Even the most basic spell check would have caught this mistake. One is that they say this is $349.99 for two years of auto-renewal, and then at the bottom of the email they say, “Please retain the copy of invoice as the proof of your service for one year.” To a fluent and fully literate native English speaker using business language, a more typical phrasing would be something like, “Please retain a copy of this invoice for your records as proof of payment for service for two years.” (Not one year – that’s the biggest error this scammer made.)Īt the end they said “Thankyou”, which is not one conjoined word. In retrospect and upon closer analysis, which I should have done sooner, I can see several typos and errors. This is where I tripped up, as the scammers intended. I am just human and don’t always have total recall of every detail of my life at a moment’s notice. The computer service contract I do pay for renews in the summer months, so this scam email just happened to arrive at the right time to trick me. This is what phishing emails rely upon – you forgetting your renewal dates, or the exact name of your service, or whether you recently placed an order somewhere. I might not have had a Best Buy-related tech support subscription named Geek Squad, but I do have one by a similarly-named service which I won’t divulge publicly given the subject matter I’m discussing. Now one would think that I might have immediately suspected something being wrong, but unfortunately I do have a subscription to a different service, and I mistook it for them. Not only did it surprise me, but it annoyed me. This surprised me because usually services like this warn you a few weeks ahead of time so that you can prepare. I got this email today, informing me that my subscription to Geek Squad tech services was going to renew within 24 hours for $350 for a two year term. Everyone should understand how these BS artists operate so that we can protect our online information. I crafted this album to show how I ALMOST fell into this trap, and what I did to figure out their game after the fact. But eventually random chance will dictate that you can come across a highly believable message, and you might fall for it. Most such emails are easy to recognize, especially if you don’t have any business dealing with the bank or business that the emails are supposedly from. This afternoon (Wednesday, June 15, 2022) I received a scam email, phishing for personal information.
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