knowledge to validate the email.
However, suppose I receive email confirming an amazon purchase, and I have not bought anything there. Then this is very likely a scam, trying to get me to click on a fraudulent web page and provide my amazon login information. Since I don't trust the email, I don't click on any links.
Perhaps I still suspect that something was charged to me by mistake. I use my bookmarked amazon url, and login to the amazon site. Then I can check recent purchases. If what was reported in the email does not show up there, then that confirms that it was a fraud. If it does show up there (unlikely), then I would need to get onto the telephone to amazon, and report a fraudulent transaction that I never made. Notice that this does not require clicking any link in the untrusted email.
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MGD
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| reply to K Patterson
• Are you receiving PAY or a COMMISSION for facilitating money transfers through your account.
There are no legitimate businesses that will recruit you to receive payments of any kind, including checks, PayPal payments, or e-currency transfers into your personal account, then send cash via Western Union or Money Gram back out. The checks are forged, or may be drawn on a victim's hijacked account, likewise for PayPal or E-currency.
Besides ignoring unsolicited emails for jobs, be especially vigilant of job adds on Craigslist, or responses to a resume that you have posted online. Never provide personal identity information to anyone via email.
Watch out for any foreign entity offering you a business partnership that requires you to establish a Corporation, Limited Liability Company, or fictitious business name in the US. No matter how logical the offer is to open or head a US division for a foreign entity, there are no legitimate circumstances that would require you to open a US Bank account and LLC on behalf of someone else.
With recent restrictions on who can open US bank accounts, recruiting a US cyber-mule to do so on behalf of a foreign entity is a prized accomplishment for cyber criminals. This gives them access to several types of financial processes within the US, which enables them to commit numerous crimes in your name. Any "self employed" job function that requires sending cash, or wiring funds outside of the US is guaranteed to be a criminal operation.
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BurntCricket
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clubs: | reply to K Patterson
My bank had those up in my branch a while back.
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