BE ADVISED: New Phishing Scam (I got hit with it personally)

[IwantMKIII]

So i've had an ad up on cars.com for awhile now (maybe since November). I received a call last night from someone claiming to be from cars.com telling me my ad was cancelled. When i asked why she couldn't tell me. She said I had to be transferred to another dept. so i said ok. They put me on 'hold' for a moment and someone else picked up.

They asked me for my name/phone number (no big deal, they already have that info, they just need to confirm). Anyway, when I asked why it was cancelled they said I gave an incorrect billing address. I immediately was skeptical and started asking questions. I told them i've had my add up with no problems so far for months. The person claimed they check it every 6 months.

Now in my case i thought this could be remotely possible as i've moved within the past couple so my billing address changed. I asked a couple more questions and eventually was disconnected. I thought I had hung up on them. Me being pissed my add was possibly removed I went online and looked for a number as this one was RESTRICTED.

*One, I was called around 7:30pm, they closed at 6pm
*Two, I checked my ad and renewed it and everything went smoothly

I contacted the REAL cars.com today to confirm my suspicions. My ad is fine and the rep I talked with NEVER heard of anyone being contacted by phone before when it comes to a scam, only email, so I assume this is a new one. The scammers never got any real info out of me that would matter thankfully but just know they're out there.

 

[MKIIINA]

thanks for the heads up man! always an interesting setup with scammers.

 

[Clueless]

freakin' low lives

 

[Jervis Mcstabby]

This happened to me when I was still with BofA, but the guy was retarded and told that he was the "owner" of the customer service branch!

 

[Isphius]

its fun to mess with them too. Just go with it. I always tell them scammers on craigslist how i want to mail them envelopes of cash for apartments/cars/electronics. Youd be suprised some of the replies you get

 

[Clueless]

its fun to mess with them too. Just go with it. I always tell them scammers on craigslist how i want to mail them envelopes of cash for apartments/cars/electronics. Youd be suprised some of the replies you get

like?

 

[Isphius]

excited emails with PO boxs, sorry i left the country for greece/europe/south africa you will have to western union it, they want your phone number or address(when your buying something), info for shipping companies that will have the item dropped off and take the money, all kinds or retarted crap. Just go on craigslist and fine an over the top ad and start talking with them. They always have terrible english too

 

[Mark3Supraholic]

Yeah the scammers are getting pretty fearless. Just the other day I deleted an obvious Paypal scam-email saying my account was restricted blah blah blah... Well it was obvious to me because I've seen it before. The link goes to somewhere other than paypal.com, hosting a log in page that looks like paypal. Another on on cars.com and craigslist as well as autotrader are cars being sold for too good to be true prices, listing an email address only. Once you inquire, they send you a sob story about why they are selling the car, they will ship the car to you, no you can't see the car because it's locked in a warehouse. I even got one stating to use "eBay vehicle Purchase Protection" (no such thing), yet they want you to use Moneygram? If it's eBay, Paypal is accepted. They get pretty slick, but if you open up the email details, you can see all the emails originate from the same server. I contact Autotrader, fraudwatch, and flag constantly on craigslist whenever I come across it. I heard some young chinese girl who was going to college in NY lost like $8000 of her and her family's money by getting duped into one of these scams and ended up hanging herself in her apartment. Excuse the language but I hope the scammers fucking die a horrible death, and if/when they get caught, get life in prison without parole, or the death penalty. Just pisses me off to no end.

 

[mkiiSupraMan18]

I got a handwritten cashiers check for 3x the price of the Suburban I was selling once....


it bounced. :icon_bigg


That was an interesting situation... when the guy called he used a IRC-relay phone call through an operator, which at first I was wondering if maybe he couldnt talk, so I e-mailed him back and forth, he wanted me to ship the car to him (in CA) saying that SUVs were expensive up there and would still be worth it to him blah blah blah. I get a call from him personally and he sounds Jamaican, pretty sweet accents, btw. He's all talking basically threatening me over the phone to ship the car to him before I have even seen any money, few days later I get the check and notice that it's definitely worthless take it to the bank, they say to get a hold of the FBI blah blah blah... n00b calls back a few days later and I tell him that next time he needs to try a little harder to get some of my money. Never heard from him again.


I reply to a lot of the e-mails giving false info and stuff and being like 'omg 10000000 for free! My name is Charles Norris bank acct number 44958464 at Old National bank branch number 3564.' No replies back though. :nono:

 

[isnms]

If anyone tries to contact me to tell me something financially is messed up and they need information, I always tell them 'fine, I will call you back at a published number'.

Same for emails. Never click in a link of a message requesting corrected information from you. Always contact them by alternate means.

 

[Facime]

one way to spot a phoney login page is to right click the logos and look a the properties. If the Bank of America logo is hosted by imageshack...its a fraud, lol.

I get the ebay, paypal and now bank of america phishing emails almost daily now.

 

[Supracentral]

If anyone tries to contact me to tell me something financially is messed up and they need information, I always tell them 'fine, I will call you back at a published number'.

Same for emails. Never click in a link of a message requesting corrected information from you. Always contact them by alternate means.

:: badger :::: badger :::: badger :::: badger ::^WINNER^:: badger :::: badger :::: badger :::: badger ::

And what does he get for the correct answer, Bob? Why he gets to keep his money of course!

Don't fall for this crap people. isnms' has the right approach.