On 4/22/24 09:19, Venkat Mangudi - Silk via Silklist wrote:
Well, whether it is phishing, SMSishing or spams… everything is getting
better by the day.
How do you guys protect yourself from getting scammed? Has anyone else
on our list been scammed? I’d love to hear about it.
I got nailed a year or two ago. A member of the organization I run asked
me to PayPal $500 to someone in the Philippines to buy something, and
they would only take PayPal. The site sold ancient coins, and that's the
sort of thing this member was interested in, so it sounded very good.
I asked some questions, using the email address in our files, and got
responses that mentioned items in our recent newsletter and referring to
events from decades ago we both knew about, and given that relationship,
I made the payment.
Obviously, I never got his covering check, and instead was asked to
PayPal a larger amount to some individual for no reason. I balked, said
I'd wait for his first check to clear, and never heard back.
Pretty clearly, our member had his email hacked, and a diligent
fraudster did his homework reading through old emails to convince me.
I'm pretty ashamed, but I have to respect the amount of effort they put in.
Cheers,
/ Bruce /
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