Posted on 10/03/2023 10:09:35 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
I got an email today (below) that cracked me up.
The Amazon driver is going to have a tough time finding our address in Baghdad.
Should I click? View images? (just kidding).
I get those damn things by the truck load in my mail and notification box.
Things like: You have won. FedEx unable to make delivery. HomeDepot- You have won a bunch of tools. Your credit card was declined.
It’s just never ending.
I’ve been getting the same. It started heavy about 2 months ago. I got one claiming it was from Amazon but it didn’t even have graphic. I don’t think Amazon has ever sent anything without a boatload of graphics. They all need to be hunted down and dealt with.
Do you delete them or mark them as spam?
I keep hoping they cancel my Social Security Number. But the bar stewards never do.
I got something like that recently from UPS as a text message to my cell phone. I DID NOT CLICK on anything, I have a UPS Account and they have my email. It was a SCAM about not being able to deliver my package and they wanted me to click on a link to confirm something. I DELETED the message instead.
My favorite scam was the guy calling to tell me I had to call his number or the IRS would arrest me. He had a thick Australian accent. Lol.
Me, too. But this “Baghdad delivery” is definitely a new ides in the pantheon of scammers
I got a voicemail from a fast-talking, mush-mouth black guy claiming I was a bail jumper. He said they had come to my house, I wasn’t there, and they were releasing the hounds on me. The recording had a couple of blank spots to insert a docket number and court name but they were blank. How pathetic.
“I have a UPS Account and they have my email”
They just send out millions of those mails blindly whether you have a UPS account or not. Maybe 5% actually have a UPS account and they are trying to get suckers to bite.
So, because a couple of Web sites I have to use won’t run on Windows XP anymore, I bought a separate laptop the runs Windows 10. A couple of months ago circumstances forced me to access my email account (not a mainstream provider like Guugle) using it, and within days my email was flooded with scams like that, the likes of which which I have never seen before. I now delete a dozen or so every morning. Thank you Microsoft.
I got the same mail saying they couldn’t delver my package and needed my credit card number. I also found out I won the big prize plus a new Mercedes from Publishers Clearing House. All I had to do was call a number and give them a verification code. They don’t give up.
I pushed “1” to speak to an “agent” on one of these calls. When I heard his indecipherable accent, I said “You don’t even speak English.” Before disconnecting, he said, in fairly good English “go f**k yourself.”
Another insult is to call them Pakis
“I have trouble understanding you Pakis when you talk so fast”
Sounds like one I spoke to one time. I politely asked him what country he was from - India or Pakistan. He seemed offended by my question, when I was taking time out of my day to try to validate him as a person by engaging in small talk.
I keep getting notices from a supposed Lowes purchase in Texas.
Just hover over the links and you will see a least 100 characters from the origin.
Please people, never click on these. You are hitting a YES button to nefarious players.
I do not live in Texas BTW.
“My favorite scam was the guy calling to tell me I had to call his number or the IRS would arrest me. He had a thick Australian accent. Lol.”
Hubby and I are over the age of 60. That’s the age they like to call pretending they have lawsuit for unpaid debt to serve on a son or daughter, and as a courtesy they are calling ahead. If you want to pay the discount amount of the debt...only $2,000, they will make sure it goes away. Parents of that age don’t want their 40 year-old and responsible child to get pinged with bad credit for an old debt.
In the space of ten minutes, one called both my cell phone and our house phone. Since that type of information (both numbers and adult children’s names) is something only given to places such as insurance offices, I suspect it was sold to them by a receptionist at a insurance office I had recently provided info to upon my retirement. It helped that I knew my son, who they referred to by name, didn’t have any unpaid debts.
Are you absolutely sure you do not live in Bagdad? Have you double-checked your address lately. Our government has been getting a bit dictatorial lately.
Your Social Security number has been use illegal and Special Agent Officer is going to issue arrest to you. Press one to start redemption of problem to cease arrest.
LOL...maybe they expanded the Baghdad zip code?
Yes, those autocrats will tell you where you can live and you WILL enjoy it. Even without any appliances or cars that work.
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