[jimkerr]

Originally Posted by billethkid

I received an email this morning with Geek Squad logo thanking me for renewing my membership ($485) via PayPal.

I have no accounts with either. Have never utilized either for any transactions.

Of course do not open/respond, then track my credit card accounts.

I feel like there should be a place to report such fraud but I am hesitant due to lack of knowledge regarding contact authenticity?

Experience/suggestions?

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Just delete it and move on.

[Jdmiata]

I get these too. Just ignore them ,

[cjrjck]

Most of the snail mail I get nowadays is junk mail. While they aren't quite the same as phishing emails, they aren't that different. In the end, they all want what I have. I spend several minutes at the mailbox sorting through my mail to discard the junk mail. In my email mailbox, I mark the unwanted emails as junk. It's just the way it is.

[oneclickplus]

Originally Posted by billethkid

I received an email this morning with Geek Squad logo thanking me for renewing my membership ($485) via PayPal.

I have no accounts with either. Have never utilized either for any transactions.

Of course do not open/respond, then track my credit card accounts.

I feel like there should be a place to report such fraud but I am hesitant due to lack of knowledge regarding contact authenticity?

Experience/suggestions?

__________________________________________________ _

There are hundreds of variations on this scam nonsense. Who are you going to complain about? Best Buy (Geek Squad) didn't sent this to you. Paypal didn't send this to you. It's some scammer in Nigeria or other sh|t hole country. Delete and move on.

[mntlblok]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

Delete and move on. Reporting fraud to the Government is a waste of time and taxpayer money. They won't do anything but to ask Congress for more taxpayer money to handle more fraud reports.

How am I supposed to have respect for our system if our government were to actually take that kind of attitude?? You'd think it was being run by lawyers or something.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by mntlblok

How am I supposed to have respect for our system if our government were to actually take that kind of attitude?? You'd think it was being run by lawyers or something.

I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not.

They are still funding the DO-NOT-CALL list for thousands of dollars per year. A completely worthless program that obviously should be cancelled. Most Government fraud reporting programs cost the taxpayers way more money in salaries and administration than they could ever hope to pay back with fraud prevention and prosecutions. But, Congress will keep funding these "feel good" programs as long as they can fool people into thinking that they are worth the cost.

[Two Bills]

Roll your cursor across any doubtful mail. The address will confirm spam.

[Harold.wiser]

I've gotten those emails for over a year now. That's what the delete button is for!

[spinner1001]

Originally Posted by billethkid

I received an email this morning with Geek Squad logo thanking me for renewing my membership ($485) via PayPal.

I have no accounts with either. Have never utilized either for any transactions.

Of course do not open/respond, then track my credit card accounts.

I feel like there should be a place to report such fraud but I am hesitant due to lack of knowledge regarding contact authenticity?

Experience/suggestions?

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Much of these scam emails come from outside the USA such as eastern Europe. The Federal government has no jurisdiction over such persons and devote few, if any, resources to the activity. As others have said, use caution and your delete key.

[rsmurano]

You know that you can go into your email and setup rules to handle incoming emails. For example, if you don’t have/use paypal, setup a rule that if an incoming email subject line contains ‘PayPal’, delete it or move it to your junk folder. Then every so often look over your junk folder

[Sandy and Ed]

Originally Posted by rsmurano

You know that you can go into your email and setup rules to handle incoming emails. For example, if you don’t have/use paypal, setup a rule that if an incoming email subject line contains ‘PayPal’, delete it or move it to your junk folder. Then every so often look over your junk folder

I know aol isn’t as popular as it once was but I must say that most ( 95+%) of scam emails go directly into SPAM. A cursory look and a delete without opening is all it takes. I still get them but they don’t clutter up my email inbox. BTW if you want to see the SOB scammers get busted (and be entertained) go to YouTube and search “Scammer Payback”. A young hacker calling himself “Pierogy” and who speaks Hindi has been closing down scam call centers that prey on American consumers. Worth a look see. Hilarious what he does to them. Deleting their files, reversing their hacks, activating their cameras, taking control of their call center, intervening in their scam calls.

[NotGolfer]

As others said...delete and move on. We got something similar but from a virus company. They want you to click and answer the questions so they can get your personal information. They'll come back again as someone else but keep deleting them!!!

[donfey]

[QUOTE=billethkid;2232822]I received an email this morning with Geek Squad logo thanking me for renewing my membership ($485) via PayPal.

I have no accounts with either. Have never utilized either for any transactions.

Of course do not open/respond, then track my credit card accounts.

I feel like there should be a place to report such fraud but I am hesitant due to lack of knowledge regarding contact authenticity?

Experience/suggestions?

__________________________________________________ _

Regardless of the LOGO or the "name" in the "From" field, it's highly unlikely that the sender was who they pretend to be. "Point" your cursor to the sender info on top of the email to see the email address that your reply would go to if you were to do so. (On mine I have to click on a little down-arrow to display the actual address.). You'll see the address that the sender wants your reply to go. DELETE is the only solution.

[daniel200]

My inbox rarely receives junk mail. However a look at my gmail “spam” folder shows purported messages from: Dell, TJMAX, Wells Fargo, T-Mobile, CVS, Banco Bradesco, Sams Club, McAffee Services etc. etc.

ALL of these are phishing emails. I do not spend 3 seconds a month worrying about these emails (other than occasionally deleting the spam folder contents)

If some spam makes it to my inbox, I just report it as junk. This moves it to the Spam folder and alerts google that I consider this spam. Google uses this feedback to adjust your spam filtering.

My advice: do not click on these emails. Just ignore and delete. Nothing bad is going to happen by failure to click. Bad stuff starts to happen if you click.

[RCMill531@comcast.net]

Scam!