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Originally Posted by bobmarc
In a span of 10 minutes today I received a call 1.to lower my Comcast bill,2.an email saying my Amazon account was suspended and 3.an email request to help someone out who needed to get a gift card from Walmart. All I had to do was 1. give them the number of my credit card used for my account in order to lower bill( anew variation of lowering my interest rate on said card) and 2. just click on email and sign into my acct and 3. go out and buy gift card from Walmart and read the numbers back so he could give them out and of course with a promise to pay me back when he returned here. The problem is the calls and the emails look so official that if you don't notice the addresss on them you could get caught up.BEWARE and be careful.
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Whenever I receive something that looks like it might be legit, I go to that website directly where I can determine its legitimacy, instead of clicking on links within the e-mail or responding to the e-mail. As far as calls go, I activated the "silence unknown callers" option on my phone. Most of them are pretty obvious though, especially when I get a call from Verizon or Comcast, neither of which I am a customer of. You'd have to be pretty gullible to fall for 99% of them, IMO.