The Buckets by Greg Cravens for November 07, 2020

I wish I could send a pill that would burn up .rus computer.

He doesn’t have to be smart enough to trick you. He just has to be smart enough to trick someone.

I love the ones that “Suspend” an account that I don’t even have for a suspicious log in from Jaskolskishire, OR 40120 (Thailand zip code) or Ritamouth, HI 97630 (Oregon zip code). Yeah, those aren’t real places.

I’ve been getting 6 or 7 “You are a Winner!” emails from Walmart, Canada Post and similar unlikely companies that ask me to just press a button. Instant TRASH.

I’m grateful AARP doesn’t my email address, bad enough getting spam for “medicine”.

Hard to trust anybody these days.

wait, you mean to say that my Netflix, Pay Pal, Amazon and LinkedIn don’t have a problem that needs me to “click here”?

That scam was in the news recently , a local company reported they had “received what they thought was a legitimate phone call from (electric company) telling them they were behind on their payments and needed to deposit $2,500 in a bank account in 45 minutes or their power would be shut off.” They checked with their accountant because it sounded so real and of course the phone call was not legit. The rule is always be skeptical, double check a reliable source if in doubt, and just basically assume anyone who demands money complete with a vague threat is a dirty lying weasel.

Got one from “Oscar Meyer.” It said “You may already be a wiener!”

Did you realise that in scammails there are usually masses of links, but all of them have the same target URL? I am a bit unhappy that seemingly no system offers to toss theses emails into the trash on its own, not even offering a filter option for that dead give-away.

My husband got caught up in a scam that told him he needed to buy and buy and buy google play cards from walmart. $1500 later, he still didn’t know why.

I once heard from our “Exchange Administrator” that far, far more emails than the legit ones that the University got, were spam, malware, or scams…

We used to have credit card for our debit terminal that was used for testing. I’d give that number to scammers

It must be profitable enough as there seems to be an infinite number of attempts. Currently, I am about to be served a summons for tax evasion, my credit card has been used in the Bahamas (I wish). The RCMP are after me for something.. And, lets not forget the ring once and hang up phone calls.. where, if you call back (from what looks like a local number) long distance phone calls ding you with charges.

I consider clearing my spam folder a form of entertainment

Wait wait wait … was the message from @hubriscomics.com telling me I won $10,000 real or fake?

They already had my name and address.

Always amused me when they say something about an Apple account. I HATE them, and wouldn’t have any accounts of any kind for any of their products!

My personal favorite is that my vehicle warranty is about to expire. I ride a trike.

SHEESH! This just happened while I was reading this! I just had the FBI call me and say I’m under investigation because my old car was found in Florida with 25 lbs. of meth in it. When I asked them what the make and model was, she said it was burned up and unrecognizable. I asked if that was true, how could they tell it was mine? She said it didn’t matter and I was to be arrested unless I did what she was about to tell me to make it go away. I told them to send Special Agents (specific names) and to have them bring chips as that was what they were told to bring to the barbeque today. I told her she could come if she wanted. The local sheriff and the the constable would be here as well. Shoot, she went and hung up. No, I don’t know these folks and I wasn’t having a party, but damned if tat wasn’t fun.

If they want your Medicare number give them SCAMMERS-DIE!

My favourite is that Nigerian scammers had to change to improper English – ie American – Because they didn’t believe Nigerians could know proper English.

get Jason from Foxtrot over here, and he’d give that hacker a virus at the drop of a hat… for a fee of course