Scammers should be given long prison sentences

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I received an email this morning.claiming to be from Paypal. It says my account has been limited, and I need to do X . It’s a very convincing looking email. Luckily enough I had enough sense to check the email address it was sent to. It’s neither the primary or secondary email address that I use for Paypal. Those being the only one’s I use with Paypal.

There are others who could easily be fooled by such an email. Scammers are scum.IMO they should be given lengthy prison sentences , and their ill gotten gains confiscated.

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I get those emails periodically. Pretending to be from paypal or my bank.

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Yeah it’s a common scam. We get so many phone calls over here. Say they are from my service provider and there’s a problem with my internet. The real telco sends you a letter if they are doing work. I just ignore and delete anything that is along those lines.

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This one was far more professional looking than others I’ve received . I’ve had the one saying my router is playing up umpteen times.

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Yeah it’s a common thing. I’d imagine you only have to hit someone once and it pays off. I’m just wary of anything that I haven’t seen before. I’ve had that paypal and it looks like a legit email and I’d imagine the link would take you to something as convincing.

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I was getting a lot of scammers calling me about a year ago. I used to mess with them and piss them off. Now that you bring it up I realize I haven’t got one in so long.

I fell for one scam just about three months ago when I was trying to get tech support on my laptop. I have to give them credit, that was one of the better ones.

I missed a glaring clue when the guy solved my problem but then tried to sell me an HP warranty for almost $400 for two years protection. Looking back, I should have spotted it right away, I’m pretty good at detecting scams.

But right before I committed myself to doing it I just got that little suspicious, uneasy feeling in me and I started adding up little clues and I was thinking, "No this can’t be a scam.

I told the guy to phone me in half an hour while I thought about it and I was growing more and more suspicious and I called my older sister and explained the situation.

So she called the guy herself and told the guy that I had a mental illness and was too trusting and she felt they were taking advantage of me. I regretted her telling a stranger about my illness but she straightened everything out and I didn’t have to pay the guy a dime.

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i think corrupt gov should get the prison sentence then poor people in india or nigeria or other 3rd world zone wouldnt be doing these phone scams if they had a decent amount of money to live on.

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I have gotten a couple of those emails from PayPal recently.

Like 2 within a week.

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I’ve recently got very well made emails “from” Apple and Netflix.
They look 100% like real mails but you can tell they are scams by their email addresses and the links they want you to open.

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You can know its fake by looking at the sender’s address, its never the original Paypal one. Its something with numbers.

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I’m pretty sure all my private information has been comprimized. Scamming is not a victimless crime. Scammers should pay, if we could just catch them.

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I got an email claiming that they were going to sue me because I haven’t paid them. A PayDay Loan company. I forwarded the email to the Arkansas Attorney General’s office who informed me that it was a scam.

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A good tips to know if it’s scam :
Paypal, amazon… always send you an email with your real lastname and surname…

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Sometimes if I’m bored I’ll answer the phone for scammers.

They’ll be like hello this is “phone company or tech company or taxes etc”

Ill just start clearing my throat for like 30 seconds then ask who is this?

Then do it again then say “oh yes pizza hut?”

Then they repeat who they are then I say “ohhhhh yes yes yes I’d like to order 2 large deluxe pizzas, add mushrooms please”

Then they keep repeating and I keep repeating the process lol then they just hang up

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Legislators who enabled financial predators and the scammers themselves should spend years chained in a cell with an endless ringing phone and doorbell, windows 10 notifications and televised advertisements.

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I also mess with them. My reasoning is that the longer I keep them on the phone the less likely they will actually scam someone.

Also I don’t give out my cell online unless it’s a reputable store or to gas station to get discp. I’ll give my old numbers instead.

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I was taken off the roads for a ‘modelling agency’ a while back. They wanted me to pay £550 for a profile. I spent a lot of money on clothes for a modelling shoot with them. Then I did not hear back from them after.
The stupidest thing was that someone walked into the building telling everyone it’s a scam and I was like what ya talking about??

Sooooo stupid or naive I was…

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I get those all the time. Yeah you should always check the email headers.

Mine always have appalling english - which is a dead giveaway.

My address is still on some suckers list - from when Zynga, that does the ringtones got hacked.

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