Starting a sentence with ‘because’ - shocking give away!
On the text, it followed their number, which I omitted in my post, so “Because” was in the middle of a sentence which is even more ignorant in my opinion.
If I knew how to forward a text to the scam line, I’d have done that. Another scam text I got a while ago gave me the option to report it to Apple, but this one didn’t.
Starting a sentence with ‘because’ - shocking give away!
Serious question Berry, what are your thoughts on people (often but not exclusively women in their 20's or 30's) who start a reply to a question with "So..."?
It's completely unnecessary imo and makes me shout at the telly.
Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Jul 31, 2023 8:22:51 GMT
On my iPhone yesterday I kept getting a message telling me that my Safari had been compromised by using a certain website ( not this one) and my phone had been infected and to follow the links to get it sorted. The most annoying thing is having to switch my phone off completely every time it rocked up to get rid of the scam as it hangs around like a bad smell.
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I received that email this morning as well. I have had a couple of those scam emails, as well as ones telling me that someone in Luton has bought something using my account. I rang Amazon to report them. I’ve now got the 2-step authorisation option set up on my account. It’s a bit of a faff when I want to check the time that something’s being delivered, but well worth it for piece of mind.
I’ve also had several telling me that I need to authorise a PayPal payment. Well, those chancers can naff off because I know exactly what I’ve ordered through PayPal and none of it is in U.S. dollars.🙄
Not a scam as such - this morning I answered a call (on the landline) and the guy asked whom was he was talking to! I never give my name and said I didn’t know who he is and said goodbye.
He then left a message whereby he said I had called him and if I wasn’t a scammer I would call him back …